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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
4
The News and Observer reports Kansas excitement over a bare leg fashion craze spreading to North Carolina. Proponents cite cost savings on silk hosiery while opponents fear shifting standards of modesty amid a fashion trend driven by pocketbook concerns.
Governor Alfred E Smith explains his writing method for the Saturday Evening Post. He notes he uses an old envelope a cigar a sum of shiny shoe toes and car rides to spark ideas and then dictates notes to a stenographer. The Post series earned about $148 000 and took 50 hours of dictation.
Rev S E Gragg and Rev P A Hicks lead services and Sunday school each Sunday at 9 45 with morning worship at 11. Evening preaching at 7 30. B Y P A meets at 6 30 p m and mid week prayer is Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
Reverend C H Moser leads Sunday school at 9 45 with J D Rankin as superintendent. Sermons at 11 a m and 7 30 p m. Mid week prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m.
St Marks Blowing Rock holds services first Sunday at 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Grace East Boone meets second and fourth Sundays at 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Prof G L Sawyer superintendent. Vesper services first and third Sundays 8 p.m. Holy Communion Clark's Creek third Sunday 11 a.m. Banner Elk Chapel fourth Sunday 3:30 p.m. Sunday School 2:30 p.m. Public invited. J A Yount Pastor.
A Jew and an Irishman quarreled daily about salvation. The Jew grew gravely ill and was buried at sea with coal weighted for his age. Pat quipped that he had known the destination all along but never imagined the heathen would carry his own fuel.
The National Geographic Society bulletin recounts Maj. Edward Keith Roach remarks on Jerusalem as the capital of the Land of Three Faiths. The piece details the city’s two hills, holy sites, multilingual streets, historic walls, and daily life amid religious diversity and tensions.
Weekly weather summary from the co operative station at Appalachian State Teachers College with observer Prof J T C Wright. It records average maximum 76 and minimum 62, mean 69, daily range 1, highest 80 on the 10th, lowest 51 on the 15th, rainfall 0.79 inches, greatest 0.46 inches on the 9th, four days with at least 0.01 inch.
A reader recalls favorite childhood stories of David and a cherry tree fable, defending their truth and moral teachings. The piece laments critics of old books and urges fortification of boys with faith and honesty, then advertises Goodwill Store and Smithey Henderson Furniture in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
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