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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1912
Page
1
A regional paper explains downsizing type to fit more content, urging readers to adapt as the staff expands the issue. It notes older subscribers may prefer bigger print, but emphasizes broader news coverage and improved paper quality for all. The item references local political commentary and a statewide Democratic conference in Ohio, criticizing noncommittal delegates and urging loyalty to party principles.
The Big Issue and National Democratic Club held a large dinner at the new Fifth Avenue clubhouse in New York. Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey spoke, urging tariff reform as the paramount issue for the coming presidential campaign. He said the time has come to lift the burdens of the protective tariff.
The Francis Scott Key Memorial Association formed in 1907 failed to raise 15000 to buy and preserve the Key home in Georgetown Washington City. Congress may be asked to fund removal of the building to a park for sightseers. A separate note praises Electric Bitters for curing stomach and kidney troubles.
Veteran of the Civil War and Spanish American War, Admiral Robley D. Evans known as Fighting Bob dies of acute indigestion. Funeral at Arlington Cemetery with President Taft, Admiral Dewey, and British envoy present. Services at All Souls Unitarian Church, wreath from Emperor William, cortege to Virginia burying ground, 4 military escorts, midshipmen, marines, and a brief sermon by Rev. A. G. B. Pierce. Three volleys and taps.
A 1912 letter from Booker T. Washington to the Charlotte Observer urges whites and blacks to stop carrying concealed weapons. He cites Christmas week killings in Alabama and across the South, argues pistols harm safe communities, and shares his own habit of not carrying, urging ministers and teachers to lead the campaign. The piece also covers local educational family news and Riceville rainfall data for 1911.
Mr. Bradford Knapp of the Farmers Cooperative Demonstration Work publishes state yields. Cotton shows North Carolina at 1,000s of seed cotton per acre, Georgia 1,249.3, Texas 710. Corn yields place North Carolina highest aside Virginia with 43.4 and 46.6 bushels per acre respectively. The piece questions farmers following Agricultural Department plans to maximize crops.
Washington dispatch notes turkeys and ducks are in short supply while chickens rise. 1910 census counts 3,668,708 turkeys on farms versus 6,594,095 in 1900, predicting possible disappearance of Thanksgiving birds by 1920. Ducks drop about half over the decade and cheese production falls.
Winston Sentinel reports Capt Morrison of the Charlotte passenger train saying this Christmas season his 20 years at the helm yield no drunken passengers and attributing the improvement to state prohibition. He notes one railroad conductor opposed to prohibition. Alfred Tennyson Dickens, Charles Dickens's elder son, died in New York City at 67 while on a lecture tour, his Melbourne home cited.
Charleston dispatch reports Dr. C Thornhill a noted physician and businessman in western Virginia was shot and killed in a Mullens drug store after refusing to issue a whiskey prescription to William Hatfield son of Devil Anse Hatfield. Hatfield fired multiple shots wounding Thornhill and fled but was captured nearby guarded for possible lynching as authorities moved to Pineville.
Marvin Richardson and Hayne Johnson preside over a rustic justice tale in Buford township. A. Arant impounds goats owned by Philip Whitley. Mrs. Whitley releases the stock and is fined a penny, while Whitley is found not guilty amid joking remarks about goats climbing fences.
Ex Governor Aycock recalled Bryan electrifying Congress with a tariff speech that taunted privilege and illuminated the masses. He noted the oratorical power and lasting influence of the speech on national readers and cited A Covington in the House gallery who predicted a presidential future long before Bryan's candidacy.
Reports say wholesale shoe prices will rise about 50 cents per pair around the March start date for Brockton Massachusetts manufacturers with other New England firms likely to follow. St Louis makers see no need to raise prices while the government signals possible review. Callers at the White House show a record New Year turnout for Taft with 8 092 diplomats officials and citizens shaking hands.
The Democrats in the House plan to strip from the next sundry civil appropriation bill three items: $225,000 for the President's tariff board, $75,000 for the economy commission, and $25,000 for the President's traveling expenses. If enacted, this would save $425,000 per year.
In New York City on Monday a large Chinese crowd gathered in Chinatown to celebrate the republic's founding and the inauguration of its first president. Hundreds rushed to barbers to have their queues cut, removing the last symbol of Manchu rule as noon approached.
Mr J Crawford Lite of Raleigh wed Miss Alma Marsh of Marshville at Marshville Presbyterian Church. Ceremony performed by Rev Wm Black Wednesday at 5 pm. The groom, a Union county native and Raleigh attorney of good character, and the bride, daughter of the late Jas W Marsh, depart by Seaboard Air Line train for northern points before settling in Raleigh.
Richeson a young Baptist minister from Boston confessed guilt after a sequence of events ending in the death of Miss Linnell from cyanide poisoned with flour and water. He had planned marriage to an heiress, loaned a mixing bowl to a landlady, and fled to the home of Miss Violet Edmunds before her death.
The Nitrolee project nears completion to produce nitrate of lime from atmospheric nitrogen using 80 000 horsepower from nearby Southern Power generators. Equipment and bricks sourced from Europe due to lack of domestic suppliers amid war. Limestone from local hills. output about 5 tons of nitric acid daily. Also notes Nathan Hurst of Mayesville Mo receiving a Texas governor pardon after escaping a 17 year horse theft sentence.
Percy Vanderbuilt, treasurer of Van Keuren & Thornton Co., a New York wholesale dry goods house, has confessed to embezzling about $140,000 and is held in jail awaiting further action.
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