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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1891
Page
8
Washington September 8. For North Carolina fair and cooler except in southeast portions with steady temperature and northeasterly winds noted.
Exposition crowds swell as new side track is laid near the grounds. Rail and streetcar updates, repairs and improvements accompany city life. Notables: Major Hollowell ill at Goldsboro. Davis cadet battalion to attend. plans for telegraph at new depot. various public works and local business news.
W H Pace and family left for Baltimore. Rev E Pope, Chaplain of the State Alliance, was in the city yesterday. Col Thomas S Kenan departed for Buffalo Springs for a week. Five young men passed through Raleigh for Wake Forest College. Miss Jennie Bragg of Richmond is visiting. Miss Mollie Crawford and Miss Love Crawford returned from Hammocks. Yarboro arrivals include W H Orr of Charlotte T B Womack of Pittsboro T W Whisnant of Seaboard Air Line W W Gwathmey Jr of Norfolk and C W B Rodman Jr of Washington NC.
The Wake County board of education and the county commissioners completed the election of three school committeemen for each of Wake's 140 districts. Two days were needed with few changes. The commissioners plan to meet again on the 15th instant to receive tax lists and turn them over to the sheriff. Bondholders of ex-Sheriff Rogers assessed themselves 2400 and, with 500 on hand, total 2900, leaving 1000 due, to be paid by October 1.
Greensboro residents and officials clash over site location for the Normal and Industrial school. A Greensboro correspondent reports Durham has raised a $40 000 offer while the Board seeks a site closer to churches and business areas to honor the town and state. Maj Fin ger denies harsh critique and affirms efforts to improve Greensboro’s chance.
The article extols Raleigh North Carolina as beautiful and rapidly improving with new houses and streets. It highlights Fayetteville street, rising enrollment at Peace Institute and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Saint Mary’s School, and Morson and Denson’s Academy. It notes exceptional public health with few diseases, no major unrest, and a population over 18 000. Recorded death: Herbert Gregory in Granville County.
Governor Holt received a large photograph and a smaller foundation image of the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument planned for Richmond. The granite memorial will rise ninety feet with a colossal soldier statue atop and cost about $1,000 for the decorative stones. The governor urged legislative approval and state appropriation, noting North Carolina’s honorable Confederate service as justification for the monument.
Seven barrels choice Bartlett pears from California arrived at A Ducut s. Telephone 121. Our grand opening will be on the 17th and 18th of this month when we will unveil all the new fine millinery items.
A Raleigh firm touts a large stock of fashionable wardrobes, carpets, and dress goods. Tuomas & MaxwelLt advertise hundreds of carpet styles and the latest imported dress goods with trim options, inviting customers to see their selection before spending elsewhere.
An old advertising blurb touts Abbott's East Indian Corn Paint for corns warts and bunions. It also touts Ko Mi Tea and Simmons Liver Regulator as cures. The message urges use of Abbott's product for corns and related foot ailments.
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