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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
2
A hometown column laments the departing year and urges hopeful focus on the future. It urges kindness and improving the town library, notes local readers and children, and links literacy to community progress with reflections and anecdotes.
An ornate, mostly unreadable excerpt describes anniversaries and seasonal celebration across distant places. It references Bethlehem birth imagery and a cryptic line about Henry Moont and others, with garbled phrases suggesting a ceremonial or commemorative tone.
Old advice urged eating salt pork for consumption but fat feeding helps. Scott's Emulsion offers refined fat plus cod liver oil and phosphites to aid digestion and lungs. A free sample is available upon request.
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train No 12 derailed December 23 at 7 30 p m. The disaster claimed 58 lives with likely involvement by a figure described as Blue Beard. The incident stains the evening with tragedy as investigators assess the wreckage and casualty figures.
Frightened horse bolts through a street with occupants possibly endangered as other daily mishaps occur. Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve for burns cuts sores eczema and piles, claiming quick relief, 2 cents at M. B. Blackburn's.
The notice details two separate mortgage foreclosures in Watauga County North Carolina. The first, on the J J Wilson M G Norris et al. mortgage for 78.45 plus costs, sets a February 1 1904 sale at Boone court house to satisfy the judgment from Fall term 1903. The second sale, for forty seven dollars and twenty two cents plus costs, describes land in Elk Township from a 1895 deed to C J Cottrell with a February 1 1904 date at the Boone court house to satisfy that debt and costs.
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