A Dark Chapter in Watauga County Tragedy
The Watauga Democrat reports the death of Columbus-Triplett in jail on the 14th after a Christmas Day murder by his brother Sam Triplett. The piece laments the lack of kinship and care, noting an autopsy and postmortem findings not yet released, as the body was sent to a hometown burial with no relatives to claim it.
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Columbus
Triplett
Triplett Brothers
Sam Triplett
Marhall Triplett
Our
Texas
Fair County
Co. Physican
J. M. Hodges
Robert Willoughby
Third Avenue Elevated Railway
New York City
Maryland
Eventful Rowan wood yard encounter and fatal fire
A Rowan County woman shot at a stranger in her yard after ordering him to leave. the shot alarmed him as he fled. A Greensboro area fire killed Mrs. Haywood Baker while she dressed her child, her husband watching helplessly as their five children cried. The Raleigh Grand Lodge of Masons discussed Mooresville as the site for a future Masonic Home for aged and indigent members to be funded by the Masonic Temple Raleigh revenues.
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Lee St Jer
Rowan County
Mae
Mrs. Stiller
Haywood Baker
Goldsboro
Grand Lodge of Masons
Raleigh
Mooresville
North Carolina corn liquor scam shams a nationwide order haul
A Roanoke Times tale reports a North Carolinian mail order scam selling one gallon of corn liquor for 1.10 dollars. Buyers shipped shelled corn and express charges. recipients instead received corn. The schemer vanished after a mass shipment run. Additional items note Pinchot’s firing, a New York motorman found dead, and other short notices about a dredge near Newton and an insane asylum discovery of cash.
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Roanoke Times
North Carolina
Uncle Sam
Old North State
Roanoke
Express
A Medicine That Lives Ten Years Must Have Merit
An old advertisement proclaims Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey has sold sixteen years and grown each year. It asserts no risk and a guaranteed quality, urging buyers at all dealers.
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Bell
Cure for smallpox and Sewlet Pever claims
A Stockton Herald correspondent shares a so called cure for smallpox and scarlet fever using zinc sulfate and foxglove with sugar and water dosed hourly. It asserts cures within twelve hours and includes child dosage scales. Also notes pension talk for Mrs Cleveland and political headlines about Senator Root and Republican insurgents.
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Stockton
Cal
Langdey Forecasts Panama Canal Project Cost
Kentucky Congressman John W Langdey says current plans for the Panama Canal will require at least half a billion dollars more to complete the famed project. He warns lawmakers overrun risks and stresses careful budgeting for the long running work on the big ditch.
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John W. Langdey
Kentucky
Panama Canal
Bell Pine Tar Honey and a Pittsburg widow's death note
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey is advertised as a household remedy for gripp coughs and throat trouble. A Pittsburg widow Mrs Kate Mendelsohn lay speechless for three and a half months before dying on January 16. Also promoted is Sutherland's Eagle Eye Salve priced at 25 cents as a painless eye cure.
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Union
Kate Mendelsohn
Pittsburg
Penn
Sutherland
Absence of Roosevelt Delays Nomination Process
Unsettled questions linger due to Mr. Roosevelt's absence. The piece notes Teddy would have prevented the delay and identifies Solicitor J. F. Spainhour of Morganton as a candidate for the nomination for judge. The text hints at the 14th district race and party dynamics without full details.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Teddy
J. F. Spainhour
Morganton
Hir
Stnie
Ad Bullets Old Time Turbulence and Patent Remedies
Page features assorted ads for Scott's Emulsion and drug facts, a fire report in Bristol Tennessee Virginia, and various patent medicine pitches. Includes Sutherland's Bye Salve refund offer, whiskey testing claim, Dr Belle Pine-Tar-Honey, and Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve with prices, plus a snippet about a creamy snow white ointment.
A Handy Guide to Female Health and Beauty
A period style note urges women to care for their natural traits to avoid illness and poor appearance. It links constipation, liver issues, and blood impurities to facial and eye dullness, claiming internal problems surface over time and can be softened by attention to health.
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Watauga Democrat
R. C. Rivers
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Roosevelt
Taft
Pinchot
Newton
Bost Bridge
Williamsburg
Root
Senate
Grover Cleveland
McKinley
Garfield
Mra. Polk
Taylor
Champ Clark
House
Middle West
John Calvin Hemphill
Charleston News and Courier
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Senator McLaurin
Mississippi
Dr. Bell
Fletcher
Castoria
Scott
ALL Dragon
Iach Bank
Scott & Bowne
Pearl St
New York
Bristol, Tenn
Bermudas
Mark Twain
Furniture & Coffins
Boone Furniture Store
Moretz Old Stand
Boone, N.C
G. R. Lona
Butte, Mont
Hay
J.C. Eaton
Dist
Pass. Agest
Knoxville
Terr
Vra
St. Louis
M B
Blackburn Boone
N. C
Watauga County
Lenoir
W. W. McGowan
W. H. Beach
John W. Wilson
W.J. Lenoir
Oliver Chilled
Lenoir Hardware and Furniture Company
Lenoir, N. C
J. W. Wright
W. P. Duncan
Rambo
J.K. Walsh
Merchants & Orders Bank
Jountan City
Tennessee
R. F. Wright
E. E. Butler
W. F. Shull
M. E. Wilson
John H. Bingham
N. L. Mast, Pres
W.c.correy
Watauga County Bank
Boone
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