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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1888
Page
2
The Enterprise lists the publication office at Enterprise Building on Main Street. Subscription price is $1.00 per year or six months for 60 cents. the item notes it is entered at the Post Office as second class.
The article reviews a surge in murders reported on telegrams, totaling 2,535 for the year, with deaths attributed to quarrels liquor jealousy highwaymen infanticide and unknown causes. It contrasts executions and lynchings across 1881–1887, arguing law uncertainty fuels crime and crumbles deterrence. It also reports on P O Myers of Nickleville Pa surviving a double neck dislocation after a frostbitten fall and an Interior Secretary resignation. In addition it notes a Rawson bill to refund cotton seized after the war, a cigarette sales spike, Ohio Governor Foraker’s second term, and other brief items.
Nathan B. Sutton was hanged in Oakland California last Friday for the murder of Alex Martin a ranchman in September 1886. Governor Waterman refused to commute or pardon. Sutton praised the governor’s firm stance on clemency.
The article notes foreign capital mortgaging farm lands at high rates, cites a $45,000 verdict in Miss Campbell versus Arbuckle for breach of promise, and lists many North Carolinians lost in 1887. It critiques mourning customs, citing Sylvanus Cobb and arguing against black attire in Christian faith.
Miss Letitia Bevee dies at 99 in Sugar Loaf Valley Minn. Her youth included an unconsummated betrothal linked to a Pennsylvania suitor chosen over James Buchanan, later President. Esquire T L Jennings reports Sallie Campbell die age 116 in Iredell NC, recalling an old bill of sale from a century ago showing her age then. The item mix includes humor vignettes and a Vermont seed ad anecdote.
State news notes confirm the marriage of Mayor R R King and Mrs Nannie McAdoo of Greensboro in Philadelphia. Winston leads the state with 35 tobacco factories in operation this year. Upcoming tax land sales are set for March 5 under new tax sale laws. Parrish tobacco warehouse at Durham rebuilt and opens March 17. An engineer on the North Carolina Division R and D Railroad, Hicks, resumes his post after learning to read and write. Negro property valued at about four million dollars is reported. Crimes include Bailey and Wilson jailed for killing Bill Dunn. Hendersonville jail inmate James Thomas again escapes, aided by hidden tools. Wake Forest chemistry professor Dr James R Duggan dies at 28. Immigrants to North Carolina total 2,060 in the last year, mostly settling west.
From Washington, the regular correspondent notes the Senate chaplain’s prayer is often ignored as quorum issues persist. The piece recalls a gavel rebuke by Judge Davis and discusses moral reform needed to ensure prompt attendance. It then shifts to Alexander Graham Bell, describing his wealth, future income at risk if the Supreme Court rules against him, and details of his Washington home and Mrs. Bell’s quiet deaf mutism. Greensboro to get water works.
The passage describes billiousness with varied symptoms and notes a loss of appetite for solids at breakfast and white furred tongue. Digestive upset includes diarrhea or constipation, possible hemorrhoids or blood, dizziness headaches and stomach tenderness. It claims Green's August Flower cures and costs little, with thousands attesting efficacy.
A sensational medical testimonial fragment describes a sweeping chest pain fatigue and digestive ill causing dread of a mysterious disease. It cites symptoms from dizziness to yellow eyes and constipation and promotes Shaker Extract of Roots as a cure offered by A J White of New York with testimonials from Texas and Missouri.
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