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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1914
Page
6
An executive in New York says hotels and restaurants are exporting more than usual this winter as fashionable people entertain at home. He notes lavish dinners fade, expenses drop, and guests now expect economical meals with precise cost awareness.
The Southern Savings Bank closed its doors last Tuesday night due to failures in real estate loans. Bank examiners found the books in poor shape but expect depositors to receive full amounts due. President John Galledge and cashier W P Ledbetter led the bank’s management amid a broader county banking system remaining sound.
The Military Board nominating committee released a roster of 1300 Oxford members recommended for commissions, but many are already graduates or ineligible. Oxford undergraduates contributed 1600 to Britain’s land forces, while American and Indian students remain, and German Rhodes scholars stand out. Work at Baden and Albemarle Enterprise stalled with funds tied to the European war.
Nov 4 report from Canton HL and Marylad Estate items show Herbert Harris intends to use his share for a life membership in the International Typographical Union and a $25,000 gift to the Printers' Home in Colorado. Price inherits $4,000,000 to divide among five children after a share for his own use.
Raleigh Dispatch reports potential Belgian refugee settlements in North Carolina linked to Director Kilgore and Malcom McDow. The plan envisions hundreds of agricultural migrants from Holland, France and England finding self supporting farms with state and national expert data, ads highlighting south climate and crops.
The piece targets so called town killers who refuse to support community projects. It claims such individuals avoid church, hospital, college or fair support and criticize neighboring towns while failing to help their own. It notes they harm local business and public efforts, preferring to do little beyond themselves.
The piece opens with an Irish applicant in Detroit quizzed by a shop boss about carpentry and a Venetian blind as a test. It then discusses a major flour mill pushing cotton sacks to replace jute, aiming to boost cotton demand and farmers’ finances. A Longfellow quotation closes the fragment.
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