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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
4
Fragmented opinion piece and notices discuss a Buckley letter praising whiskey and a graphic quiver of moral warning. The text juxtaposes reminiscence of harvest imagery, a notice about a 1900 Watauga County land sale, and a debated political sermon on emancipation, Union, Lincoln, and suffrage.
The institution reports widest patronage in history with 88 faculty members and 495 students. It lists 8 academic courses including professional schools in law medicine and pharmacy, new buildings, water works, libraries, and labs. Tuition and aid details note free tuition for teachers and a summer school. enrollment totals 644 with 24 instructors and 147 students in other programs. Address President Alderman Chapel Hill NC.
A notice announces that on February 5, 1900, between 10 A M and 8 P M, the trustee will sell at Boone court house cash to highest bidder the 167 acre tract in Watauga Township bounded by Isaacs McGinnis and others as described in deed book 7L page 361, to satisfy default on a British Mortgage Co. loan.
The Morning Post from Raleigh, N C notes a trust deed debt sale. It mentions months and a trustee named Alpery RB Shatrock and signals sale of land to satisfy the secured debt.
A collection of curious claims from historical reporting notes Vienna’s 500 year old medical school and a Greenland absence of infectious disease. It mentions a Cairo resident reputedly weighing 570 pounds and a Buffalo paper running wholly on Niagara Falls electricity. Other items include a Sicilian advocate jailed 189 years, the claim of one hundred million Americans before Columbus, a London death from heart perforation by a long-embedded needle, a Java lake of boiling mud near Gropogana, a Mississippi steamboat captain planning a phonograph will, and a Kansas family of Death Rats.
Trinity College enters its forty fifth year with the largest endowment in North Carolina and a complete state gymnasium. Monthly board ranges from six dollars fifty cents to ten dollars. Loan scholarships assist worthy young men. Young women admitted to all classes. Send for catalog to President Kilgo Deluam NC.
A local Mississippi press excerpt outlines perceived failures of common catarrh treatments and promotes Dr. CW Parpis of Shull's Mills NC, offering an 80 minute extirpation operation to destroy parasites in the nose, claim of cancer removal without a knife, and a positive money-back guarantee with free examinations.
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