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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1879
Page
3
Local notes report dry October with no rain in seven weeks and a quiet Federal Court week. Tobacco factories plan closing for season. Texeteron Troupe visits Monday the 20th. water and road concerns, lamp requests, and a marble font for the Episcopal Church appear amid community updates.
Piedmont Warehouse sale priced tobacco at 8.5 per hundred for one lot and 30 per hundred for another as M N Williamson purchases. Thomas Tuttle also buys, with Everette reporting teacher examinations at the Court House listing several candidates by name and urging certificates before duty begins.
Gray announces the opening of a large, select assortment of fall and winter goods inviting friends and the public to inspect stock. Also notes a recent vote by townships on the Stock Law held in this county last Thursday.
In the Moravian Church at Salem a marriage was conducted by Rev E Rondthaler on Thursday the 9th uniting R A Hamilton with Laura Agthe. The Dalton Institute notes October 3 1879 report general buoyancy in the community with lower fatal sickness and a promising corn and tobacco harvest. Prof Plyntis is near ready to reopen the session on October 20 and return students to the school, with good prospects for board and tuition.
The Re Union exercises in Salem attract large crowds from Salem Winston and surrounding country. Despite threatening rain a steady stream of conveyances brings children and families to town. At 10 am schools form ranks at the Court House and parade with banners and scripture texts. The Salem Cornet Band accompanies the march as sacred melodies replace martial music amid gathering rain.
In a Moravian Church gathering, scholars filled the pews despite rain as the program opened with band music and prayers. Reverends and local leaders spoke to encourage youth, while a 40-year reunion call drew past participants. A large audience enjoyed exhibits, a love feast, and 2000 cakes with coffee, marking renewed zeal for Sunday School work and its role in virtue, knowledge, and liberty.
R D Johnstone, merchant tailor, advertises a near fit and well made result. He has received a fresh lot of English, French and American cassimere suitable for dress or business suits.
A fragmentary advertisement piece reports disputes over wills including Vanderbilt and Stew art, focusing on T W Water of TiHoute, claims a cure for chronic fever sores via Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets, plus multiple drugstore notices and sales pitches from Winston shops.
An OCR fragment touts Hop Bitters as a pure, effective medicine with forged miracle claims and fake certificates. It references endorsements from a Sunday Mercury column and describes a grand display at Winston with M. Sten & Sons near Allen's Hardware. It includes a patient claim of kidney relief and renewed vigor.
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