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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
2
Join the county stockholders plan and save monthly. The association offers 6 percent compound interest, tax exemption, and 100 dollars in cash after 78 months from a one dollar monthly donation. Write to Secretary W. H. Gragg for details.
Mrs Sallie Jurney Rivers longtime Boone resident wife of Robert C Rivers and mother of four passed away May 27 1924 at her home in Boone after a long illness. Funeral tribute recalls her Christian character charity and steadfast faith inspiring family and community.
A small Buddha idol, 1800 years old, is for sale in a Kiangse Road curio shop in Shanghai. Experts value it at about 500000 dollars, citing a pricier Osaka purchase as precedent. The relic was rediscovered by descendants of a Korean prime minister's servant and was only recently offered for a large sum.
Carrington Island in the Great Salt Lake area is reported to be infested with mice. B F Taylor of the US land office says a survey found no fresh water or life besides the rodents, and how they survive remains a mystery.
Workmen removing a wall on Military Street in Port Huron uncovered a pasted circus poster from May 5 1872 advertising the Adam Forepaugh show. The faded relic had been concealed for 53 years behind the adjoining structure.
A monkey named Jock lives with W H McClure's hogs near Republic Kansas. He first joined a chicken flock three years ago but moved to the pigpen after a runaway wagon incident. Since then he acts as chief jockey, sleeping between hogs and dining from a hogback.
Santa Rosa horticulturist Luther Burbank offers a method to keep California poppies open after dark. The process: pin the stalks to their lair before dawn, chill them, then place in water in a drawing room to make petals yawningly open in the evening.
The Pittsburgh chamber tests show fat men lose more weight in heat yet feel relief sooner, while lean individuals tire faster. Resting in still air, the body cannot endure temperatures above 90 F at 100 percent humidity. Pulse rate, not rising body temperature, governs discomfort, with 135 a minute causing discomfort and 160 unbearable. a high of 184 was recorded. The American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers aided the miners study.
Davidson Department Store in Boone, North Carolina announces weekly store news and light humor. An array of jokes, sayings, sales pitches, and family banter fills the page with product highlights from Arrow shirts to overalls and leather shoes, plus price notes and homey anecdotes.
An old medical advert warns that reduced kidney filtration allows uric acid to pollute the blood causing backaches headaches rheumatic pains and bladder trouble. It claims chronic neglect leads to stones gout and other illnesses and promotes Dr Pierce’s An-uric tablets with a 10 cent trial offer from the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo.
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