notes on the news

Lard rendering tank explodes in Sioux City, IA, killing four Zeb Vance re-elected R. E. Lee fanboy chatter a town called Shoe Heel Mr. Meadows had another real bad nosebleed The Case of Ben Allen, Counterfeiter Maybe don’t fire guns in a “regular thoroughfare” Watch out for the crew of the Natividad and definitely don’t lend them money Guy got too drunk and froze to death Samuel Watkins, chairman of Presbyterian Church Building Committee

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Diphtheria in Raleigh Policeman Knott is “playing the wilds with perambulating hogs,” whatever that means The convicts working on the railroad ought to get Thanksgiving off. And a nice meal. Snowstorm in Orange and Wake Counties last week Someone at another paper said the Torchlight’s mailing clerk is “a Chinaman” Warning to Parents: unsupervised kids burned to death in a fire County is selling the Poor House land to settle its debts Fire in town at a “dilapidated shanty … [operating] as a barber shop, hotel, oyster saloon, mattress making establishment and livery stable headquarters” Trial of Miss Linklaw in Lumberton.

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Mr. Anson and wife injured in a horse and buggy accident Jealous rage at a party over in Nutbush Execution over in Hillsboro - Boswell, for murder. A description of the hanging. His neck didn’t break and it took 30 minutes for him to die Death From an Old Wound – Mr. Chapel of Dutchville died of a bullet wound from the Revolutionary War (from a battle with Gen. Marion’s men) (how did that happen?

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Drs. Cheatham, Hicks, and Tucker skillfully & successfully did a complex surgery on Col. Edwards. The “dead and superfluous flesh” was removed and is preserved in alcohol at J. R. Young’s drug store. Mr. Henry Mustard, Canadian Dr. Cheatham is painting his house Archibald Davis has moved into his new dwelling on William St. Shooting at Kittrells An island randomly appears in Pass a l’Outre

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Sheep Wanted Story of Charlie Ross, abducted child from Philadelphia Dr. Cheatham is adding on to his house Chicken cholera Our town is “infested with straggling Germans,” yo, what There’s a big ol’ pecan tree on the Wortham farm, at least 80 years old and 3 feet in circumference “There are some … who work for the devil without wages” D. Y. Cooper is building a new store The Methodist-Episcopal church has a new bell, weighing 149 lbs Dr.

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Archibald Davis selling some house and kitchen furniture, livestock, farm stuff, etc. Kittrell’s is a lazy neighborhood. Uh, ok Dr. Cheatham, Maj. Davis, and others bagged a fine buck deer hunting CA legislator introduces bill to abolish the death penalty for murder and arson Lots of newlyweds honeymooning in (beautiful and exciting) Statesville Geo. Williams, 68, of Halifax, marries Mollie Miller, 19, of Bertie County. Ew Family of “the Siamese Twins” object to postmortem Illinois makes it legal for women to practice law Ad: Ladies Will Have Bonnets

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accidental death by gunshot Dr. Cheatham has the best watermelons. Also one of the biggest: 52 1/2 pounds and 47" in circumference. Congrats to the new married couple. We wish them “many happy days in years yet to come, comfort in old age, and righteous deathes [sic].” Notice from Mr. Frink: my wife left me, so don’t let her charge stuff to my accounts because I won’t pay Henry J.

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Stabbed! R. Jones, by W. Rose. This particular baby obituary may be a bit over the top. - Ed. (We are told she “rose as a star and beamed lucently with a meteoric resplendency along the horizon of her parents…”) A millionaire in England, if you can believe it Exemplary Young Man shot at by Unseen Villain Killed By Lightning Cholera in Concord A Supposed Murder – postmortem done by Dr.

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Nov. 23 has been declared a Day of Thanks-Giving also, NC thanksgiving is a week before federal thanksgiving? Rich guy’s son accidentally shot himself in the hand while “out gunning” different shooting match entirely: pigeon shooting at the county fair. Dr. Cheatham won a gun, and since W. F. Davis had just given him the gun that he had won elsewhere at the fair, Dr. Cheatham gave this one to one Mr.

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NC Medical Society meeting Day 3: After a visit to the Insane Asylum… Dr. Cheatham read a report of a “violent case of cerebral excitement followed by congestion of the brain, relieved by Bromide of Potassium” white settlers in Arizona are … settlering whitely (killing people, stealing their children) Hams! Hams!! Hams!!!

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