End Your Own State booklet for automobilists
The North Carolina publication Know Your Own State issued by Standard Oil aims to guide motorists to study the state while traveling. The chamber of commerce, after receiving copies, requests more to distribute to members and visitors. It includes maps, illustrations, and information to help travelers learn geography history and botany without missing school, encouraging educational travel by car.
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Focal Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
Standard Oil Company
Automobilist
Chamber of Commerce
F. J. Sizemore
Ray Street Prospects and School Baseball Updates
Ray Street defeated Oak Hill 5-0 as five home runs were hit by Ray Street players including Williams Davis Weston and Bains. Ritchie relieved Leonard on the Oak Hill mound in the second inning and pitched fairly well the rest of the game. Cloverdale meets Grimes Street on the Grimes Street diamond with a rematch tomorrow at Cloverdale. In politics, Representative William A Oldfield of Arkansas, operated on for acute appendicitis, showed a good night and progress toward recovery after an abscess drainage.
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Ray Street
Oak Hill
Ray
Staley
Ritchie
Leonard and Boggs
Cloverdale
Grimes Street
Oldfield
Washington
William A. Oldfield
Arkansas
Carl Robbins laid to rest yesterday
Funeral services for Carl Robbins, former High Point man killed at Staunton Virginia last week, were held yesterday afternoon. Services at the Robbins home, then at Rehobeth church six miles south of Greensboro, with Rev. W. B. Davis officiating. Interment in Rehobeth church cemetery. Pallbearers from Andrew Jackson post of the American Legion. A firing squad from the local National Guard fired a volley and taps. Robbins was a World War I veteran. Flowers carried by Georgia Jones Jessie Coley Trene Luckey Addie Dillon Lula Cox.
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Carl Robbins
High Point
Staunton
J. M. Robbins
Fairfield
Rehobeth Church
Greenshoro
W. B. Davis
South Main Street Methodist Church
Andrew Jackson Post
American Legion
North Carolina National Guard
John Fambrough
Robbins
Missus Georgia Jones
Jessie Coley
Trene Luckey
Addie Dillon
Lula Cox
Ray Street defeats Oak Hill in one sided game
Ray Street School baseball team overwhelmed Oak Hill aggregation at Jones field yesterday afternoon. The final score was 27 to 4. Tig was the first of the champions.
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Ray Street
Oak Hill
Jones’ Field
Tig
Scout Leaders Convene Camp Meeting in Statesville
Co L Amos and Gordon Blair with E O Webster of Lexington attended a camp directors meeting in Statesville. L L McDonald, national camp director of the Boy Scouts of America, led discussions on standardizing camps on an educational basis. The group, including H O Hunter, focused on a permanent camp at Hickory Lodge seven miles from here and aligning aims of boys parents and the scout organization.
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L. Amos
Gordon A. Blair
E. 0. Webster
Lexington
Statesville
L. L. McDonald
Boy Scouts of America
Amos
Uwharrie
Blair
Hickory Lodge
H. O. Hunter
Honeymoon Starts Ancient Yet Accelerated Tour
New York April 16 A honeymoon begun in a phae ton near Dungeness Cumberland Island Georgia continues today by car and yacht. James Stitlman Rockefeller and Nancy Carnegie married yesterday at Carnegie home travel by beribboned phaeton to Fernandina then by automobile toward Fernandina and abroad. Reporters barred. a photographer injured while leaving the yacht, no arrest. Attending and supporting figures named include Mrs Phineas Shaw Sprague Miss Alice Perkins Miss Retta Johnson Misses. best man J A Carpenter.
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New York
James Stitlman Rockefeller
Nancy Carnegie
Dungeness
Cumberland Island
Georgia
Andrew Carnegie
Fernandina
New York Tribune
Henry S. Morgan
Pittsburgh
Alice Perkins
Retta Johnson
J. A. Carpenter
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Aviva St
Xo Concele
High Point’s Greatest Store
White Goods
Petty Coal Co
Coal, Coke
Staunton, Va
Guaranteed Vulcanizing Tire Service Co
van Lindley
Ilorists
Scout Organization
McDonald
Studebaker
Gate City Motor Company
Fred
Buick
White Way Motor Co
The
High Point Perpetual Building and Loan Association
F. A.J. Tol
Commercial National Bank
C. H. Ellis
Southern Railway System
N. C
Birmingham
Augusta
New Orleans
Ridhd
Norfolk
Charlotte
Richmond
New Or
Bham
N. Y
Birm
Atlanta
Danville
Westminster
Pullman
High Port
Macon
Columbus
Montgomery
Mobile
Savannah
Jacksonville
R. H. Graham
DPA
H. D. Saunders
High Point, N. Cc
Dad
Atlantic Bank
Thurman Williams
A. L. Caldwell
G. A. Pollock Asst
Conduit Electric
Engineering Construction Service
Arthur
A. R. Moffitt
Mgr
High Point, NC
Kester Machinery Co
Broad St
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