How the President Received the News
Washington November 4 President Harrison spent the evening at the Executive Mansion receiving returns with Attorney General Miller and Secretary Rusk. Secretary Tracy visited briefly from New York while Blaine Noble Foster Proctor Wanamaker and others were elsewhere as Western Union wires and United Press dispatches arrived for the president and his cabinet.
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Washington, D. C
Harrison
Executive Mansion
Miller
Rusk
Tracy
New York
Western Union
White House
United Press
Blaine
Noble
Foster
Ohio
Proctor
Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Washington
A. F. Page to Build New Hotel in Raleigh
Aberdeen developer A F Page, investing widely in Raleigh, has purchased the West Martin and South McDowell residence of J Ruffin Williams and plans a hotel on the site facing the park near the new passenger station with construction to start soon.
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A.F. Page
Nash Square
A. F. Page
Aberdeen
Raleigh
J. Ruffin Williams
West Martin
South McDowell Streets
Will Be Buried in Washington
Remains of James E. Shepherd Jr. were transported by special train from Raleigh to Washington after dying Sunday in Asheville. Supreme Court members, officers and friends attended the depot expressing sincere sympathy. Floral tributes adorned the journey as the family accompanied the funeral party.
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Washington
Raleigh
James E. Shepherd, Jr
Asheville
The
Supreme Court
University Magazine issue highlights memorial address and sketches
The University Magazine lists editors George C. Connor C F Harvey W E Darden and Howard E Rondthaler and business managers W B Rollins E Payson Willard. Contents include the memorial address on Rev Dr A W Mangum by Josephus Daniels lines to the Gossip by T M Lee and Mountain Sketches by Hunter Harris. The issue aims to present a historical sketch in each edition and seeks liberal support from alumni and friends.
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University Magazine
George C. Connor
C. F. Harvey
Phi. Society
Rollins
E. Payson Willard
Dr. Society
W.E. Darden
Howard E. Rondthaler
A. W. Mangum
Chapel Hill
Josephus Daniels
State Chronicle
T. M. Lee
Hunter Harris
University
Cotton stalk displays at Wake exhibit and new telephone link
Mr G B Alford of Holly Springs brings a 600 boll Peterkin Peerless cotton stalk eight feet across to the Wake exhibit claiming four pounds of lint. A local telephone test shows Holly Springs to Apex Raleigh links delivering messages in under an hour, signaling rapid telegraphic service.
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Holly Springs
G. B. Alford
Alford
Alliance
Apex
Raleigh & Augusta
Raleigh
Wake Forest Student October issue highlights faculty editors
The Wake Forest Student October number features editor Prof J B Carlyle as alumni editor and lists editors from Phi and Eu societies. It includes articles by E T C Robert N Cook I T Newton and others, praising the magazine's literary quality and urging subscribers.
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Wake Forest
J.B. Carlyle
E. S&s. Reaves
G. W. Paschal
Phi. Society
W. W. Vass, Jr
W. P. Daniel
EU. Society
E. V. Howell
Robert N. Cook
I. T. Newton
Anon
Mexico
Janie P. Duggan
Wm. Edgar
Gates Desk Company Ad Highlights Greenville Furnishings
The Gates Desk Company of Greenville South Carolina is praised for elegant bank and courthouse furnishings school desks and supplies bank counters pews and roller top desks. The Chronicle notes a roller top desk is a beauty and a comfort for busy men who can leave papers out without disturbance.
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Gates Desk Company
Chronicle
Greenville
South Carolina
Sight of Six-Horse Wagon Delivers Bank Safe in Town
Yesterday a team of six horses hauled a ponderous wagon carrying a bank safe weighing more than ten thousand pounds for the Commercial & Farmers' Bank. The vault includes eight compartments for gold coin silver and reserves and features a time lock burglar-proof design. The article notes the safe’s expected security once installed in the granite steel fireproof vault, and mentions Simmons Liver Regulator as a noted product.
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Commercial & Farmers’ Bank
A Son of Thespis at Metropolitan Hall Tonight
Nobles presents his new play about 1861 actor turned bank forgery suspect who retreats to army life under an assumed name. Seventeen years pass to reveal lineage and reconciliation with Col Alchester of Texas aiding the reunion. Notables include Dollie Nobles and a Texan colonel with a dramatic, restrained finale. Tickets available at Bobbitt's drug store.
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Mr. Nobles
Metropolitan Hall
New York
Col
Om Alchestra
Texas
Dollie Nobles
New England
Mr. Clark
Price
Missouri
Nobles
Bobbitt’s
Work at Caraleigh Cotton and Phosphate Mills Progress
Workmen begin installing window frames on the second story of the big cotton mill while a 175 foot chimney stack foundation 24 by 24 feet rises. About 200 employed on the mills and 100 on water works intake. wages from 75 cents to 12 dollars daily.
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Caraleigh
Exposition notes on fair events and upcoming programs
A busy fair day with amusements including cake eating contests foot races hurdles vaulting and balloon ascents. Details of the colored department opening delays Governor Fleming talk Oxford and Goldsboro day plans and a chrysanthemum show led by Raleigh ladies to support St John’s Hospital.
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Charlie Jones
Dennis
Colored Department
Pinchback
Fleming
West Virginia
Oxford
Goldsboro
Fair Ground
J. B. Hunter
Granville County
A. A. Hicks
E. C. White
Trinity College
Raleigh
J. B. Batchelor
Garland Jones
St. John’s Hospital
Special Invitation Sought to Ex-President Cleveland
Raleigh citizens' committee asks Rev. Dr. Dixon to help secure Ex-President Cleveland for the Southern Inter-State Exposition. They propose a deputation of Raleigh figures to meet him and urge a date before November 28. A telegram with results is requested. The letter also references sending a copy to Walter Page.
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Cleveland
Badger
N. B. Broughton
H. B. Battle
W. N. Jones
Citizens’ Committee
Thos. Dixon
New York
Citizens’ Committee of
Raleigh
Walter Page
Dr. Deems
J. H. Parker
United States National Bank
O. G. Thomas
R. H. Prentice
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Farmers’ Alliance
Independent Party
New Jersey
Trenton
N. d
Simmons Liver Regulator
Thespis
Milton Nobles
Simmons
Liberty
N.C
J. M. Weatherny
Hood
C. I. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Ber 3d
D. Rosenthal
Gost
I. Rosenthal
D. T. Johnson
N. C
E. C
D.T. Johnson
Agt
Raleigh, N
D&w-Ly
Sifo
Grocer
Bakers and Cardy Ted
Iuings
United States
Jacob Maers
Land
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