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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1914
Page
4
The Monroe Journal, established in 1894 by owners and publishers G. M. and R. F. Beasley, is issued each Tuesday and Friday. Annual subscription is $1.00. Office located at the Journal Building on the corner of Jefferson and Beasley Streets, telephone number 19.
The state vital statistics reveal Morehead City's death rates exceed national averages. Typhoid, rheumatic illness, and open privies contribute to deaths. Officials enacted a sanitary privy ordinance and funded cans, sparking petitions against repeal by about half the voters.
A prewar text cites President Wilson from a Saturday Evening Post interview to explain U S policy in Mexico. It argues the United States seeks no quarrel with Mexicans and outlines land reform abuses by a landed aristocracy that dispossessed small owners.
The piece outlines Wilson’s aims to gain Mexican territory by lawful means, limit exploitation by American capital, and settle land questions constitutionally, preferring a new order based on liberty and human rights over the old aristocratic regime. It criticizes pacification as favoring the wealthy and urges lasting reforms.
The Polk family celebrates the marriage of Miss Mattie Polk to Mr Grady Helm with a ceremony by Rev E C Snyder in Shiloh. Guests included family. reception gifts noted. The piece then condemns rumors via Coca Cola Co claims and scientific tests debunking gossip about caffeine, urging reliance on facts over rumor.
Boston reports a British freighter Rochelle slowed in the Gulf Stream north of Cuba. Crew describe electrte Suhes or torpedo Series attracting to the steel plates, causing a tingling sensation in feet and fingertips. Fishes appeared along hulls port and starboard before speed returned as waters cooled.
Blackfeet Indians from Glacier National Park visited Philadelphia en route home from a Shriner convention. They performed a tribal peace ceremony before the Penn Monument in Penn Treaty Park, honoring William Penn and his treaty with the Lenape. Medicine Owl and Chief White Call appear in the scene, with Medicine Owl praying to the Great Spirit of Peace.
In New York at 204 Wood street a milk wagon noise awakened Benjamin Yaskey, saving his family from coal gas released from a furnace. His wife and two young sons, Nathan eight and Hyman four, were found unconscious but were revived after police and hospital help. The incident ended with all members evacuated to Hahnemann hospital.
Atlantic City patrolman Edward Johnson arrested his wife after she allegedly annoyed him on a city street. The case highlights tense domestic friction cited by the police officer during the incident.
Dr Harry M Billar reports locating two sappen dices in Thomas Smart a thirteen year old boy after surgery Both were removed and the boy appears to be recovering.
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