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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
1
A pointed exhortation urges Watauga County residents to unite for better roads to match growth and opportunities. It criticizes three types of citizens, celebrates self-help and persistence, warns against selfish obstruction, and calls for coordinated action to connect the county with the outside world.
Notice from an unnamed individual in Triplett North Carolina dated June 12 1915 forbidding any person from employing or harboring Belle Watson and declaring no responsibility for any debts she may incur.
A World’s Work excerpt reflects on San Francisco illumination at the Panama Pacific Exposition. It contrasts indirect lighting with the old Paris and St Louis glow, noting Joy Zone red lamps and the lack of smoky glasses once common at fairs. It highlights a revolution in lighting and public perception of the grounds.
Russian peasant women bear from six to twelve children on average and about half of them survive.
The Baltimore Sun argues the Allies face grim times as German Austrian forces advance in Galicia and threaten Warsaw. It notes Allied ammunition shortages and questions German strategy, speculating on next moves from Galicia to France, Belgium, and possibly Italy, with serious misgivings about outcomes.
A foreman and six assistants operate the fastest pie making machine, capable of 1800 pies per hour. It features 18 revolving pie holders on an oblong table, two crust rollers, four automatic moistening brushes, and a trimming wheel. The six operators place crusts, fill pies, and collect them after moistening and trimming are finished.
The ad cites kidney trouble affecting young and old with symptoms like backache and weakness. It promotes Foster Milburn Co. pills and Dean’s Kidney Pills as relief, claiming Mrs H Cobb of Prospect Heights Lenoir NC found prompt relief and that several family members used the medicine.
185 acre farm three miles southeast of Butler Tennessee near Watauga Academy. Mostly cleared with 10 acres woods, fenced, running spring, 5 room cottage, barns, outbuildings, tenant house, garden, orchard. 40 acres plowable, priced at 35 dollars per acre. Possession this fall. Write W L Reece Butler Tenn.
65 acre farm for sale on county road two and a half miles from railroad station. 50 acres cleared 150 acres in timber half mile cleared and near school 14 miles to store and post office good orchard spring and water for stock. Red clay land bargain at 1700 dollars with favorable terms. Roy L. Jonson farm broker Science Hill Ky offers 20 other farms priced 500 to 2500 dollars. Write for price list free.
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