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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1914
Page
2
The Metropolitan Museum adds a fourth century B.C. lekythos gravestone to its Greek sculpture collection. It depicts a man and woman clasping hands and a woman offering a bird to a child, illustrating the deceased woman's life and farewell in quiet pathos.
The czar recounts a Paris visit in 1860 aiming for Luxembourg incognito. A landau carriage ferries him with one attendant. at the city gate a ragged boy recognizes the imperial visitor from a photo and shouts, sparking astonished reactions before a dignified exit in silence.
A new ice breaking train ferry for transferring trains across the St Lawrence from Quebec to Levis features a deck raised or lowered by screws on both sides, operated by a single engine, with fixed level terminals and a hinged gangway. A nickel steel bow propeller clears ice from the landing stage during winter.
The piece notes the 15 inch guns for five Queen Elizabeth class battleships were ordered without trial guns. The first 15 inch test matched designer calculations exactly, praised as the most accurate gun yet built for the British navy. The shell carries an explosive charge near two thousand pounds, about 50 percent larger than the 13.5 inch prior guns.
Mme Henriette Teyssedre died at eighty in Paris and was buried in the polished oak coffin that had held her husband for thirty years with silver corners silk lining and saint images on its sides. Her servant found both in the same coffin.
A Chicago Daily News style tale follows Jack who refuses all but the president, then Katie who prefers bargains to quiet offices. He writes bosses to arrange meetings and learns companionship beats solitude, surprising both as romance blooms amid headquarters fantasy and orphaned misunderstandings.
Notices announce administrators and administratrix filing for J A Little and O C Curlee estates with claims due by November 10 1915 and November 17 1915 respectively. also a sale of 167 3 5 acres known as Richardson and part of O W Few lands in Monroe Union County under court order with bidding starting at 16 dollars per acre, to be paid in installments.
In Prosperity, Missouri a belt car stopped near Daniel Ross and others. A cat crouched on the forward tracks was pulled free, then leapt back onto the next passing car and split away, resisting the men who intervened.
A vintage 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 for 50 cents.
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