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 Help for the Orphans! Grand Entertainment at Orphan Asylum. Thursday Night, June 21st, 1877. Gov. Vance to Be Present 1 p. Durham, North Carolina Davis, Blackwell & Co. 1877 Call number Cb362.7 O98h (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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 Library of Congress Subject Headings English Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894. Orphanages -- North Carolina -- Oxford. Oxford Orphan Asylum (Oxford, N.C.) -- Finance. Benefit performances -- North Carolina -- Oxford. 2002-10-25, Celine Noel and Wanda Gunther revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition. 2002-03-26, Natalia Smith, project manager, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. 2002-02-07, Melissa Meeks finished TEI/SGML encoding 2001-01-26, Matthew Kern finished scanning the text.

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 HELP FOR THE ORPHANS! Grand Entertainment at Orphan Asylum. Thursday Night, June 21st, 1877. GOV. VANCE TO BE PRESENT.

THE LADIES OF OXFORD WILL REPEAT, AT THE ABOVE PLACE AND TIME, for the exclusive benefit of the Orphans, their VARIED AND ATTRACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT, together with many new and interesting features, embracing Dazzling Fairy Plays, Pantomimes, Statuary, Tableaux, Vocal and Instrumental Music, His Excellency, Gov. Z. B. VANCE, Has accepted an invitation to be present and is expected to address the audience on that occasion. The veritable MRS. JARLEY will again introduce her FAR-FAMED WAX-WORKS, Having lately procured many valuable additions to her wonderful collection. The Programme is one of the richest and most varied in character ever presented to this public, abounding in everything calculated to please the eye, delight the ear and instruct understanding.

ICE CREAM, CAKE and other delicacies will be for sale at the close of the Entertainment.

COME ONE! COME ALL!

Don't forget that GOV. VANCE will be present.

Let everybody come and, while securing yourselves a fund of amusement, aid in sustaining a great charitable institution.

Remember, Thursday Night, June 21st, 1877!

The Masonic Fraternity of the County commemorate their Anniversary at the Asylum, on the following day—Friday, June 22d.

Admission to Entertainment, . . . . . . 25 Cents.

Tickets can be procured at the different Stores in Oxford.

Davis, Blackwell & Co., Job Printers, Durham, N.C.