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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1891
Page
5
Cotton prices closed firm with uplands at 43d and bales steady. Producing and commodity markets show steady to firm readings for oats wheat corn and oats with mixed futures. Market notes cover bonds, stocks in Northern Central and Baltimore & Ohio, with provisions and butter steady and pork prices at 12.00 per barrel for old stock.
New York flour and grain values show quiet steady trades with mixed spot sales across grades. Wheat and corn futures fluctuated with late rallies, spot prices for No 2 red winter wheat at 1.053 to 1.093, corn varied, oats dull, pork and lard firm, molasses dull, sugar firm, and coffee steady in spot markets.
Market notes report steady spirits turpentine at 34 cents in Wimmerton North Carolina and Savannah Georgia with rosin firm for strained and good strained at 1.05 to 1.10 and 1.20 to 1.25 respectively. Charleston South Carolina also shows spirits turpentine at 34 cents and rosin for good strained around 1.25.
Wreck survivor GW Sanperuin of North Carolina writes to rebut testimony at the coroner's inquest. He denies claims of sitting on a young lady and of neglecting to aid, stating Col. Cameron freed several survivors, including Miss Poole, while he lay injured. He also disputes emphasis on personal effects, recounting his attempts to retrieve cane, umbrella, and clothing as he waited for help.
McPHERSON and THOMPSON proprietors in Moore County NC present balmy breezes and a spring water remedy said to aid pulmonary and asthmatic troubles. The article recalls a hidden mineral spring described as bubbling from solid rock beds and creating a small rivulet with curative qualities long known to locals.
The Jackson Springs mineral waters gain fame as powerful remedies for indigestion dyspepsia and other ailments. Visitors flocked, camps formed, and a party secured an option on the springs and surrounding land. Water samples were analyzed by the State Agricultural Experiment Station in Raleigh in 1890.
Sale of the stock of the late D S Waitt agent includes clothing hats shirts and furnishing goods. Goods offered without reserve and no refunds as the business is to be closed out entirely. The sale emphasizes rapid turnover and final disposal of inventory.
H. B. Battie signs as director to P. M. msoyn in Raleigh. Purchasers have erected a new comfortable hotel near the springs, fitted it out anew and now open to the public as the Jackson Springs Hotel on the Atlantic Coast Line route.
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