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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1887
Page
3
The Enterprise church directory lists Methopist, Presbyterian, Friends, Baptist and Episcopal services. Each denomination shows Sundays for preaching at 11 am and 7:30 or 7:80 pm with named pastors and Sunday School times.
The notice lists a tract of land for sale under mortgage power. It also mentions local weather appreciation, Thanksgiving proclamation by Gov. Scales, tobacco buyers including Mr. Slaughter of Danville, and broad community remarks on schools, land postings, hunting warnings, marriages, and local business updates.
High Point market reports strong break prices for fine wrappers and smokers with good fillers and low grades rising. The issue also cites a divorce over snoring, a jail break case, a jailed man taking a wife, a bankable fining of a former clerk, and early October snow with sleet in Fayetteville and Asheville.
The notice promotes Alden and Company's Manifold Cyclopedia volume 1 as a 640 page half Morrocco bound book priced at 65 cents cloth 50 cents plus postage. It claims a multi volume Ideal Edition surveying all knowledge and invites free specimen pages from John B. Alden, publisher. A late 1887 North Carolina post office notice lists uncalled letters and warns they will be sent to the dead letter office.
A limited number of pupils will be received in drawing painting in oil or water colors. For terms Boson apply to Rev. G. MATTON.
The governor signed the death warrant for Charles F Jones in Craven county near New Bern after a Supreme Court ruling denied a new trial. Execution is set for December 15.
Readers praise Electric Bitters as a pure medicine that cures liver and kidney troubles, clears pimples and boils, removes impurities from blood, drives malaria from the system, and relieves headache constipation and indigestion. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. priced 50 cents and 1 dollar at Moffitt Bradshaw's drug store.
By virtue of a Guilford County North Carolina mortgage to EF T Corbit the land of J W Meridith and Francis L Meridith is offered at cash sale. The parcel of about 9 acres borders Alfred Gordon Henry Potter and others and will be sold at the courthouse door in Greensboro on Monday December 5 1887 at 1 pm.
Executors C P Mexvennay and P H Hopson notify all claimants to present properly proven claims against RE Mendenhall deceased before November 1 1888 or be barred from recovery. Debts to estate must be paid promptly.
We offer a fine line of New Goods on exhibition. The collection includes hats bonnets caps trimmings dry goods velvets plushes ladies cloaks underwear gloves hand bags corsets zephyrs embroidery silks and hair ornaments. Also many notions to please the ladies and the cheapest in the market.
Charlotte North Carolina offers enticing bargains in handkerchiefs and linen items. Sample requests are welcomed. The ad also promotes a Spoon Busk Dorset bustle corset accessory with bustline sizes 18 to 24 and prepaid shipping.
An old advertisement touts North Carolina Lime Phosphate as a dry mineral fertilizer for cotton and corn. It lists content ranges such as phosphoric acid bone phosphate lime potash and silica, contrasts with competitors, and recommends 400 to 600 pounds per acre applications for various crops.
The guide details clay or rich soils and thin lands with vegetable matter for wheat, offering mixtures of Lime Phosphate, Muriate Potash, cotton-seed meal, ground fish-scrap, Sulphate Ammonia, and nitrate soda for 1 2 and 2 4 acre rates. Rye can follow wheat, oats respond to Lime Phosphate with Kainit, and grasses benefit from broadcast Lime Phosphate with Kainit on sandy soil.
Vertion Toracco recommends 1 000 pounds of Lime Phosphate, 30 bushels of fine horse manure, ground fish or ammoniate, and 100 pounds high grade Sulphate on one or two acres. Horticulturists agree lime, phosphate and potash are essential for all trees. Nurserymen broadcast lime phosphate before planting and apply 5 to 10 pounds around each young tree.
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