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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1892
Page
8
Raleigh area forecast shows fair weather warm today with a high around 83 and a low near 10. Washington reports North Carolina will stay fair and warmer into Friday with variable winds through Saturday night.
Local happenings note the University Glee Club concert at Metropolitan Hall tonight and the Little Lord Fauntleroy company set to perform next Tuesday. Also mention Sheriff Stedman paying 24751.11 in state taxes, and various civic notes including weather, county meetings, and upcoming events.
Purely personal items list visits, marriages to occur, and multiple deaths in Wayne Mecklenburg Newbern Guilford and surrounding areas. Names include Florence McMackin D E Tayloe Stephen Howell J A Richardson Mary Powell Cassandra Ivey Fred Johnson and others with brief notes on travel illness retirement and a Cuba tour. A Moore county murder case involves John McInnis and Bruce Horner.
The Fifty Seventh Anniversary of the Philomathesian and Eureka literary societies at Wake Forest College will be celebrated February 12 with a 2 p m public debate on annexation of Canada. EK T Barnes presides, E F Rice secretary, speakers include C D Graves J C Kittrell for the affirmative and D A Bridges E Y Webb for the negative. Evening orations by John A Wray and J W Millard. Marshals named. also a meeting on World’s Fair exhibits planning with hopes to recruit a public instruction superintendent to lead educational displays. Exhibits planned cover agriculture horticulture forestry mining fisheries and natural history with specialists to report February 13.
Advertisements offer Electropoise info via Miss S A Tilling hast Raleigh contact after 3 pm. Cough remedy sixdime two doses sold by King McGee. Soaps perfumes coffees teas canned goods butter and more from Esernarot Pescup and Eberhardt Piscup. Various claims of cures and prices appear with local supplier names and addresses.
Royster announces a new confection page featuring toasted marshmallows as a novelty treat. The item promises a crispy exterior with a soft, gooey center and is aimed at dessert lovers seeking a novel snack.
An advertisement from Dr. R Schiffman of St Paul Minnesota offers a free trial package of Scurriemann's AstuMa Corte to asthma sufferers. The physician claims instant relief in severe cases and cures where others fail, asking readers to send their address to the State Chronicle for the free trial.
An old advertisement offering life or property policy cost estimates. It instructs potential customers to mail blank filled forms with their name and address and promises an estimate plus a calendar in return. The ad lists the Henry Building office in front of the Post Office and a lock box number 373.
Wanted to Sell. Five good young Mules and five good Horses for cash or on time with good paper. Also several full stock Poland China Pigs, ten to fifteen dollars a pair, owing to age. L. A. Wyatt, No. 216 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C.
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