North Carolina to Launch Year-Long Fight on Boll Weevil
Raleigh announces the Division of Entomology will aid farmers in a broad year long campaign against the boll weevil starting January 1. Meetings open in January across three regional series led by W. Bruce Mabee. western counties include Rutherford, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Meckle nburg, Cabarrus, Iredell and Hoke. The central series will continue with further counties and details forthcoming.
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Raleigh
N. C
Division of
Entomology
North Carolina
Rutherford
Cleveland
Catawba
Lincoln
Gaston
Mecklenburg
Cabarrus
Iredell
Hoke
County Meetings Planned For Cotton Growers
Stanley ran and in charge. County agents across Robeson Duplin Sampson and other counties plan meetings at county courthouses or central places starting at eleven o'clock to advise growers about cotton farming this year Rutherford county meeting set for January first at eleven. Card of thanks expresses gratitude for hospitalities during illness.
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Franklin
Land
Robeson
Duplin
Sampson
Ston
Jones
Lenoir Pitt
Taylor
Forthers
Delta Laboratory
United States Department of Agriculture
Jim's Wish WG ends a long August visit in old town
Jim Channing visits Hubbard place with Agnes Hub bard and plans a hike and picnic breakfast after a day of sport. He secretly leaves at 4 30, catches a train to visit Lillian Bishop, where a quiet afternoon under a tree leads to a hopeful moment with her.
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Jim
Jim Channing
Agnes Hubbard
Hubbard Place
Agnes
Lily
Aggy
Bill
White House
Kind Providence
Lillian Bishop
Litton
Miles Apart. A witty exchange between a young admirer and a literary man
A brief dialogue scene contrasts a lively youth with an eminent literary figure. The Young Thing questions the man’s sports interest, while the Eminent Literary Man asserts his dual talents in thinking and playing, noting no interference with his work.
Jones School of Music at Casar Opens Jan One
Beginning January 1 a six week session of Jones modern normal school of music will be held at Casar or Chesnee South Carolina as in prior years Professors T B Jones and Mrs Jones of Chesnee with Mr B I Lowery will teach offering daily classes for beginners and advanced students to Rutherford and nearby counties seeking musical training.
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Jones’ Modern Normal School of Music
Casar
Chesnee
S.C
T. B. Jones
B. I. Lowery
Rutherford
Women as Strikebreakers in Spain Reshape Labor
The article notes the Spanish government inviting women to replace striking postmen, a move praised as genius by Woman's Weekly. Thousands joined, performing efficiently and satisfying the public, boosting bread earning for many. The plan's success spurred talks of expanding the approach to other departments.
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Ing
Spain
Saved California Raising Raisin Drying District
In central California raisin and grape drying occurs in open trays. Rain threatens large losses, prompting rapid relay of warnings by telephone and telegraph. Communities mobilize workers, even schools, to stack trays. this reflects the weather bureau’s protective role for growers.
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California
Weather Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Stealing and Proud of It In a Kentucky Election Tale
Representative John W. Lonsley of Kentucky recounts a Pikeville tale about a young attorney touring his district. He meets a housewife who boasts her husband will vote for him after noting the attorney had helped clear the family’s meat theft. The joke hinges on the meat still hanging in the house.
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John W. Lonsley
Kentucky
Washington
Pikeville
Asbestos and a Mojave letter in Richardson camp
The Friend Richardson gubernatorial camp recalls a Mojave resident who asked what Richardson stood for before voting. The discussion also covers state roads, a central campaign issue, with a Mojave minister’s quip about good intentions and roads in the district from the Los Angeles Times.
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Asbestos
Richardson
Mojave
Hell
Los Angeles
Successful Term of School at Claffling Cliffside
Dec 22 Cliffside reports a successful school term with attendance never below per cent and a term enrollment of 681, triple three years ago. High school enrollment reached 89. faculty grew from seven to 19. Two new departments home economics and public school music added, science courses expanded, and $1,200 worth of playground equipment installed for daily use by children.
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Cliffside
Futhermore
Inalienable Right of Privilege Sparks Domestic Turmoil
In a Richmond boarding house scene from long ago, John Smithers is found mooning and kissing with a hired girl while his wife toils to run the home and support the family. She scolds him for wasting her labor, but he retorts that a man has a right to private privilege in his own home. The Indianapolis News quotes the exchange.
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John Smithers
Richmond
Old John
Indianapolis News
Differing Views Of Rainbow From Professor Humphreys
The Rehoboth Sunday Herald reports Prof. W. Humpheys of Franklin Institute explains rainbows vary with observer. Colors and band widths differ, and no two observers see the same rainbow due to different raindrop distributions and eye positions.
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W. 3. Humphreys
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Humphreys
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
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Ran
Stanley
Mology
Cumberlin
Pender
Yne
John
Greene
Rutherford County
Rutherfordton
Greenewald
Spartanburg, S. C
Korrect
Corona
Remington
Modare Newspaper Syndicate
Claffling
Chevrole
W. G. Magness
Piano
Forest City, N. C
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