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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1913
Page
7
A wartime era admonition urges young men seeking work to quickly adapt to the job and office environment or risk being replaced. The piece promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a skin remedy, praised by publisher J. T. Sossaman for healing rashes after other treatments failed, priced at 25 cents and sold by English Drug Co.
An editorial calls for open schoolhouses and church buildings as community centers in a progressive age. It argues schools and churches must serve all people and urges laws compelling accessibility for lawful assemblies when facilities are not in use. A separate notice advertises a May 31 date for selling Union county farm land, detailing parcel boundaries, prior deeds, payment terms, and legal representation.
A bomb addressed to police magistrate Henry Curtis Bennett was found at Bow Street and neutralized after a water dousing. Separately, suffragists placed bombs on a Kingston to London train. arson squads torched a vacant Highlands house at Sandgate on Sea. Lectures, legal hearings, and postoffice damage were reported as authorities investigate militant suffragette actions.
A fragmentary excerpt advises honesty and consideration to win esteem. It urges open avowal of thoughts, restraint in petty disputes, and constant good humor to endure social disapproval. Contends temper control yields happiness and a personal edge over others.
W P Whitmire reports that Misses Mises Victorial and Mary Galloway of Brevard donated a tract near Brevard to the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville, valued at 822,000 with about 100 acres. The plan is to establish an auxiliary home on the property for permanent donors. A land sale notice and legal proceedings for Union County properties follow in the same report.
Public notices endorse Down's Kidney Pills with over one hundred thousand testimonials. Monroe residents journal reader Mrs Pearl McCall of Mayne Street Monroe North Carolina recalls nerve and back pain relief after taking Down's Kidney Pills from English Drug Co. Readers urged to ask for the remedy, as Buffalo and other stores carry Fos. Dean's Pills cited in the ad copy.
Fred Weimer, from Indiana, spent last Christmas in New York. On Christmas night he appeared grim, comparing his mood to a hearse and an undertaker. A fiend asked if Christmas away from home made him sad, and Weimer replied that his middle name is trouble and he is thinking grief.
A vintage advertisement proclaims Porter's Antiseptic Healing Oil cures old sores and wounds that other remedies fail to cure. It promises pain relief and healing simultaneously, listing prices of 25c, 50c, and $1.00.
Monroes travel routes include the Seaboard Air Line from Charlotte to Wilmington and Portsmouth with electric lighted sleepers between New York Birmingham and Charlotte. Listed trains show times for departures and arrivals through Raleigh Rutherfordton Wilmington and Ports mouth with officials Brigman Leard and Ryan named for tickets and agency inquiries.
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