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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1926
Page
2
The piece offers reflections on happiness, folly, and human emotion, with humorous vignettes about marriage, court talk, and a quip about a divided town. It promotes inner serenity, cites a poem by Ella Z Harris, and ends with a call to escape heat by traveling to the mountains.
Deep Gap area farmers welcomed Sunday rain that quenched parched fields. An auto crash near Laxton post office injured a man and a child, rushed to Boone hospital for treatment. Ola Morty returned home from an extended western tour as locals attended a Boone auction and visited Blowing Rock by Sunday.
Subdivision prospectus touts Fairy View Heights in Boone offering water lights and telephone for each lot. Properties promise scenic views of Grandfather Hanging Rock Hawk's Bill Sugar Loaf Beech and surrounding peaks. Attendees urged to meet August fifth to buy a lot and support Boone's growth.
The passage presents a quirky mix of quotes from a resort setting. A flapper asks about the electrical department, a bow legged hardware clerk guides her, and a proud mother comments on a boy named Harry who excels in class. A question about who broke the windows appears as a fragment.
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