The Hamer Poorer Readers Prize and Rural Change
A fragment from North Carolina notes a farmer who fed his family from the farm and sold surplus before a nearby railroad altered life. The piece asks why the farmer was made poor by contact with the wider world and invites readers to submit the best essay by February 1. Also mentions a Democratic Executive Committee meeting scheduled for March 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giant
Utr
Peter
Abe Mort
Richmond
N.C
Baltimore
Seial
Mary
A Money Maker Promises Jobs and Quick Profits
A promotional letter touts a plating business that costs $5 and promises $25 weekly for subscribers. It cites a Delno & Co. plating outfit from Columbus Ohio, claims high demand, quick returns, and invites readers to request circulars. It also notes a Asheville Democrat correspondent praising Estes County health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. F. Delno & Co
Columbus
Ohio
Bucklen's Arnica Salve and Other Notices
Bucklen's Arnica Salve offers 25 cent boxes and a money back guarantee for skin injuries. Three inmates escaped from Cabarrus county jail in Concord after cutting through a grate. Ely's Cream Balm claims to quickly relieve nasal catarrh with safe easy application priced at 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
John Y. MacRae
Cabarrus County
Concord
Leroy Gray
Jim Todd
John Kiser
Gray
Todd
Ely
A Little Girl's Experience in a Lighthouse
A lighthouse keeper family at Sand Beach Mississippi narrates their four year old daughter's illness and recovery from measles and a severe cough after using Dr King s New Discovery. The tale ends with promotional mentions of Hood s Sarsaparilla and a violent remembered crime in Morganton and McDowell county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren Trescott
Gov. Lighthouse
Sand Beach
Miss
Detroit
Dr. King
John Y. MacRae
Miller and Lindsay Calendar Offer in Raleigh Ad
An Raleigh advertisement from Miller and Lindsay in the Henry Building offers to mail a calendar estimate in exchange for a filled form. It requests the recipient’s age, name, and address with a Post Office Lock Box 373 location noted. A postal box and timing line appear in the clipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Building
Postoffice
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Yan
Daily State Chronicle
North Carolina
Chronicle
Mooratic EX
Democr i
Smith
Ednesday
Asheville
Estatee
Mitchel County
United States
Gastonia
Miles Watts
The
Gazette
Hood
B. B. Jones
Anna
Maine
Parra
New York
Siohahd A. McCurdy
Pressnest
Mutual Life Salance Com
Olbeit
Larexst Lite
Ngurance Comany
GhOr
Raleigh, N. C
New York Weekly Herald
Weekly Herald
James Gordon Bennett
New York City
C. A. Goodwig
Raeigh
Fayetteville
EB L Hemsburg
Fayetteville N. C
Goodwin & Remsburg
Raleigh
Raleigh and Fayetteville
W. G. Randall
Fayetteville Street
N. C
Wood and Coal Office
A. Dughi
Kanawha
West Virginia
New River
Phil H. Andrews
I, R. Ferrall & Co
Grocers
Payeliteville Street
Florida
Vermont
New Orleans
Gordon & Dilworth
Atmore
Buckingham
New York Life Ins. Co
Ivarec
Bel. N
Insa Ee
William H. Beers
Henry Tuck
Archibald H. Welch
Rufus W. Weeks
Broadway
Church & Lane
Norrie
Laura Carolina
Charlotte, N. C
Haw River
Saxapahaw Cotter
Paxesahaw
Ageecieee
South East Alamance
James Newlin
Deei-Im Saxapahaw
N C
Wake Forest
R. L. Brewer & Co
W. H. Edwards
W.H. Edwards, R. L. Brewer
Biw
Child Township
Pitt County
J.J. Laughinghouse
Bryan Grimes
Mra
J. H. Saunders Areo
North Carolus
Board of Commissioners
J. J. Laughinghon
J. B Grines
W. L. Smith
BR. J. Wison
J. Bryan Grimes
Grimesland
Pitt-county
Robert C. Burton, Jr
Halifax
Northampton
Wake
Fisher Bulling
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