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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1880
Page
3
Tax reminders and local happenings fill the page with notes on court weeks and upcoming visits. Vendors, goods and clothing ads mingle with weather, hunting season prep, a death near Salem, and community plans. Labor and land sales, apprenticeships, and street works are listed beside social notices and fairs.
Salem and Winston news note the towns regret Salem's Boy Baw skipping King's Mountain Centennial. New tobacco arrivals bring primings and thin leaf. A Winston circus drew crowds, earning at least $5,000. Mrs. Miller won $11,000 in a Davison Court case. A giant pumpkin weighed 56 pounds. State Fair entry books open. Young voters form Hancock and Jarvis Club. A Mt. Ulla Scotch Ish Township vote for NC Midland Railroad failed. A horse theft occurred near a HS show. Tombstone vandalism concerns readers. An eagle from Davie county toured, then sold to Robinson's. Sixty-plus Salem youths will vote in November. A Democratic bid to expand Forsyth influence is anticipated. Salem-Winston residents form a Literary Society and elect officers. Jupiter perihelion noted. A flag raising by the Jarvis Club drew 600–700 at Brown's Opera House. Forsyth hopes for heavier Democratic turnout. Town Fork coalfields attract foreign interest ahead of Midland Extension completion.
At a Tuesday meeting the Winston Light Infantry discussed a King's Mountain Centennial excursion but voted to cancel. Officers Capt Brown and 1st Lieut Bent were cited as unavailable, and members preferred to stay home rather than go without them.
Hon G R Head endorses Neuralgine as the best remedy for neuralgic headaches. The advert notes Hutchinson & Bro of Atlanta as proprietors and Dr W O Thomsonpson of Leesburg, Va as a local seller. The piece also includes various local notices on trains, taxes, and state conventions with names, places, and dates.
A Winston syndicate of businessmen led by G. W. Hinshaw and E. A. Pfoat plans to bring water from a spring at Fos Pond via a 3 inch pipe to a reservoir near Col. Martin’s residence. If spring water fails, pond water will be pumped to the reservoir. The project includes a 70 by 40 foot, 15 foot deep reservoir and a 10 inch main through several streets to factories and toward the Salem line. Stock already subscribed suggests strong likelihood of completion. full surveys and profiles to follow. Local notices advertise lamps at Smith's Drugstores and fancy box paper at Curtis' Book Store.
Fresh cappy of plain fancy and mourning ecards received at the SENTINEL Job Office. 16,000 pounds sheet iron to arrive at ALLEN'S. Papers for sale fifty cents per hundred. Invitations and visiting cards printed at the SENTINEL Job Office. Guitar, violin and banjo springs at Montague and Gray's Drug Store. Ladies dress goods from Lank's Dress Goods by R. Gray.
Montague and Gray's Drug Store advertises tobacco products and cigars while RB Ston, merchant tailor, promotes ready made and custom clothing. An Oak Penmanship and Business School advert is aimed at young men for commercial studies at Oak Ridge NC.
Classified sale notice offers a 13 seat express wagon with harness at a bargain via Crutchfield and Stedman. Includes drug store ad for July 21 1880 stocking up ice, salts, coffee, sugar, meat, plaids, dry goods and Star Brand Wheat Manure ships, with local merchants Thompson's Drug Store Hixsnaw Bros and stock lists.
A readible OCR fragment lists assorted market items and hardware goods. It mentions flour, butter, potatoes, apples, berries, dried fruits, meats, salt, mackerel, Chickens, Turkeys, hams, sugar, sheet iron, hardware, spools, and agricultural implements. The text imitates a local trade table or classified listing with prices and product names.
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