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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1925
Page
1
The piece surveys reforms in marriage vows removing obedience, shifts in gender roles, and evolving views on paternal authority. It notes laws limiting spousal violence, debates on marriage age, and a contrast with ancient practices from Westermarck. It also mentions a 25,000 year old cave bear teeth necklace and speculative mercury to gold transmutation.
In a recent basketball game the Normal School team defeated Mountain City 27 to 7. Visitors Rev. James P. Burke and Rev. J. H. Griffith attended chapel exercises and spoke to students. James Moore sang solos, weather turned cold with a light snowfall signaling winter.
A suit filed in Washington D C seeks to clear title to a land strip one and a half inches wide and 120 feet long from Davy Burns farm. The White House stands on another section of the same farm.
The article claims oceans hold about one quintillion three hundred eighty quadrillion tons of water and sixty nine trillion tons of gold, equating to 101000 pounds per person. It warns that if anyone offers a plan to extract ocean gold, arrest them.
Asheville and Knoxville join forces to push a National Park in the Great Smoky Mountains spanning eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. A joint Interstate Committee led by Col. D C Chapman and Sen. Plato Ebbs aims to raise about one million dollars to acquire park lands, with campaigns set in November and December.
Muskegon Michigan November reports confirm notorious gunman Dutch Anderson was killed by a selfinflicted gunshot during a confrontation with Detective Hammond after attempting a candy store scam. Hammond was mortally wounded and died two hours later. Anderson, shot near the heart, dies at age 42 after a long manhunt tied to the Chapman gang.
The Greene family thanks friends for kindness during illness death and burial of their loved one. They pray God’s richest blessings on all who helped. Mr. and Mrs. S D Greene.
Lieut Williams and Sergeant Houston photograph high mountain haze in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park area. They travel in a plane, wear parachutes when needed, and work best between 9 30 a m and 1 30 p m CST. Severe cold requires fur coats and oil can freeze on gear. Williams mapped park boundaries.
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