22 Feb 1912
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1912
Page
1
Jesse F. Robbins announces the purchase of Boone Furniture Co stock and invites customers to buy any line items. The sale offers dressers bureaus chairs bedsteads bed springs and mattresses from a store located in the Watauga County Bank Building with a respectful call to need.
A reader argues a hard stance that labor is available if cities send workers to the countryside. He cites cotton acreage in Chesterfield County, Virginia, and notes shortages of field hands, urging people to seek farm labor rather than urban poverty. The piece contrasts persistent poverty with available opportunity in the South and discusses social uplift messaging from Noodles Fagans at Raleigh High School.
The piece critiques traveling orators and their grand promises urging working men to act. It contrasts “horse sense” talk with flashy spenbinding rhetoric while detailing a man named Bill Wax whose wage and spending illustrate discontent, and it ends with an anecdote about Foley Kidney Pills promising a cure for bed wetting.
An uneven, garbled ad claims Chai Ima's Cougs Remedy relieves the lungs and aids health, presenting a scattershot summary of benefits and urging purchase from dealers. The text lacks clear facts, names, or verifiable details.
Fayetteville Observer laments state Health Board ruling to end smallpox quarantine citing unwise and dangerous logic. It argues vaccination does not justify abolishing quarantine and likens it to banning laudanum sales or sparing a mad dog for fear of bites. The piece critiques public health policy and perceived hostility to vaccination.
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