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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1911
Page
5
Market notes list various produce items including seed, young chickens, roosters, butter, hams, beeswax and corn with price ranges and quantity references. The fragmentary item lacks clear dates or locations but indicates typical rural trade activity and seasonal inventory.
Special notices advertise Monroe Hide and Fur Co buying hides furs and mac and horse hides, plus numerous real estate offerings. Listings include rental houses on Vann Heights and Washington Street, farms near Monroe and Mineral Springs, many sales of land and timber, livestock like Jersey cows and mules, farm equipment, and local services from Doster Doster to Monroe Furniture Co and Piedmont Buggy Company. Names include Blair, W. T. Laney, J. C. Laney, W. Thos Laney, Claud Wimberley, Lester B. Helms, H. Crowell, and W. R. Outen Co.
A long list of Monroe merchants and sales items, including Belk and Co. announcing continued business and inviting patronage, plus notices for rentals, land sales, and local shops offering groceries, dairy products, stationery, watches, furniture, and school room supplies. A land sale notice in Union County is also included with terms and dates.
Local society items list visitors arriving in town, travels to Baltimore for treatment, weddings to be held in Charlotte, and ongoing church and mission events. Mentions Laura Spong, Connie Fairley, Laura Teath, Mrs. W. F. Benton, and Mr. A. M. Stack among others. Reports stock market and crop outlook, railway bonds, rattlesnake encounters, and travel between Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.
A jumble of short items reports Miss Adamsbury and Lee & Lee’s williner back for the season, a Whither son leaving for Atlanta to study medicine, cinema program notes for Dixie with a war scene, Over the Cliff, a comedy and songs, and typhoid affecting Master Tom Lee and Little Nons. It mentions a fatal gravel pit accident, Stolypin’s assassination, G D Broom’s 82nd birthday and related visits, Oscar Hamilton’s brief stay before duties as Hemingway principal, and a summer newspaper job in Ten dlersonville.
An old style advertisement claims ALM Nash & Son offer top prices for cotton seed with repeated calls to bring seed in and compare offers. The short note emphasizes selling seed to the firm for potentially high returns.
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