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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1887
Page
3
The Enterprise reports Pat Wiston arriving from Idaho, the High Point Classical Institute ad, Kennebec ice, new store plans, and the Modern Barn Tobacco factory. It notes deaths of John Hedgecock and Jas. Armfield, watermelons for northern markets, and a Trinity College endowment push. The Georgia Company forms in High Point to back railroads, plus Orphanage progress with Rev C B Justice and Hon J C Scarborough addressing crowds.
Gov Scales lauds Christan orphan houses and the children’s songs move the crowd at a joyous day of giving. Proceeds from the grounds fund the institution with widespread state interest and contributions from High Point. Other regional notes include a fatal threshing accident, a brutal axe attack, a school funding case headed to the Supreme Court, and record tobacco sales in Durham.
Moffitt and Bradshaw's Drug Store reports a surge in business after offering free trial bottles of Dr King s New Discovery for consumption. The advert promises quick cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and other respiratory diseases with a large trial bottle and a one dollar size bottle.
Forest fires near Faytteville last week, started by lightning, destroyed a great deal of valuable timber. A Montgomery county gold miner took $22,500 in gold to the Charlotte mint to be assayed. A white woman was killed by lightning near Ellerbe Springs in Richmond County last week. Greensboro’s new graded school building to be built by Thomas Woodruff for $11,790. The Warsaw crate factory fills orders. A revival of the banns of matrimony occurs at Fayettville Baptist church. Mrs. Theodore F. Davidson, wife of the Attorney General, died near Asheville Monday after a long illness.
Feeling low with headache and poor appetite, seeking a safe tonic. Electric Bitters purify the blood stimulate liver and kidneys and restore strength, offered at 50 cents a bottle by Moffitt and Badshaws drug store.
An advertisement extols Lime-Phosphate as a dry 200 pound bag with low water content and minimal sulfuric acid. It provides dosage guidance for Cotton, Wheat, Grasses, Rye, Oats, and Grass mixtures, plus mixing formulas with Kainit, Salt, or Manures, and notes its concentrate mirrors blue limestone ingredients for Kentucky grasslands.
Horticulturists stress lime, phosphate, and potash for trees and vines. Nurserymen broadcast a heavy lime phosphate mix when land is prepared, then apply 5 to 10 pounds around each young tree during establishment. Grounds include Yrttow, Fonseca, Fevir Tress, Graves, and related notes on manure and ammoniates.
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