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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1917
Page
7
Sheriff J W Griffith accounts show 1916 tax collections by district funds Carmel New Hope Albans Stisare Marshville with real and personal property totals and polling taxes. Commissions at 3.80 percent on 387.52 44.52 132.91 99.86 1930.03 plus bank receipts in 1917.
The piece outlines war savings certificates and thrift stamps with prices and maturation details, plus sudden figures of government profits and limits. It reports mining deaths in West Virginia, large inheritances in Kentucky, personal tragedies in South and North Carolina, corporate fires in Norfolk, and political moves in Washington. It ends with a citizen editorial urging faith and patriotism.
A charming vignette depicts a lovesick pair, Hilda and Georgie, just back from a honeymoon. He mentions asparagus to cook and invites her to pluck it together while she coos in reply, offering to hold the ladder.
The committee on public information issues a free distribution book titled German War Practices. It calls the book a documentary record of deeds that make one despair for humanity and asserts the work demonstrates that German frightfulness is the policy of the German government, with individual cruelties cited to illustrate the system.
Mrs. Benjamin Hooper of Auburn New York praises Chamberlain's Tablets for stomach trouble and constipation. She claims the tablets regulate bowel action stimulate the liver and keep the body healthy after two years of use.
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