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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
3
Local notes report Rev J L Healan dying at home in Lenoir and Sarah Johnson dying near Mason ic Hall Boone. Boone church events and cold weather mark the week. Mentions of stock sales in South Carolina, a broken leg recovery, a court house wedding, and a proposed dog tax to protect farms. Beaver Dams reports smallpox cases and quarantine.
Wanted a reliable man to manage a branch office in the vicinity. If your record is O K there is an opportunity. Provide a good reference when writing. The A T Moras WaHoersaLe House Cincinnati Ohio illustrated catalogue de stamps.
The passage promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for scrofula catarrh hip disease white swelling and consumption claiming the slightest taint in the blood endangers health. It asserts Hood's Sarsaparilla purifies the blood and expels disease germs and also touts Hood's Pills as the best family laxative.
New York financier H L Millner studied the Trans-Appalachian Railway project in Charlotte yesterday. The line seeks to connect western North Carolina trunk lines with Virginia and Tennessee coal fields at Bristol and with Seaboard Air Line near Lincolnton. It would run from Butler in the Watauga Valley southeastward via Morganton to Lincolnton, shortening distances by 100 to 150 miles. Preliminary surveys are done and final location work is about to begin.
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as a complete cure for scrofula manifested by swellings sores and eruptions claiming the medicine eliminates the disease from the blood.
The Martin Cottage managed by Mrs W P Pendley announces recent refitting and furnishing across all departments and is now open to the public. Good, comfortable rooms and fare matching market standards. Transient boarders are guaranteed comfort with reasonable rates.
Help is needed at once when a cran antes in danger. A neg ected cough or cold may soon become serious and should be stopped at once. One Minute! Cough Care quickly cures coughs and colds and the worst cases of croup, bronchitis, grippe and other throat and long troubles, Moretz and Farthing, Johnson and Buchanan.
A breezy editorial voice questions why legislation for oleomargarine purity is passed while no art or law secures pure beer. It plugs DeWitts Little Barly Risers as top liver pills and mentions Mor etz and Farthing along with Johnson and Buchanan in a flippant tonal note.
For sale 83 acres on Cove Creek near Amantha North Carolina with a nine room dwelling a good barn wood shed and builtins. Also offering a one half interest in a steam saw mill and planer. For prices and terms write or call.
Wholesale or retail offerings include ladies hats and a large range of men's hats from 60c to $2.75. Also domestic goods such as shirting, flannels, bed ticking, notions, wagon parts, hardware items, and produce buying. Owner Holiclaw announces he will order items on short notice and seeks to buy all local produce, thanking patrons for past support at Vilas North Carolina, January 23.
Under a 1900 mortgage to Adolphus Mair & Sons the heirs of Thos. R. Sherrill plan to sell Lot No 61 in Watauga township at the Boone courthouse between noon and 3 PM. The tract is 5834 acres more or less in the division of Elisha 8 deceased, bounded by Lenoir and Walter Sims lines, with a sale for cash to satisfy $587.25 plus costs. AbouPuts Shae & Sons mortgagees Sell & Whitener Attys.
A unnamed trader advertises a $1,000 stock of goods including dry goods nations groceries hardware and more. He pledges to buy all good produce at the highest market price and invites patrons to visit, hoping to match the patronage of a predecessor and to prove his ability to serve the community.
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