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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
4
A long prose piece extols the mother as the central heat of life and a guiding force for sons and daughters. It includes poems and reminiscences, a local Hungerford scene, a boy’s essay on newspapers, patent medicine ads, and a legal land entry notice from Watauga County. The piece blends sentimental rhetoric with small-town notices and historical reflections.
Jessie Oliver, an employee at Mr. Alex Wilson's saw mill near Mr. J. L. Whittington's in this county, died after a plank in machinery struck him. The saw severed the leg, entered the body, and mangled him before the mill could be stopped. Oliver, who had recently moved from Ashe, left a wife and two children.
A fragment quotes a male author praising women's role in humanity. It asserts that man is brain while woman is heart, judgment and grace, shaping character through affection and virtue. The passage emphasizes women's influence on emotion, virtue, and memory.
A dated collage of ad lines boasts money sense, beauty claims, and tonic remedies. It touts Hollister's Rocky Mt Tea for complexion, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as iron and quinine, and muses on worry over wealth, urging prudence with a lantern image.
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets claims to aid digestion and health with renewed vigor. The tainted ad markets a constipation remedy and general wellness benefits for “easy people” and lists various ailments.
Druggists are authorized to refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure in six to fourteen days. The ad promises relief for itching bleeding and protruding piles and notes that money talks with pennies making more noise than a hundred dollar bill.
State of North Carolina Watauga County Office of Entry Taker records J. O Presswell locating and entering 150 acres between Beech Mountain and Beaver Dam townships. Includes bed of Watauga River to high water mark on both sides, starting at the State line and running up Sail River to I. W. Reece's line. Entered March 25, 1907.
H J Hardin Entry Taker records Entry Notice No 2470 for ten acres on Elk River in Sheneehaw township Watauga county. Location on Dick s Ridge begins at a chert nut in the southwest line of the C C Banners tract. Entered March 25 1997 by H J Hardin Entry Taker.
In Watauga County North Carolina J L Hayes administrator of Elizabeth Gilliam deceased seeks sale by commissioner to the highest cash bidder on June 3 1907 at 1 PM at Boone courthouse for the entire tract of land owned by Elizabeth Gilliam at her death adjoining Joseph H Hayes James Blair Calloway Tanda and others the clerk of court order directs the sale. The commission is signed by J J Hayes Commissioner and Linney Attorney.
A Philadelphia Press snippet notes a street conversation about asking for change for a drink. It contrasts urban wit with social tact, linking humor about money found on the street to personal behavior and memory.
State records show L J Hodges locating and entering 25 acres in Boone township at Laurel Fork headwaters. Boundary starts at an oak and maple in Hodges line and follows Clawson Gragg Long Tongs lines back to Hodges line, entered March 9 1907 by H J Hardin Worry Taber.
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