Week in Review: warnings, shows, and school fund apportionment
Police warned about Nash and Barnes streets danger as MeNeels the Negro was arrested. The Wallace Show advertised with advance plans for Redmond and other cities led by Mr. K M Harvey. County school directors apportioned funds across townships based on a total of 54,000 children. amounts listed per township. Letters of sympathy poured in for Captain Calvin Barnes with praise from a distant correspondent in New York.
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Wallace
Washington City
Belpes
Redmond
New Port
Narete
Ratagh
K M. Harvey
Wieler
Black Creek
Huh
Taylors
Acs
Toisnat
Gardner's
Daraiiwra
Card of Thanks to Te Wilson Community
The family of the late Calvin Barnes expresses heartfelt thanks for the sympathy shown during their loss. They cannot fully express their gratitude but acknowledge the kindness and support from the people of Te Wilson during the sad hours after his passing. May God bless those who lightened their grief. Sept 1899.
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Captin Calvin Barnes
Wilson
Calvin Barnes
Man Falls From Train Near Teachey Injuring Thigh and Head
Rudolph Teachey of Teachey fell from a moving train near the freet depot while en route from KitTrecombe to Wilson. He suffered a fractured thigh bone a head wound and scalp injuries. He received care from Drs Moore and Anderson and relatives took him to their home to recover. An advertisement for Hart’s Essence of Ginger promotes relief for colic cramps nausea and diarrhoea.
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Rudolph Teachey
oBiaseas
Teachey
Kittrecombe
Wilson
Freet
Hart
Hargrave
Wilson Tobacco Market Sets Big August Record
The Wilson tobacco market closed August 31 with 2,969,367 pounds sold in 23 days despite storm delays. The total neared three million pounds, a record in the tobacco trade for the area. A separate report says Willie McNeel, a 21 year old Black man, was jailed for theft after stolen goods were found in a loft. He had recently come from Dunn and worked at Mr Williamson's saw mill.
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Wilson
Willie MecKeel
S. B. Daniel
W. H. Williamson
McNeel
Dunn
Notable NY Star board includes Astor Chanler and other leaders
Capt William Astor Chanler president of the New York Star and promoter of a daily forty dollar bicycle prize leads a board that includes Hon Amos J Cummings M C Col Asa Bird Gardner New York D A ex Governor Hogg Texas and Col Fred Feigl from New York among its well known directors.
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William Astor Chanler
New York
New York Star
Amos J. Cummings
M. C
Asa Bird Gardner
Hogg
Texas
Fred Feigl
Tobacco Prices Rise Prompting Heavy Warehouse Purchases
Tobacco prices moved upward this week attracting large wagon arrivals. Today's warehouse sales were strong in both quantity and the prices paid, reflecting brisk demand for the staple product.
Doctor Della Dixon Declines Rock Hill Offer
Shelby Aurora notes Dr. Della Dixon, a prominent Shelby physician, has declined the resident physician and physiology and hygiene professorship at Winthrop College Rock Hill, choosing a similar post at Baptist Female University Raleigh instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby Aurora
Shelby
Della Dixon
Winthrop Normal College
Rock Hill
Dixon
Baptist Female University
Raleigh
Opal superstition fades as buyers embrace stones
A New York cor respondent reports opals are returning to fashion with lenders noting the superstition of bad luck fading. Dealers recount varied demand with a Texas landowner and a Broadway jeweler’s shop noting steady interest and some buyers flaunting opals despite the omen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston Herald
Maiden Lane
Creathy
Texas
Broadway
Smooth Foreheads and Facial Expression in Youth
The article notes that smooth foreheads are rare and valuable as part of facial character. It warns against forehead lines formed by raised eyebrows and says middle-aged faces often show these lines while other features stay youthful. It condemns brow-lifting as a trivial, expression tricks.
Personal Note from London Paper Sparks Global Attention
A satirical personal item warns Willie to return to his distressed family and reveals a threat to reveal the old mother’s suicide if he does not disclose his whereabouts. The fragment ends by mocking British humor as insufficiently lively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Willie
Ghent’s Island City Bridges And Squares Explored
The city of Ghent in Belgium sits on twenty six islands linked by eighty bridges. It contains three hundred streets and thirty public squares across its island network. A definition notes a bargain is paying less than you would have for something you did not want.
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Ghent
Belgium
Chiesto
OWL
Chicago
Strie Fs
Brewster Aide
Evan
Sears, Roebuck & CO
Linc
Ill
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Royal Gaking Powder CO
Gmen
Pen
Nash and
Barnes Streets
MeNeels the
Teeony
B. Daniels
Edar
Noah Atkinson
Caley Brown
Ned Baskerville
Elisha
Calvin
Zens
Captain Barnes
Acco
Hood
By Bo
L. Gentile
Second Avenue
Seattle
Oesh
W. H. Dunlap
Chattanooga
Tenn
S.S.S
Ss. S. S&s
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
TS &Fs
Stan
Berner SG
Selid
Gusei Oatiky
Iagsaca
India
Raa
Per
Coupec
Mapasea Ferte
Vox Omens
Coients
Et & Gek
Mellaw
Prinetoa
Ier
Reu Ah
Spartin
Nat
Chica
SEAR
Tars
Harel
Roesuck & CO
Desplaines
Tharma
Sean
THE
North Garolina College
ANI Meghanig
Geo. T. Winston
West Raleigh
Bears
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