The Poor Farmer and the Credit Dilemma Debate
A series of letters from North Carolina correspondents argue credit and dependence on cotton doomed farmers. They blame credit systems, market fluctuations, and laziness for ruin, urging self-reliance and home production. Letters from Brook, Lenore, Fayetteville, and Raleigh reflect on railroads, prices, and substitute goods shaping farm livelihoods.
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Mitt Brook
N. C
Waiter A. Apt
Cepar Grove
Orange County
West
North Carolina
G. W. Morris
Rose Buds Offer Restores Health for Women
Advertising copy from a Boston mail order house touts Rose Buds as a remedy for uterine ulcers, congestion, dropsy of the womb, bearing down pains, and post childbirth rupture. It claims twenty years of Paris medical use and promises a “new woman” after one month at $1 per package mailed postpaid.
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Paris
Tue Lev- Erette Spectfic Co
Washington,St
Boston
Mass
A Money Maker Plating Outfit Offered in Columbus
A reader promotes a plating machine from H F Delno & Co of Columbus Ohio as a money making device. The note claims the equipment plates gold silver and nickel and produced 470 in plating value on the first day. It urges readers to obtain a circular by writing to the Columbus firm. Abbott's East India Corn Paint advertises a painless corn bunion and wart remover.
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Greenville
TH. H. Wilson
HF. Delno & Co
Columbus
H. F. Delno & Co
Ohio
Democratic Executive Committee Meeting Called in Raleigh
A State Democratic Executive Committee meeting is convened by Chairman Smith in Raleigh on Wednesday March 2 1892 at 11 am to set a date and place for a State Convention and handle other business. Members are urged to attend due to the importance of the gathering. Simmons Liver Regulator is recommended by H H Jones of Macon Ga for biliousness and headache.
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Lusvinne
Rentera
L. B. Youna
M. D
Democratic Executive Committee
State Democratic Executive Committee
Smith
Raleigh
Simmons
H. H. Jones
Macon
J W. Eddins
A. L. Eddins
Wake County
Court House
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