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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1916
Page
5
The piece proclaims a New Year philosophy favoring modest elegance over luxury, quiet study, gentle speech, and brave action. It urges openness to wisdom from all ages, waiting for occasions, and allowing inner spirituality to grow through everyday life.
A blaze at the American Weed Off Company plant in Chicago killed six workers and damaged four other buildings. An explosion linked to spontaneous seed dust combustion fed the flames and spread rapidly. An oil freighter docked on the Calumet River caught fire as the blaze intensified.
A Greensboro dog trained to spot contraband aided railway and express offices by detecting whiskey camouflaged as apples or meat in trunks and boxes bound for shipment out of the state. At the Southern depot last week a barrel of apples disgorged its head, revealing a keg of whiskey, and the consignee failed to claim the goods. Whiskey houses face detection and employ many tricks to move illicit cargo.
A fragmentary quip shows a stern school scenario with a taunting line about a father, ending with a wry remark that mocks a bully who relies on jaw action over backbone as a future consequence.
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