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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1913
Page
2
A boy named Dicky frets over a New Year party as his temper flares and sleep over takes him. He wanders to the window in his nightgown, ends up at the party asleep, and awakens to familiar faces wishing him a Happy New Year.
A survey of how New Year dates shifted across civilizations from solstices to Jan 1, tracing Roman, Greek, Jewish, and Christian calendars. The piece notes the spread of Gregorian reform, England's late adoption, and the enduring customs of gifts, resolutions, and toasts despite changing dates.
Fragmentary front page verse reflects on ending year and rising new year. Poem lines praise dawn, earth, and humanity as greed and hate fade. Read as reflective literary piece from the era, with archaic phrasing and incomplete lines.
The speaker vows to choose one true partner and love her honestly forever, pledging to work with wit and effort to win and cherish her. The companion responds she has made no pledges but will help him keep his own, revealing a playful, intimate exchange between Wallace Dunbar Vincent and an unnamed partner.
An old Monroe advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills as kidney specific, with testimonials from a local user at English Drug Co. Also appears is a formal Notice of Execution Sale in Union County detailing property seized from John A. Smith by order of the Superior Court, with land parcels described and scheduled for public sale.
Notice of administration for the estate of W G Chapman of Union County NC. Creditors must present claims by December 12, 1914, or be barred. Debtors urged to settle accounts promptly. Dated December 5, 1913. W C Lemmond Administrator of W G Chapman deceased.
R B Redwine sues Thomas Barrett and T J Honeycutt to foreclose a bond for title dated September 11 1909. Defendants must appear at Union County Superior Court in Monroe on the 6th Monday before the 1st Monday in March 1914 to answer the complaint or risk judgment by default. Dated December 12 1913 by R W Lemmond Clerk.
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