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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
4
Three years ago a Raleigh farm near Raleigh was bought for 10000 dollars. Net profits over three years totaled 3700 dollars and this week it sold for just over 13000 dollars, adding about 3000 dollars to the gains. The Raleigh Post notes this demonstrates strong returns from Wake County farmland.
In Union County, hunters pursuing a rabbit found a large ripe watermelon growing from a vine that sprang up beside a brush heap. The leaves and surrounding brush had sheltered it through cold weather.
A preacher provokes media attention and demands action against papers, prompting public commentary on press freedom. The state has witnessed two recent spectacles of this nature, highlighting tensions between clergy and the press.
A fragmented line notes Kodo jokes about eating digested food and a remark that only a workingman avoids lying about long hours, while a burglar in summer is singled out as not working hours.
Greensboro Record notes the Big Four railroads issue an order prohibiting all drinking on or off duty and requiring workers to hold no job with liquor involvement. The move follows earlier on duty bans by other roads and is described as a decisive, closing gate toward drinking.
The statement contrasts error prone guessing with correct guesses, framing right guesses as sound judgement and highlighting the responsibility tied to choosing between luck and rational assessment. It underscored the value of deliberate thinking over chance.
The author argues the South has reached its labor limit but holds millions of idle acres capable of producing cotton. If labor can be found and trained, the region could supply all the world’s cotton for many years, according to Shihy Aurora.
In Watauga County Superior Court before the clerk a case for partition of the Dougherty lands bought from the Smith heirs is commenced. Defendants must appear at the clerk’s Boone courthouse on January 12, 1904 to answer or demur or the plaintiff will seek relief. This November 28, 1903. Tuomas Binenam, C.S.C.
A whimsical piece questions why a festively named fowls inspires a turkey to react oddly. The speaker notes the bird resembles a Turk of Asiatic origin, scorns red headwear, avoids a large yellow pumpkin, and reacts to Thanksgiving imagery with gobbles. The essay hints the Human Race and turkey both dread the holiday aftermath.
Trustee Albert R. Shattuck will auction 433 acres in three tracts in Meat Camp and Bald Mountain townships on January 4, 1904, to satisfy a 1300 debt secured by a trust deed from Jane Miller and Edmund B Miller to the British & American Mortgage Co. Limited. The sale at Boone court house door will convey such title as held by the trustee.
A terse editorial note argues against applying blunt tackhammer methods to tenpen ny precepts, warning that rigid enforcement risks distortion and ineffectiveness in guiding conduct.
For sale forty seven acres of land with twenty acres cleared, a six room house and barn, good water, nearby stores, church, and schools, near Valle Crucis Mission School. Contact A M Woodring, Valle Crucis NC. Entry details note twenty five acres on Lark's Creek in Watauga Township entered Oct 3 1903 by H L Storie and H W Hardin.
The Martin Cottage MRB W P Pendley proprietor announces the hotel has been refitted and refurnished in all departments and is now open for public accommodation. Comfortable rooms and good market fare available. Transient boarders will be cared for. Sprates Reagana ule.
The text shows a Raleigh North Carolina Morning Post subscription notice with pricing lines for one month two months and one year and mentions strict advance payment. The fragment also repeats the newspaper name and city and provides an address line for the Morning Post in Raleigh North Carolina.
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