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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1917
Page
6
The Dot Farm puzzle picture concludes the series with the final installment printed for permanent book form. © 1916 Wheeler Syndicate Inc. No. 3.
In a New York store silverware department a woman tries to return pepper and salt shakers as gifts. Her donor wife Mrs B apologizes, but the returner seeks two more matching shakers. The courteous clerk retrieves two extra pieces and the customer leaves with a pleased smile after exchanging a ten dollar note.
Congress cleared the way for Colonel Roosevelt to be authorized to recruit a division for service in France. The House voted 215 to 178 to empower the President, overturning prior actions, with the measure heading to final conference and then to President Wilson for signature.
Original advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general strengthening tonic that drives out malaria, enriches the blood, and builds up the system for adults and children.
President Wilson told a Washington crowd that the current war requires grim sacrifice but will unite the nation and erase North South divisions. He warned the war effort should be channeled through Red Cross channels and lauded women volunteers. Taft introduced him, and the ceremony honored Civil War era women with an $800000 government built memorial.
A propitious obituary poem mourning Beulah Helms of Unionville North Carolina who died in May 1917. The verse speaks of her ready departure for heaven and the grief of friends left on earth while hoping to meet again on the blissful shore. The text invokes judgment and eternal reunion and reflects a community sentiment from the period.
May 12 report from Washington cites sharp July and September grain price rises on the Chicago Exchange. Agriculture official Carl Vrooman urges government action to curb food gamblers and economic parasites inflating costs for the poor. He frames the issue as government control over food vs speculative control, warning prices may stay high regardless of trading. Russian Proletariat rejects separate peace. M Skobleff says consigning to a separate peace harms Russian democracy. army must be potent and offensive, not stalled in trenches.
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