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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1881
Page
3
Frost grips the area with heavy frosts harming tobacco fields and foreshadowing winter prep. Local events push forward as the New Garden Fair opens on the 27th and Yorktown Centennial begins next week. Tobacco buyers, mills, and stores report busy activity while farmers guard barns and prepare wood supplies for the coming season.
Vintage advertisement excerpt lists New York 7th Regiment cigars at Smith's Drug Store and 68 styles of La Nes Shoes. Mentions Rough and Ready Tobacco chew and Druggists Best Medicine. Notes fall stock from Hamlin Thompson Co and a patent claim on enlarging human form instruments. Ends with Haw Bros offering Proof Oats and Complete Manure for Wheat.
A letter from East Benn editor traces crop failures due to frost drought. Tobacco was cut but poorly cured. corn whiskey short. buggy maker prospers. calls for county aid to distribute corn at 80 cents per bushel. Pension fraud probe in Washington noted. debate on Col Keogh and party unity. endorsement for Neuralzine from Dr Mitchell of Georgia.
A Kansas City special reports a deadly outbreak near Waldron in Platte County. Eleven people have died in five days as victims show no sign of recovery. Bodies are covered with black eruptions and decay rapidly after death, complicating burial efforts.
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