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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1889
Page
3
The Enterprise reports a busy High Point scene with Lenten events, school closings, garden plans, and factory work. It notes political talk, the Guilford court term, a proposed cotton mill conversion, a military bazaar, and a serious river drowning incident in Mitchell County.
On Tuesday evening February 22 at the Pioneer Warehouse town ladies with the High Point Guards host a grand bazaar with oysters cake ice cream and other items. Items donated by mercantile houses will be auctioned or offered by other means.
Our Lady readers are urged to consider the Light-Running New Home sewing machine praised for simplicity, ease, wide work range, quiet operation, lightness, durability, and low cost. Manufactured by the New Home Sewing Machine Co. of Orange Massachusetts and New York, it has sold over half a million in three years with strong satisfaction. Henley the photographer has opened a town studio near B F Jordans marble yard offering reasonable terms.
Parker Wilborn advertise wood and metallic caskets and coffins at Ellison with prompt service. Boston Corbitt, linked to John Wilkes Booth, is declared insane and sent to an asylum. W G Barner sells choice seed sweet potatoes. Newton Campbell improves health and walks with a cane. A one year old grade bull for sale or service via W G Banger.
A burst of local claims touts Dr King s New Discovery for consumption and related remedies with trial bottles offered and large doses sold by multiple druggists. The Raleigh note updates police interest over Water Bingham after a governor proclamation offers a 400 dollar reward and westward searches are planned.
An advertisement outlines contents per 200 pound bag with 10 to 16 pounds phosphoric acid and 100 to 120 pounds lime, plus bone phosphate 23 to 35 pounds and minor components. It contrasts low water content and minimal sulfuric acid, arguing the product is dry and plant friendly, with usage targets for cotton, corn, wheat, oats, rye, and alfalfa.
A historic agricultural note outlines multiple fertilizer blends for wheat corn oats grasses tobacco and fruit trees. It specifies quantities of lime phosphate muriate of potash kainit cotton seed meal and ammoniates and notes lime phosphate’s success for oats and lawns.
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