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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1912
Page
5
A fragment notes that a responsible merchant is advised to attend tomorrow's market to obtain figures. The brief hints at planned activity or pricing discussions expected at the market. Names or locations are not clear in the readable text.
A dense OCR of notices, sales, rents, lost items, and ads from Union County area papers. Includes rooms for rent, farm for sale, tools, watches, bids, feed, groceries, and livestock. Names like Mrs Ida Broom, Ajax Supply Company Joliet, W R Outen Co, Bruner & Huey, Preslar, and Union Drug Co appear with various offers and requests across Monroe Pageland Wingate and nearby towns.
In Buford township four charges against John and Frank Funderburk center on stealing thousands of roasting ears from many fields. Four to five thousand ears are missing. Witnesses testified amid steady courtroom activity. Defenders are Vann and Lemmond with J J Parker assisting prosecutor Pratt. Several residents, including Garrison Medtin and Alf Funderburk, reported losses as the trial continued through Friday to Monday. Separately, Rev N S Oxburn Jr will sail October for Japan to begin foreign mission work after resigning from Chadwick Methodist in Charlotte.
A New York World feature portrays the life and death of Jack Johnson’s wife in a harrowing, melodramatic panorama. It centers on a father crushed by his daughter’s shame, a sister’s shattered prospects, and a brother burdened by stigma, as a woman marries a Black man and ends her life amid public disgrace.
Miss Lillian Blakeney leaves for Littleton Female College A. P. Blakeney and others. Mr PH Bruner of Richmond visits Mrs Phifer. J L Everett returns from Balt trip. W L Kibbie of Newberry visits Durvard Walker. Sarah Redwine to Macon Institute Danville. Mrs Cox of Janes Creek to Georgia. Leva Green goes to Bel Font to teach. Mrs Clyde Moore and child head to Irm ingham Ala. Rev Dr Gurney and N S Matthews attend Mecklenburg Presbytery at Ropewell. Ice cream supper and town party at Wesley Chapel next Saturday. James Morrow and Jimsley Pletcher to Fishburn Military Academy Waynesboro. Mrs D E B Lowder and family move to Ridgecrest new home.
Governor Woodrow Wilson made impromptu speeches from a moving train through Ohio Indiana and Illinois on Sept 16 responding to Senator Beveridge's charge that a future Wilson administration would be bossed by party bosses He framed monopoly as a Republican risk and warned that trusts and bosses would influence government unless reforms curb them The article also notes local marriages school enrollments and a baseball game in Wingate and Monroe with various local figures attending or being mentioned
The authoress Mrs Stirling relays a humorous Horsforth hunting story. A supposed skull fracture causes fear for the boy’s mother while the apothecary is summoned. John of Horsforth insists the lad’s brain is fine after a Euclid problem is solved, prompting the apothecary to humorously test the situation.
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