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Ring Out the Old and Ring in the New Century Reflections
A long readers’ note blends poetry with state reform concerns as the year closes. The piece muses on Longfellow and a century passing, urges a new reform for youthful criminals through a state reformatory, and calls lawmakers to support education and targeted taxation for reform. It also touches on political debates, a tribute to Judge Faircloth’s passing, and a legal notice about a land sale in Watauga county to satisfy a debt secured by a trust deed.
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Longfellow
New Englandhilla
State Board of Charities
Suhpoes
Banner Elk
Bryan
Democratic Party
United States
Republican Party
Hannas
Platts
Quays
Fries
Mr McKinley
Senate
Hay
McKinley
Faglard
Terra del Fuego
Secretary Hay
Alaska
England
Tassia
Congress
Wm. T. Fairsford
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Goldsboro
Judge Faircloth
Jane
Ede
B. Miller
Albert R. Shattuck
Watauga County
North Carolina
Edmund B. Miller
British and American Mortgag Co., Limited
Boone
Meat Camp Township
C. Moretz
Mrs. Hauck
T. 8. Walles
J. H. Taylor
J. E. Finley
John [. Greene
Dane Miller
E. B. Mille
A. J. Moretz
Metea
Bald Mountain Township
J. W. Finley
Wiliam Norris
E. B. Miller
J. W. Henry Steele
Jane Miller
Joseph Holman
Baldountain Township
William Norris
Dee’d
Saily