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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1916
Page
8
A persuasive plea urging support for a state plan to drain and drag roads, arguing cost to counties is minimal and benefits local districts. It attacks opposition as misinformed, notes salaries under the act, and emphasizes home spending and improvements while questioning those against the plan.
Miss Jane Addams leads the Women’s Peace Party urging Congress to back a U S call for a peace conference and disarmament plan. She cites neutrals Holland Switzerland Norway Sweden Denmark ready to join and urges U S participation. Other notes claim the Kaiser’s throat cancer reports are contradicted by Berlin dispatches.
Prices paid by merchants today are listed for hens young chickens roosters geese turkeys per pound batter hams beef cattle and mutton plus ins potatoes. Figures may change tomorrow or next day so readers should call a merchant on market day for current prices.
J Faulkner of Chicago meat packers jokes at a Washington Star dinner that traders could be better off if the British were less suspicious. He compares them to a deathly silent father and his daughter Hannah, who answers a time query and is asked to reset the clock after a suitor departs.
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