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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
7
Rexall Store touts sandwiches benefiting the Girls Guild of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, noting their high quality and low prices. They advertise a dime candy pack, Nunnally’s items, lime mints, and Symphony Lawn stationery, with proceeds aiding the missionary society.
A Goldsboro dispatch quotes J J Roberts of Stony Creek Township as sighting five large aeroplanes six miles northeast of Goldsboro Friday. He and his son watched the craft for over an hour, circling Neuse River, prompting fears of German spies or booze ring emissaries.
A cotton seed grader operated under Berge Green and Gwinn Griffin in the Caudle store building in Marshville demonstrates a modern Coker machine. It cleans and grades cotton seed and other seeds, removing puny seeds to improve planting outcomes amid farmers adopting this new method.
Yam Sims orders a new derby from Chicago to stay stylish this spring and summer. Bees around Tobe Moseley awaken after winter while Raz Barlow eyeing Miss Allsop stirs local gossip. Depuy Constable unearths a buried watch on Market Bridge and Rye Straw folks request mail stops only with mail. Hogwallow Improvement Association meets next week amid mud hole talks and Post Office theater of local humor continues.
The Greensboro News notes J T Hedrick of Lexington plans a potato crop with cabbage rows, while Tilden Hedrick contracts for 25000 dollars of seed potatoes and 1000 cabbage plants for a 200 acre truck patch. The piece pokes at farming vs finance and questions regional crop choices versus traditional money crops.
A dubious patent like advertisement promises to cure a cold in one day with a laxative containing bromine and quinine. The offer touts stopping cough and headache while urging readers to pay for a box with a signature seal, showing typical misleading marketing.
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