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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
4
The excerpt notes 6 942 public schools in Ontario offering free education across kindergartens schools high schools and institutes with annual pupil attendance around 500000. It highlights universal access within the province's educational network and the broad range of institutions included.
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for uncurable catarrh and endorsements from business leaders. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, lists price at 75 cents to $1.75 per bottle, and urges purchase from druggists with Hall’s Family Pills as a companion remedy.
WANTED 200 cords of Chestnut and Oak Bark plus 200 cords of pulp wood including Poplar Cucumber Black and Sweet Gum to be delivered at Riverside NC. For prices and specifications contact McGuire NC or write to Wilcox and Krider.
Two automobiles, 1912 and 1918 models, offered at a bar gain. Write for cash terms or trade will be considered. Interested write or see L. A. Hayes, Vilas, N. C.
Mrs Linda Harrod of Fort Wayne Indiana describes years of stomach pain and heaviness after meals. She finally used Chamberlains Tablets found at a local drug store and reports immediate relief from heaviness and pain, with the medicine obtainable everywhere.
We offer a farm along the South Fork of the New River about 1% miles from Todd at the terminus of the new railroad. About 20 acres cleared, rest timber including merchantable stands. Rich, covey land suitable as a grass farm. Sold at a bargain with reasonable terms. For details contact Alfred W Gross Adama NC 218 tf.
A clipped article notes soldiers in Europe developing kidney ailments and promotes a dubious remedy trial. Readers are urged to obtain a trial box at no cost, with addresses and vague instructions to seek the treatment.
An optimistic ad extols Dr King’s New Discovery as a remedy that reaches the cause of a cold, cures throat irritation, and speeds natural healing, urging readers to buy a bottle today. It also promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for purifying the liver, noting a 25 cent price. It ends with a quip about people paying rent in others’ thoughts.
A short note lists rheumatism types including acute chronic rheumatism rheumatic headaches sciatic rheumatism and lumbago. Claims Sloan's Liniment relieves pain by penetrating to the seat of trouble and draws the pain. Also advertises Pine Tar Honey for colds and notes British railways carry many passengers annually.
An advertising notice claims Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured a daughter of severe whooping cough with lung hemorrhage after two bottles. The piece includes testimonies from Mia F. Grimes of Crookeville Ohio and an editor H. Bailey praising relief and general health benefits, plus a stray line about an Oriental classroom scene and a Chicago News comment on hearing money.
The notice suggests lame back pain stems from rheumatic or circulatory issues of workers. It claims relief through back massage and references Chamberlain's Liniment as a remedy. The fragmentary text implies a health advice style typical of old newspapers.
Roegh on the Bog Miss Carigon is pictured with a dog on a Philadelphia bound train. A conductor rules dogs must ride in the baggage car. She ties the dog to a trunk and insists on keeping him in her lap. Later, the dog is reportedly thrown from the trunk after being tied aboard.
In Watauga County Superior Court, J B Coaneill and R L Ballou will sell at public auction on the first Monday in 1946 at the county courthouse to satisfy an execution. The land includes multiple tracts in Cove Creek township with detailed metes and bounds, totaling several acres, plus an additional tract described in the 1912 deed, and another tract described in a 1908 deed, all within North Carolina. Bidding will be cash to the highest bidder.
A nurse from Pleasant Hill recites a testimonial claiming Cardui, a vegetable womanly tonic, relieved years of nervous headaches prostration and back pains. The letter asserts improved appetite, vigor, and rosy cheeks after three months, urging others to try Cardui.
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