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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1901
Page
4
A long miscellany of proverbs and readings plus short notices and ads. It cites a Maryland baseball budget note, a Baltimore league cost figure, medical testimonials, and a variety of era sayings. Mentions Richmond Times, Russian policy toward China, and Columbus era health cures. The piece blends humor, moral maxims, and contemporary public notices with several product endorsements.
Governor Aycock pardoned Will Morgan a Mecklenburg convict after four years for highway robbery. Foreign ministers plan a collective note demanding 450,000,000 taels indemnity from China, likely tied to tariff payments. Executor and administrator notices require claims against estates by May and April 1901 respectively.
A comic exchange shows a clergyman and servant using evasive replies to callers. The page also promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Care as a digestion aid from scientific research and notes efforts by Ingersol admirers to raise 100000 dollars for an Ingersol temple in Chicago. An infidel's influence ends with his life.
The remark notes a coming panic tied to prosperity, attributed to a high authority who claims it only arrives when the Democrats are in power. The quote underscores partisan timing of economic alarm in the era.
Purely vegetable remedy claimed to cure constipation sick headache dizziness jaundice malaria fever and ague and all liver and stomach troubles. Small 25 cent bottle advertised at Blackburn’s with promise of gentle relief.
The question of how the Maine was destroyed in Havana harbor will be adjudicated before a legally instituted tribunal. The Spanish treaty claims commission has submitted two indemnity claims arising from the blowing up of the Maine, and the matter will be opened for consideration. DeWitts Early Risers are advertised for health benefits.
G H Duncan offers best grade laced boots shoes and logging footwear with prompt repairs and satisfaction guaranteed. Uses only top materials and invites customers to call for service.
A fragment notes endorsements from Mark Hanna Harry Skinner Marion Butler and others of their ilk backing McLaurin in a political context.
Chamberlaine's Stomach and Liver Tablets offered as a guaranteed remedy for costiveness. Each box priced at 25 cents and sold by Blackburn.
An old ad claims De Witt's Little Early Risers purify the system and cleanse the bowels. It mentions Moretz & Farthing and Buchanuy & Juhu sou as sellers and suggests the pills will wake them regular.
W. L. Correy offers a fine assortment of fruit trees including apples peaches pears prunes and grape vines suited to the local climate. Trees three to six feet tall delivered from the nursery at about half the price of other nurseries. Call or address Moretz North Carolina for particulars.
Skin troubles cuts burns and chafing quickly heal by the use of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve It is imitated Be sure you get the genuine Morets & Farthing Johnson and Buchanan.
A cryptic message warns that if you announce four villains, they will stab you. if you stab them, they will announce you. The note presents a puzzling sequence of actions with no clear context or identifiable people.
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