Bright picture of arming painted at farm loan meeting
Decatur Georgia August 8. R J Taylor secretary of the third Federal Land Bank district reports a bright picture of farming in Georgia Florida and the Carolinas at the National Farm Loan Association gathering. He says crops are cheaper than since 1914 with diversification and more cash crops signaling a better farming business. Labor is cheaper and plentiful and unemployment in the four states is not alarming. Road building provides part time work and boosts farm values. Prices in parts of the country are rising while some farms still sell below long term income value.
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Decatur
Georgia
Florida
North and
South Carolina
R. J. Taylor
Third Federal Land Bank District
National Farm Loan Associaton
Taylor
United States
Shortest English Will Leaves All to Sister Augusta
Arthur Bond Yock ney of London made a famously brief will saying I leave all to my sister Augusta and no tommy rot about it. He disposed of an estate around $10,000 with room for further shortening.
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London
Arthur Bond Yockney
England
Augusta
Tommy
Yockney
Indignant wife yawps at incoming husband in Tit Bits
A comic exchange in Tit Bits features an indignant wife demanding the clock answer and the husband replying with a string of animal sounds including tick tock bow wow moo moo and meow weow, capturing a playful domestic scene.
Full Emancipation of Women Seen
Mrs. Burnita Shelton Matthews cites the long road to equal rights saying national enfranchisement is a step toward full political economic and social emancipation. She notes ten years of progress since 1920 including joint marriage status guardianship custody of minor children property rights voting domicile juror eligibility and equal inheritance for women.
Local visitors and travel notes from area families
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Abels and family near return from Minnesota after a three week visit. Mrs. J. F. Carriker and Miss Louise Hunter attend leadership training at Massanetta Springs in Virginia. Dr. S. S. Saunders visits Roaring Gap and Dr. Marion Keith from Greensboro, with Dr. Butler's Infants' hospital. Mrs. Miles Stryker and Joan arrive to visit G. A. Rusband. Mr. Stryker visits Williamsport, Pa.
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Herman Abels
Eccles Everhart
Lee
Sarah Everhart
Minnesota
J. F. Carriker
Louise Hunter
First Presbyterian Church
Massanetta Springs
Harrisonburg, Va
S. S. Saunders
Roaring Gap
Sidbury
Wilmington
Marion Keith
Greensboro
Miles Stryker
Joan
Winston-Salem
Mrs. Stryker
G. A. Rusband
South Main Street
Mr. Stryker
Williamsport
Highway Commission Seeks Ways to Reduce Auto Accidents
Raleigh report from August 8 states the North Carolina highway commission, led by chairman R A Coughton, is studying measures for the 1931 general assembly to curb rising automobile crashes. Doughton says action is needed for highway carelessness, while he declines to commit to a state driver's license or more patrol, though no opposition to patrol increases has been heard.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Highway Commission
R. A. Coughton
General Assembly
Doughton
Coughton
Commission
Beauty Queen Mildred Asad Weds In Georgia
Mildred Asad known as Miss El Paso and Miss Fl Paso rose to prominence as a beauty contest winner in Atlantic City. She recently married James G. Stillwell Jr., a vice president at a major perfume company, in Georgia.
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el Paso
Vtex
New York
Mildred Casad
Georgia
James G. Stillwell, Jr
Miss Asad
Beatrice Lee
Salt Lake City
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Doorman at Metropolitan Opera Dies After 47 Years
Thomas Jacob Bull longtime Metropolitan Opera head doorman since opening day 1883 died aged after 47 years at the door. He knew stars like Caruso Nilsson Melba and many patrons and kept a detailed diary of performances and curtain times.
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New York
Thomas Jacob Bull
Metropolitan Opera House
Metropolitan
Italo Camarini
Christine Nilsson
Faust
Caruso
Tetrazzini
Sembrich
Melba
Nordica
Farrar
Amassa Cobb Bull
Chicago
One Potato Admits Kids To Paramount Show Saturday
The Paramount theater offers free admission for youngsters 16 and under with one potato donated. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, children bring a potato to see Rin-Tin-Tin in Rough Waters with Jobyna Ralston and Lane Chandler and Jack Perrin in The Jade Box, with all potatoes given to the Salvation Army.
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Paramount Theater
Rin-Tin-Tin
Jobyna Ralston
Lane Chandler
Jack Perrin
Salvation Army
Jade
Lexington Plants Merge In Dixie Elk Furniture Pact
Lexington firms Dixie Furniture and Elk Furniture, both based in this city, plan a merger to form a $400000 capital stock company. The combined unit will produce dining room and bed furniture with unified management and sales, hoping to broaden product lines and boost sales. Stockholders are due to ratify within about ten days.
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Enterprise Davidson Bureau
Lambeth Bldg
Thomasville
Lexington
Dixie Furniture Company
Elk Furniture Company
Dixie
Elk Company
Dixie Company
Sounding Speech of a Chinese Emigrant Tribe in Russia
A tribe that migrated from China over a century ago to the Fergansk region of Russia speaks a language that cannot be written, as its sounds are sung with precise musical pitch tones.
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Sons OF the Saddle
Talking Screen
China
Fergansk
Russi
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Zane Grey
Richard Arlen
Mary Brian Harry Green
Jack Holt
Maynard
Joan Crawford
Saenger Broadhurst
Washington
Highway Commission
Odds and Ends
Rivet Tools
Cside Ames
Ford
Sears
Barber Shears
Phono
Wiliams
Hercules
Hercules Brand
Sears, Roebuck and
North Main Street
Thomas J. Bull
Opera
Doorman
Russia
Paramount Picture
An Elk Furniture
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