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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1881
Page
3
Local notes discuss shorter days, a steam laundry agitation, new military company steps, and fall fashions. Weather, crops, water piping, and phosphate and tobacco trade chatter fill the town column with ads, baptist excursion, and street scene observations.
Reading through the Winston text, readers hear about Yadkin Baptist Association’s annual session at Enon Church Yadkin County and call for a organized fire company after water supply completion. Also listed are a promenade concert in the Public Square, shoe sale ads, the illness of Elder Win Turner, condolences for Mrs. I. N. Sixx of Durham, M A Curtis selling Webster's New Amalgam Pen, and various local notices including Prohibition ferry boat named Prohibition on the Yadkin river built by C A Hall. Revenue receipts for district, Gus Rich show and other entertainment, post office address rules, wheat fertilizer ad, and Frightful Runaway report from Reidsville Times.
Circular from W C Crum listing Coup's Show and Paris Hippodrome exhibition in Winston on or about October 19 with feats of Lu Lu Ger aldine and three circus rings ending in hippodrome races. Also includes a wide mix of notices and personal items from the period.
A collage of store notices lists shoes, medicines, stoves, soaps, and household goods from Smiths Drug Store and Jomp son s InuG Store along with endorsements for Neuralgine by Dr J D Mitchell. Local wedding notices include Hall Johnson Gallaway Taylor and Black Hyland from Winston with Aug 1881 dates.
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