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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1912
Page
8
A rare railroad incident in Virginia occurred on the Norfolk and Western line near Lynchburg when a Washington Chattanooga fast train froze to the rails in zero weather. Water from pipes dripped onto wheels, three engines moved it after a long delay, and the train arrived seven hours late.
The Waxhaw Enterprise extols a town’s varied offerings of prospects for maidens and widows, presenting a long list of potential suitors with lively, period tone. It praises many men for marriage suitability while noting their traits, readiness, and appetites, urging timely bids before four years pass.
Mrs Kate Carpenter and her mother Mrs Davis were killed at the Carpenter home near Blytheville Arkansas. M H Carpenter a wealthy farmer was probably fatally injured by a band of five or six white men. The attackers beat the women to death and left the man for dead. The motive appears to be enmity with Carpenters in the neighborhood.
The Chinese assembly in Nanking votes to adopt a gold standard modeled on Japan, and approves a bond loan of 100,000,000 taels about 370,000,000. Wang Chung Wei accepts the foreign affairs portfolio in Sun Yat Sen's cabinet.
An advertisement from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo promotes distant diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases by mail. It touts scientific methods, modern electrical therapies, and specialist advice with no in-person exam, offering Dr. Pierce's remedies and the Common Sense Medical Adviser free on request.
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