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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1879
Page
3
A column filled with local notices and ads mentions Carolina Chill Cure as the remedy trusted by doctors. It touts cancer cures, cold relief, and a growing market for tonics, with multiple references to local merchants, churches, and events. The piece blends weather notes, social updates, and community praise in a vintage small-town voice.
A Winston column reports assorted local items from a colored preacher to legal matters, marriages, business ads, and community notices. It mentions Haskins renting near Need Bros, Jereh Prov Actus at Salem Female Academy planning a London move in 1880, Reynolds returning to Hodgin & Sullivan, Speece purchasing land in Yadkin County, a street lamp incident, a critique of Tuna’s shine, a marriage of W S Martin and Lizzie Leak, Wallace Doorham’s marble work, post office growth across the state, and civic reflections on orphans and public charity. It also covers a Burwell Scales acquittal, Hop Bitters ads, and local oddities like meteor-shower chatter and popular Hop Bitters endorsements.
Richard A. Meares delivers maiden speech in larceny case as Col. Gaston Meares’s son mourned in Richmond engagements. Wise’s Hall hosts Prof Grupen concert. New firm Griffith Moore Nelson to open. Local crime notes, Pilot Warehouse sales steady, meteor lecture hints at minor shower next month.
The report notes multiple local thefts including Rev. Reed’s residence missing items except a key bunch, Mr. Reed’s greenhouse candle counter, a horse stolen near Clemmonsville, and Andrew Burke’s barn wheat taken by unknowns. It also mentions a large tobacco influx and high prices, plus a brief line on the State Sunday School Convention in Greensboro and the heirs of Ferdinand Dalton lawsuit against George Leak and E M Marshall.
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