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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1926
Page
7
A brief ad describes a laundry wagon that arrives to collect and return garments as soon as they are ready. It promises no trouble or delay, emphasizes careful handling, and asserts scrupulous cleanliness as a core value of the service.
One hundred carloads of cast iron piping arrived at Rutherfordton via Southern Railway and will travel 19 miles by truck to Lake Lure. The $520,000 shipment, plus $15,000 transport, funds a sewerage system for the new townsite. Heavy pipes, some weighing a ton, will lie on the lake bottom connected to 90 outlets across 8,000 acres, designed to serve a future city of 500,000 people with air pressure lines to prevent clogs.
The Susana Wesley Bible class of Forest City Methodist held a picnic at Narra Springs on Tuesday July 1. Members and families joined a number of visitors including Dr. W. R. Ware Mrs K A Kriechbaum and their daughter Sarah of Baltimore Mrs J E Furr and son Mrs C O Ridings Miss Sara King and several Misses Alda Freeman Grace Watkins Ruth Dogzett and Ruth Reid.
Deed of trust executed December 1 1922 by C B Hicks and Ola Hicks to Southern Trust Company trustee. On August 9 1926 at noon the trustee will sell at public auction at the Rutherford County courthouse or Hicks building to the highest bidder for cash. Property described by metes and bounds with adjacent landowners Coleman Bridges Mrs B Allen W W Goode Baxter Champion and others. Roadside market note and courier sign off.
Forest City congratulates P T Reinhardt after winning the Efird store contest in New York and earning bonuses for meeting June quotas. Reinhardt, manager of the Lamberton branch, has 19 years in retail and leads a successful Forest City operation amid strong local business conditions. He is the son of J K Reinhardt.
A business note shows an investment yielding a new customer then a second visit. The client returned, turning the initial sale into a dividend of continued service and recurring revenue.
A Philadelphia hotel adapts a historic Independence Hall replica as a dessert display to advertise the Sesqui International Exposition opening June 1 and running through December 1 to celebrate Independence and the nation’s 150th anniversary. State House figure graces hotel entrance as a centerpiece. Home demonstration workers advise cooling foods to stay well in summer.
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