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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1914
Page
8
Market and business notices advertise fresh meats at the Mysors building, J. J. Lockhart dry cleaning, Monroe Steam Laundry readiness, and Tharp Hardware products. Lost locket on Camden road. rewards offered. Rentals, farm sales, and second floor rooms listed along with car tires and dry goods. Community notices include a moonlit drive service and clover seed sales.
Market prices for staple goods are listed with today’s figures and caveats that prices may change tomorrow. The report mentions Armour Fertilizer Works plans for temporary warehouse receipts and financing tied to cotton, plus commentary on cotton crop prospects, banking support, and sugar price movements influenced by European supply and wartime demand.
In Waxhaw Enterprise news, Keziah delivers a wheelbarrow protest to Lancaster after a wager with H A Slagle over the South Carolina senatorial race. Keziah won the bet but claims his opponent flickered. Also caught: lost pocketbook of Archie King, injurious gin scaffold fall on Baxter Blythe, and calves that won’t nurse. Waxhaw school opens Monday with teachers listed.
The American Sugar Reducing Company cites wartime crop losses in Europe as the reason for sugar price increases. It released a statement defending the higher prices and blaming disruptions in the sugar supply chain on the war.
In Rutherford County last week John R B Washburn and others met at a melon patch where a water meeting party was invited. Washburns son James fired with a 22 rifle hitting Micow in the arm and breast as he and another man entered the patch to steal melons. The robbers fled after the shooting.
North Carolina and Union county observers note a heated primary election similar to South Carolina. South Carolinians are direct in labeling falsehoods, while North Carolinians use softer language to describe the same ugly political scene.
The exchange shows Lester Tillman backing Governor Cole L Blease after his 1890 South Carolina election, citing a congratulatory telegram. Later Tillman opposed Blease and sent a jab about the heathen rage, then Ben retaliated with a final telegram invoking scripture and bidding farewell.
Henry Bhay of Bear Valley Transportation faces a standoff with a driver on Bear Creek hill in Santa Ana canyon. 1,200 pounds of dynamite on Shay’s truck are cited as the leverage to force the other vehicle to back up and allow passage toward the top, ending the near collision with a turn out.
John Neale cashier and William P. Shepard assistant cashier of Sackett Wilhelms Lithograph company faced a robbery at their Grand Street and Morgan Avenue plant in Williamsburg New York as three youths blocked the elevator. Neale clung to a bag containing 9600 dollars and dropped it when the elevator descended. Elevator operator Charles H Booth grabbed the bag and fired upward, scattering the robbers who escaped leaving Neale and Shepard bruised.
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