Linville developments and local improvements preview
A Boone based weekly notes Linville progress including a daily mail proposal from Blowing Rock, a Linville canal plan, a new park project bridging Linville and Watauga avenues, a commemorative Lenoir park and a town map showing grand residences. Also reports on Tatum pump trials and local endorsements with April 18 1889 date. Includes suicide notes about Charles F Hatch and F Lockwood.
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Andrews
Plum Tree
Blowing Rock
Linville
Cranberry
Linville L
M. and
M. Co
Watauga
Lenoir
Walter W. Lenoir
Skeletons in Closets and a Valley of Ore Tales
A reflection on the phrase there is a skeleton in every closet with an old tale of a soldier's lament and a mother’s sorrowful secret. It then shifts to Western North Carolina’s vast Bessemer ore wealth and its potential to power U.S. steelmaking, citing engineers and ongoing industrial promise.
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Alice
North Carolina
America
Western
Carolina
East
Tennessee
North Georgia
North
Alabama
Baltimore
Kephaline Headache Remedy Cited By Caldwell Co Family
Mr Wilson Lauton of Kings Creek Caldwell County North Carolina touts Kephaline as a splendid remedy for headache used by his whole family. The account claims relief for headache toothache neuralgia and even colic in infants with one or two drops.
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Elijah Tatum
Watauga Co
Mr. Tatum
AWG Corpening
North Catawba Caldwell Co. N.C. Saya
Rey
Wilson Lauton
Kings Creek
Caldwell Co
N. Csaye
Linville and Mitchell NC Building New Road and Bridge
Linville Land, Manufacturing and Mining Co begins a road from Linville to Aaron shortening distance by nearly two miles and constructing a large hotel site on Linville avenue. A new bridge across the Linville river is laid, with avenues planned one hundred feet wide. Health notes report a fever outbreak called Oolaha hia. several local citizens affected.
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Linville
Mitchell Coc
N.C
Fitter Desoenat
Linville Land, Manufacturing and Mining Co
Ott
Aaron
Tinville
Mitchell Avenue
Oolahahia
T. Webb
Columbus @ Bros
Jackson Gragg and Lin
Cicero Green
Hady A. Dugger
Foul Butler Hardware Firm Assigned. Murder at Ruatan
Jas Cunningham & Co of Mobile assigned to W L Baker and Richard Mellet with liabilities of 45000 mainly to Northern creditors and yearly assets. Capt R C Jones reports from Bay Island that in Ruatan last month Joseph Bures murdered Rev Henry Hobson his wife and a Jamaica born companion all natives of Jamaica. Bures cut throats and robbed them then kept watch and confessed. the killings resembled Whitechapel murders in England.
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Mobile
Ala
Jas. Cunningham & Co
W. L. Baker
Richard Mellett
R. C. Jones
Arthen
Bay Island
Ruatan
Henry Hobson
Jamaica
Joseph Bures
Balize
Bures
Hobson
Jones
White Chapel
England
Proclamations Planned for North and South Dakota Conventions
A dispatch from Bismarck reports Governor Mellette has issued a proclamation for elections to form constitutions for North Dakota and South Dakota. Each state will be divided into 25 districts with 75 delegates per constitutional convention. The move sparks a fierce party fight as Democrats target about half the seats amid national significance.
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Chicago
Bismark
Dak
Mellette
North Dakota
South Dakota
United States Senate
Messenger
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Boone
Watauga County
J. F
Spainhour
Borror
John
Willams
Ventana
Svasemprion
LW. Thomas
Boone, N. C
Minneapolis
Minn
Charles F. Hatch
Wisconsin, Minnelsota and Pacific Rail Road Company
Hatch
Kb. F. Lockwood
VANCE
Uti Advertinm
Albemale
Dr. Capehart
Avora
Gine House
Trump
Linney
Ache
Butler
Politics
Dakota
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