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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1879
Page
3
Local notes report trade in dried fruit livery and stable additions, with updates on events such as the New Garden Fair October 22, and the Sans Souci club emblem. It notes fatalities, trains, marriages, court actions, property deals, and forthcoming meetings, with Q&A on weather, yellow fever rumors, and local industry developments.
Excursionists from Salem visit Cincinnati for the Industrial Exhibition and sample products. A public sale of fine furniture at the Salem Hotel is announced for Friday at 1 p.m. with a Schumaker Co piano included. Rumors position several local figures for a judicial vacancy, and an old Jackson era anecdote about a Rockford tavern debt is recounted.
A sensational report details a colored county resident posing as a Northern white woman at the Springs aided by A D V Leigh. It lists changes to the registered name, origin claims, and a spate of new houses and commercial buildings going up on Fifth and Liberty streets, plus drugstore notices urging physicians to use Smith’s prescriptions.
A call for a Forsyth County Sabbath School Convention meeting at the Presbyterian church in Winston on Wednesday the 7th aims to organize a county reunion of all Sabbath Schools. The Salem Square event on Oct 9 will convene at 10 AM with hopes of good turnout. C. H. Sept 1 1879.
Rain improves crops and roads face new law delay. Tax books show state county poll tax two dollars and property tax 6 3 percent, with higher total due to increased property values. Town health good, measles fading, mineral fever lingers after copper rock found near Little Richmond. A flourishing Welborn led school, Col Marsh builds a fine house, jail improvements planned, visitors from Yadkin and Wautauga discuss mortgages, and a mountain tour by L G Waugh and John Pearson.
A marriage announcement from Francisco in Stokes county notes the wedding on the fourth inst by Rev Beleeersik. The rest is an old retail ad spread promoting drugstore, hardware, and remedies with claims for low prices and various products. includes anecdotes on weather, bachelor warnings, and a propaganda snippet for Dr Plekeo’s Golda M feal Mincovery and Forgive Pellet as cures.
Market notes show very light receipts with demand easing until new crop arrivals. Quotations list various tobacco attributes from red to bright waxy wrappers and leaf grades, with mixed prices and modest activity across categories.
A damaged OCR fragment lists various goods including dried fruit per pound and molasses, mackerel, sugar, and printer cloth items. It mentions nails, horse and mule shoes, hollow ware, and cast steel, with erratic spellings and incomplete numbers, resembling a wholesale catalog snippet from a historical newspaper page.
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