Dredging in Catawba County Promises Land Drainage Benefits
Observer correspondence reports growing interest in reclaiming swamp and meadow lands in Iredell and Catawba counties. A Clarke s Creek dredge near Newton creates an 18 by 9 foot channel at about 260 dollars monthly, draining land to make it cultivable and improve health. The project costs five thousand dollars for the machine, with rumors of a larger unit possible.
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Clarke's Creek
Catawba
Davidson Pie
Statesville
Iredell County
Catawba County
F. L. Sharpe
R. A. Campbell
P. A. Bryant
Lexington Dispatch
To Move Here Mr Miles A Carpenter Leaves Dallas Bank
The Observer reports cashier Miles A Carpenter will depart Dallas at year’s start to join the Craig-Henkle Company in Hickory. The firm, with interests in horses and mules wagons buggies fertilizers farming implements, operates in Statesville Hickory and Lenoir. D J and J Rob-
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Miles A. Carpenter
Bank of Dallas
Will
Observer
Dalas
Hickory
Craig-Henkle Company
Statesville
Lenoir
D. J
J. Rob
Death of Miss Blair at Newton Informs Many Friends
Miss Johnsie Blair died last Wednesday night in Newton at 11:80. Daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J C Blair of Lenoir she was 28 and a trained nurse. She had just left Charlotte after six weeks caring for a case and fell ill visiting her aunt Mrs W E Yount. Three physicians could not save her from peritonitis. Her brother accompanied the body to Lenoir for burial.
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Johnsie Blair
Newton
Hompo
W. E. Yount
J.C. Blair
Lenoir
Charlotte
Moonshiner Murders Found in North Carolina
Durham Dec 1 An old bachelor Jim Kimball twelve miles from Durham was found with his face half devoured and head crushed by an axe. Authorities suspect moonshiners killed him after he reported them to officers. He had not been seen since Saturday and was not found until today. The coroner's inquest weighed on the homicide, though Kimball had admitted fears of retaliation and had reported the moonshiners.
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Durham
N. C
Jim Kimball
Kimball
Christmas and the Mistletoe Through Celtic Sun Worship
A historical note on Druid reverence for the mistletoe and oak, linking December sun rituals to the origin of Christmas. The piece explains how mistletoe symbolized the oak and how the Church adopted December rites, preserving evergreen decor as a vestige of earlier nature worship. December recreation by J. A. Bowles.
Moonshiners Caught in Burke County Blockade
Magistrate Tim Lail deputy Carl Swink and deputy’s son Haywood Swink were arrested near Morganton on the Burke County road for illicit whiskey and beer production. Bond set at 509 dollars each, with hearings in Hickory and evidence of a large open-plant operation found.
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Sthem
Coun
Burke
Carl Swink
Haywood Swink
Tim Lail
C. F. Bialock
Henry Jones
Morganton
Shelby
Burke County
L. R. Whitener
Statesville
Newton
Im Lail
Marion Citizens Push New Passenger Station Petition
Local residents in Marion file a petition with the Corporation Commission seeking better facilities from the Southern Railway. The drive aims to attract outside capital for a modern passenger station as the town promotes growth.
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Marion
Southern Railway
Corpor Commission
St. Louis
San Francisco
New York
Rock Island Company
B. F. Yoakum
B. L. Winchell
Morganton
Admits Whipping At State School In Morgan Town
Capt C E Child attorney of Lincolnton reports from Morganton that the 9 year old Tola Self daughter of H A Self was whipped with a harness leather strap by a teacher at the State Deaf and Dumb School. The strap, about two feet long, was shown to Mr Child and admitted to Mrs Self as well. It is alleged money given by the child's sisters was taken to keep her from losing it, prompting the whipping. Two women reportedly held the child as the principal used the strap. Mr Self will not return the child to the school despite the manager's request.
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Lincolnton
C. E. Child
Morganton
Deaf and Dumb School
little Tola_ Self
H. A. Self
J. A. Self
Mr. J
Mr. Self
The Call for White Small Farmers to Hold Southern Lands
A Progressive Farmer piece laments many whites leaving farms for cotton mills. It argues for revitalizing small white farms, slowing negro land accumulation, and keeping rural white populations to sustain the South’s future, urging white tenants to buy land and break up large plantations.
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Prospero
America
South
Cotton Belt
Our Barefooted Days Reflect on Past Convenience and Joy
In a Washington Herald reflection, readers are invited to compare childhood life on farms and villages with modern comforts. The piece contrasts lack of streetcars, gas, telephones, and abundant water with memories of simple pleasures like swimming holes and annual circus outings. It asks if one would swap present times for those days, concluding most would not.
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Washington Herald
Wise Today Phone Now Get a jar ready for Croup
Advertises Vicks Remedy for croup pneumonia and related troubles claiming external and internal relief. Promotes 25 50 and 1.00 jars available at all druggists.
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Vick
New Enterprise for Wilkes Finwin Cotton Mills Formed
The Finwin Cotton Mills Company organized at North Wilkesboro by J. L. Erwin of Concord T. B. Finley and others. It plans to build a mill on the Yadkin river a half mile from North Wilkesboro with authorized capital of 200000 and initial capitalization of 50000.
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Wilkes
Finwin Cotton Mills Company
North Wilkesboro
J. L. Erwin
Concord
T. B. Finley
Yadkin River
Theompany
Elkin slankets running out before cold weather
A brief notice states only a few pairs of the Elkin slankets remain and urges buyers to act before the expected cold weather arrives. J A Bowles.
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J A. Bowles
Traveling man attempts suicide at Asheville hotel
Robert K. Abbott of Chicago, a traveling representative of the HE Bucklen Company, swallowed bichloride of mercury tablets and leaped from a second story window at the Hotel Berkley in Asheville. He was rescued with a broken foot and burned lips and is being treated as desperate illness prompts the act.
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Berkley
Asheville
Robert K. Abbott
Chicago
HE. Bucklen Company
Dr. King
Lawton Welcomes North Carolina Mill Promoters
Lawton receives a North Carolina party led by E. L. Shuford and Bascom Blackwelder to launch a $500 000 cotton mill project. Directors and stockholders approve a 25 percent subscription levy and 50 percent if needed, starting with a $11 940.30 land purchase to seize Houghton land. The group includes bankers, a wholesale druggist, and railroad men signaling broad regional investment.
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Lawton
North Carolina
E. L. Shuford
J. W. and
Bascom Blackwelder
Walter S. Martin
Z. B. Buchanan
Old North Dominion
Carolinas
Shuford
Oklahoma Realty and Development Company
Chamber of Commerce
Shuford’s
Shuford Mills
Oklahoma City
Wallace Swiggert
Browne Cornelison
W. A. Fulchter
Mr. Ashman
T. H. Lindsey
Assault in Burke Arrest of County Official's Son
Gordon Bailey son of County Treasurer Wm Bailey of Burke county was arrested November 23 for assault on Miss Shuping near Salem church as she returned from Sunday school. He fled from Sheriff Berry after a chase and fight, was arraigned November 24 waived examination and bound over in 1000 dollars for assault and 400 dollars for resisting an officer, later jailed in Marion for safekeeping.
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Gordon Bailey
Wm. Bailey
Burke County
Moulton
Salem Church
Bailey
Berry
Miss Shuping
Marion
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Ers Craig
Gastonia
Carpenter
Gaston
Register of Deeds
B. F. Carpenter
Stanley
Ooserver
Miss Blair
J. A. Bowles
General News
Ethel Norman
Greensboro
J. W. Norman
W. A. Stewart
Atlantic Coast Line
Kington
N.C
N. E
Ramsey Last Wee
Nesbit
Ramsey
Linesinton
George W. Watts
West
Watts
American Tobacco Company
Duke & Company
Camden
S. C
Trinity College
Dukes
North
Joe Jeffries
Johnson
Salt Lake City
Utah
Sanfrancisco
State Board of Agriculture
Michal Gheen Manufacturing Company
Lincolton
Victor F. Motz
W.E. DuBois
Georgia
Delaware
James Oliver
Oklahoma
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