Rocky Mount News Notes and Local Advertisements
Subscriptions due warnings and renewal notices mingle with ads for clothing, sewing machines, and household goods. Local items include courtship songs, property announcements, a public school update, and notices of local meetings, along with social anecdotes from the Tuckahoe picnic.
Society Notes and College Commencement Plans of 1876
A social gathering at Mrs. J. E. Hardy’s Rocky Mount home featured cream and strawberries for fifty guests. Attendees included Misses Wayson Muse Griffin Burnett Bradley and Tatem. card playing caused some mild discord. a humorous tone pervaded. Also included are Hog Law letters advocating free hogs in Tarboro, Wesleyan Female College commencement details from Merriesnone North Carolina, and notices from The Toledo Bind on Dr. R. V. Pierce’s medical system and Spring patterns from Blamire & Co in Norfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitlock’s. Tf
Battle & Son
Rocky Mount Mills
Rocky Mount
N. C
J. B. Griffin
Boreere
Triumph
Triumph Truss Company
Bowery, N
Ly Chamberlain & Rawls
Tarboro
Tar River
Messrs
Daughtry
Joel P. Daughtry
J. P. Daughtry
Tois
Pomp Long
John Dabney
Tuckahoe
Queen Victoria
Duke of Edinburgh
Bride
Ourself
J. E. Hardy
Muse
Thomas
Abrams
A. W. Arrington
Wayson
Griffin
Burnett
Bradley
Tatem
J.P. D
Ben Hardy
Mr. Bprros
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Vax Wixkee
Young Ladies Christian Association
H. P. Mitchell
Portsmouth
Board of Corporators
J. J. Lafferty
Richmond Christian Advocate
M. P
Wesleyan Female College
R. Sledd
Petersburg
Methodist Episcopal Church
Boykin’s S. & R. RK. R
Weldon
Murfreesboro
Old Edgecombe
Pinz
Toledo
Eigth
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
People's Common Sense Medical Adviser
Little Things Lift Spirits in Gentle Advice Piece
A reflective essay extols the impact of small acts and kind words on happiness, urging readers to act with tact and reconsider misunderstandings. It notes how daily gestures can brighten moods, and urges guarding the “little things” in life such as speech, actions, and attitudes. Also lists names in a post office notice and mentions a wedding announcement and a medical pitch for a remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nasi Cuvyry Cosvestios
Raleigh
Jos. J. Davis
St. Louis
Nash County
Nash
North Carolina
Mighty Streteny
Battle
Woodson
Wooson
World's Press Association
Rocky Mowit
The
Mail
Thorpe
Lim
Brass
Harry
Lizzie
Truin
Memmortam
Mary A. Brian
Also Mentioned on This Page
Local Matters
Neaa - Sxant Notica
Sovrusnisr
Dosszy Barrax
Wheeler and Wilson
Whitlocks
O. C. Farrar & Co
Whitlock’s
South
D. Lichtenstein & Co
Adam’s Hotel
J.B. Coffield
Odd Fellows
W. A. Moore
Whitlock's
Siddie Mehegan
J. G. M. Cordon
Enoscomix
Philadelphia
Terkeggam
Jenifer
Edgecombe
Pimlico
Baltimore
D. N. Barlow
Raxena
W. R. Cox
Chaieo ——__ Ritersen
Dr. L. L. Staton
D. Gilliland
Missionary Baptist
J. H. Baker
Nash, Wilson, Pitt, Edgecombe
Ovw Titanxs
J. G
Morpheus
Naess River
C. D. Griswold
U. S. Fish Commission
Milburnie
Neuse River
Potomac
Sentinel
Trinity College
T. D. Wit Talmacye
Brooklyn
Tabernacle
J. W. Johnson
Pleasant Garden Academy
Mamie Bryan
Episcopal Church
Mamie
Wilson Country
Wilson County
Jonas Crowell
Toisnot
Capt
Crowell
Aerusticas Cosvestiox
Court House
W. A. Duggan
W.P. Mabson
Goldsboro
A McCabe
W. P. Mabson
Willis Bunn
McCabe
Congress
Episcopal
Filson
Beret
E.G. Mehegan
Alan
Charlie Mehegan
Nolee
Bowery
Cnear
BIA
Emedy, &c
Little Raleigh
Jordan Sims
Bopeep
Rt. C. Tillery
Tilledog
Sims
Conn
Mencoast Tailor
E. B. Blamire & Co
Main St
Norfolk
E. Butterick & Co
Main
Norfolk, Va
Lise OF
Lepters
C—Drey Cooper
Hi—Henrietta Hill
Eliza Hardy J—Il
C, Jenkins
Annettie Jones
Nathan Johnson
M—Abram McNair
Henry A. Masson
S—Louisa Spruil
Phillis Staton
Henry Stokes
T—Judy Thorn
H. Straw
P. M Ae
Peterson Parker—Closs
Dr. Closs
Lucy Coss
W. S. Parker
A. A. Boshamer
Commercial
Tarboro’ O' Market
R. B. Alsop
Grocer
Main Street
N.C
Hipes
Bacox
S. C
Cuba
Liverpool
New York
Uplands
Orleans
Ees
Centennial
Pring
H. Morris & Bros
GSS
A. Whitlock
Wade
Main and
Pitt Sts
Whitlock
Vualulvelulual Vwyuul
S. Tarboro