Red Cross appeals aids flood relief after Mississippi disaster
President Coolidge issues a proclamation urging timely contributions to the American National Red Cross for flood refugees in eight states. Cabinet committee collaborates with Red Cross on relief plans as engineers warn of rising needs from 75,000 toward 200,000 people requiring food clothing shelter and health measures for four to eight weeks or more.
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Coolidge
United States
American National Red Cross
Mississippi River
Red Cross
Washington
St. Louis
San Francisco
Herbert C. Hoover
Commerce
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
Dwight F. Davis
Curtis D. Wilbur
Navy
James L. Fieser
Red Cross Central Committee
Henry M. Baker
T. R. Buchanan
Natchez, Miss
Greenville
Mississippi Delta
Little Rock
Ark
Little Ock
New Madrid
Estown
Hickman
Brassville
American Red Cross
St. Johns
Bayou
Missouri
Statewide Negro Quartet Contest Set for May Night at American Theater
Preparations are complete for a state wide negro male quartet contest in North Carolina. Fourteen quartets have entered for the event at the American theater Tuesday night May 3 at 8 o clock. Winners receive four prizes with two spirituals and two secular numbers. Proceeds go to the Community Chest fund for public welfare work.
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American Theater
F. J. Sizemore
Chamber of Commerce
North Carolina
Lewis L. Stookey
O. E. Davis
Fairview Street Colored School
Mr. Sizemore
Ransom Street Quartet
Oxford
Palmer Institute Quartet
Sadalia
Northern and Western Quartet
Winston-Salem
John C. Smith University
Charlotte
Salisbury High School
Salisbury
Livingston College Quartet
A. and T. College Quartet
Greensboro
Shaw University Quartet
Raleigh
Slater Normal School
New Bern
Goldsboro
Fayetteville
Rocky Mount
Henderson
William Breach
Winston- Salem
Community Chest
Red Cross tackles vast flood relief across six states
Floods push 60 miles back from the river displacing thousands with 10 000 refugees from Madrid Missouri and 500 more from Reynoldsville Illinois The Red Cross reports 4 000 fed daily on the western bank with tents and supplies rapidly expanding Refugee needs and relief efforts span Illinois Kentucky Missouri Arkansas Tennessee and Louisiana as agencies project worsening conditions and ongoing updates.
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Arkansas
Madrid
Reynoldsville
Ill
Red Cross
Beardstown
American Red Cross
Illinois
Entucky
Missouri
Tennessee
Louisiana
Slipovers Remain Popular Over Cardigans In Sweaters
Striped slipovers stay stylish, outlining a yoke or circling the jumper’s bottom while cardigans lose ground as knitwear trends.
Good Will Tour Ends With Flyers Return
The Pan American flyers complete their 20 000 mile voyage ending in Miami on April 23 after a collision in Buenos Aires February 26 cost two lives Captain Clinton Woolsey and Lieutenant John Benton. They are greeted by Major Mason Patrick and nine planes marking the end of four months of peace mission across Latin America.
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Miami
United States Army
New York
Detroit
Buenos Aires
Clinton W. Woolsey
John W. Benton
Army
Havana
Mason Patrick
Army Air Service
San Antonio
San Francisco
St Louis
Striped Bathing Suits Banned as Floral Patterns Rise
Beach fashion ban on stripes contrasts with popular floral and geometric prints. The article notes striped designs are restricted while patterns featuring flowers and futuristic motifs trend across swimwear.
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Clude
Wade R. Brown
North Carolina College For Women
Paul John Weaver
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Oxford Quartet
Dep Oa
Tom É
To.ge
Ded
Ode
Bie
Bes
B.D
TOG
Loz
SOS
BOD
Raves
Tal
Southern Mortgage Loan & Land Company Wachovia Bank Building
Andrew Thomas Smith
State Normal College
West Chester
J. A. Kinneman
Robert T. Kerlin
Good Will
Flyers
Chevrolet
Fisher
Duco
America
General Motors Acceptance Corporation
Michigan Evaniensins
Sheraton Chevrolet Co
Wrenn Street
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