Local News and Market Notes From High Point 1887
Public notices from Enterprise Building report prices and postal status. An array of stale economic and political items cover conspiracies in New York law, volcanic rumors, memorials to war rumor inventors, and a Raleigh man defending a Kansas murder suspect. Local crime reports recount eight negroes arrested in Selma, and a fatal accident near a cotton compress in Cape Fear River area involving Grant Best and Ed Fillyaw.
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N. C
Cape Fear River
Grant Best
Aan
Ed. B. Fillyaw
Ben Cone B. Nettles
Ed Fillyaw
Flipper of Colorful Rise and Controversial Releases
A report says Lieutenant Flipper a West Point graduate colored, will become wealthy after discovering two mines in Mexico, a gold and a silver vein with inexhaustible supplies, and plans to return to Chicago to claim his share. The item also notes various legal and crime stories from Kentucky North Carolina and Louisiana including a habeas corpus release, a commutation of a life sentence, and local fatal accidents.
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Castle Garden
North
Treasury
Flipper
West Point
Mexico
Chicago
Louisville
John J. Corneilson
Reid
Kentucky
Stofer
Court of Appeals
Graveyard theft and church sacramental wine stolen in Zion Church incident
A Zion Church window slat was removed and sacramental wine with jug was stolen. The New Bern Journal reports graves raided in Simmons graveyard near Oliver Landing with a metallic case and headstones moved. Other notes reference a large flywheel shipment, rains in Texas, and Poison Springs water distribution.
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Newton Enterprise
Villian
Zion Church
God
Jones County
Simmons
Oliver Landing
Trent River
New Berne
August Flour Promises Cure For Digestive Ailments
An advertisement extols Green's August Flour as a cure for dyspepsia liver complaints and related symptoms. It claims three doses prove its effect and offers sample bottles for ten cents. The piece is followed by a humorous two character exchange about an awkward suitor and engagement.
Promising Salve For Sores and Piles Offered Locally
The best salve in the world for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheam fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded price 25 cents per box for sale by Moffit Bradshaw Also Woolfords Sanitary Lotion cures Itch Prairie Mange Scratches in 30 minutes use no other Sold by Brown Matton Druggists High Point
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Moffit & Bradshaw
Woolford
Brown & Matton
High Point
Fatal gastric surgery causes death in 1883 Cleveland case
A Cleveland press report describes a Mrs. King who died hours after a stomach operation that found no cancer. Surgeons misdiagnosed Dyspepsia as cancer, then sewed the wound. The piece denounces the procedure while promoting a tonic for indigestion and nervous prostration.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Thayer
King
Vance
Tuckerman
Perrier
Arms
Gordon
Capner
Halliwell
Police Board
Sxtaxr
Land Auction Under Superior Court Order 1887
By order of the Superior Court I will sell at public auction the 134 acre Hedgecock land one mile from High Point adjoining Joel Anderson John Wright Thomas Anderson and others for partition among heirs. Sale June 6 1887. Terms half cash and balance on six months credit with bond and security. Joan J Netson Com.
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Superior Court
Jacob T. Hedgecock
High Point
Joel Anderson
John Wright
Thomas Aderson
Joan J. Netson
C. M. Moore
Register of Deeds
Guilford County
Court House
Greensboro
North Carolina
N. C
R. H Crouch
J. A. McKinsey
Sarah Hedgecock
Elisha Hedgecock
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Clinton
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Henry Robinson
Solomon Wilson
New Orleans
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Messrs F. & H. Fries
Texas
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Mortimer Whitehead
New York
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Chatham County
Thomas Stuart
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New Bern
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APG
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Ies
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Ashe Grove
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Ind
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Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
W. & J. Sloane
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Broadway
10Th Streets
S&j
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Light Runi
New Home Sewing Machine Co
Orange
Mass
Union Square
N.Y
J. L. Stone
Raleigh, N.C
Laws & Davouver
Mantua-Makers
Cannler
Theo Mechanic
Mme
Demorest
Mme. Demorest
Pemorest Sewing
CO. 1
Demorest Fashion and Sewinc Machine CO
East
Tth Street
New York City
H. A. Simmons
N. Y
Jarrol’s Hotel
Ragan, Millis & Co
Cedar Falls
Randleman M’f’g Company
Central Falls and
J. M. Worth Manufacturing
High Point, N. C
Laflin & Randpowderco’s
E. C. Farabee
DR. Bigger
Pugklebear
Bleger
Walter A. Taylor
Godey
Semple
Godey’s
America
J W Prichard
Emily Reed
Jno. Churchill
William Miller Butler
Emily Lenox
Philadelphia
Everprise
Enterprise
High Point, N.C
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