Valle Crucis Inn and School Offer Quiet Mountain Summer
In Western North Carolina Valle Crucis offers a tranquil August stay at the Valle Crucis Inn and year round access to the Valle Crucis Industrial School for Highland girls. The piece praises the school’s unique blend of academia vocation and moral training with dairy poultry and electricity produced on site. It highlights leadership by Miss Mary E Horner and Miss Nannie H Smith and appeals for scholarships to expand poultry and dairying.
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Valle Crucis Inn
Valle Crucis
Highland Girls
North Carolina
Appalachian Mountains
Valle Creek
Mary E. Horner
Nannie H. Smith
Mountains Rise as Western North Carolina Awakens
The article extols Western North Carolina as it modernizes with highways and railroads, boosts education, and shifts farming from single crops to diversified, profitable small farms. It contrasts mountain people with plains folk, notes improved homes, and urges support to build cold storage for orchard fruit at Valle Crucis Industrial School.
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North Carolina
Piedmont
Blue Ridge
Plains
Waited for Admission Walls Faces Prison Duty and Sympathy
The Watauga man Robt L Walls traveled to Raleigh with papers claiming a three and a half year manslaughter sentence and waited a week for a Watauga officer to identify him before admission to the State prison. Officials doubted his identity, but Walls was finally admitted by the sheriff, drawing sympathy and potential pardon. The piece contrasts this with a Statesville prisoner who avoided trouble by leaving when confronted, noting Walls remains under scrutiny while reflecting on rural life and opportunity.
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Robt. L. Walls
Raleigh
Walls
Watauga
Statesville
Brooks
Sheffield
Typographical and Moral Errors in Historical Press
A Biblically framed meditation on errors in journalism and life. The piece notes typographical risks in print and asks how a single paper or life can be error free, urging consideration of others’ faults and reliance on forgiveness. It cites a printer’s magazine with transposition risks and a line from the Biblical Recorder.
Barbed-Wire Barricade Aids Bank Robbery Escape
In Jefferson Oklahoma robbers who sieged a bank first broke into a hardware store to seize barbed wire. They erect entanglements around the bank, delaying guards after the explosion wrecked the safe. The Landmark notes the idea predated World War I and recalls earlier uses in Cuba during the Spanish American war.
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Jefferson
Okla
Jou
Europe
Cuba
Statesville
War and sanity in conflict proclaimed by charity text
A wartime editorial contends that war stems from national insanity and the passions of powerful families. It argues millions die not for principle, but due to stupidity and conceit, awaiting daylight through charity and care for children.
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Europe
For Sale Sixty Acres on Wilson's Ridge in this County
An advertisement offers sixty acres on Wilson's Ridge 50 acres cultivated mostly grass with water, a food cottage outhouses and a fine young orchard. The owner asks $3000 for a quick sale and notes it could shorten imprisonment. Call on J M Buntley Boone R F D Statesville Landmark.
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Wilson's Ridge
This County
J. M. Buntley
Boone R
F. D
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State of
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L. M. Parthing
L. M. Farthing
W. F
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Persy
Mast
W. H. Mast
N.P
Statesville Landmark
Sea Island
New York
R.H. Hardin, M.D
Boone
N. C
Wink Phone Central
Jet
Winklers
G. M. Pearler
Bristol
Tenn
T. E. Bingham
Lawyer
Ly. Pd
Silas M. Greene
Mase
N.C
Warcu Aratune
Vilas
G. H. Hayes
E. S. Coffey
Attorney AT Law
Boone, N. C
Nat. T. Dulaney
Sye
Fourth Street
Edmund Jones
Lenoir, N. C
Watenga
L. D. Love
A. Love
Banner Ek
N.C. Pinedla
N. C. Love & Love
Avery
F. A. Linney
18Th Judicial District
E. F. Lovill
W. R. Lovill
Lovill & Lovill
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