Roanoke Bridge Co Lands Contract For Catawba Span
Mecklenburg and Gaston county commissioners accepted Roanoke Bridge Co bid of 51015 for a steel bridge over the Catawba river Sloan's Ferry. The 3,000 yard concrete and 790 tons steel project aims for a 18 foot roadway and four spans totaling about 820 feet. About 300 workers will be employed once work begins with completion targeted by January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gaston and Mecklenburg
Roanoke Bridge Co
Sloan’s Ferry
Mecklenburg and
Gaston County
Catawba River
Roanoke Bridge Company
Board of Commissioners
Messrs
John F. Leeper
O. J. Falls
J. E. McCarver
R. K. Davenport
J. W. Kendrick
J. R. Lewis
Clarke Will Bars Daughter From Religious Orders for Inheritance
New York June 1. The will of Richard H. Clarke wealthy lawyer and Catholic writer leaves the residuary estate to his daughter Mary Ada Clarke on the condition she remains in the world and does not join any monastery or religious sisterhood or similar community. Clarke died a week ago.
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Associated Press
New York
Richard H. Clarke
Mary Ada Clarke
Tight Shoes Caused Death of Chicago Man
Black stockings and tight shoes led to the death of David Douglas Bonesack, owner of a North Fifth Avenue store, with a blister on his heel becoming poisoned by dye in the stocking. Blood poisoning developed.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ill
David Douglas Bonesack
North Fifth Venue
Atlanta
Gla
Chattanooga
Truly Cardui touted as women's tonic in Texas notice
A readers letter from Commerce Texas recounts relief from monthly pains after using Cardui. The ad promotes Cardui as a general tonic improving energy appetite and nervousness and invites readers to obtain a bottle and request writing for special instructions and a 64 page home treatment book from Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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Commerce
Texas
Cardus
Cardul
N. B
Ladies’ Advisory Dept
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
St Michael's Training School Praised For Colored Youth Work
The St Michael's Training and Industrial School led by Prof A Myron Cochran continues its work at St Michael's church with girls taught cooking and sewing and boys taught carpentry under R S Jackson. The institution, linked to Good Samaritan Hospital, honors the late Rev P P Alston and features a Jubilee Club program and student performances highlighting diplomas and class pins.
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St. Michael’s Training and Industrial School
St. Michael’s Church
Colored Episcopal
P. P. Alston
A. Myron Cochran
Massachusetts
Alston
Good Samaritan Hospital
R. S. Jackson
Georgia London
Florence Hanks
Cornelia Young
Macy
Misses Hanks
Veazie
Naomi Byrd
Laurice Chisholm
Cochran
Sugar Trust Probe Begins in House Investigation
Washington reports that a House special committee led by Rep Hardwick opened a wide sugar refinery probe. The panel will examine the American Sugar Refining Company and related refineries to assess monopoly power, tariffs, and past actions.
Sugar Trust Probed as House Committee Plans Inquiry
A House special committee will investigate the sugar trust led by the American Sugar Refining Company. It seeks details on the settled sums received by the government, whether settlements are complete, and why higher officials may escape punishment. The panel will examine methods used to crush competition, including sugar refineries, land purchases in the Philippines, duty-free imports, and effects on beet sugar. The inquiry could run through recess with no fixed report date.
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New York
United States
Special
House Committee
Sugar Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Congress
House
Pipe & Foundry Co Gets State Contract for Morganton Water Line
W F Dowd of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co returns from Morganton with a state contract to furnish 5 12 miles of cast iron pipe for the new Deaf and Dumb Institute water supply. The $12,500 project taps South Mountain summit for mountain reservoir and includes ground supervision by Dowd. Also notes ongoing shipments to the Pacific coast, Panama, and the Philippines, and details about the annual Wilmington excursion.
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W. F. Dowd
Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Company
Morganton
Deaf and Dumb Institute
Charlotte
Mountain Reservoir
South Mountain
Dowd
Goodman
Goodwin
Pacific Coast
Panama
Philippines
O. C. Bynum
San Francisco
Bynum
Pittsboro
O. C. Bynum & Co
Mr. Dowd
Down
Isthmus
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Roanoke Bridge Co. Lands Contract
William Astor
Waldorf Astoria
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
William Waldorf Astor
Waldorf Astor, Jr
St. Mitchells School
Excellent Institute
St. Michael's Jubilee Club
W. J. Smith
Jubilee Club
A. A. Wyche
E. Weeks
C. M. Strong
B. Robinson
John Wilkes
A. T. James
P. . Lewis
First Baptist Ae
Wlter J. Smith
Thompson Orphanage
Little Red Riding Hood
Cc. S. Young
W. H. Goler
Livingstone College
Furey
Washington
Steel Trust
Hardwick
Representative Hardwick
Toay
Mecklenburg. B. & L. Asso
Office Basement Trust
A. G. Craig
Pines
Elizabeth Heights
the Pines
Southern Real Estate, Loan & Trust Company
the McClung Realty Co
Job Dept
Fourth Ward
Church Street
New
South Tryon
South Brevard
Peoples Loan & Realty Co. Ce
Worthington Ave
Dilworth
J. E. Murphy & CO
S. Tryon Street
East Avenue
Elizabeth Avenue
E. Avenue
East End
W.T. Wilkinson & Co. McKinnon Bldg
Deay & Dumb School
Beach
Wilmington
W. O. Willis
J. J. Ezell
R. L. Womack
F. D. Lethco
Henry Benoit
Globe Electric Company
Building & Loan Associaton
North Carolina
Commercial National Bank
Tryon
4Th Sts
Old Mutual
Sallie
E. L. Keesler
Sec
Treas
West 11Th Street
South Boulevard
Brevere Stearge
Tryon St
West Trade Street
Lawyers Road
N. B. St
West 10Th Street
West
Palmer St
E. 12Th
East 9Th Street
J. Arthur Henderson & Bro
Fire Insurance
East Dilworth
Carolina Realty Co
O. J. Thies
B. R. Lee
N. Tryon St
W. D. Wilkinson
Met
J. P. Long
Jive
Associated F Washington
Star
Plate
Virginia
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Tennessee
Missouri
Oklahoma
California
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