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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1914
Page
4
A London vicar is summoned after a wealthy Kensington resident seeks spiritual counsel on his deathbed. A mysterious agitated lady guides the clergyman to a mansion by taxi. she and the cab vanish, leaving the vicar and the dying man puzzled. The master dies soon after and a portrait of the vanished lady is revealed as his wife who had died years before.
German Pole Michowski, attached to a Leipzig aeroplane firm, is jailed in Russia as a suspected flying spy. Arrested near Warsaw after an emergency landing, he faces espionage charges. Germany seeks his release, claiming he was attempting a long distance prize flight at the time.
A German court in Amberg heard a young girl, a cashier and newly engaged, plead for mercy over past theft. She was pressed to reveal details and opened a vein in court, threatening death as officials pressed for the testimony.
In Washington, wooden Indians vanish from streets as tobacco firms shift to lithographs of actors. Police curb their sidewalk presence for obstructing walkways and displaying weapons. Older figures crack, split, and are discarded or used as fire fuel as stores modernize.
The piece profiles James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois and former Virginia governor Andrew Jackson Montague as modern Alphonse and Gaston. It notes Lewis as Virginia born and Georgia raised with Virginian schooling and Montague’s Virginia roots, their courteous salutations, and a humorous encounter over an Internal Revenue Service appointment in Peoria.
An elderly gallery knitter sat through a Senate session, then paused to knit as debate heated. Her calm gaze and quiet needlework seemed to temper rhetoric, suggesting a return to temperate truth and self critique from the chamber.
The senator's physician kept details private until he recovered, then Stone joked about his leg. A pension examiner recounted a Civil War veteran claiming phlebitis entitlement, with a local board investigating. The doctor’s report cited leg markings from bites as evidence.
By order of the Superior Court of Union County in Ellison Mills vs Andrew Mills et al the Mary Mills tract near Mills school house in Lanes Creek township is offered for sale to the highest bidder. One third cash and balance in six months at the courthouse door in Monroe on Saturday May 30 1914 at 12 noon. The land will be surveyed prior to sale and sold in three parts first then as a whole with bids held open twenty days. Bidding starts at 1125. See Love McNeely for survey plats.
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