Four Story News and Observer Building Burns in Raleigh
Fire gutted the News and Observer plant in Raleigh causing about 100000 dollars in losses before the night shift could react. Principal owner Hon Josephus Daniels, Navy secretary, faced extensive equipment loss including a four deck press and type-setting machines. Origin of fire unknown. belief points to basement paper room igniting and spreading via elevator shaft.
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Raleigh Paper
Raleigh
Sand Me
Josephus Daniels
Howe
Harry Bogley
Sel
Hundred Miners Entombed In Pittsburgh Mine Disaster
Between 75 and 100 miners are believed dead after a gas explosion at the Cincinnati mine in Finleyville. Sixty to eighty escaped, many burned, bodies recovered. Rescue efforts hindered by fire and fumes. Foreign miners among the injured. Rescue car from Bruceton to assist, aid from federal experts reportedly declined. Relatives crowded the entrances as guards kept onlookers back.
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Pittsburg
Cincinnati
Monongahela River
United States
Washington
Bruceton
Finleyville
Bureau of Mines
Fire department handicapped in fight at big Raleigh blaze
Fire personnel faced high pressure from a city water main feeding a tower which burst and left the department relying on stored water. Flames roared along the side of the Observer building next to E Vanell Printing House as heavy shutters kept fire from entering interior spaces. Business manager Bagley opened a temporary office nearby as the News and Observer team prepared the Friday edition with full fire coverage.
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Wat Big
E. Vanell
Bagley
Raleigh
Evening Times
News and Observer
Charms of a Beautiful Woman and Hair Care
An early 20th century ad style piece extols hair as the source of beauty for women of the era, praising Parisian Sage hair restorer and English Drug Co. offerings. It also blends various short notes on cough remedies, a fatal domestic tragedy, digestion tips, and a moral about honest selling.
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America
English Drug Co
Monroe
Death of an Old Citizen in Pageland
Elijah Knight, a long respected resident and Confederate veteran in Pageland, died at his son’s home yesterday afternoon after a long illness. He was about 78, a Wolf Pond Baptist church member, and native to the county. The funeral will be held at Wolf Pond church. Survivors include brothers, sisters, three sons W B Knight of Union South Carolina R B Knight and W A Knight of Pageland, and daughter Mrs Sarah Ellis of Croburk.
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Pageland
Elijah Knight
R. E. Knight
Wolf Pond
Death of Mrs Simeon Curran in Burnsville township
Mrs Laura Lee Curran died at her Burnsville home Monday morning at age 75 after long confinement. Survived by husband Simeon Curran, a daughter Eugenia Boswell, and three sons W C Curran J W Curran and Jesse Curran of Greensboro. A Baptist Cedar Grove member admired for kindness and charity.
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Simeon Curran
Burnsville
Wadesboro
Ansonian
Laura Lee Curran
Burnsville Township
Greensboro
Attorney Ads Offer Law Service in Monroe
W C Lemmond an attorney at law in the Library building Monroe offers practice in all state and federal courts with special attention to collection of claims and settlement of estates by administrators and executors.
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W. C. Lemmond
Ee Library Room
Monroe
Nsw
Stao
Appointment of J Pratt as prosecuting attorney in Recorder's court
J Pratt attorney at law announces his appointment as prosecuting attorney in the Recorder's court and states he cannot appear for the defense in criminal actions. He will attend to all other legal business promptly at rooms 21 and 22 Loan & Trust Building, Monroe, with telephone 88.
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J. Pratt
torney-at-Law
Recorder's Court
Loan & Trust Building
Monroe, N
Indian Runners and Hen Eggs Featured on Yard Photo
A reader notes a yard scene showing Indian Runners ducks and everyday egg laying by a good hen. The setting mentions t o, B, and SCHACHNER, Monroe, in a brief caption.
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Schachner
Monroe
Letter From Monroe Pastors Echoes In Prayer Appeal
An old appeal by W H Phifer to Monroe Methodists is recalled urging attendance at prayer meetings as neighbors forget the kingdom of God. The piece lists long-deceased names, urging the living to return to the house of prayer and rekindle faith amid empty seats. A quiet wedding of Sarah Prances Smith to James R Eubanks is noted, performed by Rev H G Bryant, with familial congratulations from The Journal. A closing musing compares a self centered man to a shrinking package, noting hurt from a stray brick.
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Kingdom of God
T. L. Crowell
House of Prayer
L. D. Andrews
W. H. Krauss
J. W. Whitfield
G. D. Broom
J. K. Shute
Lai
H. Blair
Fenna Crow
Polly Wolfe
Jesus
John C. Eubanks
Haford Township
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Vann Funderburk
Polk Brothers
Benton-Crow Company, T. C. Lee and Co
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W. J. Rudge CO
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Dr. Inky
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Muscadine, Ala
Dr. King
Hendersonville
R. H. Liverett
Here
John
Jett
Mr. Liverett
W. B. Houston
Fitzgerald Building
N, C
H.D. Stewart
N. C
Otice Nous
Biesecate
Caton
Drax Company
Lancaster Avenue
B. C. Redfearn
C. W. Bruner
Marshville
Matthews
Austin & Correll
D. T. Boger
Mon LE
N.C
Unionville
Sincerity
R. L. Payne
Postoffice
Union Drug Co
E. D. Puett
Optometrist
Charlotte, N. C
North Tryon Street
E. S. Green
Belk-Bundy Building
Belk’s
Monroe, N. C
DR. Simmons
C. F
Simmons Medicine
ST. Louis
Missouri
Eugen
Monroe, N. 4
Old Stand of Dixie Theatre
T. P. Dillon
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