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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1914
Page
2
A New Yorker describes the bomb zone around Centre and Proome streets and the havoc in Manhattan buildings. The piece notes explosions in 141% and the chaos faced by tenants as bombs and counterfeit Joes disrupt the city’s life.
In Cn and Ohio a bold auto panhandler era prompts car owners to question car ownership. A banker, halted by a young man and woman in front of his auto, is asked to take them to the Detroit boat dock with only ten minutes to spare. The man searches for change, exposing the scam and the panhandler’s casual method.
In South Chicago a 13 year old, Tony Zabocki, pretends John Soprakl Huck vanished to spark a chase after believing his death in the Calumet river. Police uncover the ruse when Tony confesses the boy hid in a woodshed and played the drowned. John reappears as himself.
Indianapolis dispatch recounts a Park Avenue farmer who planned a quiet Sunday at his six mile-from-city farm. After a rushed morning, he overslept and rode past his stop, walked back to the farm, found tenants away, captured a pullet in a sack, and returned home to a wife who warned the poultry would take days to cook.
Seaboard travel notes list Monroe North Carolina routes via Sea board Air Line Railway with service between Charlotte Wilmington New York Birmingham and Portsmouth. Passenger trains arrive and depart Monroe with local and through connections including observation sleepers and drawing room cars.
The ad touts Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic as a general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims to act on the liver drive out malaria enrich the blood and build up the whole system at a price of zero cents.
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