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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1882
Page
3
A crowded page reports town life from Winston and Salem with notes on paper delivery at the post office, court adjournments, new goods at Graham Bros, tobacco and freight updates, a land sale notice, social gossip, Lent services, new brick and foundry work, and local curiosities including geese, violets, and a white squirrel at Piedmont Warehouse.
The town praised Med. J. Bateson for resigning as young Inferior Court Solicitor with high expectations. Notices show visitors from Madison seeking businesses, a drummer Cal Wrenn now with Foxie Bros, and varied local commerce from canning to hardware. Several local items report skating events, road surveys, horse drovers cautions, theft of clothing, and a successful charity performance raising over 130 dollars at the Opera House.
A Salem period piece recalls a Fancy Dress Party at the Salem Female Academy, silk culture anecdotes from Greensboro, and a cemetery scene at Brother Robinson of the Leader. It also mentions Stokes Krevanbury Y and a county commission decision on two colored prisoners, plus corn scarcity in Patrick county Virginia and urging patriotic purchases.
A short, disjointed rural notes item mentions corn for pigs and hens dying of cholera in the east, rains delaying farming, Col Covington improving, Johnny Brown recovering from an arm amputation, a child’s finger lost to a cat incident, and a veiled warning from a Woman’s Experience about exhaustion and fading color.
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