Colored Baptist group in session in North Carolina
The Rowan Baptist association colored convened its 67th annual session at the colored First Baptist church corner of Wash and Hobson streets. More than 100 churches are represented with delegates from Greensboro Charlotte Durham Raleigh and other towns in eastern North Carolina. Shaw University president Dr William Stewart Nelson will address sessions Thursday night. Rev Bullock pastor of First Baptist Raleigh will preach tonight. Rev John Thomas Hairston D D Shiloh Baptist Greensboro is moderator and presides. James Timlie Winston Salem is treasurer.
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Rowan Baptist Association Colored
Colored First Past
Wash and
Hobson Streets
Greensboro
Charlotte
Nia
Asheville
Statesville
Inston-Salem
Durham
Raleigh
Isbury
Estern North Carolina
Rowan Baptist Association
Shaw University
William Stewart Nelison
Bullock
Entertaining Church
First Baptist Church
John Thomas Hairston
Shiloh Baptist Church
John Winston Hairston
James Timlie
Winston-Salem
Inquest Into Death Postponed After Truck Driver's Illness
In Lumberton the inquest into seven Lenoir County men killed in a corn truck wreck is postponed until Haywood Smith, the truck driver, can appear. Smith remains hospitalized and under technical arrest awaiting the inquest. A coroner's jury had been impaneled and funeral services for the victims were held, with graves at Deep Run Free Will Baptist Church.
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Lumberton
Lenoir County
D. W. Biggs
Haywood Smith
Smith
Deep Run Free ‘Will Baptist Church
Driver freed on bond after coroner finds drunk driving in fatal crash
Jesse Cole was released on a $700 bond after a coroner's jury ruled he was intoxicated when his car struck and killed 34 year old Harry Bass in Asheville. The inquest found Cole drank prior to the collision.
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Asheville
Jesse Cole
Liberty
Harry Bass
Fruit Jars Driving State Purchasing Chief to Headache
Raleigh August 24 fruit jars are giving A S Brower director of the Division of Purchase and Contract a headache He says he never wants to see another fruit jar Yet more than 1 500 000 jars and about 2 000 000 tin cans have been bought to supply governors relief gardens for winter relief work possibly totaling 4 000 000 of each when finished Orders arrive almost daily grouped into carload lots for single destinations Craven county uses tins not jars for canning locally
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Brower
Craven County
The Carrier Boy Series Promotes Early Newspaper Trade Training
A brief piece explains that carrier boys buy papers wholesale and sell retail, earning via collections. It notes punctuality and regularity as key training for about 588,000 youths nationwide, with delivery taking under ninety minutes daily and teaching basic business skills.
Your Health Your Health Noises Strains and Worry
This second article by Dr. Morris Fishbein discusses fatigue from light noise and vibration in modern life. It notes car and train travel cause fatigue, links fatigue to gland function especially thyroid pituitary and adrenal, and highlights psychosomatic fatigue more in women. It stresses diagnosing causes and addressing mental factors.
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Morris Fishbein
Journal of the American Medical Association
Hygeda
Pituitary
Detective Stories Act As Sedative To Business Men
Detective tales soothe anxious readers and lower pulse, breathing and blood pressure. A study by Ray Mars Simpson with 40 university students shows detective fiction increases breathing rate during reading but declines over time, while pulse and blood pressure settle to similar levels as other topics. The research suggests detective stories calm tired businessmen more than they excite.
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Haword W. Blakesler
Associated Press
New York
Ray Mars Simpson
Institute For Juvenile Research
Chicago
Dr. Simpson
Cotton waste fire at Earnhardt Manufacturing
Firefighters extinguished a blaze at the Earnhardt Manufacturing plant burning about 200 bales of cotton waste. Damage estimated at $1000. Authorities investigated the cause and noted the incident occurred earlier today at the factory in Charlotte.
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Charlotte
Earnhardt Manufacturing Company
Canton Woman Killed as Train Strikes Car
Mrs. Johnson Smith, 29, of Canton was killed when a Southern freight train struck her car near here yesterday. Five others in the vehicle escaped serious injury.
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Clyde
Johnson Smith
Canton
Here
Army officers legally trade wives under 90 day divorce law
Two Fort Leavenworth officers swapped spouses in a legal exchange. Mrs MacDonald and Mrs Bradford moved to Arkansas to use the 90 day divorce rule, lived together, then each couple secured decrees and remarried, with the officers later returning to army life.
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Leavenworth, Kas
William B. Bradford
Stuart MacDonald
Bradford
Major MacDonald
Cou
Captain Bradford
MacDonald
Fort Leavenworth
Pennsylvania
Arrest of Baxter Milton for eloping with married woman
Baxter Milton a 22 year old former farm hand was arrested in East Bend Yadkin county for eloping with a married Davidson county woman. He is jailed awaiting trial on charges of enticing Mrs Hege wife of Arcadia township farmer and furniture worker to abandon her home and children. The missing wife is sought as a material witness.
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Lexington
Baxter Milton
East Bend
Yadkin County
Davidson County
Milton
Lewis Hege
Arcadia Township
Hanestown
Winston- Salem
Winston-Salem
Military family details and service backgrounds
The text describes Major MacDonald a New York native and West Point graduate, Captain Bradford a 37 year old Army officer who joined in 1917 from civilian life, and notes the Bradford family situation with their 10 year old daughter living with her father and his second wife. The passage mentions the Virginia Military Institute as part of Bradford’s education.
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Bradfords
Major MacDonald
New York
West Point
Captain Bradford
Army
Virginia Military Institute
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