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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1914
Page
7
A Youth’s Companion essay argues that a true habit of victory exists beyond gold or luck. It ties success to persistent preparation, hopeful attitude, and persistent effort in hard tasks, noting leaders like Caesar and Gordon show how confidence and readiness shape outcomes.
Advertising serves to bring customers to the store and convey the truth about goods. A merchant must finish the sale at the counter and ensure customer satisfaction. Resolutions urge liberal local advertising, quick turnover, cash transactions, frequent sales, neat premises, honest practices, and strong service to build lasting patronage.
A fragment quotes A L Lowell Harvard University president urging perseverance. It notes you may hear friends say you are stronger than expected and that you will discover one day you have acquired the habit of victory. The text reads as a reflective moral exhortation about resilience.
The decomposed body of a roughly 25 year old white man was found by Mr. Craver near the Southern Railway Bridge in western county. He was about six feet tall, wore no shoes, had two or three front teeth missing, and had his feet tied with hemp rope. No missing person could be identified from local records.
A fiddler serenades a woman who ignores his music and a banjo player also fails to win her. A third suitor arrives with a noscy whirl and gains her favor despite his punk tune. The piece ends with a note on old-fashioned cavalry moves abroad and a jab about Penny Ads.
A Virginia naturalist pursued a seven foot blacksnake that charged, rattled, and climbed through branches to flee. After a ten minute chase the snake leaped into the air and fell back to be captured, injuring the hunter with a tooth bite. The specimen resisted handling for two months, showing marked intractability.
Memphis mayor Crump speaks for children's country week groups noting how city children view nature with ignorance and wonder A girl asks what time the country shuts a farmhand explains potatoes in the ground a boy questions peach picking while a girl prefers canned fruit reflecting urban contrasts from an Exchay excerpt
The Rembrandt work titled Woman Plucking a Fewl sold in Paris for 95000 dollars, setting a new record for the artist. Earlier sales include 1734 Amsterdam at 70 dollars, 1845 London at 1625 dollars, and 1884 Paris at about 2800 dollars. The prior record was for Girl Holding a Medal. the Hoo collection item sold for 70000 dollars last year in New York.
Dr Mary Mills Patrick, president of the American College for Girls at Constantinople, arrived in New York for a short visit home. The college houses 250 students from Bulgarians, Armenians, Greeks, Persians, Turks, Jews, Hungarians and Germans in dormitories funded largely by American money. Major donations come from Mrs Russell Sage Miss Helen Gould and Jon D Rockefeller to support her work.
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