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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1879
Page
3
Readable items report local commerce and events in Winston Salem. Mentions include Carolina Chill Cure ads, hay weather, harvest talk, court terms at Yadkin and Wilkes, forthcoming Sunday School Reunion, and a busy fall social scene with church services and a Moravian Church event.
A collage of notices includes Goslen starting a second round on the Tenth of October and H Jacobs selling fall and winter clothing plus gents furnishing goods. Readers learn about meadow grasses for decor, a census correction for Greensboro, tobacco, Odd Fellows officers in Winston, and brief weather and postal card notes.
The court tolled Saturday noon for a forgery trial of James Rines a youth about sixteen. He altered a $2.25 order to $13.25 and fled with cash before being captured near Duke Howard's. Magistrate Best committed him to jail for lack of bail, as the case proceeds under local law. A Forsyth Sunday School Convention held in Winston Salem discussed a grand county reunion with sessions, speakers and fundraising plans to support the event in Salem in October 1870.
AULEN S offers new Tin Ware at low prices while Ssuiin s Drug Store advertises Hop Bitters. Smrrn s Drug Store touts bottom prices. S. E. Allen sells tobacco curing materials. Winston sees large shipments of Shoes Boots leather groceries seeds nails meat lime and farm supplies including Peruvian Guano Star Brand Wheat Manure Bone Flour plaster and more. August 26 1879.
A fragmented 1879 Wisston North Carolina item listing various goods and lot prices. It mentions fabrics including leaf cloth wrappers and rappers with colors described as bright red common and mahogany. Prices range around 4 to 21 dollars for assorted items and quantities.
Marriages recorded in Liberty include Soloman Stewart to Mary Spatcu and W D Clopfelter to Mary Yares, both noted by Rev W D Franklin on different days. An advertisement extols Hop Bitters as a remedy for health, with other mixed notices and local commerce promotions from Philadelphia Press and Southern readers.
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