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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1915
Page
4
The Monroe Journal dated Friday March 5 provides publishing history founded in 1894 by G. M. and R. F. Beasley. It states Tuesday and Friday editions at 1.00 per year, with offices at The Journal Building corner Jefferson and Beasley Streets.
The piece argues for self help and public betterment over charity, highlighting a shift toward individual and institutional empowerment. It details how schools, laboratories, and newspapers like The Journal aim to educate, and discusses cotton linters as a key raw material for gunpowder, with factory locations in the United States and Europe and implications for WWI powder production. It notes the vast scale of powder plants, domestic and foreign capacities, and the conversion of cotton into powder through linters and chemical treatments.
A famed foreign correspondent, staying at a seaside hotel, derides a college-girl dining room staff while upset over his meal. An American novelist and colleague intervene, reminding him that the server is a lady. The anecdote ends with the German insisting he wants a waiter.
A witty exchange notes silence as golden while remarking that phonograph firms resist receivers. The quip pairs with a aside about receivers taking control of audio companies, suggesting industry fragility amid financial pressure.
A cryptic reminder of a winter purchase surfaces as one speaker notes a fuzzy mouth taste, while another responds about a new fur coat bought for the season, hinting at fashion and discomfort in a terse exchange.
Fragmentary reminiscence shows a husband and wife debating past finances before marriage. The lines reveal emotional tension and a lack of record keeping, with one party recalling shared history and the other denying precise accounting from earlier years.
A light exchange between Mrs. Gotham and Mr. Gotham notes a man seems taller in the morning than at night. The joke highlights morning versus evening height in a playful dialogue.
Tom announces a big blowout while Harry asks how the funds will be raised. The exchange hints at a forthcoming event with questions about funding and preparation.
One mile from Monroe on Charlotte Road lists a rental for a two horse farm. John Long signs the notice. The snippet blends a personal quotation about eye contact and gratitude with a rental advertisement and a name entry.
A brief sketch on Lowell and Livingstone highlighting their undoring dispositions and playful spirits. It notes Lowell’s quip on an incurable home and Livingstone’s and his wife’s rare balance of devotion with boyish mirth, alongside Charles Kingsley’s frolicsome family presence.
A stout man in a New York hotel sees a blue ribbon on the floor and follows it down a corridor where a young woman eventually grabs the end as the elevator swallows her, amid amused spectators and a tense moment in the lobby.
In a Melbourne robbery trial years ago a prisoner claimed a freak memory. Lane, called as witness, recited Walpole's Old English Baron with no hesitation. The judge allowed the demonstration to prove his memory, and the prisoner was discharged in London Chronicles style.
Seven boys from National Nate Heat school Portishead Somerset on a training voyage in Polly’s boat fled by rowing up the Severn after taking trench leave. They landed at Holes mouth and waded through soft mud, presenting a striking sight before surrendering to pursuing guards a quarter hour after their arrival.
In a busy shoe shop an exhausted attendant endures a patient, fault finding customer. The exchange centers on fit and aging feet as the clerk offers another pair and the woman resists, prompting a dry reply about widening with age.
A March 3 dispatch from Washington reports Department of Commerce analysis of January trade. Exports rose to European nations while shipments to Latin America fell. No American products reached Austria. exports to Germany increased. US trade surplus for January was 145,506,996 dollars. Horses bought for European armies were valued at 75, and mule exports at 1,312,195 dollars.
In Shubuta, Mississippi, 12 year old Raymond Gray confessed to Mobile Dispatch reporters that he killed his father W M Gray with a shotgun following a whipping. The incident occurred last Sunday, and the motive is stated as punishment for the beating.
Public auction to the highest bidder for cash at Stallings station, Seaboard Air Line Railroad, one mile west of Indian Trail, N Carolina, on Wednesday March 24 1915, for an Erie City steam boiler and engine, a 60 horsepower Moffat steam pump, a Boss cotton press, and a saw mill outfit to satisfy indebtedness secured by a chattel mortgage dated March 1 1915 to J H Newell mortgagee.
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