State Legislature party balance shown by district picks
An aged item notes the People’s Party poised for a Senate majority and a House plurality, listing district by district nominees across North Carolina. The piece ends with a humorous aside: an inebriated visitor sought a quiet second-hand locomotive for a nervous lady.
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People’s Party
Senate
House
Currituck
Camden
Pacquotank
Hertford
Gates
Chowan
Perquimans
E. T. Snipes
Theopilus White
Tyrrell
Washington
Martin
Dare
Beaufort
Hyde
Pamlico
H. E. McCaskey
J. B. Parson
Northampton
Bertie
W. Mitchell
Halifax
LE. Green
Edgecombe
W. P. Mercer
Pitt
A. A. Forrs
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Turkeys and eggs offered for shipment to northern markets
An advisory from W S Barnes, Manager Egg Exchange, invites alliance members to send turkeys after December 1 for dressing and best prices. The State Agency Department announces undertakers supplies including linings, caskets, robes, and burial garments for men, women, and children across counties.
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Alliance
Barnes
Egg Exchange
Ee State Agency Department
Market brief notes and church note to brethren
Pay 16 cents for No 1 eggs wholesale Turkeys 6 to 8 cents per lb alive W S Barnes Manager Note to the brethren I have just returned from a trip to Norfolk Va and I find that it eee
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W.S Barnes
Norfolk, Va
First Class Cattle and Eggs Promoted by Worris and S. B. A.
The letter urges shipping only first class beef cattle weighing 700 to 900 pounds as the most profitable market. Demand is weak with oversupply in Norfolk and Richmond. It cautions against marketing small chickens and anticipates egg market opening around September first, noting Boston house aims to handle carload weekly.
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Norfolk
Richmond
Boston House
W. H. Worris
Wool and Woolen Goods Prices and Services
Wool and woolen goods offered with exchange rates for washed and unwashed wool. Blankets at $4.00 per pair. various fabrics priced per yard or pound. Wool work includes carding, spinning, weaving, and coloring services with specific per unit rates. Freight paid on shipments over ten pounds. grease handling and advice on wool prep. W. H. Wor ris, S. B. A.
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Dewansee
Amdxaasee
W. H. Worris
Alliance Produce Exchange price list and market note
The Alliance Produce Exchange announces price ranges from 75 cents to 250 dollars per pair and lists items like pants shoes and clothing plus special orders. It urges members to place orders early for cane mills and notices eggs butter hides tobacco cotton and other farm products demand in Raleigh North Carolina.
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Raleigh
Erica
F. O. B. Leigh
Alliance
Raleigh N. C
North Carolina
Notice to those shipping wool for exchange
Parties with wool to exchange for blankets dress goods or white flannel should contact me. Do not ship wool to my address as it causes extra trouble. Write me for shipping instructions. July.
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W. H. Worris
Bag cloth for baling cotton trade terms and specs
Heavy bags cut and sewed into sheets with sizes and weights 13 lbs per yard 1 yard wide 3 yards long 3 cents per yard 2 lbs per yard 1 yard wide 3 yards long 44 cents per yard F O B New York or Philadelphia Two sheets cover a bale of cotton Put up in bases of 300 yards.
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New York
Philadelphia
Directions for Preparing Packing and Shipping Poultry for Boston Market
Instructions cover killing, dressing, and packing poultry for market. Emphasizes bleeding neck, warm flesh, dry skin, gut removal minimal, undrawn birds sell poorly, avoid scalding, pack tightly in boxes 100 to 200 pounds, no straw, use clean paper, separate old bull turkeys, boxes are best for shipping.
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Boston
Seshages
Alliance Sewing Machines Notice in Raleigh 1894
Notice from Raleigh dated May 3 1894 warns that after this date nonmembers will be charged 22 50 for Alliance Sewing Machines and orders by members must bear the Alliance seal or the same fee applies. The notice claims about fifteen hundred units sold with high satisfaction and is signed by W H Word and B A.
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Raleigh
Alliance
W. H. Word
Special Price List From Business Agency Ready August First
Special attention is drawn to the forthcoming full price list of the Business Agency to be distributed August 1. The agency promises best contracts for many goods and will offer a wide range of articles at unprecedented prices. A dry goods and notion line, including shoes and pants, will be shipped from Raleigh with detailed lot numbers, descriptions, and prices. Pants are Raleigh manufactured with local labor, and 49 patterns are available for selection.
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Raleigh
Subscriptions From Readers Boost Local Paper Circle
Thank you notes from readers in multiple counties praise the newspaper. Subscriptions renewals arrive from Orange Pamlico Lenoir Edgecombe Warren Durham Cleveland Lincoln Cumberland Wayne Alamance Nash Randolph Bertie Sampson Alamance Cabarrus Duplin Chatham Wake. A humorous exchange about daily usefulness closes the week.
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Wilson
Nash
Franklin
J. C. Bellamy
J. T. B. Hoover
Craven
Jones
Carteret
Lenoir
Onslow
Greene
J. M. Mewborne
E. L. Franks
Duplin
Wayne
Pender
H. L. Grant
A. H. Paddison
New Hanover
Brunswick
F. B. Rice
Warren
Vance
C. A. Cook
Wake
Rev. H. W. Norris
Johnson
E. §. Abell
Sampson
Harnett
Bladen
John E Fowler
J. W. Taylor
Columbus
Robeson
Alfred Rowland
N. M. Culbreth
Cumberland
Warren Carver
Granville Person
A. J. Dalby
Caswell
Alamance
Orange
Durham
Stephen A. White
W.R Lindsay
Guilford
A. Starbuck
Randolph
Moore
W. J. Adams
Richmond
Montgomery
Anson
Union
E. Hurley
C. M. Sanders
Cabarrus
Stanly
William Moody
Mecklenburg
W. C. Dowd
Rowan
Forsyth
Davidson
J. F. Westmoreland
S. W. Wall
Iredell
Davie
Yadkin
A. C. Sharp
B. R Brown
Stokes and
Surry
E. Marshall
Gaston
Cleveland
Rutherford
Polk
J. B. Fortuner
J. ¥. Hamrick
Buncombe
Madison
Haywood
J. M. Moody
John Ammons
Henderson
Transylvania
Jackson
Swain
J.M. Candler
Macon
Cherokee
Clay
W. W. Drew
P. Buncombe
W.S. Lusk
R. Geo. H. Burnham
R. Burke
Samuel Huffman
P. Cabarrus
A. F Hileman
P. Caldwell
Nelson
D. Camden
D. B. Squires
R. Carteret
E. L. Duncan
Pp. Caswell
Calvin L. Smith
R Catawba
Lee R
John G. Andrews
D. McDowell
L. P. Crawford
D. Mitchell
J. Turner
R. Montgomery
J. A. Reynolds
P. Moore
E. J. Harrington
D. Nash
Herbert McClammy
D. George French
R. Northampton
R. B. Peebles
D. Onslow
Rudolph Duffy
D. Orange
J. A. Cheek
Fr. Pamlico
Lewis G. Daniels
D. Pender
Alfred C. Ward
D. Perquimans
Pacquotank
William G. Pool
R. Person
Stephen P. Gentry
P. Pitt
Jno
Phillips
Ei. V. Cox
P. Polk
J. B. Turner
J. Randolph
J. W. Bean
E C. Bean
P. Richmond
J. L. Yates
P . John Mc Lean
P. Robeson
D. D. Carlisle
J. F. Payne
D. Rockingham
J. A. Walker
F.G. McKinney
P. Rowan
D. R. Dalian
J. H. McKenzie
D. Rutherford
M. H. Flack
P. Sampson
C. E. Daniel
P . Robert A. Draughon
P. Stanly
J. T. Smith
D. Stokes
R. J. Petree
R. Surry
W. H. Norman
P. Swain
Woodard
D. Transylvania
E. A. Aiken
R. Union
R. L. Stevens
D. Vance
Moses M. Pearce
P. Warren
A. Williams
P. Wake
Jas. H. Young
W Andrews
Orange County
Leroy Harper
Pamlico County
Jas Gooding
Lenoir County
C Brake
Edgecombe County
W B Fleming
Warren County
J A Beal
J P Boone
Rockingham County
Tom Watson
JT Rogers
Durham County
EL Smith
W A Graham
Lincoln
TH McLean
M Butler
W Thompson
F Boddie
M Picket
Bazemore
Bertie
R Newkirk
Underwood
Pope
Faulkner
Gavin
Sinclair
William Yates
Brewer
Chatham
W Haywood
E H Ray
J B Hil
Leeson
C W Sugg
North Carolina advertiser settles account with The Progressive Farmer
Philadelphia firm sends $55 to The Progressive Farmer in Raleigh to settle an advertising bill. They praise satisfactory trade in North Carolina and credit part of their success to the paper's ads.
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Rarzich
N. C
J. W. Denmark
Farmer
Drak
Progressive Farmer
Tate
Epwakros & BrovaHtom
Eastern Tobacco Warehouse
L. Joyner
Greenville
Raleigh
Snr
Joyner
Philadelphia
N. CO
North Carolina
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C. H. Harris
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L. L. Smith
Graham
King
Ed. Granville
W. H. Crews
R. Greene
W. M. R. Dickson
P. Guilford
Branch Chilcott
J. M. Sutton
R. Halifax
Neil McLeod
P. Haywood
W. T. Lee
D. Henderson
H. G. Ewart
R. Hertford
F. Newsom
P. Hyde
J. C. Harris
P. Iredell
Stikeleather
P. Lee Mor
Raleigh, N.C
Omas & Max
East Furniture and House
N. K. Fairbank Company
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
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