Elections Board Seeks Help for Secret Ballot Rollout
North Carolina state and county boards prepare for the 1929 secret ballot law by planning purchase of 10 000 voting booths at about 10 dollars each. The new rule requires one booth per 100 registered voters and 86 by 86 inch booths. the state offers procurement help and purchasing as agent.
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Baskerwill
Raleigh
State Board of Elections
County Boards of Elections
J. Crawford Biggs
House of Representatives
General Assembly
North Carolina
Biggs
Board of Election
State Board
Board of Elections
Health Board Slashes Budget by Forty Nine Thousand
The North Carolina state board of health reduces its annual budget from 491000 to 441000, a near 9 percent cut. Major reductions eliminate school medical inspection staff, several sanitary inspectors, and visual health education programs, with further cuts to maternity services and administration.
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Moving
Crowell
Governor and Budget Bureau
Laughinghouse
Watch It Hidden in Waistcoat Pocket Cited
In a terse exchange Kasper from Stockholm demands the item a stout gentleman supposedly hides. The line emphasizes secrecy as a watch is claimed to be concealed in the man's waistcoat pocket.
Socialists honor Berger memory in Milwaukee
Victor L. Berger 69 former Milwaukee Leader publisher and former congressman died after a July streetcar collision. Thousands mourned him with tributes and messages praising his honesty and work as teacher journalist and statesman. Funeral services planned for Friday or Saturday with interment at Forest Home Cemetery. An inquest will be held next week with motorman and all witnesses summoned.
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Milwaukee
Wic
Victor L. Berger
National House of Representatives
Forest Home Cemetery
Berger
County Officials To Meet In Asheville For 3 Day Session
Asheville hosts the State association of county commissioners and county accountants August 13 to 15 at Battery Park Hotel. President Claude L. McGhee will open the gathering with welcomes from Asheville officials. Key talks include distribution of 6.5 million dollars, county conservation needs, and the fundamentals of county government.
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Asheville
N. C
State Association of County Commissioners
Association of County Accountants
Battery Park Hotel
Claude L. McGhee
Franklin County
Gallatin Roberts
E. M. Lyda
John A. Goode
McGhee
B. B. Dougherty
State Board of Equalization
Col. J. W. Harrelson
Department of Conservation and Development
Charles M. Johnson
County Government Advisory Commission
Rollins
Thomas S. Rollins
Filling station proposed on Montlieu avenue
L. G. Jones applied to erect a filling station on Montlieu avenue between Kimry and Gordon streets. City Council will consider the matter at the next regular meeting on August 20, 1929 at 8 p.m. by order of the City Council. E. M. Knox City Manager.
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L. G. Jones
Montlieu Avenue
Kimry
Gordon Streets
E. M. Knox
English King William II Never Married
Six million people in England bought goods on installment plans by June 1 1928 an increase of over one million accounts from 1927. William II son of William the Conqueror is noted as the only English king who grew to manhood without marriage.
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England
William Rufus
William II
William the Conqueror
Ingland
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Rialto News
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Hollywood
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Lila Lee
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