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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1885
Page
9
The Sentinel lists new advertisements and notices with local businesses and services. It notes rates, subscription details, and mailing information, plus a promotional offer for subscribers who send in a name for a portrait prepaid with postage. Named firms and interests include Oldham Publishing House Winston NC and related local vendors.
A newspaper ad touts a special offer for WESTERN SexxT M readers who subscribe by January 1, 1885. For $1.90, new subscribers receive one year of THE SENTINEL plus two travel and biography books at no extra cost, with free postage. Delinquents paying arrears may join the deal. club rates apply for multiple subscribers.
Publishers urged to contact Edward Olpham about selling printing presses and equipment. The Sentinel invites non subscribers to join for a year, promising broad readership in Winston and North Carolina, with a call to readers in North and South to subscribe and support a live hometown paper.
The Sentinel boasts the largest paper and edition in North Carolina with Winston readers over 20,000. It praises Winston’s growth, industry, and prospects, notes Raleigh praise, mentions tobacco seed from Cuba, and highlights Winston’s educational progress and Prohibition sentiment observations.
Wadesboro residents rejected forming a third party and would not engage in Greensboro Convention efforts. The piece imagines Winston and Salem as a single city with one post office boosting chances for federal funds and a direct home delivery stamp, accelerating adoption of a full delivery system enjoyed in Raleigh and Wilmington.
The Sentinel congratulates Mr. R B Glenn on his appointment to the district solicitorship, recently made vacant by the death of Mr. Jostn Doznson. Glenn is described as an able and successful lawyer who will serve as a capable officer.
The World notes President Cleveland's lengthy message is full of information and instruction, with a strong foreign policy section and stance on home affairs. It rebukes Austria over Keiley, declines certain treaties from Arthur's era, opposes a Nicaragua canal in favor of Tehuantepec rail, reports 1885 revenues and surpluses, calls tax cuts tied to living costs, defends protective industry policy, urges tax reductions on imported essentials, warns against silver devaluation and compulsory coinage, and supports a stronger American Navy.
The President’s message is praised for fairness and frankness on varied topics. It is described as a safe, clear conservative paper and an able state document reflecting responsible opinion without shirked duties.
The Winston-Salem publishing firm expands under new management since 1883, growing from 400 to nearly 3,000 weekly copies of The Sentinel and adding a semi weekly edition. It publishes The Sentinel and Southern Guardsman, contracts University Monthly, and markets magazine and catalogue printing with about twenty employees. The firm operates a large job printing department, engages in national mail orders, and plans a steam powered expansion with an extensive engraving and typesetting setup led by Geo. H. Rights and team.
The Fogle Bros firm, long a cornerstone of Winstona and Salem’s building, contracting, and sash mill trade, traces its roots to 1871 with great grandchildren of a 1762 settler. Augustus Fogle and his sons learned carpentry early, forming a partnership that began planing mills, sash and doors production, and contracting work. They built T. L. Vaughn’s old factory later occupied by Lockett Vaughn Co. The original factory was a frame structure.
The Red Elephant factory, a five story brick building 53 by 130 feet, will produce one million pounds annually. Located on the Salem extension of Liberty street, it sits downhill from warehouses to the depot. Construction began last September with January 1886 as the start date for operations. The ornate front features two large red elephants emblematic of the Red Elephant chewing tobacco brand.
Reynolds, maker of Red Elephant Honeycomb Peabody and Top of the Morning tobaccos, says he will handle between half a million and three quarters of a million pounds next year. With deep knowledge from leaf to factory, he oversees his own factory and foresees expansion to a top town facility employing about 300 workers.
S E Allen runs a Wake County native’s business in Winston with two stores. One sells hardware and related lines, the other crockery, glass and lampware, mostly imported from England France and America. He represents major implement makers and owns a powder magazine and heavy stock including nails, iron, and tools, reflecting a diversified trade.
The article profiles Capt Allen a Raleigh and Gaston railways veteran who began as a time clerk at eighteen then served as private secretary to the North Carolina railroad before becoming its general ticket agent. Resigning in 1873 he settled in Winston as a prominent merchant, building a large liberal business with progressive methods.
The article lists notable Winston Salem professionals in law medicine and dentistry. It names judges T J Wilson and D oe Starbuck and lawyers C B Watson D Mast W B Glenn J C Lee B Y Rayle Eugene E Gray J L Patterson R B Kerner J S Grogan and E a Griffith R B Glenn, plus physicians J F Shaffner N S Sievers H T Banh son S J Montague R F Gray J G Ector D N Dalton and dentist C J Watkins W Hunter E L P Ector James A Blume.
H A Lineback of Salem with twenty years experience runs a modern gallery built in 1868. His photography is praised for tone finish and arrangement, earning him a reputation as a conscientious artist. Also note Casperson Electric Lamp agent W O Thompson sells the best lamp for Forsyth County.
Eugene K. Hough, an experienced photographer from Rochester, N. Y., has fitted up new photo rooms on Main Street over Potter's confectionery. His exhibition specimens show high quality work and the venture is expected to become a central point for patrons of artistic photography.
Thirty firms operate tobacco manufacturing in Winston-Salem with partial interviews conducted. The complete list includes T. L. Vaughn, Lockett Vaughn & Co., C. Hamlin & Co., S. A. Ogburn, E. J. Ellis & Son, Payne Lunn & Morris, Blackburn Dalton & Co, Bynum & Cotten, Ogburn Hill & Co, S. B. Zigler, Dr. J. F. Shaffner, H. H. Reynolds, Dr. J. A. Butner, W. W. Wood & Co, Taylor Bros, R. J. Reynolds, B. F. Hanes, P. H. Hanes & Co, Winston Tob. M'f'g Co, Jennings & Hay, Bailey Bros, Brown Bros, Bitting & Whitaker, T. F. Williamson & Son, H. Scales & Co, A. A. Springs, T. F. Leak, S. Byerly & Son, Ledbetter & Co, IR. L. Candler & Co.
November 10 1885 in New Orleans the Louisiana State Lottery drew prizes including 75000 to ticket 46799, 25000 to ticket 5548 and 10000 to ticket 3238. Names and firms connected to winnings include M C Nelson Wells Fargo Armand Preau F Gross Co W P Campbell Co. Next drawing information by H A Dauphin. Also includes medical ads and a testimonial for Dr Dye's Voltaic Belt and a cure receipt offer.
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