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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1915
Page
7
Rev J A Rice argues the church has three NT tasks evangelization education and social reform. It should reach the poor abroad and home, teach practical religious living through a week long church curriculum, and Christianize social order while promoting persistent agriculture as prosperity.
Wall Street Journal notes estimates of Alfred G Vanderbilt estate exceed 100 million and may take years to appraise. It outlines land and hotel plans, inheritance splits with Cornelius, and Alfreds shift from railroad leadership to finance and horsemanship.
A historical overview notes large domestic slaughter and harvest figures totaling thousands of cattle hogs sheep and poultry plus hundreds of millions of bushels cereals and vegetables prepared for meals. It contrasts ample supply with demand for variety and cites $200 million yearly in farm goods imported abroad that could be produced domestically.
New York families contributed clothing hats shoes and other wear to a Bundle Day organized by the mayor's Committee for the Relief of the Unemployed. Mrs Vincent Astor appears at the committee headquarters assisting in bundle distribution.
Nickletown Kansas plans a spring town election with four remaining families. Police judge George Cowles will seek mayor, joined by T. Q. Allen and Frank Willis with Doncar Mulrow as the fourth candidate. All three men pledge to vote for themselves. women voters may decide the outcome. Nickletown sits in the northeast Woodlawn county area.
Mr E Williams of Hampton Ohio says Pine-Honey keeps his family well. The ad touts Dr Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey as an instant relief remedy that penetrates throat and lung linings to destroy germs and aid natural healing at your drug store 250.
North Topeka Baptist church in Topeka Kansas will serve coffee and dough nuts after weekday prayer meetings. Rocking chairs will be provided for comfort during services and motor cars will transport cripples and invalids to and from the church. The congregation aims to make the church a social center where members and strangers can meet in a pleasant setting.
By virtue of a judgment of Union County superior court in the case Austin vs Brooks, sale of 11 acre Goose Creek township tract seven miles from Marshville will occur at the Union County courthouse at noon for cash with 1 4 down and balance in six months bearing interest. Com Vann and Sikes commissioners.
The City of Monroe defines sewerage boundaries from Crowell and Stewart to Bryan then Church and back. Property owners must replace surface privies with sewer-connected water closets by June 30, 1915, and keep premises within mains free of surface closets and improper waste. Violators face a $50 fine. ordinance takes effect July 1, 1915, adopted May 17, 1915, by Mayor John Griffith.
Berlin reports soldiers in the field sending home substantial funds. A Dresden postmaster notes one Saxon reserve division sent 20,000 postal orders totaling 800,000 marks in a month. Across the district orders amounted to 2,500,000 marks, implying about 100,000,000 marks empire wide.
Rail schedule lists multiple through and local trains between Charlotte Monroe Birmingham Atlanta Portsmouth New York Wilmington Raleigh and Rutherfordton with departures and arrivals at various times including No 14 No 16 No 11 No 12 No 15 No 6 and No 20.
A letter from a Paris soldier describes starlings in northern France mimicking the whistling of shells and bullets. He laments that even when German fire ceases the birds' noises rob soldiers of peace, echoing the war’s clamor.
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