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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1891
Page
2
The notice lists editors and directors Joserius Daniels H I B Harpy Gro P Pell with terms for postage free subscriptions. Daily rates are one year six dollars seven cents and for dairy six months three dollars, dairy one month. Weekly rate in clubs of five one dollar. Liberal commission to club agents with sample copies available on request.
If paper delivery fails or is delayed please notify by sending a postal with your address and complaint. Papers should arrive on doorsteps by six o'clock each morning and prompt attention will follow any report of late or missing delivery.
A quote from Ben Tillman declares that he is a Democrat and advocates reform within the party while warning that forming a third party in the South would fail. He emphasizes loyalty to party lines and internal reform.
A dated 1891 editorial defends the New York Herald against a law banning publication of execution details. The piece argues the law is unconstitutional and akin to Star Chamber practices, urging testing of its constitutionality and asserting that the press should publish such news without restraint. It praises the Herald and condemns suppression of information.
The Chronicle cites United Press telegrams from a private Chilean letter urging U S intervention to depose Balmaceda and support Vienna and Burma. It portrays Balmaceda as a tyrant who seized power, dissolved Congress, jailed opponents, and terrorized the public as Congress-backed forces formed a rival junta.
Young men seeking scholarships at the University should apply before August 15 to President George T Winston at Chapel Hill. The application must be student written and include scholarly record financial status past year activities and endorsements from responsible parties. Endorsements may come from the county Superintendent of Education or the county Board of Commissioners chair.
Minister Lincoln pushes England to accept large exhibits for the World’s Fair and vows to amend restrictive laws to aid exhibitors. The piece also notes political hypocrisy, newspaper ownership changes, and promotes patent medicine claims and railroad fare rates for the North Carolina State Horticultural Fair with travel prices from Charlotte Winston-Salem and nearby towns.
The advertisement extols P. P. P. as a remedy for scrofula general weakness nervousness indigestion rheumatism and female complaints. It urges trying the medicine and recommending it to neighbors as a good deed.
The advertisement warns that many suffer from headaches dyspepsia and irregular bowel issues until Simmons Liver Regulator is used. It claims the remedy cures liver kidney and bowel disease, clears the tongue, purifies the blood, and restores appetite and sleep. It cautions buyers to verify the genuine with the red trademark and Zeilin signature.
A New York physician and hospital director reports successful use of P. P. P. in many cases and praises its efficacy as a purifier. A railway superintendent, crippled by rheumatism and related ailments, recovered after a course of P. P. P. The ad touts P. P. P. as a South known remedy for blood poison, syphilis, scrofula, skin diseases, gout, and other conditions, urging use of Prickly Ash Poke Root and Potassium.
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