Western North Carolina live agent drive in every county
A 1883 plan declares a live agent in each county of Western North Carolina. The notice calls for postmasters and others with five or more yearly subscribers to get a 20 percent commission. It also invites original poems and public-issue views with real names, sent to SENTINEL Winston, N C.
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North Carolina
Sentinel
Winston
N.C
Winston Post Office
Ryttenberg Bros
Bitting
Liberty Street
N. C
Dead beat youths who dodge payments plague merchants
The piece denounces young men who buy goods on promises to pay yet never settle. It laments the burden on mechanics and merchants, urging firms to expose and eject such nonpayers and insist they earn a living honestly. The tone mirrors a warning to business communities about this recurring nuisance.
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Bank OF Business Men
Gus de Smith
Texas Sistinge
South Bend Tribune
Gus de
Dick Schlveler
Taxation Injustice Sparked By Cross State Levies In North Carolina
A Winston resident pays tax on money kept in a Richmond bank to Virginia and another tax to North Carolina. Another man taxed on a credit buggy, plus the vendor is taxed on the debtor’s obligation. The Greensboro and Rutherfordton papers critique the double taxation as an unfair outcome of the Bourbon era, urging broader paper opinions.
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Winston
Richmond
Virginia
North Carolina
Winston Sentinel
Greensboro North
Sentinel
Rutherfordton
Southener
South Carolina
Alabama
Texas
Salem and
J. A
M.H. Holt
Oak Ridge
North Carolin
The Nations Honor Reflects An American Dissent
A critical editorial argues that the Montrey Mexico incident shows failures of the War and State Departments to protect citizens abroad. It claims repeated insults to the national flag and warns of growing danger to Americans traveling beyond U S borders unless drastic action is taken.
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Montrey
Mexico
Union
Oldest North Carolina piano from 1780 valued relic
The Raleigh piano, the oldest in the state, was made in 1780 by Muzio Clementi & Co. of Cheapside London and is valued at $500 as a relic.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
Muzio Clementi & Co
Cheapside
London
Exchange
Notable figures and fortunes across nations and cities
A survey of large sums and estates includes Berlin population growth to 29 months with 80 000 increase, Boston semi annual dividends 4 097 161, Jay Govips tomb 85 000 for sixteen seats, 93 000 visitors to the French Salon, gold yield after 1851 averaging 150 000 000, Duchesses jewelry 59 200, New York colored church wealth 4 000 000, US trade balance 54 671 198, Myra Craix Garges offer 1 317 000, Duke of Edinburgh 60 000 for coronation envoy, Mr Poseth fortune 300 000, Marquis Lansdowne Irish estate 120 000 acres and 173 000 rental, Union Theological Seminary 1 730 000, Baroness Ashburton will London, England personal estate 765 000.
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Berlin
Boston
Jay Govip
Duchess of Genoa
New York City
United States
Myra Craix Garges
New Orleans
Duke of Edinburgh
Poseth
Marquis of Lansdowne
Canada
Ireland
Union Theological Seminary
New York
The Singer and a Fragment of a Poem
A note on Herbert E Clarke a Cincinnati native and Mississippi professor, his Harper poem now reprinted in Harper and a brief poetical fragment about lovers and night. The commentary mentions Clarke’s roles and a youth’s withdrawal from a national amateur press group.
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Harper’s
Herbert E. Clarke
Cincinnati
Q&io
Rodney University
Mississippi
Washington City
National Amateur Press Association
Chi
Eorroz Sentinel
Fragmented quotes and musings from a late 19th century paper
A collage of wry observations and notices including jokes about Amelia and ice cream, a reflection on one language by Noah Webster, a Puck joke about a woman shopping, and a tobacco sale report noting Prevost Wargnovss’s June 6 sale with prices ranging from $10 to $62.
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Puck
Prevost Wargnovss
Spain
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Lord Aarawenty
England
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Amelia
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Circus
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Boston Star
Sue
Perkins
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New World
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Webster
Eed
Louisiana State Lottery Company
Loxisigna State Lottery Company
AEW Orleans National Bank
M.A Dauphin
M. A. DA
North Side Court House Square
Jani, Ly
S.D. Sollers & CO
Philadelphia
Lexprxg
Gray
Martin
Winston, N.C
Hinshaw & Bynum
Fourth Street
Winston, C
Acquirar
FTS
F. & H.fries
Eagle and Phenix
T. Miles’ Sons
Bay State
James A. Leach
Thomasville Shoes
J. & P. Coats
Wee Tee Me Winston
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