Liquor Situs in State Explored at Friends Meet
At Goide College on August 8 the North Carolina Yearly Meeting of Friends discussed liquor laws and urged teacher training for temperance in public schools. Clara Cox summarized a 1848 pamphlet on slavery within Friends, noting minimal slave ownership. Miss Jeannette Rankin addressed war attitudes and disarmament, with Dr Charlotte Hawkins Brown promoting interracial understanding.
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Goid College
North Carolina
Public Morals
Spring- Friends
High Nt
Greensboro
Yearly Meeting
Friends
Jeannette Rankin
Congress
National Council For the Prevention of War
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
Palmer Memorial Institute
Miss Rankin
Foulois Retires as Chief of Army Air Corps
Major General Benjamin D Foulois retires as head of the army air corps after a long controversy with the war department and the house military committee.
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Washington
Benjamin D. Foulois
War Department
House Military Committee
Army Air Corps
Parole Granted for Two Prisoners in Raleigh
Governor Ehringhaus paroled Leroy Legrand who had been sentenced for seduction in October 1934 to two years in Richmond County and Howard House who faced a five year term for highway robbery in March 1934. Clemmency petitions for 11 others were denied.
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Raleigh
Ehringhaus
Leroy Legrand
Richmond County
Howard House
Iintance
Bankless man loses 3500 in overnight pants stash
William P. Hofschneider refused banks as unsafe and hid 3500 in his trousers. The loot was taken when his residence was looted, highlighting the risks of home safekeeping.
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Denver
Colo
William P. Hofschneider
Hofschneider
Chattanooga Name Debate Reveals Choctaw Town Origin
In Muskogee Oklahoma curious residents learn Creek authorities split between Sleeping Rock and Bold Rock until Cherokeee employee Bess Howard traced Chattanooga to an old word meaning Choctaw Town. The discovery reframes the Tennessee city’s name as a Cherokee origin.
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Muskoger
Okla
Garner Dies After Lingering Illness At 66
T J Garner 66 died at his Burton street home this afternoon after a lingering illness. Survived by his wife and eight children in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. Born in Jonesville D C he was a Mount Gilead Baptist church member. funeral set for Saturday afternoon.
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Jonesville
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Union
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New Port
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Nellie Henderson
High Point
Gregory and
Ellice Garner
Greensboro
J. A. Garner
Columbia
8. C
Henry Garner
Mr. Garner
D. C
Mount Gilead Baptist Church
Market Trends New Orleans Cotton Opening Quietly Lower
New Orleans August notices a late liquidation by traders seeking exit ahead of the bureau report. Cotton futures opened 1 to 3 points lower with December down about 3 points and other contracts including January May and July trading lower near 11.15 to 11.01 per bale.
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Bureau
Ucneer
New York
Janeves Adat
Eees
Highest Temperature of Year Broken by Wind Rain
The city saw a new yearly high of 101 degrees yesterday as a wind storm struck in the afternoon. Jupiter Plains cooled the weather with heavy rain and winds up to 44 miles per hour. A quarter inch of rain fell as merchants secured awnings and residents lowered windows amid overcast skies.
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Jupiter Plains
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U. S
Weather Bureau
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Old Sol
Chicago Produce Prices Reported As Market Holds Firm
Chicago August 8 The butter market shows 9652 firm prices with unchanged quotes for eyes 9877 firm for extra firsts and local 24 4 percent. fresh graded firsts 244 percent local 23 4 percent. current receipts 21 23 percent and storage packed firsts 24 percent.
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Chicago Livestock Prices Open Higher Amid Mixed Trade
Chicago hogs 7 500 head including 1 500 at red top 12.05 bid 170 250 lb 11.75 12.00. Sows 10.50 up. pigs scarce bid around steady. Cattle 5 000 calves 1 500 better grade fed stock scarce fully steady higher in balances. Vealers strong prime 11.67 lb, heifer yearlings 10.75, stockers very scarce, unevenly higher.
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Chicago
Y M C A Group Plans Boat Train Trip to New York
Vacation tour organized by the Good Fellow club of the local Y M C A targets young men 18 to 26. They will travel by train to Norfolk for a boat to New York, stay at the Sloane House, visit Manhattan sites, return by boat and train for a total package price of 34 dollars. Elmer James urges reservations at the Y M C A.
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Good Fellow Club
Norfolk
George Washington
Sloane House
Club
Woman's College to Open Kindergarten at Curry High
The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina will open a kindergarten this fall. It will be part of Curry high school the training school of the Woman's College. The program aims to bridge nursery school and first grade for Curry students.
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Greensboro
The
Woman's College of the
University of North Carolina
Curry High School
Woman's College
Curry
Transcontinental Air Runs Cut Time by Half in Decade
Air travel has slashed transcontinental flight times to about half of what it was a decade ago. Airlines report faster schedules and new routes, with improved aircraft efficiency and jet speeds driving the change.
Hearing Postponed in Pelzer Strikers Assault Case
Preliminary cheering for four Pelzer strikers charged with assaulting FF C Ware, a Pelzer Manufacturing Company worker, was postponed today in magistrate court until Saturday.
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Greenville
S. C
Pelzer
FF. C. Ware
Pelzer Manufacturing Company
Cvourt
Earthquake Kills Over Fifty in Narino Province Colombia
More than 50 people were killed and many more injured after a major earthquake struck Narino province in western Colombia on Tuesday. The quake affected a vast area and caused widespread damage.
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Colombia
Narino
Ocoolombia
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