Women’s Opportunity In Civil Service Field
A Senate hearing recounts Mrs. Cora Lee Sturgis of Virginia describing eight months of hardship as a prisoner with Mexican bandits. She details looting, starvation, and the brutality faced by Americans under Carranza Huerta and Zapata, plus the impact on her family and later observations on U.S. policy and safety in the region.
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Washington
Cora Lee Sturgis
Senate
Sturgis
Diaz
Madero
Huerta
Carranza
Henry G. Fletcher
Mexico
Ambassador Fletcher
United States Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Commission
Local People and Projects Highlight Mabel Area
Silverstone Weis and Silas M Greene leave for Virginia after selling property. Bridge on Boone Trail near Mabel nearing completion. Niley Byers returns home to Silverstone from Shulls Mills. James Warren now resides in Silverstone. Public school at Silverstone to close soon. Mrs Walter Bumgarter and Wade Price ill with typhoid. Jethro Wilson recovering from typhoid.
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Silas M. Greene
Mabel
Virginia
Greene
Boone Trail
Mable
Niley Byers
Shulls Mills
Silverstone
Walter Bumgarter
Wade Price
Jethro Wilson
Hira Wilson
Happiness Lies in Thoughts Not Things
A reflective aphorism attributed to Selected emphasizes that true happiness stems from inner thoughts and personal character rather than material possessions.
Ex Sheriff Hayes Remembers Severe Washington Winter
Ex Sheriff J L Hayes of Lancaster Washington recalls a winter with temperatures to 60 degrees below zero and 20 inches of snow. He notes a predicted big wheat crop and states his family produced and sold wheat totaling 45000 dollars to a single buyer last year.
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J. L. Hayes
Jnow
Lancaster
Washington
Walter
Lewis
Thanking Watauga for help after Christmas fire loss
Wr Lewis and Mrs Lewis deny rumors of misused relief funds after a fire on Christmas day. They state every donation and donor name were given to them and gratefully received.
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Watauga
Mus
Cuanizs Lewis
Justice to the Poor and the Court’s Unequal Strains
The Winston-Salem Journal discusses R. H. Smith's Boston work arguing American justice favors the rich and the poor face court costs. It notes laws and appeals barriers for the indigent, while some judges may bias toward or against wealth, highlighting overall systemic inequities in access to justice.
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Carnegie Foundation
R. H. Smith
Boston
Winston-Salem Journal
Tragic Christmas Fire Claims Four Children in Virginia
Lansing dispatch reports a Christmas night fire in Arthur Cole family home near Grayson County Virginia. Four children perished, grandmother blinded, mother wounded but saved with twin newborns and husband. Survivor Mrs Cole expected to recover. Gambill grandmother blind, not expected to live. Family left destitute with no home or belongings. relief contributions noted.
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Lansing
Arthur Cole
White Top
Grayson County
Virginia
Ashe County
North Carolina
North Carolina-Virginia
Mr. Cole
Mrs. Gambill
Oller
Westward trek ends in farming success for Combs family
Mr. W W Combs of St John Washington returns to Watauga to visit his grandparents with three motherless children. He once worked for wages in the west but later turned to farming and last year sold over eight thousand dollars worth of wheat from a ten thousand dollar outfit. He plans to seed over 300 acres to spring wheat this year in addition to fall sowing.
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W.W. Combs
St. John
Wash
Watauga
W. S. Greene
Stony Fork
W N Thomas in Belle Aire Md notes Watauga ties
Mr W M Thomas writes from Belle Aire Md renewing his subscription and praising neighbors in Harford county where many residents hail from North Carolina Tennessee and Washington state. He plans to visit Watauga this fall and sends regards to friends there while noting road improvements.
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W. N. Thomas
Belle Aire
Harford County
North Carolina
Tenn
Watauga
Gudes Pep to Mangan Tonic Ad for Anemia
An era of health advertising promotes Gude's Pep to Mangan as a safe tonic for pale anemic girls and young women. Claims it enriches blood with red cells, improves pallor, headaches, and breath, with liquid and tablet forms. Also mentions sale details and a second product called Reefer's More Egg tonic.
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Gude
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