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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1883
Page
3
The Sentinel’s Man About Town column surveys Winston Salem area happenings. Mentions court dates, county meetings, markets, weather hints, social notes, marriages, new residents, post office clerks, and local commerce including hardware and advertisements.
A small blaze broke out Saturday night around 9 at T L Vaughn's tobacco factory. P H Hanes alerted crews. a broken window pane suggested an incendiary act. Firefighters arrived quickly, flames extinguished without the engine. The rest of the item notes church services, local marriages, a snake from the state fair, fox predation on chickens, and various community notices.
Randolph county has 56 post offices and three per township. Religion and politics events across North Carolina include Edenton hosting a state convention on November 4, divisions in the Diocese of North Carolina, and the North Carolina Annual Conference meeting at Statesville on November 28. Local items report family losses to diphtheria, fox and dog issues, grape harvests, and a tobacco market list with prices and lots.
A compressed 1883 column blends global notes from cholera to reforms with local business ads. It mentions Portugal, Florida harvests, California weather, Lincoln memorial, St. Louis order league, and Tonquin talks, plus tobacco, drug store promotions, and a Winston wholesale goods list highlighting shoes, fabrics, meal, leather, and farm supplies.
An ad listing the North Carolina descriptive works in two volumes from Hale Publisher Raleigh. The Woods and Timbers of North Carolina with county forest reports and map. Coal and Iron Counties of North Carolina with sketches of 56 counties and map. Cloth bindings priced $1.25 and $1.50 respectively. Sold by booksellers or mailed postpaid.
Ryttenberg Bros promote a wide range of first class goods with a New York buyer supplying latest styles. Immense stock includes silks velvets laces gloves tailored garments and tailored suits for men women and children at low yard prices. They offer carpets fittings and complete line of hats shirts and undergarments touting quality and custom workmanship while avoiding shoddy goods.
Advertisement offers tickets for $1 purchases in a November 1 1883 drawing at Liberty Street Wisstox NC. Prizes include an embroidered dress skirt silk plush outfit and a dress case.
Shoppers urged to choose quickly from a fresh stock now arriving in store. Officials emphasize limited availability as items move fast and purchases should be completed promptly.
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