Old Timer Finds Kindness Amid Nightly Strangers
A Monroe street encounter recounts an aging harness maker seeking warmth and aid from unexpected donors after a cold rain. Neighbors pool 85 cents to help him reach Charlotte, illustrating quiet charity and urging a nonjudgmental view of the city’s rougher characters. The piece then argues for stronger gun control and public safety, urging strict searches for pistols and blind tigers, and praising officers who risk their lives to protect the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Valjean
Victor Hugo
Monroe
Dicken
Boston
Charlotte
Bute Atheless
Udell
Harold Bell Wright
Ald
North Carolina
H. D. Stewart
Horses Remembered At Holiday Festivities
The faithful horse is celebrated this year with many cities offering free meals for draft horses. Carrots apples and oats plus hay fed waiting equines, as people shown care during festive times.
Will Fly Again Promise of Record Breaker Flight
Ruth Law, famed aviator who set a Chicago to New York non stop American record, announces a new flight to attempt a world record. She will fly a specially designed plane under construction after receiving 2500 from Civic Forum and Eero Club of America for previous record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Law
Chicago
New York
Law Bar
Civic Forum
Eero Club of America
Pecan Trees Offer Home Beauty And Utility
Pecan trees invite homeowners to plant now for bearing in three to four years, promising enhanced beauty and utility with free prices and information offered by J. B. Wright of Cairo, Georgia. Nearby reports note Lassen Peak erupting with smoky plumes viewed from Redding, California, while two women are named to prepare Washington inaugural ceremonies. Ford Motor Co. closed its Detroit plant for a week to relieve fuel and food shortages, costing about 1.4 million in wages and 17,500 cars. In Michigan, Standish hunters filming a hunting trip were attacked by wolves but escaped to a cab unharmed after skating away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Wright
Cairo, Ga
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Lake Superior
Standish
Mich
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sikes Stables
Sikes-Sanders Co
Monroe Drug Company
Whitmans
Philadelphia Life Insurance Company
Ally
Jacksonville
Miami
Cuba
Gulf of Mexic
And
St. Augustine
Key West
Matanzas
New Orleans
Palm Beach
Havana
Panama
C. H. Gattis
Gattis
Gattis Tours Tourist
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Raleigh, N. C
Warner van Norden
van Norden Trust Co
W. M. van Norden
Younus van Norden
Mt. Prospect
Journal
B.C. Hinson
F. W. Hinson
Iswainsboro
Briton Belk
J. P. Belk
Goldsboro
H. Grady Plyler
W. P. Plyler
U. S. Navy
Naval Training School
Norfolk, Va
Grove
Board of Aldermen of
City of
Board of Aldermen
J. W. Fowler
Mayer
S. Len, Jr
Harold Cascady
Waverly
Virginia
Carlile
N.C
Marshall Allison
Shelbyville
Tenn
Texas
Fitzgeralds Nursery
Stephenville
Church Street
H. E. Copple
H Wakefield
M. W
Gloucester
Justus Pharmacy
Hendersonville
Just
Plyler & Funderburk
H. P. Meigs
Wingate
Wingate School
D. P. Austin
Unionville
N. C
Sam Phifer
Smider- Huntley Company
Walters
Nelle
Ben Smith
Reidsville
N. B. Ayers
W. R. Outen
Lassen
Redding
Calif
Lassen Peak
Washington
James Boggs
W. M. Stoner
Unio County
Public
Robeson
General Assembly of
Roberson County
Robeson County
Bladen
Union
A. D
C. BE
Houston
J. H. Clawson
Kealah
Liddell
G. W. Parker
Watt Ashcraft
Hayne Street
Court House
B. Copple
H. Smith
Monroe N. C
Howe
A. M. Basinge
A. H. Futeh
Futch’s Cash Store
Springdale Farm
Monroe, N. C
Reliable Pressing Club
John McCall
R. V. Houston
Henry Lily
Moneror Iron & Metal CO
Julia R, Prior
R. H. Garren
Hamilton-Liles Co
Monroe, N
G. M. Smith
Union Drug Store
Calla
W. B. Houston
Fitzgerald Building
R. L. Payne
Old Postoffice
Union Drug Co
B. C. Redfearn
Bruner
Ashville
Matthews
W. C. Lemmond
Nee
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