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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1930
Page
4
The Watauga Democrat issued Thursday July 31 1930 in Boone North Carolina lists publishers R C Rivers and Rob Rivers. It includes subscription rates, classified notices, and notices of obituaries and resolutions available at regular advertising rates.
Economic optimism rises as business editors report limited inventories and rising electricity use. Despite unemployment chatter, no broad distress is seen and loans, housing, and credits loosen while exports may rebound. The piece ends with faith in long term U S prosperity and ongoing forward movement.
A nostalgic reflection on the old country schoolhouse and its place in American pioneer spirit. The piece contrasts preserved historic rooms like Henry Ford’s Sudbury school with modern consolidated schools, urging readers to visit before they disappear. The excerpt closes with a courtroom joke about Mrs. Maloney and Officer Waddell.
A reflective piece contrasts a high earning rise with unchanged core values. It praises humble acts like generosity and service, cites Jim Bludsoe and Ruth in Biblica l context, and urges simple conduct, gratitude, and welcome for strangers as the basis for meaning across worlds.
Dr Frederick P Keppel lauds Christian missions after evaluating East Africa conditions. He notes missionary earnestness and devotion, with high impact given cultural limits. The Southern Churchman comments on Einstein and science advancing beyond lay understanding.
A farm family learns the danger of self prescription when Bill buys liver pills for his brother John. John takes a full dose, develops abdominal swelling, and dies from ruptured appendix and peritonitis, illustrating why a doctor should be consulted first.
Sunday School lesson by Rev Samuel D Price discusses Naomi and Ruth in the Book of Ruth focusing on race relations. It notes the journey from Bethlehem to Moab during famine and the marriages of Naomi’s sons to Moabite women.
The page features Rudyard Kipling's If with its moral counsel and a separate note praising the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church on its sixtieth anniversary. President Hoover sent a message thanking the society for its field work and efforts through the years.
The Gastonia Gazette quotes Watt Gragg of Boone praising Josephus Daniels for a platform speech that outshone the editor of the rival Greensboro News. The Greensboro paper hopes the Gastonia praise is not faint.
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