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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1881
Page
3
A Winston-Salem notice touts Smith's Drug Store as selling a large stock of Christmas goods before 1882, inviting customers to buy. The column also reports weather notes, local business openings, social events, and town updates from the period.
Christmas items for a school crowd feature gifts like silver and glass sets, vanity boxes, and music related goods sold at Smith's Drug Store. A rail line charter to Winston from Fayetteville via High Point promises Southern and Western links, with books of subscription opening in High Point on the 29th. Lubben & Bares of Savannah advertise a large music stock with low prices and a free 40 page catalogue.
In a local note from F Harrington of Logan, a reader reports that Alex McClury of Union Furnace wife, long confined by rheumatism for 25 years, used two bottles of St Jacobs Oil and now walks unaided both indoors and in the fields.
Goods at cost to close late Peter Trie stock including boots shoes mats caps. From November 1 sale at first cost. Wheat contest offers cash prizes for best white and red wheat judged by cleanliness weight and yield at Wachovia Mills with entries sought.
The Market section lists assorted tobacco and agricultural prices with terms like Lugs and Wrappers and regional locations in N C. Marriages note several unions in Davie Yadkin and Forsyth counties with names Tate Morris Craves Wyatt Folk Love Linville and dates around November 30 to December 1.
Died in Davie county on Friday December 2, 1881 Albert Ty Saine aged 56 years 8 months 15 days. Near Winston on Tuesday evening last Mrs Hedgecock aged about 61. Near Germanton Mr Robert Matthews an aged highly respected citizen of Stokes county.
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