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Newspaper

Forest City Courier

Location

Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1919

Page

3

Maynard Preaches On Modern Dress In Brooklyn

Lt. B W Maynard the Flying Parson from Anson County NC denounces New York women fashions as immoral, urging pure American styles. Also in North Carolina news 105,656 autos registered, 538 job applicants, faster real property revaluation, health board prosecution for unsanitary privies, and election ballot prep for Ninth District. Internal revenue receipts for November 1919 total 10,882,706.23 with tobacco stamps leading, income tax second. governor Bickett pardons several convicts linked to Albemarle riot. prohibition chief Van derford calls for distiller crackdown with two-year goal.

Raleigh B. W. Maynard Anson County North Carolina Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal Church Brookyn New York Maynard Paris America Joshiah W. Bailey Bickett T. W. Bickett North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly Supt Lee Driver Randolph County Indiana

Baptist Drive Sets Off Oversubscribed Campaign Push

North Carolina Baptist drive pours hundreds of thousands into the Baptist 75-2 Ilion Dollar fund. Gaston county churches pledged 150,000 with reported totals at 175,000 and more to come as larger churches await reports.

North Carolina T. W. Chambliss Gaston County W. C. Barret

Red Cross Christmas Seals On Sale Across North Carolina

Christmas seals go on sale December 1 for ten days in 178 communities across North Carolina. About 9,000,000 seals valued at $9,000 are being sold to fund tuberculosis cure and prevention in the state. Local committees will run sales in each community.

Red Cross North Carolina

Alterations at Old Market House Creating 4000 Seat Auditorium

North Carolina notes and regional items report rapid progress on Wilmington's Old Market House auditorium renovation to seat 4,000. Other briefs cover George L. Tillery to lead South Atlantic operations, memorial lobby plans in Hickory, Cobb's visit to Concord, and factory and public welfare updates across the state.

Wilmington George L. Tillery South Atlantic Maritime Association Savannah South Atlantic Forwarding Company Shipping Corporation Mr. Tiller Cuba South American South Front Street Hickory

Recount of Rattle Anatomy and 1831 Fondon Bridge

The text describes rattlesnake tail structure with a conical scale forming the rattle and a caudal vertebra roof. It also notes the new Fondon bridge opened August 1, 1831 replacing an older bridge that stood for eight centuries, featuring 18 stone piers and arches, with buildings along its length and the Tallor's gate displaying traitors' heads removed for navigation reasons.

Fondon Tallor’s Gate

Gathering Life’s Geld in Daily Duties and Joy

A reflective aphorism asserts life’s wealth lies in daily duties pleasures and chances. It urges careful gathering of small tasks friendships and opportunities to reveal true treasure over time. The writing emphasizes patience effort and steady attention as paths to lasting riches.

Balancing Trade and Payment in Foreign Markets

Discussion on trade balance where a country exports heavily to another but imports nothing. It notes that unsettled payments require gold or other adjustments, creating a premium that inflates prices. If the premium rises, buyers switch to other markets, risking a loss in trade unless balances are restored.

Mind in the Clouds Ends Two Engagements of Reverend

The Reverend George Harvest planned to wed Bishop Compton’s daughter in London but failed to arrive at the ceremony. Indignation followed as the engagement was broken. His second engagement also broke when he again forgot his church appointment, leaving the bride waiting.

George Harvest

Mitton and Italy Delighting Milton in Verse

The excerpt praises how Italy delighted Milton and contrasts Allegro and Penseroso as proof he could savor both mirth and majesty. It notes he did not stay in his homeland to pursue a life of illus trous service, suggesting his brave heart and philosophical mind helped his era beyond his sacred song for Julia Ward Howe.

Mitton Italy Milton Julia Ward Howe

Mystery Solved Mia Question on One Month Cook

A mysterious claim about keeping a cook for a month is addressed aboard a houseboat. Mia says they were cruising on a houseboat and the cook could not swim, revealing the circumstances behind the timing and reasoning.

Mia

Leather Lungs Fold On Willem In Pink Rush

A fragment from Pearson's Magazine describes a dramatic sprint scene with a robe, twelve patent leather shoes, and hurried descent of stairs as a vivid urban mock-phrase scene. The quirky line captures theatrical pace and flamboyant style.

Willem Pearson

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PLY LA MO Automobi United States M. L. Shipman Charlotte Asheville Corporation Commission State Board H. E. Miller State Board of Health Durham Department Commissioner of Labor and Printing Ninth Congressional District House of Representatives Edwin Yates Webb Shipman George Linberry Grady Boyd Paul Austin Duncan Solomon Nick Simmons Albemarle Thomas H. Vanderford North Carolina Tax Commission Friends of Christian Education North Carolina Teachers Assembly Uphaw Daniel Will D. Upshaw Atlanta Edenton Street Methodist Church Josephus Daniels Mason and Dixon Line Sivi Special Intelligence Unit Bureau of Internal Revenue United States Civil Service Commission Special Intelligence Internal Revenue Goldsboro Greensboro Rocky Mount Salisbury Washington Civil Service Examiner Alexander H. Q. Alexander Matthews North Carolina Farmers’ Union Pineville J. Z. Green Ntorium Old Market House Walter I. Foster Haw River al Fairbrother New Bern Col William H. Baldwin Newport Ship‘Building Corporation Concord Tyrus Raymond Cobb Mr. Pleasant Zeb Cox Augusta Mr. Cobb South W. D. Adams The American Cotton Manufacture Association Winston-Salem Pocahontas Thomas Burgess Jim Waldrop Cherokee County William Burress Waldrop Union Seed and Fertilizer Company Harnett Lillington Harnett County Board of County Commissioners County Board of Education R. Blanton Forest City N. C Paul W. Gay Forest City, N.C J. B. Long At Long Drug Co Forest City Loan & Insurance CO W.c.bostic J.a.wilkie Alexander Newton Ofice Upstaire Bank Frank R. Wilkins Moore Building Forest City, N. C J. H. Gettys Moore DR. J. S. Dorton Shelby, North Carolina Josh-A-Ways Ély Our&vertisers Courier T Us Mrs. Green Mrs. Jones Ttes Cigare
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