Deceptive Appearances Cited in Witty Quips and Gossip
A collection of clipped quotes and snatches from humorous exchanges. Subjects include an asthmus turning up, Aunt and appetite remarks, Palm Beach bragging, tenement district visits, and playful jabs about a Dasher play. Names and sources referenced resemble period columns and cartoonish dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bor
Willie
Wilké
Asphodelia Twobble
Palm Beach
Birmingham Age-Herald
Dasher
Puck
Germans Try to Stir Southern Negroes for Germany
Federal agents report German agents are using Elm Grove near Greensboro North Carolina and spreading to tobacco and cotton belts in Georgia Alabama the Carolinas and parts of Florida to incite black workers. Officials say some Negroes pledge support to the nation if war comes while efforts to recruit in Birmingham and other areas fail in places. authorities warn of possible Ku Klux Klan activity as a precaution. New Orleans also reports a plot to incite Negroes in Louisiana and Mississippi with promises of full franchise and equality if they aid Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm Grove
Pht
Country
Birmingham
Ain
Greensboro
N.C
Aays
United States
Georgia
Alabama
Carolinas
Florida
Birminghan Triet
Teutonic
Germany
Germ
Mexico
Crrop
South
New Orleans
New Ork
Louisiana
Mississippi
Lonnie buys Herefords and Guernseys in Marshville
In a local column, Zeb Green notes Lonnie Marsh buys two thousand dollars worth of registered Herefords at Wilmington and ships ten head to Marshville. He recalls his earlier purebred Guernsey venture, selling calves and discussing creasels or nigger greens as valuable produce. Auctions, parcel post butter, and social bits color a restless rural scene with neighbors trading voices and land prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeb Green
Aberdeen
John Beasley
Waxhaw Enterprise
Press
Lonnie
Wilmington
T. J. Marsh
Marshville
Marehville
Jim Austin
Jim
Bob Doster
Monroe
Parcel Post Butter Shipping
Sion Rogers
South Carolina
Rogers Brothers
Sion
Hogwallow Gossip and Odd Local Happenings
A rustic column from Hogwallow recounts quirky tales: a stranger selling patent chicken roast schemes, Fletcher Henstep buying half the United States, and Miss Prazie Allsop singing at Dog Hill church to mixed applause. Various local notes include moves, weather delays, a deaf partner in business, martin box improvements, a sleight of hand show, and Cricket Hicks joining the Exelsior Fiddling Band as a nonpaid musician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fletcher
United States
Mississippi River
Rocky Mountains
Prazie Allsop
Dog Hill
Washington Hocks
Hogwallow
Calf Ribs
Harlow
Dog Hill Church
Ellick Hellwanger
Sidney Hocks
Yellow Jackets
Church
Tickville
Orfter
Wid West
Wild Onion
Clair Hancock
Flutie Belcher
Hog Ford
Fletcher Henstep
Bounding Killows
Poke Eazley
Martin
Depuy
Cricket Hicks
Excelsior Fiddling
They Never Lie in The Marshville Home
A local reflection questions newspaper honesty and truth telling. A Marshville Home discussion cites editors and undertakers as parallels to preaching, noting funerals honor the dead and avoid exposing faults. Frank Edwards, in furniture and undertakers, observes most funerals suggest Heaven for the dying, contrasting Bible teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshville
Frank Edwards
Frank
Pine-Tar-Honey Cough Aid Promises Quick Relief
An ad touts Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a remedy for lingering coughs with soothing pine balsams and glycerine to ease irritated membranes. It promotes easy breathing and verandant safety, urging purchase at the local druggist with a 250 bottle label. Included is a Billy Sunday quote about a mother's questions as a humorous aside.
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Graham Flour
The
Henderson
Knoxville
T. P. Dillon
House of Dillon
C-Operative Mercantile CO
Roland Williams
Philadelphia Life Insurance Company
Gordon Insurance & Investment CO
North Carolina
Hogwallow News
Billy Sunday
Henry Merrill
Rock Branch
Pigler
Funderburk & Co
Texas Bowden Cotton Seed
H. O. Penegar
Monroe R
Moroco
Ridpath
R. D. Thomas
Blackshear
J. . Maynor
Dixie Flyer
Empire
E. G. Fletcher
Barron
Lindenwold Poultry Farm
J. D. Calder
Monroe Auction Co
Mitchell
Aliee Huntley
East
G. H. Engler
S. A. Doster
Nancy Hall
Porto Rico
Orlando
Marshall Nash
Monroe, R
F. D
Journal
JH. EB. Copple
J. W. Rallings
Indian Trail
N. C
Cleveland
Rothrock
Rockwell
Lanes Creek Township
C. E. Houston
H. M. Franklin
Tennille, Ga
Globe-Wernicke
W. J. Rudge Co
Chatham Smith
Unionville
Henry Lily
T. L. Price
Nonree Bakery
Plyler, Funderburk & Co
Express
Poer
Oaklin Farm
Salisbury N.C
Monroe Auction Company
S. R. Doster
Off Mill
P. Cox
J. BE. Liles
Hamilton-Liles
Monroe Hardware Co
Julia R. Price
East Windsor
R. H. Garren
Hamilton-Liles Co
G. M. Smith
Monroe, N. C
Union Drug Store
Calla
W. B. Houston
Fitzgerald Building
Court House
Frank Richardson
R. L. Payne
Jower Union Drug Co
Haigler
Chas. Haigler
Snider— Oe Company
Walters
J. H. Clawson
Watt Ashcraft
Hayne Street
H. B. Copple
Victor Vietrolas
H. P. Gasoline Bakere
J. B. Doster
Anice
H.C. Brian
Swann Quarter
Livingston Globe and Acme
Enterprise Company
Sumter
S. C
Hunt
Wake Forest
B. C. Redfearn
Bruner
Monrof
Matthews
W. C. Lemmond
Old Library Room
Monroe Creamery
Monroe Iron & Metal
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