Russia Destined to Play an Import ant Part
Russia, a vast nation of about 170 million, with vast land, mineral, lumber, and agricultural resources, is portrayed as set to emerge from medieval constraints. It is self-sufficient in food and a major grain exporter, while also buying American agricultural implements as Western development continues. The piece notes Russia’s enormous size, spanning about 9,000 miles coast to coast, triple the US width.
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Europe
Asia
Russia
United States
New York
San Francisco
Sweetheart of Claude Allen Marries Anathe
Nellie Wiesler, once devoted fiancée of Claude Allen amid his Virginia trial and death sentence, marries J. Victor Bowman of Coalwood, Va. She likely honors Claude in memory while embracing new life with another. The piece ends with quotes on goodness and perseverance.
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Claude Allen
Anathe
Virginia
Allen
Nellie Wiesler
Claude
J. Victor Bowman
Coalwood
Nel- Ne
Ringling Day in Charlotte Promises Spectacle and Pageant
Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Shows will exhibit in Charlotte on October Sth with a five train caravan loaded with wonder to entertain a large crowd. The spectacle Solomon and the Queen of Sheba will open on the world’s largest stage costing 1 000 000, featuring 585 acts including famed riders and animals. A free street parade precedes the performance and the circus promises bigger and better attractions. In Marshville two girls were injured when their auto veered into a stump on a curve, the crash blamed on a hind wheel.
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Ringling Brothers
Charlotte
Sheba
America
Must Be Fashionable and Cotton Clothes Movement
A columnist urges The Home to launch a movement to encourage women to wear cotton attire. The idea is praised as good but doubted to succeed without a decree issued through fashion centers. A Shakespearean aside questions distilling good from evil.
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Marshville
Coca Cola As Safe as Tea and Coffee Says Scientist
A science view argues superstition harms civilization and cites caffeine as beneficial for the nervous system when used in moderation. It claims Coca-Cola, containing caffeine with sugar and flavoring extracts, offers tea and coffee advantages without their disadvantages, countering past health worries.
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Coca-Cola
Astoria Steamer Disaster Drowns Coastwise Passengers
A dispatch from Astoria reports a steamer was pounded to pieces in a gale about 69 miles from the Columbia River mouth, drowning between 70 and 80 men women and children coastwise passengers and crew. The notice includes a Burns quotation about Muse and nature.
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Astoria
Oregon
Say
Columbia River
Notice of Sale of Land Near Monroe by Mary Alexander et al
Commissioners will sell at Monroe courthouse on a Saturday in October 1914 at noon lands in Monroe township Union County N C. Tracts include 52 ft on Jefferson St and 90 ft on Hayne St with timbered farm lands near Beaver Dam Creek. Subdivided into five lots and a later whole sale option. Terms: one fourth cash in each of four installments with interest and title retained until full payment.
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Superior Court of
Union County
Mary Alexander
Als
M. L. Flow
A. D
Monroe
N. C
Monroe Township
Natin V. Flow
Mary E. Flow
Jefferson St
Crowell St
Hayne St
A. M. Crowells
C. L. Helms
Houston
Beaver Dam
CN. Simpson
Adolphus Moore
Stewart Fork Creek
I. F. Plyler
John Griffith
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George Eliot
Ringling
Marshall Strawn
Zula Stegall
Hallie Strawn
Grant Stegall
Dub
City of
Oxford
Jerome Bolick
Columbus
Fowler & Lee, Sale and Exchange Stable
Monroe, N. C
Baker’s
Bank of Union Building
Monroe Insurance & Investment Company
G. B. Caldwell
R. B. Redwine
H. B. Clark
DR. E. S. Green
Belk-Bundy
Belk’s Store
Monroe, N
W. B. Houston
Fitzgerald
Courthouse
D. T. Waller
First National Bank
Tryon St
B. C. Redfearn
Bruner
Matthews
W. C. Lemmond
Old Library Room
Moures
N.C
M. Waller
Live and Let Live Grocer
McCall’s
Reliable Pressing Club
Beasley Street
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