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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1917
Page
2
A Monroe advertisement touts old wartime prices at the Five and Ten Cents Store, promising bargains across children and men’s wear, footwear, accessories, housewares, and records. The copy urges readers to visit, noting items from undergarments to silk hose, towels, brushes, and McKinley Music at low costs.
Waxhaw Enterprise reports a dangerous stretch along the Charlotte Savannah highway straddling the North Carolina South Carolina line. locals urge subscription funding to repair the half mile of impassable road, cut by deep ruts and rocks, affecting both states and residents.
A Kansas City Star note cites Pageland Journal on a mule muffler used in France to silence brays. The tactic allegedly helps conceal locations and lets a veteran recount wartime mules that could not claim service. The method reportedly originated with a Stonewall Jackson era teamster using a stone or brick attached to a mule’s tail.
Wadesboro Ansonian reports a local man boasting four dependents and jokes about drafting him. The piece also notes mosquitoes may surge in Brown Creek swamps, Timber-cutting hindered by swarms, and calls for quarantine measures.
The Ansonian notes two automobile collisions in Wadesboro last week and urges drivers to slow down in crowded streets. Mayor Blalock opposes fines to raise town revenue and stresses caution to protect lives, though the paper does not assign blame or detail specifics.
The North Carolina Guard reports that nearly ten thousand state troops will join the federal service as part of Wilsons mobilization. By August 5 a total force of about 200,000 will be drafted and shipped to France, with state regiments receiving full war strength from selective drafts. Training and rapid deployment are planned to proceed at American camps in France under General Pershing.
The twelve National Guard units at their home stations mobilize today with up to 500 men per unit. Federal officers are detailing at stations to speed muster into service and equipment allotment. Completion is expected in about two weeks before moving to concentration camps. The guard’s war strength upon full enlistment will reach about 10,000 men. Divisions include brigade HQ, field artillery, three infantry regiments, coast artillery, ambulance No. 1, field hospital corps No. 1, baggage company No. 1, and engineer train.
A Glenalpine note urges restraint and moral talk in communities. It contrasts worn patience with harsh outbursts and argues for denouncing harmful trends while avoiding hasty judgments. The author emphasizes kindness, positive conduct, and leaving a benevolent memory.
Correspondence from Wingate laments chronic complainers and pessimists who magnify faults in church, school, and weather. The piece urges self-criticism, warns grumbling harms progress, and cites a country preacher and a window into newspaper office practices. It notes readers taking extra papers and remarks on suffragists' picketing and pardons by President Wilson.
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