Boone Furniture and Fletcher's Castoria Ad Mix
A dated advertisement blend promotes Fletcher's Castoria for children and Boone Furniture Co offering Hawee Furnishings including beds springs mattresses comforts and home goods in the Bank Building Bath Maine. It includes a testimonial to Foley Kidney Pills and a brief note on revenue officers destroying two distilleries with beer mash losses.
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Boone Furniture Company
Hawee Furnishings
Bank Building
Boone Furniture
Shepherd and
Webster
Spurgeon
North Wilkesboro
Special Privilege and Dogs in North Carolina
The Lenoir Topic argues dogs are overprotected and drain public resources. It cites a family with six children and six dogs, noting lack of basic needs while dogs are fed. It condemns hydrophobia treatment costs and dog-related nuisances, urging taxation and removal of dogs as a public burden. The piece calls for ending legal dog exemptions and taxing dogs like other property.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Pasteur
Castration Services Offered by Hayes in Vilas New York
A newly advertised instrument for castration of livestock is offered by H. Hayes of Vilas New York. The notice invites owners to arrange work at reasonable rates and provides an address for contact.
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Vilas
H. Hayes
V. S
Town Ordinances of Boone Adopted May 4 1911
Local council ratified a nine section set of town ordinances listing fines and duties. Prohibitions include loud language public fights littering obstructing streets and damaging signs. It mandates street work for able bodied men age 18 to 45 and requires peddler licenses. Also covers hitching on sidewalks stock impounding fines and penalties for intoxication and public shows. Enforcement by mayor marshal and aldermen with fines ranging from one to fifteen dollars and daily confinement for unpaid costs.
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Boone
Teachers and preachers held to high conduct in life
The North Wilkesboro Advance reports a shooting at Blue Ridge Church near Idlewild on Sunday. Roy Vaughn Besheart and Otto Parsons allegedly quarreled over an old grudge, Besheart drawing a pistol and firing at Parsons. The wound near Parsons's nose is described as dangerous. Besheart had not been arrested at this time.
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North Wilkesboro
Blue Ridge Church
Idlewild
Roy Vaughn Besheart
Otto Parsons
Besheart
Parsons
Beshears
Sun
East Tennessee
Greeneville Sun
Bear chute episode at Mortimer stirs lumber camp
A bear cub chased down a mountainside chute at Mortimer, later followed by the mother and sibling bears. Lumbermen recall the amusing sight and note growing calls for prohibition advocation in newspapers. A bank statement from Watanga County Bank in Boone, NC is listed, followed by North Carolina booster notes about Western Carolina growth and a swamps versus malaria scare promoting Electric Bitters.
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Bitter Lumber Co
Mortimer
Little Brain
State Press Association
Lenoir
Nichols
Watage County
Boone, N. C
of North Carolina
Saved Child From Death Through King’s New Discovery
G T Richardson of Richardson's Mills Alabama reports a year of severe bronchial trouble in a child believed to be consumption. After trying many remedies and doctors with no success, one bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery cured the cough and restored health. It’s described as infallible for coughs colds hoarseness grippe asthma croup and sore lungs. Price 50 cents per bottle, trial bottle free.
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G. T. Richardson
Richardson’s Mills
Ala
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G. H. Hayes
Dr. E M. Madron
Sugar Grove
Guar
Nat T. Dulaney
Mountain City
L. D. Lowe
Banner Elk
N.C
Watauga, Mitchell
Edmund Jones —Lawye
Lendirk
Watauga
F. A. Linney
N. C
Courss
13Th Judicial District
J.C. Fletcher
W.R. Lovill
Coffey
Bacon
East St
Bath
Foley
M B
Blackburn
Quity Pala
J. Cottrell
R Ww. Hodges
R. C. Rivers
W. R. Gragg
J. M. Howell
Greensburg, Ky
U.S
Ck’s
Og State of North
Caroling Watenga County
Hagaman
W. L. Hendrix
L. Maat
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Asheville Citizen
Mount Mitchell
Massachusettes
Raleigh News and Observer
Salisbury Post
Wm. Kretwell
Lacuma
Bopeep
Wall Street
New York Sun
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