notes on the news

DY Coop & AC Zoll have been in NY on business Leila Shannon was visiting in Raleigh last week; this week, she’s here RS McCoin back after several weeks in the mountains Mrs. Cooper & daughter Hattie are off to Phila. & NY Vance farmers holding tobacco in hopes of higher prices Mr. Woodlief takes a position with Samuel Watkins store Bad Behavior at Church Fawning coverage of Blacknall-Ballard wedding Lynching in Halifax Suicide Prevention: try Electric Bitters (at Dorsey’s.

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Whisker dye, in case you thought masculine vanity was new Miss Claud Hunter visiting Nags Head Sudie Rowland back from Virginia Beach Will Watkins’ wife Nannie returns from a visit to the Tarrys Mr. Cheatham (WT Jr) had some pigs for sale “A man is often said to be feeling his oats when in reality he is feeling his rye” Guy named Ransom Duke writes in with the news from Epsom Vade Mecum Springs, where health and pleasure are found Profitable Chickens Thomas & Newcomb.

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Singleton-Hoyle wedding: Jno. E. Singleton of Richmond weds Annie Lula Hoyle, a popular maiden of Vance Co. Rev. Henderlite officiates. Groom’s brother is B. A. Singleton of Washington, NC. IDK if or how we are related Baptist preaching and/or journalism discourse? Dear Mrs. Pinkham, [lengthy description of fibroid tumor]. Try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound! Samuel Watkins Department Stores (plural!) overflowing with bargains The Bee Hive Dept. Store, (Gus Roth) Thad Manning, tax collector

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Dr. Ware of the VA legislature has introduced a bill to prohibit kissing The above item serves as context for a poem from the Baltimore News, which I am imagining set to the tune of something from Gilbert & Sullivan, about how sad we will be when everyone is arrested for kissing Miss Lizzie Buffalo gets married, is 2nd VP of the NC UDC elaborate description of a different wedding: White liberty sattin illusion over silk & real lace Music recital at Peace: Mendelssohn, Leschitzky, Von Fielitz, Gennod [Gounod?

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Mrs. Kate Cheatham Jones, daughter of the late I. J. Cheatham, shot herself shortly following a stroke or other sudden attack of illness Some statewide crime statistics

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A 620-pound hog Houff portrait of Dr. Hufham and his granddaughter Mary Frances Singleton printed in the Biblical Recorder “Mink Slays Chickens” Lovely young Kate Davis has died of typhoid fever (Daughter, 26, of James R. and Jennie V.) William Johnson killed by police for alleged hog theft from N. H. Chavasse

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A Recherche Reception (for Will and Nannie) Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Watkins have a “beautiful and spacious home” Bradfield’s Female Regulator Chichester’s English Pennyroyal Pills

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W. T. Watkins marries Nannie Guy Tarry Ad for teething powder with very creepy pig baby illustration

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btw, the News & Observer society page is called ‘Woman and Society’ Mrs. Pulaski Cowper Evening w/ Mr. Wyche, the Southern Storyteller Confirmed: a report that vaudeville is coming to Raleigh “Watermelon parties are the thing.” Lawn Party at Apex Party in Henderson – a german at Cooper Opera House. Sam Jr. went, also Coopers, Tuckers, Kittrells, Perrys, Parhams. Claudia Hunter. And stags listed separately And a card party held by the shannons for dau.

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Mrs. Von Birthwright visiting her folks at Occoneechee Farm Day nursery opening in October Midnight excursion to Fuquay Springs over the Mills Rd. Visiting at a social event in Enterprise, NC by the Misses White, for the Misses Plummer; “all the elite of the neighboring counties” were there. Some of those elite: Nannie Tarry of Tarry’s Mill, VA; Lucy Bullock, Mary & Bell Bullock, Joel Bullock of Williamsboro, Eva Watkins of Marion, NC; Will T.

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