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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1912
Page
4
A garbled OCR fragment from a 1894 Monroe journal page includes scattered names, places, and phrases. It mentions contact details, duties, and a jumble of events and references, lacking coherent narrative or clear outcomes.
A fragmented OCR text mentions names and events but lacks coherent facts or identifiable entities to summarize into a concrete news item. The readable portions do not establish a specific incident, date, location, or involvement.
Cajoniiile Verninis and Miss Blondelle Curloe visit from Monroe and Marshville residents spend time with local families. Mrs Ollie Davis and Miss Letha Hamilton plan sisterly gatherings while Mr H W B Whitley of Tennessee stays with Dr A D N Whitley. A sociable at W A Love’s home entertains youths and residents attend Crooked Creek church communion.
Notice announces the second Democratic Primary in Union County for county and township offices not filled in the first primary, reps to the General Assembly, and Cotton Weigher at Monroe and Waxhaw. Polls operate 2 PM to sundown except North Monroe, South Monroe, and Waxhaw 6 AM to 3 PM. Brooks named chairman. poll-holders reused from first primary.
A man reports crows in a cornfield after he soaked corn with whisky. Eight large birds staggered about, failing to stand and nearly trampling a human and a dog. He corralled them into pairs, then shot them, leaving drifting bodies.
Scientific American notes the tung tree native to China as the national tree with rough bark and shellbark fruit. It yields oil from seeds used for wood polishing and leather dressing, with the meal as fertilizer. Its wood serves for instruments boxes and small house frameworks and may thrive in warmer U S regions.
The bishop of Carlisle denounces humane education trends, praising strict discipline in boyhood. He condemns soft notions, claims degradation built character, and urges teachers and parents to end what he calls enervating, foolish ideas shaping schools.
A humorous courtroom exchange unfolds as a speaker asks the judge for leniency citing drinking, followed by a judge quipping about grammar and offering “judicious study” of sentence construction with a sixty day period. The exchange underscores legal proceedings and witty repartee.
A scanned timetable lists multiple train numbers and routes including New York to Birmingham, Monroe to Rutherfordton, Wilmington to Charlotte, Charlotte to Wilmington, Birmingham to New York, and New York to Portsmouth. It notes electric lighted Pullman cars and sleepers on key routes between New York, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, and Paris.
A story about an old enslaved servant entrusted with savings before a marriage and a gentle rebuke about keeping money. A kind gentleman comforts a boy by referencing a calf and its mother, noting it never cries when mother disciplines it. The pieces quote rural manners and a tender lesson amid farmyard scenes.
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