Indian Trail notes a big land sale and mining news
The Journal correspondent describes a crowded auction day in Indian Trail with sales prices from fifteen to five hundred dollars, a public forecast of town growth, and local gossip. The piece also covers local misadventures with a mowing machine and community notices, including church and civic updates.
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Chicago
Greensboro
Tipperary
Europe
Indian Trail
London
New York
Charlotte
Min
Bill
Weill
Nye
Panthea Harkey
Samuel Harkey
Mixe Eula Broom
Antioch
Lille Garmon
King of
Shiloh
Wilma Harkey
J. L. Younts
North Carolina
Northern
J. R. Benton
Monroe
John Benton
R. H. Shaw
Rockingham
J. W. Rallings
John Harkey
A Noble Man Written for The Journal
A short verse praising a noble man named TL, noted as living in western old Monroe, with the speaker asserting the reader knows him well and will recognize him.
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Old
Monroe
Try a Little Smile Amid Upside Down Times
The verse encourages a light heart during hardship urging a small smile to nurture better days. It blends a faith note with resilience and ends with a maxim about self-made men finding satisfaction in work.
Statesville Landmark Praises Union County Record
The Monroe papers boast there is not a single citizen in Union County jail and that the county grand jury had no business when the criminal court met, adjourned for lack of cases. A fine record for a 33,000 population county, and citizens may feel justly proud.
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Union
Statesville
Monroe
Union County
Trade with neighbors to keep roofs over heads
A compact call to mutual aid through commerce, urging readers to bolster prosperity by doing business with local partners and helping neighbors. The message emphasizes shared benefit, neighborly support, and practical steps to strengthen communal footing in tough times.
You Help Him and He Will Help You Trade Ad
A promotional blurb touts home trade and savings schemes as a booming town leads readers to participate. The brief emphasizes reciprocal benefit and community growth through home purchases. Local optimism frames the sales pitch as a mutual aid approach.
Serbia Is Being Overrun Retreat of a Frontier People
A newspaper correspondent in Serbia depicts northern Serbia’s clearance as a retreat of a people not an army. A muddy road to the south carries gun carriages, war material, and a long procession of civilians. The wounded, peasants, and troops intermingle as the stream flows southward toward an unknown destination. Nish is isolated, shops closed, and Allied hopes unrealized.
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Belgium
Serbia
United States
Peonot
Topola
Peter
Nish
M. Youvanovich
Editor Warns Kaiser Peace Talks Will Be Held Back
In a mock editorial from Waxhaw Enterprise and Marshville Hone the editor boasts friendly ties with the Kaiser and Central Powers leaders but says no advance hints on peace proposals will be given. The piece warns Allied leaders should strengthen their position or risk a tough wind-up when terms are finally presented.
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United States
America
Kaiser
Waxhaw Enterprise
Marshville
Greece in Balkans Shifts as Venizelos Rises Politically
Balkan focus returns to Greece as cabinet under Venizelos gains strength while King Constantine withholds a clear stance. Reported Allied support boosts Entente position, with Serbians repelling Bulgarians and fighting continues along Nish and Strumitsa. News notes Russian landing near Varna unconfirmed. Saloniki troops move to aid Serbia. In France and Belgium, Champagne trench actions persist with frequent trench fighting and artillery duels.
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Greece
Balkans
Alexander Zaimis Hap
Blutherios Venizelos
Constantine
London
M. Venzelos
Serbia
Progess
Nish
Nisava
Bela Palanka
Strumitsa
Babuna
Varna
Mack Sea
Petrograd
Saloniki
Dvingh
Mikulisehski
Hambers
Stripaiver
Stenikower
Gallet
Vienna
Teutons
Stenikowec
Champagne
France
Belgium
Suffrage gains and party shifts in Tuesday elections
The latest returns show mixed results: Pennsylvania and New York uphold large anti suffrage majorities, while twenty five of sixty seven counties in the Keystone State vote for suffrage. Massachusetts and Ohio reveal defeats of reform efforts with party gains in state legislatures and governorship races.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Ohio
Poetit
Htay
York
Samuel W. McCall
Senate
House
Maryland
Emerson C. Harrison
Ovington
Weller
Kentucky
A. O. Stanley
Edwin P. Merrow
William 8. Bennett
Congress
New Jersey
Virginia
Fusioniem
Norfolk County
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Willie
Sunshine
Mr. Goat
Waxhaw
Leslie Plyler
Wingate
N.S. Marsh
Ramseur
N. C
KR. C. Bivens
Jerome
Messrs
Braxton Gaddy
Stanfield
Stanley County
T. A. Presley
Faulks
Charette
T. M. Fields
Wilmington
Fields
R. L. Womble
O. Robinson
Brutus Smith
Pastor Black
Austin's Grove
Black
C. H. Martin
South Carolina
Bro
M.D
D. D
Petimist
Says Pranch
Chamber of Deputies
Enthusiass
Briand
Spea
Lang Exper
New Two Continents
W York
Wilson
Manhattan Club
Porve
Ely Joseph
Servia
Asheville
Pursday
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