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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
6
Tommy and cousin Alice enjoy a perfect day on the farm feeding pigs swinging hunting eggs and cookies and apples. He wakes to tapping outside his window finds a surprise and follows a dot based puzzle to reveal The Dot Farm story complete in book form.
Miss Allie May Paxton fourteen died Sunday at her home on Mr J H Weir's place after a few months illness caused by tuberculosis. Burial was held at Waxhaw Baptist church Monday afternoon. The item includes juvenile death and local church service details.
Zeb Green reports at the Marshville Home meeting on raising food production and conserving supplies amid last year’s poor crop and wartime demand. Tom Broom proposes new crops for May and June planting while Luther Higgins cites soy beans and hog feed debates. local road concerns from Monroe and Mecklenburg counties are aired with praise for good roads advocates like H B Varner and chatter about speed limits and highway projects.
American sailors from the Scorpion are welcomed in Paris as they arrive after a month of detentions by Germans and Austrians. Commander Morton is expected, while two officers and the crew remain interned in Constantinople. The men recount harsh treatment in Nish under German control and better conditions for Austrians. They note widespread hunger and detainment of Red Cross-linked civilians, with starvation deaths in Constantinople, and describe Turkish troops as ragged and marching barefoot in the capital.
Richmond plan to turn Curle's Neck Farm to the U.S. government for wartime use prompts C. K. Williams to auction his famed trotting horses at Madison Square Garden on June 6. The James River estate and its facilities are offered as a cavalry concentration point for the Eastern United States. The Billings Stud features the elite Harvester, valued at $65,000, with a 2.01 record.
An advice piece promotes amiability as a path to happiness while linking constipation to gloom. It endorses Chamberlain's Tablets, claiming they not only relieve bowel movement issues but also improve appetite and digestion. The item reads like a brief public health tip from a vintage newspaper.
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