Candidate R Preston Sets Out Constructive Congressional Platform
Charlotte candidate R Preston outlines rural credits freight rates and immigration reforms plus good roads and federal aid in western North Carolina. He criticizes Mr Webb on attendance and judiciary work, pledges county secretaries and no private pay, and calls for April 16 public record disclosure.
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Congress
Washington
Webb
Agricultural Department
General Education Board
Judiciary
Sweetwater School Closes After Successful Year
Sweetwater school closed last Thursday with songs recitations and dialogues by pupils. A short talk by Mr J W Mouser urged women to form a club aiding the Farmers Union Local. Mouser and Miss Olive Ingold led the year with many Hickory residents attending, including Misses Bessie Arabella Johnson and Ellen White.
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Sweetwater
J. W. Mouser
Farmers’ Union
Olive Ingold
Hickory
Bessie
Arabella Johnson
Ellen White
Paint Now If You Ought To Have Painted All Year
An advertisement argues for painting now rather than waiting, claiming higher paint and labor costs later and that more paint is needed the longer the project is delayed. It promotes Devoe brand paint sold by F. B. Ingold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Devoe Adv
F. B. Ingold
Cortright Metal Shingle Ad vocate notice request
A brief notice urges readers to obtain a copy of the Cortright Metal Shingle Ad vocate from the Cortright Metal Roofing Co of Philadelphia. It claims the magazine contains roofing data worth reading and asks readers to mention seeing the notice in The Democrat.
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Cortright Metal Shingle Advocate
Cortright Metal Roofing Co
Philadelphia
Thawing frost ends as April rains bring cough relief
April weather brings illness and cold symptoms with fever and a persistent cough. Dr. King's New Discovery is advertised as a remedy to soothe inflamed throats and lungs, relieve coughing, and restore health with a money back guarantee. Mr. J T Davis of Stickney Corner Maine reports being cured after other remedies failed. Also Bucklen's Arnica Salve is pitched for sores.
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Bucklen
Suffrage talk by Lear Engle at Travelers' Club meeting
Miss Lavinia Engle of the National Suffrage Association, a southern advocate, spoke at the Travelers' Club on equal suffrage during her visit to Hickory. She discussed coal and state league ideas and a committee was formed to stay in touch with the work, with Miss Mary Campbell Shuford as chair and Mrs. E B Cline as secretary-treasurer.
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Travelers’ Club
Aara
Aiss Lavinia Engle
Maryand
National Suffrage Association
South
Miss Engle
Engle
Hickory
B. Cline
Mary Campbell Shuford
E. B. Cline
Ted
Genealogical History of Jacob Yoder by G M Yoder
Genealogical history traces Jacob Yoder born December 13 1767 through his youth during the Revolution and his family ties to Catherine Dellinger with land disputes and migrations to Indiana Monroe County. It cites lineage from Henry Yoder and Jacob Yoder back to Conrad Yoder who arrived from Switzerland in 1751. Prof Albert H Yoder of Whitewater Wisconsin is noted as a descendant.
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Webb
Washington
Jacob Yoder
Kings’ Mountain
Catherine Dellinger
John
Barbara Dellinger
Henry Whitener
Dellinger
Hickory Road
Henry
Catherine
Joseph
Barbara
Ind
Monroe County
Albert H. Yoder
State Normal School of
Wiscon
Whitewater
G. M. Yoder
Henry Yoder
Death of Capt John Hanson in Newark Bay dredge disaster
Narrative reports Capt John Hanson master of a stone barge fell into Newark Bay and was drawn 2000 feet through a government sand dredge pipe. His body was later recovered in four pieces after passing through the pipe. An identifying pocket note confirmed the victim. An advertisement for Burdock Blood Bitters accompanied the account.
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Newark
John Hanson
Newark Bay
Newark Meadows
Captain Hanson
Ruined Appomattox site clings to memory of surrender
The village once at the heart of Appomattox County around the surrender on April 9, 1865 lies in ruins. Only three weathered houses remain, one occupied by a farmer with a large unfamiliar family. The North Carolina monument bears inscriptions tied to the last actions of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the site is overgrown with weeds and pines.
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Kings Mountain
North Carolina
Freedom
South Carolina
Shackleford
Appomattox
Lee
Virginia
Appo * Matox County
Court House Square
Court House
Carolina Monument
South
Caro
van Grimes
General Assembly of
North Carolina Appomattox
H. A. London
E. J. Holt
W. T. Jenkins
Cyrus S. Watson
A.D. McGill
Bethel Fartheat
Gettya
President Wilson Back Local Option on Liquor Policy
President Wilson favors local option on liquor questions and opposes adding prohibition to party platform. He upholds a 1911 letter to Rev. Thomas B. Shannon while governor of New Jersey declaring support for local option. He supports local self-government and community control over licensing.
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Wilson
Daniels
New Jersey
Thomas B. Shannon
Newark
N. J
Tam
Cam
Electric Bitters touted for health and vitality
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a great spring tonic for tired women recovering from strain and illness. It claims benefits for stomach, liver, and kidneys with relief guaranteed or money back. Also mentions a cold cure and warns against harsh laxatives, urging readers to try Dean's Regulators as a gentler option.
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J. C. van de Lande
Kirkland
Ill
State Hospital Officers Elected At Annual Board Meeting
Rufus Clark returns from Morganton where the State hospital board held its regular meeting. Officers were re-elected with Clark as secretary and Morisanton’s president. Executive committee members Davis Clark and Tate continued. Scroges keeper of hospital affairs. salary raised to 1800. Miss Cilla Summers named matron succeeding Mrs Marsh, who has been infirm in feeble health. The four month report shows 1302 patients with 56 admissions, 2 discharges, 17 deaths. 54 applicants denied due to lack of room. Receiving building for women and a 75 man dormitory will be erected, ready next fall.
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Stateville
Rufus Klark
Morganton
State Hospital
Morsanton
Clark
Statesville
Davis
A. E. Tate
High
C Campbell
Bris bane lauds country editors as national policemen
Arthur Brisbane, hailed as the world's greatest editor, praises country weeklies and anti-weeklies for supporting honest government. He told 250 national ad agency representatives that every editor who funds a paper helps the republic and deserves proper reward. The Shelby Highlander notes his view that prosperity sustains effective local oversight.
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Arthur Biscane
Larst Syndicate of Papers
Orner
Republic
Brisbane
United States
Shelby Highlander
Federal Control of Radium Bearing Lands Proposed
Debate in the Senate opened on a bill for government control of radium bearing lands in the West. Senator Walsh cited radium ore in Colorado Utah Montana and possibly other states and promised full discussion of the committee report on curative properties before detailed consideration. The record notes concerns about overpromising a cancer cure and references Dr Thomas Electric Oil as an advertised emergency remedy.
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Senate
West
Walsh
Mines Committee
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Gall
Works
Congress
City Schools 10 Close April 2 After Successful Year
City schools announce a very successful year with a 20 percent white school enrollment gain to 796 in primary and grammar grades and 256 in the colored school. total pupils 1,? and 131 new white pupils. new high school domestic science for girls proposed. readings, spelling, writing emphasized. Miss Wessinger and Miss Yoder recital at Lenoir College. local bakery wrapping bread cited as sanitary example.
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S. F. Watson
Clinton
S. C
Stella Wessinger
Yoder
Lenoir Colege
Mollie Fetzer
Reidsville
L.R. Whitener
Dr King's New Life Pills and Bucklen's Arnica Salve Ad
Spring health booster ad touts Dr King's New Life Pills as a mild non griping laxative to cleanse the stomach liver and kidneys and flush waste while claiming to cure constipation and improve well being Bucklen's Arnica Salve is promoted for all hurts and aches with a call to buy at the druggist for home use.
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Dr. King
Buckien
All Harts
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