Fresh Fruit and Fancy Bites at Local Chain Store
The week brings a fruit line with grapes at 20 and 15 cents per 2% pounds, Bartlett pears 35 cents a dozen, plums and prunes, and peaches priced to move. Vegetables offer sweet potatoes 6 cents a pound, turnip mix 10 cents, and salad greens two for 25 cents. Also featured are new crackers and cheese pairings, bread and dessert ideas, plus several ready recipes including rice pudding and a creamed beef ring.
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Malaga
Bartlett
Calija
Greensboro Lions hear reports on convention trip
M A Arnold and Charles T Boyd, delegates to the Lions International convention in Providence, Rhode Island, spoke at a Greensboro Lions Club dinner at the Elwood hotel. The club voted to fund a charity drive with each member contributing one dollar per month. A J Koonce presented a silver spoon to Dr Marvin L Slate on the occasion of his new fatherhood.
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M. A. Arnold
Greensboro
A. J. Koonce
Marvin L. Slate
Glenn R. Ward
Tyson T. Ferree
Drought Slowing Trade Say Dun and Bradstreet
New York Aug 7 Dun and Bradstreet reports slower expansion in retail trade due to drought in some areas and continuing wholesale buying from late July. It notes trade shows and market week events keeping volumes near 1929 levels with weekly transactions 25 to 30 percent above year earlier figures despite uneven regional performance.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Mercantile Agency
Middle West
Wholesale Grocery Demand Boosts East Said to Lead Rise
The article notes a performance above 1935 figures with gains of 10 to 23 percent in some areas and 12 to 18 percent over comparable 1935 levels. Industrial operations reached highs since 1930 as sales in the east rose 15 to 25 percent amid rising prices for canned goods and cereals. Consumers stockpiled ahead of shortages and reorders for early fall merchandise drove much of the volume, with strong August furniture response.
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East
Roosevelt Talks To Labor Leader on August 7
President Roosevelt met with Charlton Ogburn, AFL general counsel, and he indicated unions in dispute within the federation face possible suspension unless they withdraw from the CIO aligned committee. White House aides stressed the talks did not relate to the federation's internal rift. Also noted, ancient Sanskrit sources reference stringed instruments of Asiatic origin.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Roosevelt
Charlton Ogburn
American Federation of Labor
Committee For Industrial Organization
White House
Drought Sparks Heavy Farm Implement Orders and Industrial Push
Drought areas lift farm implement orders as retailers and manufacturers push supplies. Operations run at peak since 1930 with hardware factories on their best schedules in five years.
July furniture failures by state report
North Carolina recorded only two furniture failures in July, far fewer than three in 1935, with seven failures across manufacturers, robbers and wholesalers last month versus ten a year earlier. New York had seven and Ohio four, while several states including California Colorado Florida Mississippi Missouri Oklahoma Virginia and Wisconsin reported no failures.
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North Carolina
New York
Ohio
Colorado
Florida
Mississippi
Missouri
Virginia
Wisconsin
Oklahoma man escapes chair fire from cigarette
In Okla on August 7 P Brown, an insomnia sufferer, tilted a chair by a window and fell asleep after lighting a cigarette. The chair caught fire, he woke, and jumped from a second story window. He survived with bruises and abrasions reported by the hospital.
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Okla
Eg P. Brown
Brown
Summerville Executed for Deputy Sheriff Murder
Ed Lee Summerville, a Black man, was executed in the electric chair today in Montgomery for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Burt Johnson in Pickens County.
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Montgomery
Ala
Ed Lee Summerville
Burt Johnson
Pickens County
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Charles T. Boyd
Landon
Tam o’Shanter
Sharon
Alf M. Landon
West Middlesex
Per Carton
Stanback
B. Co
Caldwell
Black
California
NU Shine
Castile
Popreals
Detroit
Conan
Castoria
Lade
Cardus
Krems Hair Tonic
Sethinka
Doster
Oitene
Enders
South Main
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