Local Markets Reported Mixed by Merchants
Fragment shows traders advising responsible merchants to set fair prices. Mentions a potential price around 11.65 in local markets. No clear individuals or organizations identified.
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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1912
Page
5
Fragment shows traders advising responsible merchants to set fair prices. Mentions a potential price around 11.65 in local markets. No clear individuals or organizations identified.
Fresh shipment of Melrose flour and sale of two building lots on Morris Street and Tollyrand Avenue. Also listings for cotton seed meal, farm rentals, goods from Co operative Mercantile Co, veterinary services, and legal notices of land sales and partition auctions in Union County with dates in 1912.
Miss Sarah Welsh sails to St Marys College Raleigh. Mr T L A Davis of Charlotte visits Sandy Ridge. Rufus Armfield promotes stock sales. Miss Sadie Burch returns home from Mt Croghan. Ben Broom of Knoxville visits family. Everett Melton to Laurinburg for Seaboard job. Dr Walter T Robertson practicing in Taxahaw. Lilian and May Cuthbertson move and teach. Hampton Price leaves for State University. Agnes Scott students depart. Tom Crowell to Baltimore for studies. Mrs N H Wharton returns to California. S Bivens elected poet at State University. Health improvement for A L Cuthbertson. Rev W J Mellichampe to New York for treatment. Don Laws of Yellow Jacket mulls congress. Hinsons marry at Goose Creek. Conference at Mill Creek church planned. Dirwood Waller and W Kibbler to Baltimore. Simp son family reunion at Goose Creek. T J Payne buys Henderson Gin and Attorne ys business, firm continues. A J Henderson to focus on Koller Mill. Monroe cotton platform hits record bale day. Market reports cite price fairness. local competition supports strong prices.
In the Recorder's Court, multiple defendants faced charges from larceny involving growing crops to assault and battery. Funderburk received four months for larceny. Pink Thomas and several others faced fines or suspended sentences for various offenses including disturbing worship and gambling. Several defendants were bound over or jailed, with costs assigned in most cases.
A young doctor frets over a costly rental for an office with no sun, limited light, a stuffy elevator, worn furnishings, and crowding outside as trucks and carts weave through the street. The agent, silent, finally notes the upside: opportunity amid danger.
A humorous exchange questions Darwinian claims that the ear is a breathing adaptation in fish. A self-described expert counters, calling the idea impractical and wonders how a fish could snore without waking itself.
Newark New Jersey police visit Mrs Bernard Shore at home to tell her husband is killed in a car accident. She sits by the window crying and predicts something awful, then faints.
A quirky note explains a Norfolk town named Diss seems to vanish when approached. The pun hinges on the town name and the phrase Diss appears, illustrating a playful, local humor item from Pearson's.
Summer months may bring unusual bowels in mothers and neglect can lead to serious trouble. Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoe Remedy is dependable and for sale by all dealers.
A mission worker offered fruit to a convalescing boy in a tenement. The father tersely said the boy ate most of it but revealed the boy prefers dainty foods like pigs feet. The exchange highlights a humorous clash over tastes and cultural phrases.
Close by Himself and South Trimble joke about a Kentucky orator’s loquacity. Peleg Anderson visits a Louisville music shop seeking a mouth organ. The clerk jokes about making a custom organ to fit his large mouth.
A brief dramatic exchange notes a walking tour speaker and the unexpected sighting of a lone tramp nearby. The shepherd reflects on stranger encounters, hinting at a tense mood amid solitary upland scenery.
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