Marshville sketches mix fair hype and village legends
The note recounts local fanfare for Marshville’s fair with the forty niners and a Gatling Gun Evangelist, plus a tale of buried treasure in a town field and reflections on agriculture, fertility, and farming in wartime era North Carolina. It mentions John Beasley and Zeb Green and hints at community gossip and plans for an upcoming fair.
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John
Zeb
Marshville
Betts
Cntil
Fair Grounds
Monroe
Staite
Zeb Green
John Beasley
Monroe Journal
Jimle Little
Luther Huggins
North
Carolna
Cat Em Of Below the Knuckle Joint and Seed Saving Advice
John Hicks loses two fingertips below the knuckle while splitting wood. exemption rules may still allow service. The Newton Enterprise urges saving Japan clover seed as a valuable pasture crop, advising October harvesting and careful handling to seed two acres per bushel, with cow peas scarce and Japan clover a cost effective soil builder.
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John Hicks
Catawba
Camp Jackson
Hicks
Columbia
Newton Enterprise
Japan
T. J. W. Broom
Experience best teacher and Chamberlain's cough remedy
The article argues experience is the best teacher and urges learning from others. It notes thousands have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for coughs and colds with good results, calling it reliable, prompt, effective, and pleasant to take.
Unionville Man Speaks On War Duty And Old Maids
Mr W A Love of Unionville told a Marshville Home writer he favors drafting single men for military service and worries about leaving many country girls unmarried. He argued it costs nothing to wish big and that only a fool wishes small things. The remark drew reaction from Lawyer W B Love of Monroe.
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Kidd
Darkies
Sherman
Old South
Charlotte
Japan
W. A. Love
Unionville
Marshville
Congress
Mr. Love
Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy Endorsement
Mrs. W. H. Williams of Stanley New York reports her father used Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy about a year ago for diarrhoea and was relieved immediately after three doses he was completely cured. She expresses strong faith in the remedy.
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Virginia
Virginia-Carolina Tobacco
Virginia- Carolina Tobacco
Piedmont
Heals Sonburn
Poech Braggos
Sec
Lyon Mig. Co
South Firth St
Brooklyn
N.Y
Chamberlain
Co-Operative Mercantile Co
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