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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1913
Page
7
Koon for Theatres Boston Transcript describes an invention a chair that sinks through the floor to the smoking room below when a button is pressed. It notes the device targets disruptors who leave their seats mid row during the act.
In sweeping ad copy the English Drug Company promotes Hyomel as a cure for catarrh and related symptoms, claiming it clears germs by inhalation with the Hyometer device. It also touts Electric Bitters for stomach, liver, kidney troubles, nerve relief, and female ailments with testimonials and a money back guarantee.
The Union Signal argues liquor revenue blinds the public to the true cost of the trade. It cites federal and local taxes totaling about 350 million yearly, while estimating annual losses of 5 billion from crime, mortality, and pauperism. It urges abolition, noting revenue could persist via other means like an income tax, and cites a modern miracle story as contrast to convert skeptics.
The Atlanta Constitution argues efficiency drives temperance, urging employers to choose between drink and jobs. Railroads led reform as alcohol harms safety and profits. Off duty drinking spreads risks, with dispatchers and superintendents backing sobriety to avoid costly accidents and bad accounts. Abolish the saloon says merchants.
A Kansas City Star line questions a campaign to clone public schools, noting it would meet strong opposition and likening it to supporting a reopening of an unpopular policy. The remark frames the idea as politically unpalatable in Kansas.
Rev Russell Day a famed Eton master once kept a boy after school only to find himself in a better temper at the hour. The boy answered the master’s question with his name Cole and was told by Day to scuttle a modest, lighthearted exchange from a larger notebook.
A vintage health ad claims the body foul waste poisons the system when constipated and promises relief from constipation and headaches. It advertises Dr King’s New Life Pills, available at druggists or by mail from H. K. Bucklen & Co., Philadelphia and St. Louis.
Travel details for Seaboard Air Line Railway citing multiple trains arriving and leaving Monroe and connecting routes from Charlotte to Wilmington Birmingham New York and Portsmouth. The April 27 1913 schedule notes local and through services with observed times and office contacts for tickets.
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