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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
2
The piece blends a Christmas gospel meditation on the Bethlehem star with political satire from the era. It cites Judge Boyd’s ticket including Theodore Roosevelt and W. S. O. Robinson, contrasts charitable impulses with racial tensions, and comments on shifting friendships as prosperity fades.
Reporting on a Saturday night banquet in Washington Senator Hanna aims to exceed the President in social equality. The writeup notes one notable attendee Judge Robinson whose presence is highlighted as a counterpoint to the event’s tone.
Fragmentary ad text warns that errors in medical claims can cost. It references Dr King and pills for dyspepsia dizziness headache liver or bone disease, with odd phrasing and broken place names. The readable bits show a marketing pitch with misspellings and garbled lines.
Running like mad down the street, a recurring scene of accidents prompts the recommendation of Bucken’s Arnica Salve for burns cuts sores eczema and piles. The ad notes it’s sold at M. B. Blackburn’s with a price of 2 cents and ends with a proverb about idleness.
A vintage advertisement extols the traveling old man with a fish on his back, claiming thirty years of health benefits. It promotes Scott's Emulsion as a pure cod liver oil tonic for children, the sick, and the elderly, promising flesh, strength, and red blood.
Details tally county jurors tax listers paupers guardians and court personnel with numerous names and amounts paid for juries, jail, burial, clothing, and other county expenses dated September 7, 1903, including aides, agents, and creditors across multiple entries.
Tina Aweet notes that many large cities give substantial dinners to the poor at Christmas but suggests it would be better to spread similar aid throughout the year to aid the needy more evenly.
A mortgage to J J Wilson M G Norris and others secures costs in a lawsuit where unpaid costs remain. By power of sale and 1903 judgment the property in Boone is set for public auction at 1 o clock PM on February 1 1904 at the courthouse. The tract contains about 50 acres and sale funds cover 7845 dollars plus costs. Dec 21 1903. Thos Bingham C C.
By virtue of the power of sale in a mortgage deed dated April 1895 from John Elrod and wife to C J Cottrell and recorded in Watauga NC, the heirs of debtors will sell on February 1 1904 at Boone courthouse for cash the half undivided interest in a tract in Elk Township, described by metes and bounds, to satisfy a debt of forty seven dollars and twenty two cents plus costs.
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