Roanoke river power praised and roads push in NC
The State Geologist and others praise Roanoke river power potential and discuss improvements in North Carolina. The Manufacturers' Record notes rising South industrial growth while last week’s Carolina farm publications and Bulletin 90 on the Thread Worm of Pork inform meat cooking safety. The Charlotte Observer cites renewed highway convicts work and a broad rise in education, manufacturing, and ag methods led by Hoke Smith’s Greensboro remarks.
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North Carolina
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Frank V P. Williamson
Raleigh
Charlotte Observer
Jane 4Th
Hoke Smith
Greensboro
South
Prominent Florida testimonial pitch for patent remedies
The letter promotes Dr King's New Discovery for consumption, coughs and colds, Electric Bitters for liver stomach and kidneys, Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and Kine's New Life Pills with claims of guaranteed results. It includes a Florida testimonial by J F Greer of Stillsboro praising PPP Prickly Ash Poke Root and Potassium and notes local merchants Brown & Co. seeking produce and cash.
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Dr. King
Bucklen
Kine
W. A. Hayes
Saratoga Springs
Arkansas
Florida
J. F. Greer
Third Party Foolishness in U S Politics and Rail Sale
iam Jones on Politics criticizes the third party concept as a fool’s game while denouncing reform attempts on lawmakers and urging focus on individuals. He cites wealth disparities and notes Vanderbilt and Carnegie as self-made figures and argues law isn’t to blame but people. The Richmond & Danville Rail road was sold for 2.03 million dollars, reorganized as Southern Railway, with Samuel Spencer as president and A B Andrews as vice president.
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Heaven
Washington
Vanderbilt
Stewart
Gould
Carnegie
Nere
United States
Richmond & Danville
Southern Railway Company
Richmond
Samuel Spencer
A. 13. Andrews
W. H. Green
Cupid Guides the Boat and 16 Art Pictures Free Offer
Russell Art Publishing Co of Philadelphia offers free pictures to anyone sending ten names and six two cent stamps. Sixteen pictures, including Cupid Guides the Boat, valued at $1 each, are mailed for free as endorsements claim they are gems of art. Also promotes English Spavin Liniment for horses sold by W A Hayes Druggist Hillsboro with a $50 savings claim.
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Russell Art Publishing Co
Arch St
Philadelphia
Cupid
W. A. Ayes
Ilillsboro
Weekly Hillsport Market Report Corrected by N W Brown Co
Market prices for farm products and goods with per unit rates. Wheat corn oats meal bacon flour tallow beeswax butter eggs dry hides green hides feathers wool coffee sugar sassafras burdock May Apple yellow duck Seneca snake roots listed with per unit or per pound values. N W Brown Co. Confederate Depot.
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N. W. Lrown, & CO
Nonsense and Crop Fears Highlight North Carolina Notes
A mixed digest notes lingering drought fears in Nebraska paralleled by North Carolina crop worries. Poems about persistent poor harvests contrast with a black Maltese cat adopting a rat, turtle catching by a North Carolina resident, and general crop prospect gloom across tobacco cotton and potato regions.
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Salisbury Herald
High Point Enterprise
Ragan
Ile
Mr. Ragan
Wilmington
North Carolina
Million Friends: King’s New Discovery for Consumption
A vintage claim highlights Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds trusted by over a million users. The ad promises dramatic throat chest and lung relief with a money back guarantee and trial bottles free at W A Hayes' Drug Store. Large bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar.
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Dr. King
W. A. Hayes’ Drug Store
Death of Foster Utley, UNC repairs chief, 74
The Raleigh News Observer Chronicle notes Foster Utley long known for repairs at the University of North Carolina for about forty years died in Chapel Hill on the 13th at age 74. He leaves a wife and six children, with youngest son Louis named as his successor. The obituary lauds his steadfast faith, generosity, and friendship, and recalls his Wake County roots and Chapel Hill residence.
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Foster Utley
Raleigh News-Observer- Chronicle
Utley
Battle
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Miles Davis
W. M. Watson
J. B. Martin
Methodist Church
Daniel J. Currie
Presbyterian Church
Wake County
Chapel Hall
Alley
Louis
Furniture, Pianos and Organs Sale Notice
A local sale advertises furniture pianos and organs available for purchase. Multiple pieces offered with potential discounts, details not fully legible in the fragment.
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Nee Ee
Hillsborough
N. C
Joseph A. Harris
Roanoke River
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Uth
Bo Greer
Cove Springs
Clay Comanda
Stillsboro
Mar
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Lrown & CO
Iam Jones
Hillsport Market Report
N. W. Brown & Co
Sons of Labor
Nebraska State Journal
WM. A. Hammond
Washington, D. C
Columbia Chemical Co
Washington, D.C
North ‘Carolina
Person County Courier
Hill
Stevenson
New York
VPN
Marlin Fire Arms Co
New Haven
Coxy
Ieke
Dlvid B
Foutz
Paltinole
Shilsboro
Fi A Hayes
W.j.roddey
Department of the
George Stinson &Co
Portland
Maine
Iors
Nash
Hillsboro, N.C
Dr. Strudwich
John W. Graham
Paul c. Graham
Gram & Graham
Attorneys-At-Law
Hillsboro, N. C
Almance
Caswell
Durham
Guilford
Person
Orange
W. Graham
Oxford
Granville
Yester D. Turner
Hillsboro
N.C
Benate Boarding
Henry Richards
E.M. Andriews
West Trade Street
Charlotte, N.C
Tam
KK. M. Andrews
Charlotte, N
J.T. Shaw
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Charlotte Obsehy
North , Carolina
the Observer Company
J. P. Caldwell
Feom & Co
DN. Garrett
Orange County
Rougemont
Norfolk and Western Road
Durham County
Richardson & Fariss Druggists
Blood Balm CO
Atlanta
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