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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
4
A Watauga farmer describes a detailed four field rotation to exceed 100 bushels per acre in corn. The plan uses tillage of rye, lime, rock fertilizer, careful plant thinning, and selective tassel clipping to boost yield. The note cites the Charlotte News and New Bern Sun for literary quotes and concludes with Emerson on independence.
A collection of pithy maxims on love, fate, and human nature. It vents social foibles with sly humor, noting vanity in women, marriage dynamics, and common wisdom about risk, honesty, wealth, and appearances. A medicinal salve advertises De Witts Hazel Salve for cuts and piles, with vendor J. tai Hodges.
The speaker advertises first class materials and guaranteed repairs for all watches. Fire alarm watches specially adjusted and defects corrected. Watches cleaned and re paired with skilled workmanship. See Connell house Boone NC for service.
Ninety acres of grass land with a barn and three acres of bearing orchard. Also a 54 acre timber and Timothy farm near Montezuma plus a well furnished twelve room hotel in Montezuma with two lots a cottage barn cellar poultry house spring house and running water all sold together. Visit now or miss the bargain by J C Carpenter Montezuma NC.
In Wetauga County North Carolina a mortgage sale is set for May 25 at the Boone court house door between 10 AM and 4 PM. G A Tate and R F Tate with wife Brama Paty owe about 75 dollars of a 185 dollar note secured by real estate in Meat Camp township. Title in fee simple to be transferred to the buyer.
A strong admonition urges a young man to reject risqué tales and any improper story told in his presence. It condemns those who tempt with dirty humor as corrupting minds, calling them sepulchers and debauchers, and stresses guarding inner purity over appearances. The message vows to govern life by conscience before God and neighbor.
The Charlotte Observer advertises as the largest daily newspaper in the area with 10 to 12 pages on weekdays and 20 to 32 pages on Sundays. It also promotes the Semi-Weekly Observer issued Tuesdays and Fridays and priced at 1 per year, claiming wide coverage of local, state, national, and foreign news.
A list of moral expectations for women detailing duties in household management cooking bread temperance self reliance and cheerful capability. It emphasizes modesty tidiness care for elders children and the sick alongside prudent demeanor and active living.
A quotation by David Starr Jordan asserts that vice corrupts the mind and leads to crime. It argues that vice misleads through false strength and courage, comparing vice to fools’ paradise and noting how drink and drugs destroy genuine motivation and fitness.
A witty remark notes that mathematics never changes its mind about the sum of two things, highlighting a perennial frustration women may feel toward fixed rules and logical certainty in numbers.
State records show J B Horton locating and entering 56 acres along the New River in Boone township. The description runs from a maple on the riverbank, following river meanders, old Horton lines, and Ry Shipley and Killian lines, enclosing all land within the boundary, entered April 1908 by TI J Hardin, Dotry Taker.
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