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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
2
The Monroe Journal urges subscribers to pay their subscriptions, describing such payments as debts of honor with no binding papers. It asks readers to mail in payments or enclose a premium request if visiting Monroe soon, indicating advance handling by mail.
Distress after eating belching and indigestion signal stomach upset. Miona Stomach Tablets claimed to stop distress quickly and improve digestion. English Drug Co promotes fifty cent box with money back guarantee. Also Dr King’s New Life Pills offered as laxative with 25 cent price and testimonial from Mrs M C Dunlap of Leadville Tenn.
An advertisement touts a prescription for malaria or chills and fever claiming five of six doses break the illness when taken as a tonic. It warns the fever will not return, says it acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 250
The article notes strong demand for farm products in the Middle West and Southwest amid drought. It reports cotton and corn yields are uncertain and prices hold firm, with expectations that many farmers may recover financially this season if business remains steady.
Circulation 2 in Congress moves forward as some National banks weigh surrendering charters to state banks. The bill targets limiting money trusts and restraining a few Newark banks from past practices while seeking a more uniform monetary system. Proponents say it will curb future abuses and improve district escalation. The outcome hinges on the fate of the currency proposal now pending.
The State of North Carolina regulates its banks through the Corporation Commission which issues rules to safeguard public interests. Bank examiners inspect conditions to correct irregularities, and a common belief that national banks are safer than state banks is challenged.
The Bank of Union proclaims it is a state institution with ample capital and surplus to reassure depositors. It pledges to yield its full duty to the public, welcomes all customers during the fall season, and extends a cordial welcome while noting no hostility toward competing institutions.
The Iowa W C T U says Cedar Rapids welcome to local liquor dealers exposes social costs. The address cites saloons as a drain on taxpayers and public welfare, noting high rates of crime, insanity, pauperism, and charity burdens. WCTU members warn the day is near when the community will reject saloons.
The Rattle Creek Enquirer observes paradoxes in civic life noting no town lists saloons among assets yet many ads mark “No boozer” in hiring and saloons are closed during crises. It highlights public expectations of sobriety and order amid riot or crisis conditions.
A historical sheet notes that liquor traffic and white slave trade are bound together in vice commissions reports. It cites that where vice is tolerated, strong drink is forbidden and that destroying liquor would largely solve vice. Artemus Ward and a Cleveland report are quoted as opinion on public morals.
Tracts published in London 1647 urge women to vote and sit in parliament. References to The Parliament of Women and a later tract A Parliament of Ladies describe female governance seeking ease, pride, and dominance. Also includes advertisements for baby skin treatment and a public land sale notice in Union County North Carolina with details of the court sale and parcels.
Detroit Free Press notes a domestic exchange where one partner questions affording new clothing while the other defends spending on personal enjoyment. The talk shows strain between frugality for business and demands for etiquette and social appearances.
A celebrated aurist admits to giving friends earache relief steps from the Family Doctor. With the patient on the bed and the painful ear uppermost, use a warm water rinse for 16 to 20 minutes, then drain and plug the ear with warm glycerin and cotton. Repeat hourly until relief.
Two youths Goninon and Cooper trap a 12 ft 6 in octopus off Cornwall Tasmania. Its stomach holds a shirt matching one worn by miner Richard Shaw Burke, missing months ago after being swept from Trumpeter Rock 80 yards away. The find marks the largest Tasmanian west coast octopus on record.
Charlie, cashier at a country bank, refuses to cash a check for May after their quarrel. She declares they will meet as perfect strangers. May tries again, but Charlie cites bank rules, insisting she find someone in town to identify her before payment.
The article credits Dr. Jesse Larear of the United States Army with discovering that yellow fever is transmitted by the Stegomia mosquito. His experiments and sacrifice reduced mortality and misery, removing a major obstacle to building the Panama Canal.
An advertisement proclaims cures for old sores using a long established remedy. It touts effectiveness on stubborn cases regardless of duration and emphasizes the product's reliability and medical pedigree.
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