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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1913
Page
8
A concerned aunt disciplines a summer guest by rearranging the boy's room to teach orderly habits. She moves pillows, clothes, towels and furniture to show that disorder is “fair play” and that tidy rooms benefit the resident and others.
A humorous anecdote about James Keeeler and a Chicago Tribune editor stuck in the pressroom, with a secretary blocking callers who insist on reaching him. The story riffs on miscommunication and a visitor’s insistence despite the editor’s unavailability.
The proposed act creates a Union County Board of Road Commissioners elected from townships to oversee roads. It sets an Overseer of Roads, a chain gang, and funding via a county road tax. It outlines road widths, arbitration for damages, contracts for dragging, and annual meetings at Monroe courthouse. The measure asks voters to approve or reject road reform.
Early December a rural Alabama man sought a money order for a big Christmas. The Alabama postmaster assisted him and asked the amount. The answer was one gallon, creating a quirky, regional anecdote about frugal holiday spending.
A Texas correspondent writes from Spur and nearby towns about three months without rain, dust, and parched fields. He notes millet and sorghum thriving with moisture, scarce water, and heavy cotton yields in some gins while others burn or shut down. Prairie dogs, coyotes, snakes, and wildlife shift as drought reshapes settlement patterns and farming viability.
A famous Loulaville resident and a Cincinnati clubman pledged a year on the water wagon with a thousand-dollar penalty for the first to slip. Three weeks later the Cincinnati man rode to Mississippi in a private car and urged a reprieve, arguing water there was undrinkable. His friend replied that such testimony does not prove expertise after a three week trial.
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