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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1917
Page
7
Annual reunion of Confederate Veterans named under state events with gathering plans and dates announced for veterans and descendants, featuring memories, speakers, and community participation at a local veterans hall and nearby venues under official sponsorship.
Miss Flatle Belcher lies with a cold after a party, while local storekeeper notes improving business. Raz Barlow visits post office in new Sunday clothes, a letter reveals a distant sweetheart. Tickville inquiries find underweight hogs and plans for summer parcel rates. Community theater, church programs, and a cattle start, plus a colorful tale of Governor Bickett and a Negro farmer. Military transport notes and rail lore close the column.
Article opens with health advice on digestion and Chamberlain's Tablets, urging slow eating and regular bowels for weak stomachs. It then reports a slight automobile wreck in Marshville on Tuesday afternoon where a car skidded into a ditch near J M Littles stable. occupants were scratched and the windshield shattered.
The advertisement touts Sloan's Liniment as a clean liquid relief for rheumatism pains and aches and suggests it works faster than plasters without rubbing. It claims prompt relief for exposure injuries, strains, sprains, gout, lumbago, toothache, back ache, and stiff neck. At druggists 25c.
Mr. W. M. Davis, secretary of the highway construction committee, reports a letter from State Highway Engineer W. S. Fallis announcing $2,500 allocated from the State highway fund to Marshville township. Funds will be combined with existing money and work on the Marshyville township highway likely starts within a few weeks.
The French and British adopt steel helmets weighing 1.25 to 1.5 pounds. They use steel plates for the convex shell and for the vigor and neck piece, with leather and cloth for the lining and aluminum for springs between the lining and interior. The steel must be very pure, free from phosphorus and sulfur, and heating would weaken it. A dull gray coating, akin to that used on the 75 millimeter gun, is spray-applied for rapid, even coverage, with a gas-drying step to set the finish.
A reader is urged to patronize a strictly cash store that guarantees every article sold as represented and offers to cover any expenses or inconvenience from transactions. The ad emphasizes quick profits for buyers and sellers, urges cash payments, and claims lower prices and necessary purchases, asserting the store’s superiority and wide accessibility.
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