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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1901
Page
1
A district court clerk in Centerville, Iowa recounts three days of severe cholera morbus after eating chambers. He credits Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy with saving his life after three doses. The message ends with the product sale by Blackburn.
The Washington Letter notes the Fifty Seventh Congress opened with Frye as Senate president and Dowell as House clerk. Hanna announces McKinley’s death, adjournment honors follow, and Richardson is touted as Democratic leader in a contested backdrop of tariff reform, war revenue repeal, and anti trust push amid party caucuses and Reed rules debate.
A county physician Geo W Scroggs of Hall County Georgia says Kodol Dyspepsia Cure gave him the best results and that it digests what you eat preventing indigestion and starvation. The claim notes rapid improvement and benefit for dyspepsia.
A dramatic news note reports Texas oil producers ordering a ship larger than any currently afloat. Separately a women's health story describes Mrs. I. B. Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin spared by a critical operation after failing to cure stomach trouble and jaundice. Flectric Bitters is praised as a wondrous remedy for stomach, kidney and liver troubles, claimed to cure dyspepsia and loss of appetite, offered at 50 cents with guarantee and sold by Blackburn.
Land, timber and mineral interests sought. Linney and Hayes invite all persons wishing to sell or buy lands water power timber and mineral rights to call at Boone, North Carolina. If we do not buy we will find a buyer. Linney and Hayes real estate agents. Per F. A. Linney, attorney.
The News and Observer notes Republicans discuss reducing Southern representation to punish states with alleged suppression of Black votes. The piece observes the president did not reference the South suffrage amendment, suggesting some congressmen act to appease galleries. It warns that pivotal suburban votes may influence Ohio Indiana and New York.
A Tennessee reader recalls his wife’s severe coughing and consumption, claiming Dr. King’s New Discovery saved her life after doctors gave little hope. The ad promotes the remedy as guaranteed for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma and lung diseases, with bottles priced at 50 cents and one dollar. A West Virginia man who died recently left his widow and nine children one dollar each and over ten thousand dollars for a water-tight vault and an imposing monument.
A Hillsboro reader H Robinson claims corns caused severe pain but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured them, praised as a magic healer for sprains cuts burns and skin diseases. Also a Reading electrical firm seeks to set aside a $4000 punitive damages verdict arguing the word punitive was misspelled as puny by a juror.
An old advertisement promises Dr. King's New Life Pills purify intestines by expelling poisons from clogged bowels. Claims include curing constipation biliousness sick headache fevers and kidney and bowel troubles. Sells for 25 cents at Blackburn's. It also asserts savages seldom stammer.
A jury in Agheville acquits murder by lottery then, after judge sets aside the verdict, the defendant pleads guilty to second degree murder and is sentenced to 80 years. The Truth-Index criticizes juror intelligence and calls for juror qualification to speed justice.
An advertisement claims Ayer's Pills cure liver issues with small doses and have served as the standard family pill for 60 years. The snippet also mentions Buckingham's Dye and a local Atchison Star note about Sunday clothes as punishment, plus a Yukon telegraph rate of four dollars for ten words.
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