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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1892
Page
2
The Chronicle Publishing Co based at 216 Fayetteville St Raveies Nowra Caroma lists editors Josephus Daniels and directors Wh Harpy and Daniss3 in a brief personnel note.
Notices urge loyal, unified allegiance across states with Georgia and Massachusetts cited. Readers urged to report delivery issues to ensure morning arrivals. Letters from editors demand real-name contributions and critique third-party efforts, while political tallies from New Jersey show Cleveland and Harrison leads.
General Robert Ransom died suddenly at his residence in Newbern aged about sixty four. A North Carolina native, he served in the Cavalry and connected commands from West Point through Civil War campaigns in Kansas Maryland and Virginia. He rose to Major General commanding in East Tennessee and Richmond before surrendering at Warrenton May 2 1865. After the war he held roles as Express Agent and Wilmington Marshal and later worked on government river improvements. He was twice married and left nine children.
The excerpt from the New York Times hails Mr. Mills as a clear and expert tariff thinker while noting he lacks broad leadership and interpersonal balance. It discusses his Senate aspirations, positions on Cleveland, and potential to join finance panels with Vance and Canisle, plus a digression on Simmons Liver Regulator for dyspepsia.
Rev. Mr. Morrow, chaplain of Bethany Home, a United Presbyterian faith care institution, is dismissed for kissing and embracing young women inmates including Aunt Lavinia. Three women dismissed for excess affection. He defends himself claiming Saint Paul taught the holy kiss, revealing moral degeneracy.
Nearly all three hundred female students at the State Normal School in Baltimore boycott corsets after the health minded director requires corsetless garterless dress in daily physical culture. Observers report improved grace and appearance. The column also notes legal opinions on poll taxes for preachers and brief court rulings on liquor licenses for social clubs.
Mr Voorhees, once a close friend of Hitl, sharply criticizes the political programme. He argues the spirit of battle and the Democratic masses cannot be checked by tariffs, monopolists, or plutocracy. He says the Democratic nominee should live away from Wall Street and wealth and educated rascality.
A brief dialogue from the Atlanta Constitution features a subscriber and editor discussing a phrase about Colonel Brown. The exchange touches on debt and a joking reference to lynching, reflecting newspaper humor of the period.
A reader notes the posterity of a single female sparrow over ten years could yield about two hundred seventy six million birds, suggesting farmers may wage war on the English sparrow to curb its numbers.
Hon Henry Watterson lectured in Asheville on Money and Morals and was dined in state by Col E P McKissick. Edward H Sholar of Raleigh now Chattanooga to wed Annie Powell of Oxford January 20 at 3 p m. John T Morgan, long Nash County Superior Court clerk, named clerk to the committee on claims chaired by Hon B H Bunn. Don’t waste time with pills and oils, take Simmons Liver Regulator.
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