Colonal Buys Slave Bob After Big Poker Wager on River
A riverboat poker tale details Col Sinclair losing heavily to Col Sinclair buying Bob the slave with winnings after a bluff. Larkins resists freeing the boy. Bob aids the colonel in a bluff, prompting sale for cash. The narrator, an abolitionist, notes Bob later remains enslaved until the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
Mississippi
Larkins
Colonel Sinclair
Sinclair
Ris
New Orleans
Tapia
Sinelive
Edmond Coepton
Shoes and men mirrored in a fable from R J Bowen ad
A long advertisement essay contrasts shoes with men, followed by testimonials praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female health. The piece ends with a stockholder notice for Mount Airy Cotton Mill Company about a special meeting on June 10 1908 to authorize bond issuance and a concurrent directors meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
A. Williams
Gordioos
Maine
Alvina Sperling
Cleybourne Ave
Chago
Chicago
Tydia
Pinkham
Lydia ER. Pinkham
Mount Airy Cotton Mill Company
Mount Airy N. C
H. Washburm
Board of Directors
F. H. Chamberlain
Sec. and
Treas
Mt. Airy N. C
Sloan's Liniment Praised By Rutherford College Guest
An elderly admirer of Sloan's Liniment writes from Rutherford College North Carolina praising its effectiveness for paralysis and other ailments. He reports a brick mason with arm paralysis regaining function after using the product and notes his long experience with liniment sales aiding in expanding demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sloan
Iine
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Asd
Himsel
Larkin
Wood
J. W. Mcpherson and Co
The
Putnam Organs
W. W. Putnam & Co
R. J. Bowen & Bro
Winston, N.C
Mount Atry News
Tae News
the News
Pilot Sanitarium
Redmon
North Carolina
Biue
W. Proman
Mitariom
Pilot Mountain
J. E. Johnson
Mount Airy
Tinsley
Matera
Leet
Old Statesman
Big Four
J. T
the American Tobacco CO
Jersey City, N. J
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