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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1923
Page
4
A eastern soap maker adopts an internal unemployment insurance plan guaranteeing at least forty eight hours of work per week yearly through a profit sharing style scheme. The piece argues for steady employment within industry and warns legislatures may push state payrolls and compulsory insurance, urging firms to maintain regular staffing.
A 1922 study lists 62 U S cities with five year per capita fire losses above five dollars. Some exceed this by wide margins, up to ninety one dollars, averaging about fifty dollars per family of five. The national per capita loss was four dollars seventy five, higher than 1906 after the San Francisco fire.
Secretary Hoover lauds the electrical industry before the Public Utility Commissioners of New England and mid Atlantic states in New York City. He cites growth from 4 billion to 50 billion kw hr annual production and 2 million investor households under state regulation.
Miss Helen Schultz, operator of Red Ball Transportation Co, seeks a state board ruling that her bus service is a public convenience under Iowa law. Railroads and county supervisors dispute the claim, arguing highway damage and private interest. Proponents urge taxation or better roads as remedies and note railroads once opposed interurban lines but later embraced them.
Governors and officials praise laws prohibiting signs on highways to protect scenic views. Illinois Governor Small cites grass fringed drives and unmarred vistas while Col. Miller notes similar measures in Connecticut Minnesota with a December 1 1923 law banning new signs.
The verse links robin life cycles with the Bethlehem birth of Jesus and the hopeful light it brings. It recalls Santa Claus and children preparing stockings and celebrating a snowy arrival, expressing longing to witness that joyous scene again.
President Coolidge with Denby Roosevelt and navy officers presented a Congressional Medal of Honor to George Bradley chief gunner United States Navy for meritorious service under fire during the Vera Cruz landing in 1914. Bradley attached to the Utah was in charge of ammunition and special details at Vera Cruz.
A Bronx resident with many children donated a rare red howler monkey to the Bronx Zoo. The large, fierce looking animal, described as a good-natured pet by the curator, had to be fed and stabilized after a long voyage from South America. The monkey, kept with a small mustached monkey at Raymond L. Ditmars’s place in Searsdale, is the zoo’s first red howler and will soon be exhibited.
A conference of leading medical professionals convened by the National Research Council at the Interior Secretary’s request unanimously urged a thorough study of the physiological action and therapeutic value of Hot Springs mineral waters. The plan seeks public protection and medical knowledge, with government clinical and lab resources to be used.
Arthur Kench twenty two of New York escaped from the Missouri penitentiary by sliding forty feet along improvised electric wires from a broom handle and leaping thirty feet to the ground. Guards misidentified him on the roof as an electrician and did not fire. Kench, brought from Kansas City in April 1922, was serving ten years for robbery.
Chicago man Ben Garber on his way home after an accident witnessed a woman injured. He reached home to find his wife missing and later learned she had died during his travel. Local authorities pursue details of the incident and identify the injured party.
An article by Mary Marshall Duffee offers dance etiquette for men at social events including gloves, handkerchief use, escort duties, and handling disappointments gracefully. It emphasizes polite conduct, avoiding criticism of partners, and proper response if a dance cannot be kept. Also includes a 1924 bond sale notice for Boone North Carolina.
Winchester Virginia police hailed a stop to a two week tomb theft wave after Funk and Sam reported a stolen tombstone from a business near Mount Hebron cemetery. The carved stone, weighing over half a ton, had been sold to a Frederick County customer and vanished from the showroom.
Boone North Carolina town commissioners authorize negotiable bonds up to 15000 to improve streets and sidewalks. A tax to pay principal and interest will be levied annually. indebtedness statement filed for public inspection. ordinance effective 30 days after first publication unless voter submission occurs under the act. Signed by Clerk J F Woore on December 3 1923.
An exchange discusses how to articulate current Democrat and Republican positions to a high school student. The dialogue highlights difficulty in framing core values and policy priorities for young learners.
By virtue of a mortgage deed dated September 4 1922 J A Miller and S J Miller will sell at the Boone North Carolina courthouse door January 7 1924 between 11 am and 2 pm to satisfy the mortgage with interest and costs the described real estate adjoining W W Hampton forming 40 acres more or less the sale will be to the highest bidder for cash W G Wilcox mortgagee.
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