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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
4
The excerpt argues prices for essentials have risen while wages fail to keep pace. It notes flour costs and other goods have adjusted, yet manufactured item prices and labor costs stay high. The piece claims prosperity is lopsided, criticizing tariff and Republican rule as hurting workingmen who earned far less per day years ago while costs rose.
A revival meeting at a Baptist church in burg Georgia was interrupted when swarms of yellow jackets nesting in the pulpit began to sting attendees. The preacher was stung early, prompting fear and a chaotic rush as worshippers fled the church leaving the building to the insects.
A Florida contractor, Mr. H. Averitt, uses a road machine to raise earth ridges at specified widths in Leon County. The spaces are filled with a six inch bed of sawdust. A smaller machine then plows and mixes earth with sawdust to form the roadbed for the pressin g project.
A Caldwell county Superior Court order appoints a commissioner to sell multiple parcels in Caldwell and Watauga counties. The sale will occur at the Caldwell county courthouse in Lenoir on Monday, July 8, 1909, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., including tracts in Blowing Rock and along the Middle Fork of the New River, with several deeds and bounds detailed for each tract.
A moral exhortation urges fathers and mothers to invest time in raising their children. It compares parental neglect to failing in public duties and stresses that home must be the happiest, most inviting place for children, not merely for guests.
A girl requests a hammock on the piazza amid a scene where children cry for Fletcher's Castoria. The fragment suggests a domestic atmosphere and a child's demand within a period newspaper voice.
Plaintive claims tout Electric Bitters as a cure for irritable nerves, pimples, and skin blemishes caused by constipation or kidney poisons. They promise to regulate stomach, liver, and kidneys, purify blood, strengthen nerves, and impart a lovely complexion with bright eyes and pure breath. Available for 50 cents at druggists.
The notice announces a registered fancy bay stallion weighing 1220 pounds aged eight to be used for breeding by farmers in the mountain county. It lists dates and places for viewing and standing at Todd North Carolina April 25 26, Trade Tennessee April 29 30, Southerland North Carolina May 1, Tamarack North Carolina May 2 with owners J A Ray L A Greene and Frank South and groom D M Winebarger.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis is promoting publicity to inform the public about health rules and experiments. Rules include: TB is communicable and preventable, curable with proper care. Seek a doctor for a persistent cough, avoid reputed cures, don’t spread or contract consumption, spit in spitters, keep spittons, cover coughs, ensure fresh air, and keep windows open day and night.
John Trexler sues Lelia Trexler in the North Carolina Superior Court for dissolution of the bonds of matrimony. Defendant must answer or demur within the first three days of the September 13, 1909 term in Watauga County. Judgment or relief requested by plaintiff is noted.
A garbled excerpt describes a quest and discovery theme with scattered names and places. The text hints at a search for something opening foam like a metaphorical door. It mentions a summer girl and a seaside or city setting, but the passage remains largely obscure and fragmented.
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