25 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1902
Page
1
E L Taylor of New Albany Bradford County Pa recounts two experiences using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy. He credits the product with enabling a successful trip after a sudden illness and later curing a severe dysentery attack. Sold by M B Blackburn.
A War Department plan to transfer four army transports to the Navy Department sparked scrutiny over wartime purchases. The figures showed high costs for Grant, Hancock, Relief, and Lawton, bought for about 3.21 million dollars, with bids for sale on the survivors withheld to shield asset values. The piece links this to broader calls for reform and mentions other political and economic tensions of the era.
A reader from Bagwell Missouri commends Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for bronchitis relief after three years of suffering. The writer, W. S. Brockman, credits it with restoring sleep and urges others to obtain the medicine from M. I. Blackburn.
A Canadian inventor has perfected a brick laying machine that, with the aid of two men and a boy, will lay from nine to twelve thousand bricks a day. It can build a plain wall or perform the work of six or seven men under ordinary conditions.
Local tax notices list times and places across Watauga County for 1902 tax collection. Sheriff W. B. Baird invites all residents to attend at Bannser’s Store Shawneehaw, Loggy Gap Beech Mountain, Laurel Creek, Beaver Dams, Cove Creek, North Fork Thomas school home, Meat Camp Elk Knob Academy, Bald Mountain Elk Cross Roads, Stony Fork Stony Point, Profit's Store Ik, Blue Ridge Store, Blowing Rock, Shult's Mills Watauga, Boone with candidates addressed. Also includes an advertisement for Kilmer's Swamp Root kidney remedy offering free samples and literature.
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