North Carolina News and Notes From 1911 Letters and Incidents
A North Carolina summary touches on illicit alcohol problems in the Asheville district and state enforcement gaps. It mentions a damaged Independence Declaration, Beresford ashes story, a suspect in Washington, and a Morganton wife’s self harm amid turmoil. Claude Kitchen gains reputation. Collier's Weekly on Canadian reciprocity.
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Comef Internal Revenue
Aed
North Carolina
Asheville
United States
Internal Revenue
Claude Kitchen
Reputa- Collier's Weekly
Ieepeech
Kitch
Box plant to supply R J Reynolds tobacco cases for five years
Mengel Box Company plans a Winston Salem factory with headquarters in Lawsville Kentucky. Col D C Mengel, company president, signed a five year contract with R J Reynolds Tobacco to supply all tobacco cases. Products will be shipped across the state and beyond. Timothy Woodruff warned of Democratic odds in the New York state race if business conditions persist. J M Dickingon, Taft cabinet member, resigns as Secretary of War. H L Stinson named as successor. Government balks at Burlington deed due to barroom clause, seeking removal. Mrs Florence Maybrick learns of London death of her former favored son James Chandler Maybrick, who helped convict his mother long ago.
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Winston-Salem
Mengel Box Company
United States
Lawsville
Col. D. C. Mengel
Winston
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Timothy Woodruff
New York
White House
J.M. Dickingon
Taft
Washington
H. L. Stinson
Lorence Maybrick
Highland Park
North Shore
Chicago
London
James Chandler Maybrick
Chicago man sells body and soul to seven nurses
Charles Kittrick of Chicago died in a city hospital after selling his body to seven nurses under a bill of sale for clinical study. He received seven dollars which he used for debts and room rent. The News Herald notes a decomposed unclothed corpse found in the Catawba river near Lovelady ford. no local missing person matches, suggesting a patient escape from the state hospital.
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Charles Kittrick
Chicago
The
News Herald
Catawba River
Lovelady Ford
State Hospital
University contracts for new medical building approved
The University awarded a contract for a new medical building costing 37000 dollars. It will feature pressed brick and a red tile roof, funded by the last General Assembly which appropriated money for the project. Archie Linley, a 24 year old ministerial student from Anderson, South Carolina, died by suicide at Mars Hill, and the Confederate Soldiers Reunion began in Little Rock, Arkansas on Tuesday.
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University
General Assembly
Archie Linley
Anderson
Mare Hill
Mars Hill
Little Rock
Ark
Up To Date Farm Methods and Rural News
A collage of items notes modern farm life with telephones and door delivery by traveling salesmen. Also mentions the J R Watkins Company hiring in a county, the Aaron Burr mansion auction, Mrs. Duke’s illness, trust investigations, profitable truck farming in eastern Carolina, Pocahontas monument bill, twins born to an elderly couple, Buncombe raid on bootleggers, Standard Oil dissolution order, editor Sherrill hiring a new Linotype, Haynie acquittal, Tredell road bond landslide, and Diaz concessions nearing an end.
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Adress
J.R. Watkins Company
South Gay Steel
Baltimore
Maryland
Stonewall Jackson Laid To Rest In Virginia Valley
The report describes Stonewall Jackson's death and funeral with reverent detail. Thousands in Richmond mourned as his body carried to the Capitol and Lexington. Dignitaries and veterans gathered while flowers showered his bier, then he was buried in the Valley of Virginia as he wished.
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Stonewall Jackson
South
Stoneswall Jackson
Richmond
Capitol
Davig
House of Representatives
Theo
Virginia
Lexington
The
Military Institute
Valley of
Virgin
Henry Alexander White
D. D
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Catarrh
A 100 dollar reward is offered for any case Hall's Catarrh Cure fails to cure. The ad claims the remedy acts internally on blood and mucous surfaces to address a constitutional disease, with testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co. and Toledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Chaney & Co
Toledo
Nothing is cheap enough to be wasted
A compact adage reflecting thrift and reciprocity. The saying implies that in hard times people value every resource and that aid will be remembered, prompting mutual support among friends and neighbors.
Twelfth Session Opens At McRae Girl's Dept In 1910
Fletcher Castoria promotion aside, the McRae Institute announces the twelfth session of its Girl's Department starting April 20 for eight months. The curriculum includes eleven grades in literature and music training with six pianos, drawing painting and modeling, industrial and domestic science, plus daily health oversight by the school physician. Enrollment for 1910 lists 185 students from nine states and two foreign countries. For details contact Miss Estelle McIver or Rev. Ep ar Turrs Banner Elk North Carolina.
Public Auction of 16 Acre Watauga County Land
Under a 1905 mortgage deed G O Harman and wife L Harman conveyed to L Ni Yates. The deed is recorded in Book M page 184. The sale at Boone court house door on June 5 to satisfy two notes of 32.60 each plus costs. The tract lies Laurel Creek township bounded by maples chestnuts and stakes, containing about 16 acres. May 4th.
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G. OC
Harman
L . Harman
L. Ni. Yates
Office of Register of Deeds
Watauga County
N.C
Boone
N. C
Totl
Watauga
Laurel Creek
Fellows
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RC. Rivers
F Peenenay
Washington Dispatch
State Department
Sec. Knox
Bee
New York American
Beresfur
Lee
Potomac River
Marcus K. Mark
Marke
I Lord
Morganton
Peaid
Burlington
Statesville
Aaron Burr
Hudson River
James Madison
Alice Webb Duke
Brodie L. Duke
State Hospital For the
Kankakee
U. S. Steel Corporation
Sugar Trust
American Woollen Co
Congress
Carolina
Wilmington
Pocahontas
Martin
Jamestown
Charleston
W. Va
Raleigh Times
James Cawthorne
Buncombe County
Standard Oil Combine of
New Jersey
Supreme Court of the United States
Oil Corporation
John B. Sherrill
Concord Tribune and Times
Tredell County
Tredell
Diaz Ia
Fletcher
Castoria
Qiu
Cehsar
Wonder Atock
Blair
Bucae
Castoria Lect-McRae Institute
Esteulk Mclver
Ruy
Banner Elk, N. C
Cook
la Pill
Winston Salem, N. C
T. L. Cook
Salem
A. C
R. J. Reynolds
Pres
Tab, Co
John
M B
Blackburn Boone
John W. Bod Eee
Winkler
W. Hodges & CO
John W. Hodges & CO
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