Tribute to Mercharles Carter Founding Mountain Library
Obituary commemorates Mercharles Carter of Blowing Rock who died January 9. It details her work building the first public library in the region, founding a Mission House reading room, and organizing a Sunday school and Mothers Meeting. Her generosity, intellect, and devotion to uplift Watanga people are highlighted, along with memories of her life and the library as a lasting memorial.
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Mercharles Carter
Bock Jan Sary
Mountains
Mission Hous
Blowing Rock
Carter
Untitled reflection on reformers and living well
A fragment reflecting on how actors prefer favorable outcomes and an exchange of fortunes. It questions whether people ever envy a reformer and ponders life lessons learned or missed by those who live long without learning to live.
He who marries a rich wife makes a poor husband
An aphorism noting that wealth in marriage can strain a husband’s role and livelihood, suggesting financial reliance may erode traditional status or satisfaction in the union. The saying emphasizes caution about marrying for wealth over companionship and partnership balance.
New Discovery Saves Boy’s Life in Mound City
In Mound City Mrs E D Clapp reports her son, near death from lung trouble and exhausting coughing spells every five minutes, was saved by Dr King’s New Discovery. The medicine cures coughs and lung ailments and is guaranteed by druggists. Trial bottles free.
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South Dakota
Mound City
E. D. Clapp
Why She Bang the Hymn and Other Oddities
A bishop recalls a visit to a southern town where women doomed by scarce help boiled eggs to three or five verses of the hymn Neaver my God to Thee. A grave telephone at a cemetery is sought by a Spiritualist who talks with the dead only at the grave. Also a quip about vigilance and police in a Philadelphia Press note.
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Indiana
Ascum
Luschman
Philadelphia Press
Cardus
Sallie H. Blair
Johnston City
Tenn
Public Sale Rumors Stir Washington DC Area Auction
A humorous notice from P J Hanley of Washington Iowa proposes a December public sale in Washington DC with odd items such as an elephant and a rotting Republican platform. The sale aims to bait GOP and Democrat factions and hints that proceeds go to rockefeller and morgan clerks. The note includes tangential quotes and unexpected market references. It ends with a kidney remedy advertisement endorsing DeWitt's pills.
A Dangerous Deadlock Remedy Promoted By Pills
An ad notes liver and bowel stoppage dangers and promotes Dr. King's New Life Pills as the quick cure. It promises money back satisfaction at all druggists, priced 25 cents, amid a Wall Street anecdote about a panic ending with a terrapin in the cellar.
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DeWitt
J. M. Hodges
Wall Street
Louisville Courier Journal
Notice of land sale in Watauga County North Carolina
By virtue of sundry executions from the Superior Court of Watauga County directed to me in favor of multiple creditors including M I Gump Summers-Parrott Hardware Huntsman Ros Armour Mo Mitchell-Powers Andware Brading & Marshal, I will on February 3 1907 at Boone court house door sell at public outcry a 61 acre tract in Watauga on Cove Creek adjoining Enoch Swift J C Uenson A J Combs and others bounded by listed trees and lines. The property is levied on as the defendant G F Bingham to satisfy the executions. John W Hodges Sheriff.
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Watauga County
North Carolina
Superior Court of Watauga Co
M. I.gump
Summers-Parrott Hardware Co
Huntsman Ros
Armour &Mo
Mitchell-Powers Andware Co
Brading & Marshal
Court House
Boone
N. C
Watauga
Cove Creek
Enoch Swift
J.C Uenson
A.J. Combs
Folllows
Combs
Sam Fletcher
Fletcher
Swift
G. F. Bingham
JOHN W_HODGES
Early Risers Sold By J M Hodges
Jack and Jill recover from illness and find relief with De Vire's Little Early Risers sold by J M Hodges. The line notes the product helps with blues and headaches and claims improved wellbeing.
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Jack
Jill
de Vire
J. M. Hodges
Notice to creditors in estate of Tempa Johnson deceased
Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Tempa Johnson deceased, all persons having claims against said estate are notified to present them to the undersigned duly authenticated within twelve months from the date hereof or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to settle at once. Dec. 2, 1907. J. M. Calloway, Adm.
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Tempa Johnson
J. M. Calloway
Adm
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Watauza Democrat
Senator Vance
Union Court
Monroe
Vance
Vance. “Mr. Ashe
Mr. Ashe
Marshville
Southern Railway
Charlotte Observer
Washinton Herald
Learvnel
P. J. Hanley
Washington
Iowa
Sam
Washington, D. C
G. O. P. Owners
Rockfeller & Morgan
Democratic’party
Phil, Ledger
Bae Eng Tap
Dr. King
Virginia-Carolina
R. J. Redding
Geensatnls Authority
Ealea
Eytion
N.C
Observer
Sunday Observer
the Observer CO
Cuantortz Ny
Cleveland Leader
DeWitt’s
J.M. Hodges
Kodel
Lea LS
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