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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1892
Page
2
The State Chronicle invites postal replies for delivery issues and subscriptions with rates for daily and weekly papers. It prints a loyalty plea for Georgia and Massachusetts, a notice to correspondents requiring real names, and quotes Ben Tillman and Grover Cleveland on party reform. The issue is dated Sunday January 31, 1892.
A Chronicle review details how the Louisiana lottery bribed for its original charter and re charter and now pays the state 1.25 million annually for exclusivity. It explains profits from twelve monthly drawings totaling about 28 million in face value and a 47 percent personal gain for the company, plus extensive daily policy games across 108 shops with large daily yields. The piece argues the lottery corrupts politics and voting, controls much of the Democratic party, and influences the negro vote amid broad public opposition.
A European editor writes of a curious advertisement seeking the return of a stolen china cup with a promised donation to a local church. The piece also notes spelling shifts from Chile to Chile and comments on political figures and Montreal style news in the postwar press.
By power in a 1892 Wake County mortgage J T Olive and M J Olive will sell by cash at noon February 22 at Raleigh courthouse. The Cary Township land near Asbury on the North Carolina Railroad covers 180 acres, adjoining Adams Castleberry Rea and others, part of the Ireland tract. Peele and Maynard attorney for mortgagee.
Complete 7 8 or 9 column newspaper outfit offered for sale. Includes a Potter Power Press. Owner needs funds and is ready to sell at age 23. Local sale details not provided.
The paper touts its honesty progressiveness and enlarged eight page format reporting more North Carolina news than northern weeklies. It urges cash advance subscriptions for the 1892 campaign period to meet low prices and poor crops.
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