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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1881
Page
3
A fragmented notice sheet lists local items: Thanksgiving day, weather notes, livestock and crop updates, small town trades, weddings, and minor crime. It mentions vaccinating, a dairy venture, a deer kill, and various local personalities, shops, and upcoming services and meetings.
The Greensboro Tribune reports a Davidson County fox chase with O C Wheeler J N Nelson and A Voss leading a fourteen dog party that started a fox and ended with a capture near Teaguetown. It also covers Ford's Opera Company in town and a Washington Post recap praising Fitzgerald and Lucette in Patience along with local notices and a sales ad for Smith's Dry goods.
The article exposes blockading in whiskey sales, moonshine tricks by impostor revenue officers, and fear among bootleggers as stock is seized. It also reports miscellaneous local ads for shoes, bond buying, patent claims, neuralgia medicine endorsements, and a closing out sale of Peter Shire’s stock including boots and hats.
The Market section lists prices for tea, tea wrappers, peas, butter, beans, flaxseed, cabbage, hay, apples, peaches and berries with varied quality notes. Married at the bride’s residence Mrs J B Fields of High Point to Miss Laura Petty of Bush Hill N C. Also Mr W B Stafford to Miss Jennie B Griffith in Davie county.
In this place on Monday evening last Mrs. M. E. Nelson aged about 35 died of typhoid fever. In Old Town Township on the 18th current Charity Felina Reich daughter of KE W and A Reich aged 6 years 2 months 10 days died of typhoid fever and diphtheria.
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