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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1912
Page
7
The bulletin of the State Medical Board urges disease prevention by stopping spitting and reducing germ spread. It stresses personal responsibility, hygiene, and home spittoons with disinfectants. A local anecdote contrasts a long winded speaker delaying a ride home, illustrating a proverb on rights and opportunities.
A vintage ad touts Mi-O-Na tablets from English Drug Co. as a cure for sour stomach indigestion and related symptoms. It claims to banish gas, heartburn, dizziness, nervousness, and bad dreams, with a 50 cent box guaranteed for the named diseases or any stomach distress. Sold by English Drug Co. and druggists nationwide.
A Civil War captain J. 8 Donahue served as lighthouse keeper at Haven Michigan and avoided wrecks for years. He credits Electric Bitters with curing kidney trouble and chills and improving his sight at age seventy. The ad claims benefits for dyspepsia indigestion and other ailments and urges trying the product sold by English Drug Co. plus a legal notice from Williams Lowe McNeely attorneys at Monroe North Carolina.
The North Carolina Anti-Saloon LeagueExecutive Committee invites temperance friends statewide to Raleigh January 26 27 28 1912 for a convention to advance prohibition and enforce laws Local anti saloon leagues churches and boards of trade are urged to send delegates Notable speakers include John G Woolley Richmond Pearson Hobson and P A Baker D D Three rallies will be held Friday night and Sunday afternoon at the state auditorium with other meetings at Tabernacle Baptist Church.
Robert Smith of Buncombe county, long believed to be dying, appeared to move and speak during his wake, saying it was raining and later dying again. He was 70, suffered tuberculosis, and leaves a family. In other notes, Marshyl bon of Fairfield shipped a Guernsey cow to Hamlet for 100 dollars, producing five gallons of milk daily with butter, and Mr. Austin reports three loads of Short Horn cattle to boost farm fertility by feeding livestock.
Mr Ephraim Collins died Sunday morning at his brother Jordon Collins home in Lanes Creek township at age 64. He led a life of hard work, was unmarried, and had lived with his brother for many years. After being sick for a few days he rose to light a fire and died shortly thereafter.
Severe Arctic winds cause red rough and chapped hands and lips. Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as a cure for cold sores burns boils sores ulcers cuts and piles. Available for 25 cents at the English Drug Co.
The lesson centers on Mary and Joseph presenting Jesus at the temple forty days after birth, illustrating that children belong to God. It cites biblical history, the light of Christ for all nations, and calls Christian parents to offer gifts in gratitude. It also reflects on faith, Simeon’s sight of Christ, and the universality of Jesus as savior. A legal sale notice then closes the page with details of land parcels in Union County NC, 1912.
Notice of sale under two deeds of trust by Larkin A. Scott to C. N. Simpson Jr. as trustee for N. Simpson. Default on bonds leads to public auction on a Sunday in January 1912 at Monroe courthouse, selling 460 acres plus 100-acre parcel, bounded by Long, Davenport, Griffin, Cuthbertson, and Tyrena Scott, with 40 years occupancy.
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