Health tonic touted as remedy in 1869 ad
An 1869 advertisement extols WWTATION BITTERS as a cure for health decline caused by excesses and poor nutrition. It claims to convert drinks to nourishment, regulate secretions, and eradicate humors while restoring nervous power and vigor. Sold by E Willis in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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J. J. Lanted
E. Willis
Wilmington, N. C
Letters From the People Open New Smithville School
In Smithville on September 2, 1869 a letter argues for southern education led by General Howard and the Freedmen's Bureau. It notes a new schoolhouse funded by Senator E Legg and freedpeople, a 24 by 35 foot building with a 110-student capacity, and a dedication on the 28th.
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Eprron
General Howard
Freedman’s Bureau
Gen
Howard
New South
South
North
American Tract Society
E. Legg
Freedmen’s Bureau
Soloman C. Smith
Anthony Davis
Printing and notices fill Fayetteville paper column
The issue announces new printing capabilities at the office, subscription incentives, and a flood of local notices. It notes church thefts, jail guards, a bank purchase, a cooperative store plan, and a regatta with detailed boat results on Wrightsville Sound.
Temperance Convention Considers Third Party in Chicago
The National Temperance Convention met in Chicago on Wednesday with about two hundred delegates. Hon James Black of Pennsylvania was elected president as the group debated forming a third party on temperance principles.
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Chicago
James Black
Pennsylvania
Raleigh Insane Asylum Overcrowded and Local News Briefs
The Insane Asylum at Raleigh is described as chock full. Nor folk markets grape price ten cents a quart. Tobacco crops improve in Granville county after late rains. Ex Governor Worth’s health is feeble and he limits visits. Cumberland Agricultural Society met in Fay etteville. Goldsboro hosts a festival for Goldsboro Council F of T. Albert Johnson’s Raleigh home sold for $4 000 to R C Badger for Miss Harriet Johnson. Perseverance Council forms in Fayetteville with W D Smith as president and over 40 members. An affray in Washington NC left Capt Jones Farlow badly stabbed. Stewart jailed pending wound outcome. Goldsboro Messenger notes Govt fair ground buildings near town dismantled and materials shipped to Raleigh. Lenoir county prisoners examined in Newbern with Judge Thomas presiding and defense and state counsel listed. report ends before full testimony.
Diverse items from a late 19th century paper noted
A spread of short items includes political digs about Hon John Chinaman Chang and the New York Evening Hat, a St Louis man fined for threatening a pastor, a California gambler losing on teeth bets, a Grand Rapids hand organ shop fire scare, and the National Bank Note Company ending a plate printer strike. It also mentions a Fort Edward milliner inheriting $19000, Henry Wilson’s slavery history, Mississippi Democratic rifts, a Waterbury funeral order dispute, a solitary confinement anecdote, St Paul’s growth, a Princeton Illinois prescription, Kansas potato crop praise, Berkley Springs sale, Fall River checks found, a Boston note to the railroad treasurer, and ant battle reports near Concord New Hampshire.
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Southard Bryant
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