National and State Races Highlight Ledger of 1912 Campaign
The item lists presidential and statewide ticket candidates, including William Jennings Bryan and John Worth Kern, with W. W. Kitchin and others. It notes political commentary, a California-stump remark, and mentions a lightning incident in Reidsville. The Gold Hill Copper Company receivership shifts to Frank P. McDermott with ancillary receiver. plant valued around $500,000. Walter George Newman of New York is the mover.
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Salisbury
N. C
Gold Hill Copper Company
B. B. Miller
Frank P. McDermott
Elizabeth
N. J
Walter George Newman
New York
Political forecast and public health notice in 1900s paper
The outlook favors Bryan with party unity in Minnesota Illinois and Ohio while New York faces intraparty struggle. A public health notice urges school attendance rules, contagious disease reporting, and penalties. Mayor J W Blackwelder appeals for civic effort and enforcement of quarantine regulations and health duties.
Electricity power and the South as future center
The piece praises electricity as the defining 20th century power, notes forests fade and coal declines, and credits Franklin for the kite experiment. It argues water power, especially in the South via rivers like the Catawba, will drive future manufacturing and economic salvation.
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Mme Nature
B. Franklin
Catawba
Ford dealer representative ad seeks hustler in Hickory area
An advertisement from Ford Motor Company in Detroit seeks a live hustler to represent Ford automobiles in Hickory and nearby areas. No experience required with potential to earn about $2000 in a season. Respond with references at once. Ben Tellman will not participate in the campaign. The note hints at failures in pitchfork tires.
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Ford
Hickory
Ford Motor Company
Dept. H
Detroit
Michigan
Ben Tellman
Pitchfork Tireles
Annual Picnic at Lenoir College Draws Huge Crowd
An all day event on the shaded campus attracted over a thousand attendees. Rev E C Cronk spoke on Sunday School and church music while Dr W Greever addressed causes of progress. The day included prayers, talks, and a spirited Brookford versus local ball game. The Lutheran annual picnic, long held for eighteen years, was praised as time well spent and another picnic is planned.
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Lenoir College
Brookford
E. C. Cronk
Lutheran United Synod of the South
Jgvester
Boy Stabbed in Brookford After Church Outing
Last Sunday night at Brookford a Fry family youth attended church with his sweetheart. While the Fry youth waited at the store, several Hefner boys tried to run him off. One Hefner youth stabbed the Fry boy in four places. The injuries are serious but not fatal.
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Jef
Brookford
Hefner
Gypsies Clash on Moores Ferry Road Fight Reaches Calaboose
A band of gypsies encamped on Moores Ferry road near town trades horses and other shadowy goods. A Wednesday night brawl drew in men women and even children with dogs. One man of a lengthy name is jailed in Hickory for unknown charges.
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Calapoose
Moores Ferry Road
Hickory Calaboose
Police Court records show fines in Cureus day event
In Cureus Police Court day, J Ed Simmons and C R Brady faced fines after Conover visitors drank too much and resisted officers. Calvin Wade of Blackville was fined eight dollars and costs for a costly outburst. Clyde Nail and Frank Baker were each fined two dollars and costs for a fistfight, adding to town revenues.
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Cureus
Conover
J. Ed. Simmons
C. R. Brady
Calvin Wade
Blackville
Clyde Nail
Frank Baker
Advertising boom exceeds all other manmade pursuits
The Philadelphia Record notes advertising surpasses all fields in spending with total pub licity investments near one thousand million dollars yearly, about one percent of national wealth and close to import values. Ads drive fifteen billion dollars in goods. average ad cost is one dollar per fifteen dollars sold.
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Pesington Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
Hence These Tears
A man pleads to kiss her tears away as she resists. He tends to her while she laments unseen pain. She reveals the weeping is hay fever, telling him to continue with the treatment despite his heartbreak.
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Hickory Democrat
W. R. Holbrook
Borron
Prop B'S
Cotterill
Orrv Borron
Democratic
National
William Jennings Bryan
John Worth Kern
W. W. Kitchin
W. C. Newland
J. Bryan Grimes
RB. Lacy
B. F. Dixon
T. W. Bickett
Agriculture
W. A. Graham
J. ¥. Joyner
Insurance Commission
Jas. R. Young
Labor Commissi
M, L. Shipman
State Senate
J. D. Elliott
M. H. Yount
D.M. Boyd
Jacob E. Setzer
Duane Yor
Enloe Yoder
J. M. Shuford
J. L. Rhyne
R. E. Gabriel
H. H. Caldwell
W. F. Gilbert
Roosevelt
Taft
California
Reidsville
Bryan
Minnesota
John Johnson
Johnson
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson
Deneen
Yates
Stevenson
West Virginia
Hughes
Machine
Tammany
Nature
J. W. Blackwelder
Ative
Whitsett
G. H. Detwiler
B. Turrentine
Z. P. Smith
J.D. Andrews
F. M. Hare
DE Price
Price
Trinity College
Gyomnasium
Tment of Law
Kinity College
W. Newsom
Durham, N. C
Castoria
Gaduntinn
Etre
Telling Sones Coleg
South
H. M. North
Du.ham
N.C
Chattanooga
J. F. Moose & Co., Hildebray
L. Flagler
Flagler
Dan Valley
A. H. Parke
Morrison Bros. Co
Jewelers & Opticians Hickory
Democrat
F. P. Love
Banner Warehouse
Asheville, N. C
B. Moore
Emma Taylor
FOLEY
W. S. Martin & Co
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