Carpenter Fails to Prove Handy at Camp Greene
The story follows Hugo Austin from Goose Creek who seeks easy money as a carpenter at Camp Greene but is dismissed after lacking tool skills. The piece shifts to the rise and fall of Anson County political operatives Pete Redfearn and Key, who built a reform machine to break the court house ring, leading to the decline of their influence and the fragile future of their efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte
Greene
Hugo
Austin
Goose Creek
Hugh
Land of Remise
Camp Greene
Eeve
Monroe
Key
Tammany Hall
New York State
Pete Redfearn
John Dunham Bundy
Pete and
Boss Murphy
Pete
Murphey
Lucy
Rotinson
Hey
Page
Fage
Anson County
Kovinson
Robinson
Pho
Bb. Finney
Wilkes County
Lie Robinson
Uiate Hiad
Warner
Kedjean-Dewies
Jon Une Hut
Finley
He Nuudreus
John Dunham
Sudden Jim at Strand Heralds Popular Triangle Play
Charles Ray stars as Sudden Jim in the Strand engagement of the Triangle production based on Clarence Budington Kelland’s Satur day Evening Post story. The cast includes Sylvia Bremer and Georgie Stone among others with Joseph J. Dowling as Judge Zanaan Frante and Victor L. Scherteger directing. A separate note reports a fatal train collision at Mammond Station, Texas, killing sixteen including women and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Ray
Sudden Jim
Strand Theater
Saturday Evening Post
Clarence Budington Kelland
Ray
Sylvia Bremer
Marie Duchrame
Georgie Stone
Thelma Salter
Lie
Zanaan Frante
Joseph J. Dowling
Lydia Knott
Stickeny
Frank Whitson
William Bellingford
Victor L. Schertainger
Paul Kagler
Letter From Store Manager On Policy Update
A formal note to customers states new rule applies to grocery coal and ice departments. The writer thanks patrons for past favors and closes the letter with cordial regards.
Seizure of Housewives Food Stocks Denied by Officials
The government has not considered any plan to seize household foodstuffs and has issued repeated denials of rumors. Pro German propagandists and grafters sparked rumors of conmandeering preserves. Officials in Washington say 1918 will see greater home canning and preserving with foods saved for the owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Food Administration
Washington
Nutritious corn bread recipe and medical notices
A patriotic corn bread recipe blends corn meal rye flour and baking powder with milk butter syrup eggs and salt baked in a large pan. Dr W H Wakefield will visit Wingate Waxhaw and Waxhaw area in February for eye ear nose and throat care and glasses. For sale four medium priced mules offered by J W Laney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W. H. Wakefield
M. D
Charlotte
Wingate
Waxhaw
Ouroe
Wakefeld
Notices and Ads Mixed with Mortgage Sale in Monroe NC
A collection of classified notices including Wanted to buy homemade molasses and for rent at Doster place near Monroe, plus sale of horses and wagons. Also a deed of trust foreclosure dated July 14 1916 for Thomas V Miller with sale at Monroe courthouse on February 23 1918 at noon. Public auction of described lands adjoining W M Nivens. Trustee A M Secrest notes date January 22 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas V. Miller
A. W
Register’s Office
Union County
North Carolina
Monroe
N. C
Farmer
W. M. Nivens
McCall Jewelry
M. D. Pusser
Boyte Street
Fairley Avenue
Vann Heights
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Winston-Salem
Mammond Station
Texas
Aetna Insurance CO
Hartford
Hartford Fire Insurance CO
National Fire Insurance CO
Hartford Home Insurance CO
Liverpool & London & Globe
Liverpool
Royal Insurance CO
Queen Insurance CO
ST. Paul F. & M
St. Paul
Northwestern National
Milwaukee
Piedmont Fire Insurance CO
NORTH
Carolna Home
Raleigh
Dixie Fire Insurance Company
Greensboro
Carolina Insurance CO
Wilmington
Glenns Falls Insurance CO
New
N. C. English
General Merchandise
Coal and Ice Departments
L. Flow
D. P Austin
L. C. Smith
Care Journal
Court House
Hiram Griffin
J. W. Laney
J. W. Rallings
Indian Trail
D. B. Snyder
McCall Jewelry, Co
McCall
J. W. Fowler
Jane Jones
Sam Jones
Union Drug Co
Watt Ashcraft
Franklin Street
Secrest Motor Co
Plyler, Funderburk & Co
Doster Place
John Lathan
G. W. Plyler
W. P. Kendall
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