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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1917
Page
7
A reader sends verses including Massas in the cold ground and a Titanic disaster recounting, with a chorus lament for enslaved workers and a reflection on shooting birds. The piece blends abolition era dialect lyrics with a poem on the Titanic and a childhood memory about hunting birds.
A lyrical sketch describes Indian Trail with churches for worship and singing, believers living with Christ in eternal day. It notes merchants awake with goods for sale at low prices, hunters nearby, and moonlit frosty nights as a rural, nostalgic scene.
O F Carter chronicles Jim Goodheart once a drunkard and forger who wandered through St Louis and Denver The Sunshine Mission leader forgave debts paid back six thousand dollars and transformed hundreds of thieves into honest citizens Denver chief Felix O Neill praised him as worth thirty policemen The tale ends with Goodheart pledging to keep coming back until buried and free of trouble
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