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Newspaper
Hickory Democrat
Location
Hickory, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1908
Page
6
A Monroe Journal excerpt quotes a large manufacturer praising country boys for their reliability and ambition. He contrasts them with city boys who seek quick earnings and pleasures, noting country boys aim to learn and progress, while city boys stagnate amid inherited glory.
A Greensboro Industrial News correspondent reports a white pigeon following a passenger train on the Carolina and Northwestern line daily from Lenoir. The bird perches near the station and then rides or runs beside the locomotive, sometimes ahead or behind the car, continuing for four to five days with sightings from Granite Falls, Cliffs, and Hickory.
A Commonwealth-era overview argues liquor drives crime and misery, citing Tennessee data showing a higher per capita prison intake in wet counties. The piece urges North Carolina voters toward state prohibition in the May election, invoking Dr. Edward Everett Hale on poverty and whisky.
An ad warns life may be at risk from early kidney or bladder trouble linked to Bright's disease and diabetes. It urges starting Foley's Kidney Remedy at first sign of danger, from W. S. Martin & Co.
A compact meditation on the debts incurred by drinkers. It catalogs losses of money time health business character friends conscience feeling mind and life and warns that even youths begin this ledger at the beer shop.
A collage of brief items covers Buddhist ethics, a health remedy tout for Kodol digestion, testimonials for Dr. King's New Discovery, a scene of a late night audience with speeches, and assorted anecdotes about insurance and wit. It blends religious instruction, medical promotions, and small anecdotal vignettes from everyday life.
Crowds flock daily to hear the man advocate a degenerate stomach and claim dramatic cures with Cooper’s New Discovery. Interviews with followers like J H Brooks describe relief from catarrh and stomach ailments after using the medicine as Cooper’s theories spread across Cincinnati.
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