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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1892
Page
3
A garbled OCR line mentions Nashville, Omaha, and Atlanta with scattered words like Chic at babe and fray day, offering no coherent event or clear entities beyond these city fragments.
A long list of campaign stops by Elias Carr Thos ville J C Scarborough and other Democrats outlines meetings in Columbus Robeson Lincoln Rutherford Cleveland Dav idson Iredell Moore Duplin Hertford Wake Nash and more with dates from August 1 to August 24. It notes conventions in Raleigh and a Greensboro church call for Rev C A G Thomas.
In Sharon yesterday a dispute arose during a political talk between Charles Lo Brown a third party supporter and Al Alexander a Democrat. Brown allegedly struck Alexander with a small walking cane multiple times while Alexander sat in his buggy, prompting onlookers to intervene.
In a brawl, Alexander jumped from a buggy and fought Mr. Brown, leaving Brown's clothes torn. The text also advertises Prohibition conventions and a flood of medical ads for Electric Bitters P P P Hood's Sarsaparilla Ely's Cream Balm Kemp's Balsam and Queen City Silver Nickel Plating Co with claims of cures and wealth for agents.
Diocese of North Carolina publishes a schedule of bishops Lyman's appointments across multiple towns from July 24 through September 18, detailing locations dates and times including Burlington High Point Lexington St Matthews Rowan county Andrews St Marys Salisbury Winston Germanton Mt Airy Madison Walnut Cove Haw Ci Asheville Trinity Chapel Waynesville Mica Dale Sylva Cullowhee Jackson Cashiers Valley Franklin St Johns Flat Rock Hendersonville Calvary Church Morganton Hickory Lenoir Yadkin Valley Blowing Rock Boone Valle Crucis Statesville Charlotte Lincolnton Shelby Rutherfordton Hillsboro Holy Communion and a diocesan mission collection noted for the sequence of dates and places.
A sequence of times and stations appears to reflect a historical railroad timetable. Entries reference Philadelphia, New York, Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Raleigh Durham Henderson Weldon Portsmont, and trains No. 34 with various arrival and departure markers. The readable items suggest a schedule fragment with city pairs and platform-like notes.
Schedule in effect July 17 1892 lists Durham and Winston Salem divisions with daily departures from Durham 7 00 am and 7 4 am arrivals to Lynchburg 1 05 pm and 7 4 pm. Winston to Roanoke 12 5 pm and 7 00 pm daily. main line westbound from Lynchburg 5 20 pm to Roanoke Radford Pulaski Bristol Bluefield Pocahontas Highboro with Louisville via Norton. eastbound Lynchburg 9 15 am and 11 56 am to Richmond Petersburg and Norfolk with Pullman sleepers to Norfolk and Richmond. Washington and Chattanooga Limited via Shenandoah Valley runs with stops at Luray Shenandoah Basie Roanoke Radford. Allen Hall and Bevill listed as traveling agents. Household position notice by H B Hardy Raleigh NC.
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