Odd Lottery Plan and Global Echoes in 1901
A short note from Watauga Democrat columns recounts a young New York doctor selling three thousand $5 lottery tickets to win a wife, alongside global commentary on Europe U S tensions and Monroe Doctrine challenges. It touches on weather faith, British export taxes, McKinley administration pride, Cuban delegates, Tammany politics, Lincoln monument moves, German guards at Beijing, and civic notes on tax, fair funding, Wilkes County flood damage, and Georgia brides.
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New York
Han
Heaway
State Department Shows Approval of Loomis Indefinite Leave
The State Department, at President Castro's request, recalls Loomis and grants him an indefinite caveat absence without salary. Dr Gatling, North Carolinian inventor of the Gatling gun, has created an automobile plow that may transform farming if adopted. An alleged Chicago count is arrested on charges of fifty wives, but he insists he has only one wife and that suffices.
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State Department
Loomis
Castro
Dr. Gatling
Chicago
End of Time Belief Shocks Adventists in Battle Creek
A Battle Creek dispatch reports the General Conference of Adventists closed with claims that the world ends in the first year of the 20th century. Ellen White, noted prophetess, says the second coming is near though exact time remains unclear. She cites scriptural properties to compute the end.
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Battle Creek
Michigan
General Conference of Adventists
Ellen White
Mrs. White
Daniel Wright
Mayors and veterans meet in Boone amid old political talk
April 1, 1901 Boone notices announce a May 7 election for mayor and three commissioners under local charter. Camp No 1273 United Confederate Veterans to meet May 11 at Waudaga county. E. F. Lorti urges attendance. A New York woman discovers her French Count husband is a horse doctor. riot in Santiago prompts Cuban observer commentary.
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Court House
Boone
D. B. Dovoherty
United Confederate Veterans
Watauga County
E. F. Lorti
Landmark Buckles Donated For Charity Auction
Edwin Thoms Hoth wore a pair of echo buckles at the Great American actor’s stage career, later presented by Mr Booth at a 1889 New York Mount Sinai Hospital benefit. The raffle raised 500 dollars, won by Jacob Wallace of New York who sent them to his brother William Wallace of Statesville. Henry Waterson, noted Kentucky editor, lectured twice in North Carolina last week at Raleigh and Chapel Hill.
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R. H Rickert
Edwin Thoms Hoth
Booth
New York
Mount Sinai Hospital
Jacob Wallace
Wm. Wallace
Statesville
Henry Waterson
Kentucky
North Carolina
Raleigh
Chapel Hill
Announcement from Mabel trader cuts prices on coffee and sugar
Tam announces location relocation to Mabel with a wood stock and price cutting. He promises savings on every purchase, listing 9 lbs coffee for $1.00, prints 5 to 6 cents, domestic goods 6 cents per yard, and 16 lbs sugar for $1.00. He will pay top market for country produce and invites trade. He occupies G. W. Lawrance's building in Mabel.
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Mabel
Sean
G. W. Lawrance
New Year Pledges Savings on Every Article Mentioned
A declamatory 1901 sales note looks back at the past year while promising readers savings on every article. The brief text frames the new year as full of probabilities and possibilities, urging value for customers in the coming period.
Bargain Store Advertises Broad Line of Goods
A local shop promotes a wide assortment of merchandise including dress goods, groceries, hardware, shoes, and fair quality wares. It invites shoppers to inspect its stock and mentions buying bronze Galax leaves, staple roots, herbs, ginseng, and birch oil for top prices.
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Watauga Democrat
Robert C. Rivers
Tacrenay
Europe
United States
South America
Weather Bureau
Enal
Great Britain
Bureau of Statistics
McKinley
Donbstless
Barr
White House
William
Senator Platt
Tammany
Odell
Abraham Lincoln
Springfied
Ill
Illinois
Yates
Waldersee
Forbidden City
Walderss
Supreme Court
Porto Rico
Washington
Babcock
The
Wilkesboro Chronicle
Wilkes County
Wilkesboro
Georgia Papera
Georgia
Scott
Bdo
Aierdagieta. Ork
Britain
Johnston
Todd
Quart Boulen
Senator McLaurin
McLaurin
Veteran’s Meeting
Postpo cd
Santiago
Burlington News
A. E. Moretz
Johnson & Buchanan
Mowing Rock, N.C
Johnston's
Michigan Drug CO
Detroit
Mich
Tam
James R. Phillips
Sugar Grove
Tarboro Southerner
Alao
Edmund Jones
Martin
Blowing Rock, N. C
W. P. Pendley
PROPA
Boot & Shoe Shop
Blowing Rock, N. Y
G. H. Duncan
Duncan
Pease
R. M. Greew
Webb
C. Y. Miller
Wilkesboro Marble Works
Webb & Miler
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