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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1917
Page
8
The Plano theatre announces a weekend schedule featuring Pearl White and Harold Lloyd with Pathe News and a weeklong program by actress Pearl White. The venue restricts admission by race and offers 5 to 20 cent prices with ushers, aiming for a first class, clean, sanitary venue.
Mr Bud Melton aged 28 died Saturday at his brother Henry Melton’s home after eight months with tuberculosis. He leaves a wife and three children, two brothers Henry and Wesley, a half brother Jessie Threatt, a sister Mrs Henry Belk, and both parents predeceased him. Funeral at Mt Zion Baptist cemetery officiated by Rev R M Hargies. Community mourns his loss.
In a simple beauty filled wedding at the Smith home on Houston street, Miss Mabel Smith wed Louis H. Couch with Rev. George P. Stevens officiating. The parlor glowed with white roses ferns and ivy as Mrs. Herndon Hasty led Mendelssohn’s march. The bride wore midnight blue, and the couple plans home at Cry Point Virginia after May 15.
A gray haired tramp under a Kansas viaduct waits with hundreds for a westbound freight to harvest fields. A black kitten wanders into the gathering, is playfuly tucked into his coat pocket as the train nears.
A wandering man shares a train journey with a kitten named Weary Willie. The cat brings luck and companionship, helping him settle on a Western Kansas farm. He harvests thirty bushels per acre, leases land, and becomes a steady worker, with the cat mothering five kittens.
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