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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1907
Page
1
A sermon on farming culture urges educated, well housed farms with flowers and refinement. It attacks neglectful, hostile attitudes toward farming, calls for ownership of land, proper tools, better homes, and kindness at home. It argues education and balanced living improve farming and urges railroads as a path to markets and return of youth to rural life.
An advertising notice promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea priced at 35 cents for tea or tablets. The pitch urges readers not to trust ordinary medicines and warns that innocence can mask ignorance in health matters.
Bluff city business leader C G Hays endorses Bucklens Amica Salve as the fastest and surest remedy for sores burns wounds and piles, promising its effectiveness with a 5 cent guarantee by all druggists.
The Dark Ridge item notes pleasant weather despite occasional showers and reports Master Willard Cook returning to school after illness. G W McGuire improves after a severe hand injury and has built a new grist mill. Crop prospects are poor with corn and fruit crops failing. Several youths depart for Boone for the Association, including Wiley Church Vertie Cook David Trivett and Ruby Cook. The Virgie Tester taught school to record high enrollment and strong progress.
William Jennings Bryan relates a story about a Negro debating society debating which is the mother of a chick. The hen that lays the egg or the hen that hatches it. A rear-seat observer asks who is mother if the egg is a duck egg. The chairman concludes ducks are not before the house, chicks am the question. The tale is used to comment on party policy and presidential action.
A saying notes that a husband who weds for a cook often finds himself cooking his own goose. The quip frames a caution about choosing spouses for convenience over lasting traits. The remark reflects social wit of the era.
In the Fall Term 1907 of the Superior Court of Watauga County North Carolina Smith Briscoe Shoe Co v J W Blair and S W King the defendant S W King will be served by publication for four weeks in the Watauga Democrat Boone NC It orders him to appear at the next term to answer or demur to the complaint to be held in Boone on the first Monday after the first Monday in September 1907 dated August 6 1907 signed Bingham C S C by M B Blackburn D C.
An old advertisement extols Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea urging easy living. It claims the product drives energy through the veins and promises relief for those who “tax their share.” The copy targets frugality and warns that those with little money feel shame.
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