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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
7
A Raleigh report describes tension in the local cotton market where buyers shout cotton as wagons arrive and some traders grab bales amid disputes, highlighting market damage across the Cotton Belt and praise for seed market stability.
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture urges avoid raw or undercooked pork to prevent trichinosis. In November and December, 11 cases with fatalities in a California community traced to sausages eaten undercooked. Government data show 1.41 percent of 8 million hogs examined were infected. Hickory and Asheville announce Christmas trees.
Acting Governor Doughtridge and Adjutant General Young disposed two court martial cases in the North Carolina National Guard. A guard from Oxford left to attend the State without sufficient excuse and faced a $54 fine. Fire reduced to 810 for WJ Winthrop of Elizabeth City reserves a $20 penalty for failure to attend men. the fine was not changed.
A Chicago compiled report records fifteen baseball players killed during the 1912 season. Twelve died from being struck in the head by pitched balls, four injuries caused three more deaths, and all victims were inexperienced players with no major league injuries reported.
A blaze at the Salvation Army home for men in Cincinnati destroyed the building Wednesday morning. Five people were confirmed dead and about twenty others were injured, with authorities noting the fire is suspected incendiary in origin.
The Spanish ambassador to Washington expressed Spain's gratitude to Secretary Bryan for U S kindness toward refugees from Chi huahua Mexico. The Spanish minister to Mexico also asked El Paso authorities be thanked for their humanitarian actions.
The article covers temperance and peace protestors at naval christening ceremonies, a Navy secretary’s dismissal of the pageantry in favor of contractor control, a Charlotte recorder court case charging a colored woman with liquor possession and the issue of short measures, John J. Carter’s two year county chain gang sentence in Georgia for misusing security funds, and liquor shipment estimates into Charlotte. It also mentions a Lincoln county automobile case and a federal prison sentence for a man from Greensboro connected to a holdup case and related damages.
Fragmentary report notes 8 year old Young in Buncombe County killed as a tree fell near his home by Trinity area. No clear details on witnesses or exact sequence. Source text is partially garbled but indicates accidental death involving a child in Randolph region.
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