Court in session under Judge Long amid rain at Watauga
News from Watauga County reports court convened at 10 a m with Judge B F Long presiding. Large crowd despite downpour, praise for the judge, and firm punishment for violators. State docket heavy with light offenses, civil docket expected to wrap up, stock market notes, and optimism about livestock being profitable as demand exceeds supply. Correspondence from Teakland Idaho describes local timber country, soil, crops, and fruit production, ending with thanks to the Democrat.
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B. F. Long
Statesville
Long
Teakland
Idaho
Democrat
Watauga
Johnson
Old North State
Art
Whitman County
Wash
Latah
Nerze
Perce
Shoshone
Russell
North Carolina
Yaet
Clear Water
Bitter Root Mountain
United States
Puget Sound
Timothy
Clever
J. M. McGuire
Teaklan
Training School at Boone Offers Home Education Option
The Boone training school will let families educate children at home at a lower cost than sending them to college. Moderate income residents can buy affordable lots near Boone, build cottages, and educate their children locally. Many Ashe county citizens are expected to take this opportunity, while Mrs. A. C. Davis, longtime figure in Ashe and Watanga, died in Salisbury at 86, with burial requested in Ashe county.
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Boone
Becone
A. C. Davis
Ashe
Watanga
Salisbury
Ashe County
Col. Geo. Bower
Scott's Emulsion Promises Health For Blood Sickness
Advertisement claims Scott's Emulsion restores strength and color to pale girls with blood disease. It touts Cod Liver Oil nutrition, promises cures for young women’s paleness and weakness, and references branding by Scott & Bowne, chemists of New York.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Teal St
New York
Two Thousand Dollars To Chancel Of Usefulness
An exchange notes a donation of two thousand dollars to aid a chancel project. Rev. T Bright of Cherry Tree fame is reportedly restored to Baptist fellowship, with commentary on his moral duties toward the woman he wronged. The Raleigh Times favors traditional schooling and conservative discipline over novelty.
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Rev
T. Bright
Cherry Tree Fame
Fellowship of the Baptist Church
Raleigh Times
Northern cities invite Vets to grand reunion
Invitations from large northern cities extend to veterans for the upcoming reunion. The message emphasizes a warm welcome and suggests the old Vets would be royally entertained by those who wore the blue.
Prison brickwork output and worker hours noted
An exchange notes that zonvicia in the penitentiary now makes from forty thousand to fifty thousand brick per day and works eight hours daily. It adds that labor tax payers across the State work twelve to fourteen hours per day.
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Zonvicia
Six Million Boxes a Year Cascar tablets rise in popularity
The 1895 to 1900 growth shows Cascarets Cand y Cathartic selling six million boxes annually. Bee stings joke and a derisive note about a white housemaid at Booker T. Washington’s bed draw sharp social commentary. Topeka flood leaves over two thousand people homeless and bridges washed. colored school exercises praised by some white citizens amid tension.
Realizing Worry as an Enemy of Happiness
D H Turner of Dempsytown Pa praises Dr Kings New Life Pills saying two weeks of nightly use has made him feel like a teen again. The claim highlights liver stomach and bowel benefits and notes the pills are purely vegetarian and gentle with no gripe. Available for 25 cents at Blackborns.
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Dr. King
D. H. Turner
Dempsytown
Blackborn
Spring Blood Signs Told In Tired Feeling
A local health note links Spring fatigue to blood vitality and impurities. It warns that neglecting symptoms can worsen conditions, comparing tiredness with pimples as visible signs of imbalance and urging attention to wellness.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills Ad Claims Cure All
An old advertisement extols Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Pills for cleansing blood and improving complexion. It includes testimonial style lines about fatigue, sleep, and scrofula, then shifts to a critical riff on Tom Paine and the Bible’s lasting presence, praising Christianity and denouncing an opposing writer.
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Hood
Gilead
Conn
Quick Arrest and Marble Grave Marking Notable Local Items
Quick arrest recounts J A Guiledge of Verbena Ala cured after severe pile outbreak using Bucklen's Arnica Salve and notes a 25 cent price at Blackburn's. Separately, the heirs of Zeb Vance place a Vermont marble block at their father’s grave as a marker rather than a monument. In North Carolina Watauga County land entry records show Samuel L Guy and Rebt L Walls entering 100 acres near Meat Camp on Potato Hill ridge Linney’s corner May 19 1903.
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J. A. Guiledge
Verbena
Ala
Bucklen
Blackburn’s
Z+b
Vance
Vernmont
State of North Carolina
Watauga County
Said County
Samuel L. Guy
Rebt
L. Walls
Meat Camp
Potato Hill Ridge
Linney’s Corner
Linney
H.W. Hardin
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Sali Sterling NX CO
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Kansas
Tom Paine
Aimertea
B. Webb
Y. Idler
Wilkesboro
Mable Works
Webb & Miller
Hamilton Brown
Aall&jones
Blowing Rock
UY Bryan Lumber Company
Mountain City
Tennessee
London-Steffe
Chattanogga
Oliver Childed
Cyracuse
Lield
Gandy
London
Stoffel Hardware CO
Tenn
Cass
Blowing Rock Drug
Optio
Blowing Rock, N. C
Stork
Blowing Rock Drug Company
G. W. Raby
Manacer
Merchant and Trader’s Bank
J. Warren Wheut
W. PB. Duncan
Rampo
R. F. McCape
Ase
T. Cashier
J. WauTer Wreut
W. P. Duncan
E. E. Hunter
J.9. Butter
J. N. Wiixe
R. E. Donneny
J.C. Bowner
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