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Newspaper
The State Chronicle
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1891
Page
8
An index listing Hacknes Bros & Simpson as manufacturers of buggies and carriages. Notices include Wilson NC and W. C. Stronach offering an awful warning, D L Saylor seeking a good wagon maker, and Horace A Bagg advertising for contractors.
The Chronicle notes for North Carolina call for fair weather and warmer conditions with stationary temperatures in the extreme south, accompanied by westerly winds.
Newspaper notes a busy Raleigh scene with street work and utilities upgrades, fair attendance, and civic notices. Items cover cotton, rail and trolley work, church leadership changes, police and city services, Exposition preparations, weather impacts on crops, and local arrivals at the Yarboro hotel, with scattered regional updates.
A visiting reporter found the Confederate cemetery unkempt with overgrown grass and weeds, urging timely attention before October 1. The piece also describes whistle signals used by the U S Weather Bureau for weather and temperature forecasts shared with mills and foundries in North Carolina and how to apply for telegraphic forecasts.
Davis school opens with about two hundred cadets. The corps plans to attend the Southern Exposition in November. Also notes include a tea advertisement and a health tip about headaches from smoking.
The public is urged to consider extensive sidewalk upgrades in Raleigh. The issue is presented as a pressing matter that the city must address, with emphasis on its broad scope and public impact.
The Retail Grocers' Association calls a meeting on Thursday at 5 20 PM. Members are urged to attend promptly as several members will give speeches.
Special Notices touts M Mitree Sporrer & Son Decorators and a new dress goods stock. It promotes upcoming opening days for latest fashions, urges trade on merits, and invites buyers to Swispert's business. Also mentions Stronach seeking a clerk and invites readers to use the want column.
The Railway Commission met yesterday afternoon to hear a case brought by the Atlantic express company against the Wilmington & Weld Richmond & Danville railways and the Southern express company. The Atlantic line accuses the roads of unlawful discrimination by denying transportation privileges because of the Southern express company already being accommodated. The hearing, originally set for the 17th, was not postponed and will proceed as planned. The case is described as interesting and novel.
Public schools reopen Friday the 18th with Prof. E P Moses, superintendent, returning and expected to boost attendance.
A garbled OCR fragment lists chemical terms and elements such as sulphate chlorides carbonates oxides and silicas with stray letters and incomplete phrases. No clear event or person is identifiable.
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