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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1923
Page
2
An editorial urges creation of a Bureau of Highway Traffic Economics to match the railroads role in a national road system. It argues the government must build and maintain roads, aid planners, and improve efficiency while detailing snow removal issues and a farmer selling land after road improvements.
Road construction costs and profits within a month of completion can raise adjacent real estate values. In each case the effect mirrors the other as a good road increases the value of farms and nearby properties.
A traveling man dies in a hotel and two women claim rights to his body. One woman feeds the corpse to Liberty Hill, while a Cooleemee widow insists the remains be sent home. A third party in New Bern tries to halt burial in Texas, revealing a web of loyalty, rumors, and possible financial motives.
A discourse discusses marriage duty, notes on a wife’s loyalty, and then examines Christmas practice. It cites early authority for December 25 as Christ’s birth, dating observances to Rome in AD 326 and to Hippolytus in the third century, noting shifts between East and West.
In New London Connecticut a neighbor's boy, admired for his pitching, will receive the bulk of a $75,000 estate of Robert W Hallan a Meriden Cutlery retiree. The will provides trusts to a deceased sister and to other relatives while 18 year old Elmer F Rader son of Mr and Mrs George Rader inherits the residue on college attendance with conditions.
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