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  and 
  prominent 
  establishments. 
  Nowhere 
  on 
  the 
  American 
  

   continent 
  is 
  better 
  tobacco 
  [»roduced 
  than 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  

   Durham, 
  and 
  nowhere 
  can 
  its 
  manufacture 
  be 
  more 
  success- 
  

   fully 
  conducted, 
  as 
  has 
  been 
  proven 
  by 
  W. 
  T. 
  Black 
  well 
  & 
  

   Co., 
  whose 
  reward 
  is 
  written 
  on 
  every 
  building 
  in 
  the 
  town, 
  

   and 
  whose 
  namis 
  wiil 
  l)e 
  honored 
  in 
  grateful 
  remembrance 
  

   as 
  long 
  as 
  time 
  holds 
  on 
  ilf> 
  tireless 
  flight. 
  

  

  HENRY 
  SEEM 
  AN. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Henry 
  Seeman 
  moved 
  to 
  Durham 
  in 
  1874, 
  and 
  en- 
  

   gaged 
  in 
  the 
  Coach, 
  Buggy, 
  Carriage 
  and 
  Wagon 
  manufac- 
  

   ture. 
  He 
  now 
  occupies 
  the 
  old 
  Baptist 
  Church 
  building, 
  

   the 
  oldest 
  house 
  in 
  Durham, 
  having 
  been 
  erected 
  long 
  be- 
  

   fore 
  the 
  railroad 
  reached 
  Durham. 
  Messrs. 
  Seeman 
  & 
  Son 
  are 
  

   thoroughly 
  competent 
  and 
  skilled 
  workmen, 
  and 
  are 
  turn- 
  

   ing 
  out 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  fine.'sL 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  kind 
  we 
  have 
  seen 
  

   in 
  the 
  State. 
  In 
  connection 
  with 
  their 
  factory 
  they 
  have 
  a 
  

   first-class 
  Blacksmith 
  Shop, 
  where 
  work 
  of 
  unsurpassed 
  

   excellence 
  is 
  being 
  executed. 
  By 
  close 
  application 
  to 
  busi- 
  

   ness 
  — 
  exercising 
  the 
  most 
  scrupulous 
  care 
  in 
  all 
  its 
  details 
  — 
  

   they 
  have 
  earned 
  an 
  enviable 
  reputation 
  in 
  our 
  community 
  

   as 
  honorable, 
  industrious 
  and 
  competent 
  workmen. 
  They 
  

   well 
  deserve 
  this 
  reputation. 
  

  

  JULIAN 
  SHAKESPEARE 
  CARR. 
  

  

  This 
  gentleman 
  was 
  born 
  on 
  the 
  12th 
  day 
  of 
  October, 
  A. 
  

   D. 
  1845, 
  at 
  Chapel 
  Hill, 
  Orange 
  county, 
  N. 
  C, 
  and 
  is 
  the 
  

   son 
  of 
  John 
  W.Carr, 
  merchant, 
  of 
  that 
  place. 
  He 
  received 
  

   his 
  early 
  education 
  at 
  a 
  school 
  in 
  the 
  vicinity 
  of 
  Chapel 
  

   Hill, 
  and 
  entered 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  this 
  State 
  in 
  June, 
  1862, 
  

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