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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1881
Page
3
Local notes from Winston and Salem detail Prohibition address plans by W. S. Batt, Kernersville discussions, and community events around July 4. Reports cover tobacco sales at Piedmont Warehouse, crop updates including wheat and blackberry levels, local visits, and upcoming fairs and school scenes with Salem Female Academy activities.
A St Louis Chronicle piece notes Dr. S. S. Wood a county native now in New Orleans visits relatives and old friends after 27 years away. He finds familiar faces and spots among the long-ago neighbors, rekindling pleasant memories of bygone days.
A long-winded batch of notices includes a June 21 1881 collectors office deadline stamping end of day, tobacco leaf sale rules, and thanks from Winston Baptist 8 School. The piece also covers a Durham excur sion banquet, a rare visible comet after nightfall, and an 1880 Treasury department instruction on appointments for gaugers storekeepers and inspectors of tobacco with handwritten applications to the Secretary of the Treasury.
An old advertisement page lists Finest Einé Gents Shoes at Winston shoe stores, various drug store offerings, and liver regulator products. It also mentions Piedmont Springs cabin rentals in Stokes County, NC, and boarder accommodations in Danbury for 1881. Also notes on hardware stocks, clothing openings, and a large piano and organ sale with installment terms. Married notices for Vogler McBride and Brewer Holder appear at the end.
In Fulton township Danville county Mrs. Margaret E Wyatt died on the 16th age 43 leaving a husband and two children. In Broadbay township Mr. Pinkney Willard died on the 24th of erysipelas aged 55 a good and kind citizen.
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