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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1925
Page
7
Readers tackle a conventional four X puzzle by Martha Wagner with horizontal and vertical clues. The grid hides a brick of short words and a few tricky entries. time your thinking as speed and accuracy.
A fragment from last week hints at fearlessness and faith with a reference to God offering guidance for a better path. The wording suggests a motivational or religious-minded puzzle teaser rather than a concrete event.
The National Portrait Gallery in London is compiling photographs of notable British figures across fields. About 2,000 sitters have posed. few are women, and most subjects are older, with a plan to eventually display photographic enlargements of prominent people after death.
London traffic congestion drives the costly Strand widening project. Former county councillor H. H. Gordon estimates the expense at about 25 million dollars per mile, arguing the work is necessary to ease traffic.
A massive fallen meteor stone south of Beatrice Nebraska was moved to the city park, requiring sixteen horses and two weeks to haul it half a mile. The stone will serve as a World War I memorial with bronze tablets bearing the names of fallen heroes.
A nationwide drawing contest offers prizes including baseball gloves bats and balls. Participants must write name address and age on the back and specify glove or bat preference. Send drawings to the given address with care for consideration from the organizer.
By virtue of a 1920 mortgage to Floyd Harman for 1363 dollars three notes totaling that amount were paid except the last 454 dollars plus 6 percent interest. The defaulted note due November 15 1923 shows 460.30 due. On March 16 1925 at noon a public auction at Boone Court House will sell 37 acres in Laurel Creek Township to satisfy debt costs. The deed is recorded in Book W page 350. Floyd Harman Mortgagee W Lovill Attorney.
Administratrix Mattie Jones notifies all claimants to present claims within twelve months of the February 5 1925 notice or be barred from recovery. Creditors are urged to pay debts immediately. This February 5 1925. Mattie Jones Adm.
Notice of tax sale for Lindsay Patterson 1921 1922 land in Bald Mountain township Watauga County described as 1050 acres more or less known as Patterson land on Bald Mountain with redemption date May 5 1925 and signatures of S C Eggers chairman Pearl Hartley clerk plus notices of administration and divorce case in the same period.
The notice warns that backache headaches chills dizziness and swollen joints signal kidney trouble from uric acid. It recommends hot water each morning and An uric tablets available at drug stores or by mail from Dr. Pierce in Buffalo New York with a trial package for 10 cents.
To Malcom Carrender Bettie Carrender Joe Hogshead Winnie Hogshead and Linnie H Hogshead heirs of William Carrender deceased. An order for a survey of the road from Belhay Baptist Church to the Avery County line near Gaultney S. Bumgarner appointed surveyor. Objections to the road location heard at the Board meeting on March 3 1925. Clerk of Board. County Commissioners.
This January 15 1925 notice to all persons with claims against the estate of J A Ward deceased. D C Warren and M C Ward are administrators of the estate.
Thousands troubled by persistent nighttime coughing can sleep through the night with Dr. King s New Discovery for Coughs. Take a teaspoonful at night, hold in throat 15 20 seconds, then swallow without water for fast relief and healing.
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