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The North Carolinian
Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina
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Mr. Murdoch McKinnon of Fayetteville has secured the mail carriage contract between Fayetteville and Raleigh, starting July 1, reducing fares from five to four dollars and promising good coaches.
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Under the new contract.
On the first of July coming, the carriage of the mails by the new contractors commences. The contract between Fayetteville and Raleigh, we are gratified to know, has been taken by a Fayetteville man, Mr. Murdoch McKinnon. This is the first time in the memory of the oldest inhabitant, that such has been the case. We hope Mr. McKinnon will realize a reasonable profit. He is a man of enterprise and industry, and is the more deserving of encouragement from having made all he has by his own efforts, commencing, as he did, a poor boy.
Mr. McKinnon will put good coaches on the line; he will reduce the fare to Raleigh from five to four dollars; and he will no doubt exert himself to make the staging comfortable and agreeable.
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Fayetteville And Raleigh
Event Date
First Of July Coming
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reduces fare to raleigh from five to four dollars; good coaches on the line; staging to be comfortable and agreeable.
Event Details
The new mail carriage contract between Fayetteville and Raleigh has been awarded to Mr. Murdoch McKinnon of Fayetteville, starting on the first of July. This is the first time a local man has taken the contract. He plans to use good coaches and reduce the fare.