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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1891
Page
8
The 1891 Raleigh issue notes A F Page of Aberdeen visiting the city and backing a new modern hotel at the Nash Square Williams corner site. Brick work is now hauled for the project as anticipation builds for a substantial Raleigh addition to its growth.
Tonight The Fast Mail and Wednesday The Emma Juch Company perform in Raleigh. W D Pollock is mayor of Kinston not Pollard as yesterday. A season’s attraction The Buns Juch Mr Jas W Cobb to supply light railway needs. Elder J D Craughan to preach Saturday December 8 in Raleigh. Fire wrecks Landon Doub’s farm destroying barn crop livestock and implements. E D Smith’s toy and fancy goods store touted on Fayetteville Street. Captain Richard Irby and Randolph Macon College donations including a Leigh steel engraving and a Bishop Soule medallion. Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Simmons Liver Regulator advertised.
The 1892 edition of Turner's Almanac is hailed as a top reference for North Carolina. James H. Enniss, its veteran proprietor, offers a comprehensive index of the state including departments charities courts and public works with names of judges solicitors and court times and the annual state record. Priced at 10 cents and advertised as a complete, well arranged source.
Yesterday the U S Circuit Court disposed of cases across dockets. In Liven Calendar United States vs ten kegs of spirits seized for P B Key Co the United States won. In United States vs property of W P Alley judgment for United States. H Champion default judgment. In Civil Contempt Spain and Macune peddler tax petitioners won and discharged. In Criminal Contempt United States vs W D Joyner Van B Carter Rob J Edwards the Nash county election case jury deliberated past 5 p m after being given to the jury.
An old advertisement extols Hecker's buckwheat as essential to a well run home. A husband praises his wife’s skills and the product’s role in making housekeeping easier and more refined.
Special notices advertise Dr R Schiffman of St Paul Minnesota mailing a free trial package of Schirrmann s Asthma Cure to sufferers. He claims it gives instant relief in worst cases and cures where others fail and asks readers to send address to STATE CHRONICLE for the free trial. Merit compels approval, hence the enormous safe of our Boston chips 20 cts per pound Royster.
Notice to City Taxpayers states the 1891 city tax list is for collection with daily office hours 9 am to 5 pm and a 1 percent monthly penalty if unpaid after December 1. C B Root is identified as the 29th City Tax Collector.
Readers and newspapers statewide hail Turner’s North Carolina Almanac as a fixed, invaluable reference. The Roanoke News, Raleigh papers, and others call it reliable, welcome, and essential, with broad support from periodicals like Carolina Watchman and The State Press.
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