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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1918
Page
6
We will keep on hand everything the trade calls for. Read this ad each issue as it will change. The war will stop when rations run out, so make a double effort to raise more food this year. Come to see us.
Henry Watterson decries Germany’s war as atheistic against Christianity and urges Christ as the rallying force. The piece asserts the Gospel of Love over the pagan Kaiser god, labeling German policy satanic and calling for the Cross to lead allied victory and the rebuilding of Germany.
Advert for Laxetive Bromo Quinine claims to cure colds in one day by stopping cough and headache. Druggiers refund money if it fails. Each box bears Mr. Grove's signature. Price 30 cents.
A wry remark about men and advice unfolds with a gendered double standard. The speaker suggests a man is a fool whether he follows or ignores a woman's counsel, framing the point as a delicate revelation about universal folly.
The piece recounts residents such as Cap Clants Gilmer Joyce and Albert McCall signing petitions about hog pens, with some regret. It notes women sway, a Rev Abernethy sermon, and locals joking about political motives and civic issues as Monroe and Hickory towns adjust attitudes toward hogs and rationing during wartime.
For indigestion and constipation a 50 cent bottle of Lax FOS with Pepsin is advertised as a pleasant liquid laxative. The Paris Medicine Co. markets this product alongside Laxative Bromo Quinine and Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic to the public.
Notice from J. W. Fowler states he returned from the West with a car load of good mules and brood mares and invites inspection at Fowler & Lee's stables.
American troops occupy a Lorraine front sector as air and artillery operations intensify. German shells kill two and wound nine Americans. aviation patrols rise while press access is restricted to brigade levels behind trenches. American gunners wreck enemy dugouts and bombardment disrupts German positions near an American regiment’s headquarters.
An 1890s style advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a universal general tonic with quinine and iron. It claims benefits for liver performance malaria prevention blood enrichment and whole system build up for 90 cents.
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