Wireless wunderkind and a pocket station tale
A colportage piece extols the virtues of digestion and appetite, then shifts to Mark Twain on money, Australian gold diggers, and a safety bit for injuries, before recounting Walter J. Willenberg’s early wireless experiments. A boy builds a portable wireless station from a belt, battery, and small board and sends eight mile messages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Twain
New York
Mark
Europe
Walter J. Willenberg
Walter
Lost child and odd scene at downtown office
A strange woman with a three hundred pound figure and her husband entered an upstairs room carrying a basket with a pug, a cat, and a parrot. They sought the woman’s missing sixteen year old daughter who disappeared near Morganton and could be in Statesville. Readers urged to report information to the office. The piece also includes a health ad for Kodol for Dyspepsia and Indigestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morganton
Statesvile
Test of the Resurrection Lesson 1908 Sunday School
The article discusses the resurrection of Jesus, its central role in redemption, and its implications for Christian life. It highlights appearances to Mary Magdalene, women, Peter, and the two on the road to Emmaus, and emphasizes a tangible, risen body and future transformation for believers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. M. Stesrns
Auccession
Christ
Araspeo
Sponta
Joseph
Agar
Plato
Sxvil
God
Heaven
Jesus
Terael
Mary Magdalene
Simon Peter
Emmaus
Mary
Peter
Emmmus
Blaine
Cure for bad attack of dysentery by remedy
An honored citizen of Wolcott, Vermont, was cured of a severe dysentery attack after using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. M J Leach, a local druggist, confirms its effectiveness and says W S Martin & Cox stock it. Subscribe to the Democrat for $1 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
M. J. Leach
Wolcott, VI
W. S. Martin & Cox
Annual reunion travel rates and schedules for 1908
Confederate Veterans reunion in Birmingham Alabama on June 9 1908 with rail travel offers from Charlotte Durham Gastonia Greensboro Hickory Raleigh Goldsboro and other points. Sale dates June 6 7 and 8 with return from Birmingham by June 20. Includes notices from Southern Railway agent R L Vernon and E F Reid G P A plus medical advert for Foley’s Kidney Remedy and Dean’s Regulars constipation cure.
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Southern Railway
Charlotte N.C
Durham
Gastonia
Greensboro
Hickory
Raleigh
Goldsboro
Birmingham
R. L. Vernon
Carolina & North Western Railway
Chester
S.C
Mortimer
N. C
Lenoir
E. F. Reid
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John
Rudy
C. M. Shuford
W. S. Martin
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa
Oklahoma
Texas
Southwest
Northwest
Thomas
W.S. Martin and
C.shuford
Surance
WAL Estate
IOANS
Hickory Insurance & Realty Go
J. A. Lentz
W. A. Hall
M. H. Groves
Sec. Treas
OMB
Ase Vt Mar. Real Estat Devt
Hart
Cgood-Roads Machinery
Austin of
Chicago
Aurora
Vashte& Culty
Reading Crane & Holst
Reading
Austin
Witherspoon Bros
Hickory Bakery
McCoy Moretz McComb Bros
Old Stand
UST
McCoy Moretz
Boston
Mass
Democrat
the Sunday School
Confederate Veterans
Ala
Bright
Foley
W. S. Martin& Co
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