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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1926
Page
7
A vintage health ad urges readers that doctors back Purification of the body as essential to health. It recommends Calotabs as a thorough system purifer, advising a weekly or biweekly course for several weeks and offers a family package for 85 cents at drug stores.
The Western Union inaugurates a telegraph office at Chimney Rock in the Mountain View hotel to handle Lake Lure region traffic. Manager E N Williams says service may run past 10 PM and additional lines will be added as demand grows. The move reflects rising telegraph volume from Hickory Nut Valley. The piece also includes public health notes on tuberculosis and farming guidance from S J Kirby and state college staff.
Rutherfordton reports a severe accident when Mrs Toner Antisell lost control of a Dodge roadster on Hospital street hitting a pole, suffering facial injuries and the eye removal at Rutherford Hospital amid heat and heart trouble. Also, Mrs T J Osborne injured in a Nash crash on Chimney Rock road with a forehead wound. deputies raid multiple stills yielding gallons of beer and whiskey. Miss Ethel Hardin and Mr W J McEntire wed at home with Rev J C Ervin officiating. couple plan a weeklong honeymoon before returning to Wildcat Service Stations duties.
County chain gang under W T Blanton reports to County Commissioners that 16 inmates, 10 white and 6 colored, are well fed at 38 cents daily and receive Sunday dinners. They have varied vegetables, preaching at headquarters, and aid to prisoners. The jailer gets 60 cents per head per day for feeding. The gang builds good roads and Blanton is praised as superintendent. kindness over harshness cited as effective.
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