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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
8
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Misses Pearl and Beulah Nance host a Wednesday sewing party for Miss Veda Jacobs of Scottsboro Alabama and Miss Beulah Copple bride elect. Guests enjoy punch cake cream and mints while readings by Miss Jacobs and others precede a wish basket presentation. Local society notes list visits and social events across Monroe including musicians and out of town guests.
Dr Henry D Stewart outlines four household vampires mosquitoes bedbugs flies and rats noting their bite transmission danger and damage to crops and belongings He cites control tips including kerosene water drowsing and rewards for heads of flies while highlighting the rat’s economic toll through grain loss fires and disease vectors.
The weekly weather bulletin reports improved cotton in the northern cotton area except Oklahoma drought. Dry Texas slows cotton but outer areas improve. Arkansas corn and cotton prosper, Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi crop growing well. Texas early crop nearing maturity, sweet potatoes and tobacco show progress with rain needed in Kentucky and Virginia, North Carolina reports variable quality and storage in central and eastern regions.
The article notes several residents and visitors in Stouts family and nearby areas. It lists Perry Ritch, Padersky, and Holly visiting relatives, with multiple moves and travels to Florence and Charlotte, plus local residents attending protracted meetings and enduring illness. A typhoid case is mentioned and army service noted for Exon Haywood.
The state board of health states typhoid comes only from human excretions and the intestines of patients or carriers. Decaying matter and animals do not directly transmit typhoid and flies spread the disease by contaminating food and water. Prevention hinges on controlling excrement and sanitation, with vaccination as a safeguard where these measures are weak. Plus reports on President Wilson being asked to mediate a deadlock between railroad workers and managers, with the US Board of Mediation undecided on resuming talks.
Richard W Norwood died at his home Saturday afternoon after a prolonged illness. Born January 1842 he was a Confederate veteran of Company A 34th North Carolina Infantry. Funeral services were held at his home Sunday afternoon with Rev W F Sanford officiating and burial in the new cemetery south of town.
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