Scholarship competition funded by Harvard braces future prizes
Harvard University will host intercollegiate scholarship contests financed by a $125,000 gift from Mrs. William Lowell Putnam of Boston. Ten Harvard and ten Yale students compete in an English literature exam April 30, with prizes of 500 dollars, medals, and judges from Princeton, Cornell, and Brown. Simultaneous contests in New Haven and Cambridge aim to expand across major universities.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
William Lowell Putnam
Boston
Lowell
Harvard
Yale
Charles G. Osgood
Princeton
J. Q. Adams
Cornell
A. K. Potter
Brown
New Haven
Mrs. Putnam’s Fund
Women federation address at state meeting details
President and Miss Sherman will address the North Carolina federation on improving American homes as a keynote topic echoed by Mrs. Phoebe K. Warner. Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, turning 77, will lecture on war cures and social education, with Mrs. O Berry noting the strong message for North Carolina club members.
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Spencer
Gertrude Weil
North Carolina League of Women Voters
Sedgefield Inn
Federation
H. Edmund Bullis
Mount Vernon
W. L. Lawton
General Federation
Raleigh
High Point
North Carolina
America
O’berry
North Carolina Club
San Antonio Tex
State Federation
Phoebe K. Warner
Texas
Sherman
Palmer Jerman
Jerman
Anna Garlin Spencer
Teachers College
Washington
Cunningham Water-Ground Corn Meal Ad
Cunningham water-ground corn meal is sold at all A. and P. stores. Every package guaranteed. Try it. May 13.
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Cunningham
North Carolina Democrats back Smith for president
Dr Cliff Whitehead notes broad support for Al Smith in eastern North Carolina with Bertie County shifting from anti-Smith to Smith. Voters expect Smith to win the nomination and the general election, viewing him as best to carry the middle West. Weather and wind advisories close the passage.
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Smith
Houston
Cliff Whitehead
San Francisco
al Smith
Dr. Whitehead
North Carolina
Whitehead
Bertie
United States
Middle-West
Bertie County
Georgia
anti-Smith
Storm Warning Issued For Atlantic Coast Route
The weather bureau issued a storm advisory covering a route from Wilmington North Carolina to Eastport Maine. A disturbance is marked and warnings were ordered for 11 a.m. local time.
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Lower Michigan
Wilmington
New York
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Cedar Keyes
Fla
Rio Grande
Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Washington
the Weather Bureau Today
N. C
Wbastport
Maine
Mayflower President's Yacht Nominally Noted
The article notes the president's yacht named Mayflower. It mentions Egyptian antiquity around 1200 B C and a reference to ham constituting 14 percent of carcass weight. It also states equinoxes occur in March and September.
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Vanderlip
Lord Northcliffe
Chinese High Commission
M. Herriot
France
League of Nations
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Club Institute
F Eugene Reilly
Charlotte
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Hart Drug
Freeland Music Co
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Freeland Music Company
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