Public schools take center stage in heated local discourse
A Boon’s Creek writer urges stronger support for common schools over educational papers. He laments low public school attention, calls for better trustees, teachers, and libraries, and argues parents and citizens must boost attendance, punctuality, and reading to elevate youth and curb fraud and vice.
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Moby
Police Gazette
Jesse James
Jon Payne
Bob Ingercoll
Puvila
Quintilian
LIAWS CLUB MINUTES MISPRINTS AND MISCELLANY
Fragmented minutes recount a series of disparate news items. Spier’s four and a half foot moccasin with no skin, a university glee club threat of libel, a madstone curative tale from Gadsden, Texas, and stray notes about a tarpon shark all mix with garbled reports of local industry and a boy cured by blotting paper.
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Georgia
Angus
Charred Bodies at Whiteside Block Explosion
Alexandria report on the Whiteside Block blast that killed four men and injured three. The building housed a clothing stock, barber shop, and express office. loss nears 30000 dollars. Gas accumulation in a ventless basement is blamed, with some evidence about a possible nitroglycerin cache and a stove fire. Rescue crews recovered the blackened remains after hours of effort.
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Alexandria
Lnc
Whiteside Block
Hood's Sarsaparilla touted amid Bristol incident and cures
An item describes George Ferguson stabbing his ex wife in Bristol and Annie Hayes wounding him with a knife while authorities arrest both. It notes Hayes fleeing to Tennessee, a Bristol court fine for unrelated disorderly conduct, and promotes Electric Bitters as a universal cure with guaranteed satisfaction at McFarland & Co's drug store.
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Bristol
George Ferguson
West Main Street
Ferguson
Nat Buchan, Jr
Sharrett
Kilgore
Virginia Free
Annne Hayes
Annie Hayes
Tennessee
Virginia
Chas. Jones
Will Taylor
McFarland & Co
Young Wife Murder in Chaxtenny North Carolina
A wife named Oils, married to Hal English, was last seen alive last Sunday and found dead Monday in the Toe River six miles away. The coroner's jury ruled she died by her husband’s hands after threats. English, arrested at his home near the scene, jailed in Bakersville.
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Chaxtenny
N.C
Toe River
Man
Hal English
Miss Oils
English
Bakersville
No-to-bac quit smoking booklet sold by mail
The booklet Dont Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away promotes No-to-bac as a harmless guaranteed aid to quit tobacco use. Priced low for those wanting to quit with no financial risk, it is sold by J. H. Preas and via mail from Sterling Remedy Co at Indiana Mineral Springs Indiana.
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J. H. Preas
Sterling Remedy Co
Indiana Mineral Springs
Ind
Invisible ink that can be wiped away
The piece explains a method to make a removable ink using starch and tincture of iodine. When written on paper, the ink dries quickly and can be erased by wiping with a handkerchief, leaving no trace as easily as chalk on a blackboard.
Bucklea's Arnica Salve Promises Quick Skin Relief
Bucklea's Arnica Salve claims to heal guts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter and chapped hands and other eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and sells for 25 cents a box through McFarland & Co.
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Bucklea
McFarland & Co
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Boon's Creek
G. ©. Hale
Kolloxville
Flourville
Johnson City
Ed. Doncan
Liaws Club
W. H. Spier
Dawson
Kansas University Glee Club
Gadsden
Wichita Falls Tex
Punta Gorda
Hood
Electric Bitters
Laurel Street
Philo
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Scientific American Agency For
Munn & CO
New
Yeur
America
Tes
Holico
Address Press Claims CO
John Wedderburn
Mcooring
Wasuanorton
D.C
P.O. Box
Pipnns
W. Seaver
S. B. White
Johnson City, Tenn
Corner Road
King Streets
Om Street
Union Depot
Oaklands
B, D. Lyle
J. A. Summers
Lyle & Summers
Seaver
Spring Street
Vail
P. Hl, Wofford
Tet
W& Rm
Fea
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