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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1888
Page
2
The Enterprise edited by C. F. Crutchfield publishes from the Enterprise Building on Main Street. Subscription is $1.80 per year with six months at 60 cents. It is mailed as second class matter.
Rowan County resident John S. Tenderson was nominated by acclamation at the Salisbury convention for re election to Congress from the seventh district. The piece also notes a Mormon land purchase plan in Chihuahua and a reporter's test of New York hotels as a Negro guest, highlighting racial bias in service.
In 1864 Charles Clinton Ambrose fatally shot Orr in Lawrenceville over an insult to a relative. Ambrose vanished for 24 years and was later found to be Charles Clinton of Arkansas, visiting Georgia quietly as Mr. Clinton until his died wealthy in Hot Springs.
The article weighs forecasts of a climactic hot dry summer amid cooler spring signs. It then details a Sunday morning fire in Greensboro destroying eight wooden stores between Guilford House and McDonald street, with losses among W K Buchanan A H Dudley T D Garrett Buchanan Hiatt Bailey Day Knight and a colored grocer and restaurant owner.
The Sixth volume extends from Bravo to Calville with 635 pages and 120 illustrations. Praises from Rev. Dr. Wright and Dr. Hasty highlight its comprehensiveness, cheapness, and compactness. Specimens offered for 60 to 75 cents. Also reports a near wreck on Air Line and a bold Indian Territory train robbery with casualties.
A Raleigh census counts 15050 residents with 6390 white and 6653 colored. The report notes demographic splits within the city.
Report from Fayetteville Observer describes W T Sloan, keeper of the poor house, confining an insane woman and denying items. She begged for a haircut. he delayed, she cut her hair with a glass, as if with scissors. The Ex. notes a politician’s claim of honesty met with thunderous applause that derailed his point.
Dr W P Harrison of Nashville Tennessee on May 2 1888 endorses Swift's Specific as an excellent blood purifier. He claims it warded off a severe rheumatism attack in his shoulder and praises it as a constitutional treatment that eradiates the seeds of disease from the system for permanent relief.
Letter from T C McCLeapey J P of Atlanta dated February 14 1888 reports Jerry Bradley a colored man cured of a cancerous facial sore near the right eye after using Swift's Specific. The note says the case is known in Wilkes county near Danburg and offers the treatise on blood and skin diseases by mail. Also mentions telegraph line completion between Lenoir and Patterson Caldwell county enabling breakfast at Mt Airy and dinner at Raleigh.
The article explains that nervous diseases and malaria stem from liver dysfunction causing bile to pass through the system. It advocates Green's August Flower as a cure, claiming marvelous results for those suffering from these conditions.
Advertises Red Flag Oil claiming pain relief for rheumatism neuralgia burns and bruises with a 25 cent price. Also touts Puritan Cough and Consumption Cure for coughs colds and consumption at Brown & Matton's drug store.
A Albany penitentiary chaplain recounts his wife’s twenty year struggle with chronic dyspepsia and intermittent malaria. After failing with quinine, she improved rapidly on Kaskine, restoring appetite and strength, with symptoms fading and recovery lasting. The letter endorses Kaskine as a medical miracle and notes availability.
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