31 Oct 1889
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1889
Page
1
The Riverside Democratic paper in Boone outlines local plans including a railroad toward Linville, brick kilns, and a new Accommodation Road to connect homes. It laments public road funding versus ministerial labor, discusses church finances, and urges public spirit for county infrastructure amid regional political debate.
A patriotic verse extols Watauga as a homeland, praising its hills, streams, forests, fields, springs, summers, autumns and winters. The speaker cherishes the people and the land, expressing deep affection for the region’s natural beauty and seasonal bounty.
In Linville several saw mills operate at headway with A B Church owning two northwest of the post office and G H Weld one south. A B Church is building a dwelling near his mills, T F Parker adds a second double tenement on Austin street, W Aldridge enlarges and roofs a large livery stable, Mrs Shope relocates and expands her house to a two story dwelling, Richie relocates a new house, and a new blacksmith shop 16 by 80 feet rises at Ash and Hemingway streets with tools stored nearby.
Three travelers recount leaving Washington now a state and voting Democratic before departure. They describe harvest wages from $1.50 to $2.00 daily, fourteen-hour days, frost every month, and a Sugar Grove, North Carolina stop. They paid $57.50 for a Bristol ticket and rode from Belmont on the NP railroad to Spokane, noting ruins and tents used for gambling before boarding the train again.
Henry A Cook of Leominster Massachusetts runs a curious campaign to win a state legislature nomination. He has placed his name before a convention, hired a hall and published a card claiming a long, varied career from hustler to detective and now seeks the office of representative. The frank humor earns him many supporters and he is confident of the nomination.
A bronze figure four to five feet tall, valued at $700, grips a rod that pierces a hollow eight inch brass globe engraved with world meridians and cities. A dial plate suspended above indicates local time, while the globe secretly houses the mechanism. The clock, named Severane, will be offered for sale in New York Star.
A fragmentary excerpt quotes a Alaska discoverer noting many strange phenomena not yet known to the public. The speaker mentions the Muir glacier and hints at discoveries across the Ya kou valley with scattered remarks and uncertain wording.
Captain Beery faced a violent disturbance aboard a Carolina Central train from Charlotte after a circus visit. A mixed crowd of about 360 whites and blacks, many intoxicated, clashed with razors after leaving Charlotte injuring several, including a woman with an arm wound. Beery intervened as fights spread among the passengers.
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