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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1909
Page
3
Local notes report illness, church services, court plans, and community incidents in Boone and surrounding areas. A child’s poisoning scare, a building repair, auctions, and a charity box sale accompany updates on schools, legislation, and notable deaths and recoveries.
Campbell Bros present a pictorial lecture and moving pictures featuring Machin g and String movie biblical songs and 3000 feet of scenes including the Great Wild West Train Robbery and the crucifixion. The event at the court house on Saturday night March 20 begins at 7 o clock. Rowan Hinton Heller, a Rowan County North Carolina native and former United States Consul to Burnas Ayres, died by suicide in Washington City on the night of the 8th at age 80, author of The Pending Crisis and other works.
Watch repair offered in Boone North Carolina during the first week of court. Honest work promised with reasonable prices. Located permanently at Silverstone, North Carolina. Mail orders receive special attention. Located for in-person service in Boone.
John Washington of Hosqueville Texas recalls being bedridden for five weeks as three doctors failed to heal deep sores from a spider bite. Bucklen arnica salve cured him, offering relief from eczema, boils, burns, and other ailments. Drugstores widely stock the remedy.
Town shopkeeper THE RACKET promotes a sale offering ladies hats from 20 to 35 cents and a range of groceries and household goods. The letter lists items such as oranges lemons maple sugar tinware brooms plaster board and soaps plus food products and 500 searchlight matches for five cents. R. M. Green, proprietor, invites customers to call for service.
Attention buyers invited to inspect a stock of pawn shop clothing and shoes offered at deep discounts. New children men and boys clothing priced around 25 percent below rivals with broad styles and sizes. Store emphasizes businesslike deals and prompt pay, inviting customers to call and browse in a busy Boone outlet run by D Jones Cottrell.
The notice invites readers to visit the store to see prices and decide for themselves if they offer better bar gains than elsewhere. It promises a strong dollar purchasing power and lists groceries, sugar, coffee, rice, lard, flour, dry goods, notions, toilet articles, candies, and nuts.
Having qualified as admin trate we i Come ee the undersigded on or before Feb 26, 1910 or this notice will be plead iu bar of their recovery All persons indebted to ward estate will make immediate payment Berran L Cone Caesar Cone Administrators
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