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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1921
Page
1
The Fire Walking Festival at a Tamil Hindu temple drew shopkeepers merchants and clerks amid crowds. Devotees wore hair shirts and walked three times over a bed of live coals while carrying a pagoda. Afterward they circled the temple before entering. Charione Yeserver reports on the scene and participants.
A North Carolina association formed to push a hard surfaced Boone to Charlotte road, linking lost western counties to the state. Backed by Caldwell and other counties, plans call for funds advanced on a three year term with completion targeted in 1922, while listing county expenditures and contractor payments through 1921.
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