16 Aug 1894
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
1
Notice announces sale of hotel property in Boone NC due to failing health and spouse. Property offered for cash with terms and possible exchange. Listing reads as a brief, with garbled spelling but clear intent to sell the hotel asset.
Washington Letter surveys the tariff impasse as the Democratic majority debates a sugar schedule and income tax proposals. It notes threats from Louisiana senators to oppose the bill, looming adjournment, and commentary on Reformers in the House and Senate, with remarks on Foley and Populist positions.
Duncan Gordon a bashful white man from Providence township and Bettie Cooper, a bashful young woman, eloped with the aid of an old colored woman. They married at Culp's post office by a squire, returned home frightened but reconciled and now speak openly.
A fragment from Winchester Democrat and Morganton Herald mixes a moralizing sermon about temperance with political notes. It warns against drinking and gambling, then notes Democratic fusion in Tennessee and Alabama and hints at anti administration sentiment. The piece closes with a self announced Independent Anti administration candidate for Solicitor in the 10th Judicial District, J B Spammoun.
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