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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1914
Page
7
Paris engineer Henri Borgia credits the French for early digging and the Panama project but emphasizes missed sanitation and malaria control. He argues American success hinged on defeating mosquitoes and Colonel Gorgas, noting France faced grave losses yet contributed to the canal’s history.
Brig. Gen. Henry G. Sharpe oversees the U S army commissary in charge of supplying fighting men. The piece notes war food waste and details daily subsistence needs for about half a million troops in the field including hard bread bacon sugar vegetables coffee beans tomatoes jam vinegar salt pepper and the transport capacity of 50 freight cars or 214 army wagons.
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald item recounts a dinner party tale about King Alfonso II of Spain traveling incognito in Castile. The royal guest stays at a modest inn where no mirror exists, prompting a makeshift shave by a chambermaid who suspects his identity. The king humorously confirms he is shaving him.
German nobility and officialdom react to Prince Oscar of Prussia fifth son of Kaiser Wilhelm announcing marriage to Countess Ina Mare of Mecklenburg. Heir concerns over rank and tradition loom as emperor’s consent hints at a higher title for the countess. The engagement, rooted in Hohenzollern precedent, earns public admiration for bold choice.
A long list of candidates for sheriff cotton weigher clerk superior court clerk of court recorder county commissioner representative and other offices in Union County announces candidacy or re election subject to the Democratic primary. Names include J N Price J C Griffith J C Winchester Chas B Barden Jesse J Lockhart Bartley Helms Jas F McManus Henry M Presson G Watt Davis R W Lemmond C E Houston Leem Howie A L Helms James K Polk W L Earnhart T B Davis M C Long J M Fairley W A Eubanks J Dunham Bundy T B Moore and others. Also note a general health ad about Doan's Kidney Pills and a worm medicine.
A speaker announces candidacy for Union County Recorder seeking Democratic primary support. He states readiness to uphold justice impartially, refrain from attacking rivals, and comply with voter action at the primary in North Carolina.
The institution offers strong courses in Agriculture, Horticulture, Stock-raising, Poultry, Veterinary Medicine, Civil Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry and Dyeing, Cotton Manufacturing, and Agricultural Teaching. Four year programs with two and one year tracks in Agriculture and Machine Shop Work. Faculty of 61 men and students, 25 buildings, labs for each department. County superintendent entrance exams July 9 at county seats. Catalogue requests to B. Owen, Registrar, West Raleigh.
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