International painter Muss Arnold visits High Point
High Point reports Muss Arnold a painter of international reputation visiting for several days with Jack Armstrong of the Gould hunting preserves. Arnold lives in Tucahoe New York. The day’s notes also mention a possible recorder's court in Reidsville and local accidents and industry news in Burlington Kinston Dunn and Smithfield.
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High Point
Muss Arnold
Jack Armstrong
Gould
Arnold
Tucahoe
N. Y
Coler & Co. to Build Mill Road in Guilford County
High Point Jan 27 Coler and Co a New York syndicate has secured E D Steele s stake in the North Carolina Electric Co They will finish building the road and have ample means Bird S Coler closed the deal They also bought the Greensboro Electric Co and plan large ventures for Guilford County Steele would not disclose the price but it is believed to be 35000 dollars
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High Point
Coler & Co
New York
E. D. Steele
North Carolina Electric Company
Bird S. Coler
Greensboro Electric Company
Guilford County
Steele
Death of Mrs Durham at 66 in Roxboro Street home
Mrs Nannie B Durham aged sixty six died yesterday evening at 6 o'clock at her daughter's home Mrs Jessie Stagg on Roxboro street. She had lived with her daughter since her husband's death thirteen years ago. Survived by daughter Mrs Stagg two sons W Ed Durham and H S Durham two sisters Miss Harriet Durham and Mrs Lloyd one brother J S Strowd Florence S C. Funeral at 3 this afternoon from Mrs Stagg's home 605 Roxboro street with Rev G T Adams and Rev H E Spence assisting.
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Kinston
C. B. Aycock
Pope
Oscar Aycock
Smithfield
Nannie B. Durham
Jessie Stagg
Roxboro Street
Mrs. Durham
Mrs. Stagg
W. P. Durham
Local Social Roundup on Route 2 Durham
W D Hester W T Carrington and Cheatham Carrington of Durham spent Friday and Saturday with Char lie Hester. A D Cates and family of Pleasant Green visited his brother A W Cates on Sunday. J L Dunnegan and Mrs J L Dunnegan visited Jesse Andrews on Little River. Vesta Garrard Lota Garrard visited Pearl and Florence Copley. J G Latta C Latta visited Hillsboro. Lola Latta C A Latta visited uncle A L Holloway injured at Duke in Harnett county. Residents busy cord wood cutting. South Lebanon school attendance strong since Christmas holidays.
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J. L. Dunnegan
Jesse Andrews
Little River
Vesta Garrard
Lota Garrard
Pearl
Florence Copley
J.G
C. L. Latta
Hillsboro
Lola Latta
C. A. Latta
A. L. Holloway
Duke
Harnett County
South Lebanon
Runaway horse causes excitement in Durham streets
A runaway horse belonging to M. Bane roused street excitement on Wednesday with no reported damage. Dr. M. T. Adkins will arrive in Durham next week to train Trinity College baseball players. Caroline Barbee, a respected local woman, was found dead from heart trouble at her Willard Street home.
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M. T. Adkins
Trinity College
Durham
Trinity
Caroline Barbee
Willard Street
Blood Line Blood as Key to Descent in A Century Old Idea
A discussion on blood as a hereditary marker argues that blood relations reveal ancestry more reliably than skeleton or organs. It cites experiments showing walrus blood reacting with horse and zebra blood, hippos as fish, and limited links between humans and apes, concluding all human races share one blood. The piece notes the phrase for life in blood and links heredity to bloodlines and insanity.
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William Hanna Thompson
South America
Dinner at the big downtown restaurant a hassock request
A short lit tle woman and her tall husband dine in a large downtown restaurant. The husband orders oysters and asks for a hassock for his wife. The waiter, puzzled, asks if the hassock should be broiled or fried, revealing a humorous misunderstanding.
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Snesse de Sire
John
Chicago Chronicle
When Children Were Made to Smoke in English History
A London Chronicle excerpt notes a period when children were required to smoke. The diarist Hearne cites an Eton schoolboy memory of mandatory morning smoking and corporal punishment for failure to smoke.
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Hearne
The
A of London
Tom Rogers
Yeoman
Beadle
Eton
London Chronicle
Talkative Neighbor Chats Through Wall
Eliza labels Aimes as a chatterbox claiming she talks nonstop. Her husband asks whom she talks to all day. Eliza admits the neighbor talks about her over the wall, sparking humorous gossip.
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Aimes
Eliza
Not a Fit Nell-Maude Dressmaker Gown Controversy
A Philadelphia Record dialogue quips about Nell-Maude's new gown with remarks on its fit calling it a convulsion rather than a fit highlighting fashion satire.
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Nell—Maude
Belle
Philadelphia Record
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Pollard Bros
W. Hobgood
North State Mutual Life In
Surance Company
North Carolina
J. W. Grainger
N. J
U.S
We- Masters Planter Co
Water ST
Chicago, Ill
Reidsville
Recorder’s Court
Burlington, Jan
Lydia
Edna Iseley
Wood
T. W. Wood & Sons
Richmond
W. D. Hester
W. T. Carrington
Cheatham Carrington
Charlie Hester
A. D. Cates
Pleasant Green
A. W Cates
M. Bane
W. A. Slater Company
West Main Street, Durham, N. C
Cable Co
Mason & Hamlin
the Cable Co
Church St
Durham, N. C
Durham Traction Co
West Main Street
the Peoples Drug Store
J. McLennan
H. Steinmetz
Florist
Raleigh
North Carolin
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