Sentinen Club Rates and Holiday Wishes in 1885 Issue
In clubs of five subscribers the rate is 1.40 each with a 419 total at 125 dollars and 45 at 1.15 and 99 at 1.00. The American Farmer and New York World are excluded. The Sentinen closes its Twenty-Ninth Volume with this issue and resumes January 7, 1886. The editor wishes readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Citizens of Winston, Greensboro, Salisbury or Statesville are urged to advertise, noting Sentinen’s large circulation. The piece promises more readers than any local paper. An article on page one is by a North Carolina writer, and includes Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker Tales style in The Little Red Man, a planned early installment.
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Winks
Yizor
N.Y. Herald
Lotd the Oder
Sentinel Club
New York World
Sentinen
Winston
Greensboro
Salisbury
Statesville
Sentiver
North Carolina
World of
Letters
Washieton Irving
Tar SentiNel
District OF Columbia
Capital
Santa Claus
White House
Grover Cleveland
Miss Rose Cleveland
Childrens
Uncle Sam
Searcel Ible
N. N. Fleming
Fleming
Advertising wisdom and tobacco weigh supervisor note
Frank Lippett urges new advertising ideas and warns against sticking to old methods. The Lynchburg Tobacco Association creates a Supervisor of Weights position, appointing Samouz W. Youncer at 600 dollars annually to audit warehouse scales and oversee tobacco weighing. The group also raises the sales pace to 120 piles per hour during breaks. Also notes subscribers with unsettled accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Tobacco Association of
Lynchburg
Samouz
W. Youncer
Christmas Appeal and Capitol News Chronicle
Delinquent subscribers urged to settle before year end as Christmas charity calls for renewed generosity. The Washington scene covers pension talks for Mrs. Grant, Senate and House debates on succession and coinage, District of Columbia finance, and festive plans from the Capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
District of Columbia
A Senator's Christmas with Gordon 1547
Edward Payson Hall recounts meeting a young John B. Gordon in Medicinal Springs Georgia before Christmas and describes their boyhood mischief and a shared love of books. The reminiscence recalls Gordon’s early sight impairment from a kick by an ox and a close bond formed in school days.
Wolfish Christmas and memory of a distant rival
The narrator recalls a wolf raid during Christmas, a long-ago hunter’s chase, and how the event lingered in memory. He reflects on aging, family ties, and a distant political figure, Senator Gordon, linked to Wilkesboro and Confederate history. The piece closes with a dated note from Mt. Vernon, N. C. on December 19.
Dress Goods And Silks At Discounted Prices In Various Colors
Large stock of dress fabrics including Jack Dress Silks at 90 cts to 1.75 per yard, colored dress silks 60 to 80 cts, trimming silks 65 cts to 2.00, cashmeres 25 cts to 1.00, linens, laces, linens, muslins, bombazines, calicoes, and various dress materials in many colors and grades. Also table damask, napkins, tablecloths, towels, blankets, domestics, velvets, veiling, and mosquito netting offered at low prices.
Wide assortment shawls and accessories in varied prices
A broad catalog lists Cs Shawls Saratoga Scarfs plain and fancy shawls and colors from 25 cents to 10 dollars, jerseys skirts parasols belts gloves various laces and trimmings, hosiery, corsets, linen and silk undergarments, tapestries, lace edgings, buttons, threads soaps and perfumery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saratoga
Mousquetaire
Foster Lace
Shoes a Speciality by T Miles Sons Philadelphia
Ton gaiter shoes morocco kid peb goat calf veal calf le buffalo wax kip bals and other grades both lace and but ton for children misses and ladies from 40 cents to 5.00 per pair Ors slippers new part ties cloth and fixed lace and but ti or style fit and durability. Hinsnaw and Bream carry a large assortment and Bay State Shoes with thousands sold and no complaints. Branded shoes fully warranted to wear well and give satisfaction.
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Morocco
T. Miles’ Sons
Philadelphia
Hinsnaw & Bream
T. Mile
Bay State
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Western Sentinel
Oldham Publishing House
Sentinel
Winston -Salem
Forsyth County
N. C
New South
Wilmington
Winston Leader
Taurspay Mor
Ely Bros
Hanver’s Young Peorur
Ludden & Bates—Music House
Peace Institute
Raleigh
N.C
Warsox & Brxton
Witrkowsky & Barre
Charlotte
Bas
Hzarr
Africa
Sir Samuel Baker
F. R.G.S
Frank Lippett
Times
Washington Notes
Washleton
Congress
Alexander Lawton
Georgia
Senate
Voorhees
Grant
Teller
United States
HOUSE
Hiscock
Reed
Morrison
Samuel J. Randall
Randall
Senator Ingalls
Ingalls
Vance
Medical College
Senator Vance
Ransom
Potomac Flats
John B. Gordon
Edward Payson Hall
Moses
Gordon
Medicinal Springs
Horace
Joba
Dogwood Valley
Jack” Gordon
John B
Lever
John
Senator Gordon
Old South
James Gordon
Wilkesboro
West Point
Jim Gordon
Adonis
Hector
Achilles
Mt. Vernon
J. E. Petree
B. K. Kiser
John Kiser
J. E. Perry
B. R. Kises
J. Maxren Howanp
Mt. Olive
N. Jee
Winstonw
Pfohl & Stockton
Winston, N. GC
Beven's
Main Street
Wachovia National Bank of
Jos. A. Gray
Jos. Bevan
Harper’s Young People
Harper’s
Brooktin
Commishees
Qattromgarper & Brothers
Rogers Vest
Goto Jos. Bevan
H. Montague
Real Est
Inston
Liberty Street
Bitting Lock
Crawford's
Columbus
Studebaker and
Cincinnati
Crawford
R. R. Crawford Winston
W. 0. Thompson
North Side Court-House Square
Winston, N. C
Arnicians
Saadeacturers
Jani, Iv
Kendall
Spavin
Spirit of the Times
Kexpatt
Srocravne
Ohio
de. B J. Kaspar, Co., Dour Sira
da Jonn J
Vatican
J. Montague
Church St
Winston, N.o
N. W. Craft
Shore
Yadkin County
Boy Ridleys
Fashion Magazine
the Fashion
Trate
Amerie
Trade Fashion Journals of America
Shopper's Guide
Ridtey
Ridley
Adpress
Edward Ridley & Sons
Grand Orchard & Allen Sts
New York
Eelry
Jan Ist
L.&s.m.h
Geo. W. Hinshaw
Wadeh
Hinshaw & Bynum
Hixsnaw & Bynum
Ee Fnshaw & Byr v
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