March 4 1887 Raleigh News Highlights and Legislation
The Raleigh report notes Congress adjournment looming for the 49th session and summarizes measures in North Carolina politics. It covers Senate actions on normal schools and pensions, House debates on railways and urban bills, and the revenue bill’s progress with tax tinkering and allocations for prisons asylums and education. The item also reports local incidents including medical corrections and lava flow updates from Mauna Loa.
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Senate
Central Normal School
Capitol
High Point
High Point and
Randlema Railroad
Asheville
Wake Railroad Company
Davidson
Forsyth
Shelby
Solomon Pool
University
Georgia and North Carolina Railroad
Mecklenburg County
Alexander
Board of Agriculture
Camp Mangum
Hendersonville
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Whipping posts urged as crime tonic in Delaware and North Carolina
The President sees no need for a Senate special session. Delaware clings to the whipping post as a punishment method, with some North Carolinians favoring its return. Deputy Collector Alpheus W. Wood narrowly escaped an ambush in Jones County while pursuing an illicit distillery, a gun misfire grazing his arm and his partner firing at the assailant as he fired.
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Delaware
North Carolina
Newborne Journal
Alpheus W. Wood
Jones County
Earthquake fears and political amendments headline era dispatch
Across a wide sweep of notes from Genoa to Riveria to Chicago, reports detail tax raise proposals on newspapers and clubs, a Genoa quake killing several and displacing thousands, Mary Baker’s recovery, a prison goods boycott, and the execution of Mrs. Druse in Herkimer with details of her atrocity and her daughter's life sentence.
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Diano Marino
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Chicago
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Mary
RS. L. E. Laws & Daughter
Mantua
Boachee's German Syrup touted for lung cures
Advert shows Boachee's German Syrup claimed to cure consumption coughs croup asthma pneumonia and other throat and lung diseases. It asserts immediate relief after three doses and urges druggists to recommend it to the poor. Sample bottles cost 10 cents and regular 75 cents with wide sale in the United States and Canada.
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Canada
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