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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1924
Page
2
Why not join the big army of stockholders in the Watauga Building and Loan Association. A dollar a month for 78 months yields 100 dollars with 6 percent compound interest. Keep money at home and write Secretary W. H. Gragg for details.
Nat Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb confessed to a sensational kidnapping and murder plot aimed at extorting 10000 dollars. The confession detailed staged money drops, relay messages, and a drive to a brick factory before the boy Robert Franks was killed and discarded in a drain.
Boston moves to widen Province street also known as Governor's alley a 130 year old lane with historic landmarks. The project will erase the old stone steps the old inn sign and Montgomery court name traces. The widening follows congestion and preserves a slice of the governor era and Bosworth street heritage.
A woman whose property in France was sequestered during the war appeals to the World Court in The Hague. France labels her German. Germany refuses to recognize her as a national. The World Court postpones the case to the League of Nations amid postwar legal disputes affecting many in similar positions.
Davidson's advertisable content lists regular prices on overalls shirts shoes and dresses with claims of beating sale prices, mentions a range of ladies silk dresses arriving soon, and asserts 25 to 50 percent savings on goods. It also includes humorous quotes unrelated to products.
The league recognizes a denial of justice in such cases and suggests an international convention. This would surrender existing sovereign rights to decide how nationality is automatically or voluntarily acquired or lost.
Alaska trappers are returning home from the interior after wintering along rivers and lakes. They traveled on palatial steamers and brought down large fur bales valued around three to four thousand dollars in typical years.
The Woman's Missionary Society of Boone Methodist church expresses sorrow over the death of Mrs R C Rivers a valued member. They praise her charitable works and faith in Christ and resolve to send copies to the family the North Carolina Christian Advocate the Watauga Democrat and to record the resolutions in the society minutes.
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