High Point Country Club project advances for 1923
The Emerywood park site in northwest High Point will host a 120 acre country club with a 30 000 dollar clubhouse and 60 acre golf links. Construction begins within ten days with a 26 foot boulevard drive from North Main street to the club. The facility will include lounges showers and a possible ballroom, a 200 by 40 foot club house, a nine hole course by E S Draper and Donald Ross, a future second nine and an outdoor pool with tennis courts. The venture is led by Sunset Park company promoters and financials show paid in capital above 100 000 dollars.
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Emerywood Park
High Point Country Club
High Point
Parkway
Emerywood
North Main Street
Club
Big City
Milady
Max Obendorff
Sunset Park Company
Wescott Robeson
R. T. Amos
Willis Slane
Frank Wineskie
Fred Tate
A. E. Tate
S. H. Tomlinson
C. F. Tomlinson
J. E. Millis
J. H. Adams
R. R. Ragan
O. E. Kearns
The
Park Company
Northwest
Hedgecock
J. Elwood Cox
J. T. Hedrick
F. M. Pickett
R. B. Terry
O. C. Durland
H. A. Millis
E. S. Draper
Draper
Donald Ross
High Point Country Club Company
Country Club Company
Furniture City
Stephen Clark
Clark
High Point Country Club Aims for Social Star in City
The city of High Point moves toward an ideal social culture and industrial greatness with a new club house, golf links, a modern hotel, and a large municipal theater signaling progress beyond earlier cultural stagnation.
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High Point
Alabama civic groups back convict leasing abolition
Birmingham reports civic groups across Alabama join the campaign to end convict leasing. The Mobile Lions Club endorsed the movement after Legion speakers described the system as relic of an ancient age and urged change.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Cotton State
Lion's Club of
Mobile
Legion
British Royalty About 10 Absorb Chicago Preduct
Chicago gossip claims Prince George, fourth son of the king, will announce an engagement to Lady Alexandra Curzon eldest daughter of Marquess Curzon minister for foreign affairs. Curzon married Miss Mary Leiter of Chicago in 1895, a society favorite and heiress to Levi Leiter, a grain magnate.
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London
Prince George
Alexandra Curzon
Marquess Curzon
Curzon
Mary Leiter
Levi Z. Leiter
Chicago
Miss Leiter
Lady Curzon
Princess Mary
Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund of York Born at Sandringham
The article notes the birth of a prince on December 20 1902 at York Cottage Sandringham to the Prince of Wales and outlines his early life. It mentions his christening name George Edward Alexander Edmund and his naval career start at Osborne in 1916. It also covers a 1920 West Indies cruise aboard the Temeraire and 1921 service on the Iron Duke, plus health issues including appendicitis and toe surgery affecting dancing. The piece adds Lady Curgon’s beauty and wealth.
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Prince
York Cottage
Sandringham
Prince of Wales
George Edward Alexander Edmund
Royal Naval College
Osborne
West Indies
Lady Curgon
North Carolina Orphan Association to Meet in Raleigh
The annual meeting of the North Carolina Orphan Association will be held September 19 at the Methodist Orphanage in Raleigh starting at 10 o'clock. J. J. Phoenix is president and M. L. Shipman secretary treasurer. program includes an invocation and welcome by Rev. A. S. Barnes followed by a president's response.
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Phoenix
Children’s Home Society of North Carolina
M. L. Shipman
Mary G. Shotwell
Bureau of Child Welfare
State Board of Charities
Raleigh
N. C
G. Floyd Rodgers
Charlotte
N.C
William H. Wheeler
M. L. Kestler
Thomasville Baptist Orphanage
R. L. Brown
Oxford
L. B McBrayer
The
North Carolina Orphan Association
Methodist Orphanage
J. J. Phoenix
North Carolina Children's Home Society
Thomasville
A. S. Barnes
Superintendent Methodist Orphanage
John J
Memorial Trees Among Losses From Bronx Wantons
An American Legion post in the Bronx claims memorial World War I trees were neglected and damaged. Bronze plaques were mutilated guards damaged and trees died due to lack of care. They seek protection for the memorial concourse and will pursue cooperation with civic societies at a joint meeting with the county legion convention.
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New York
Bronx
American Legion
Legion
The
Family Milk Distribution Plan Proposed for Children
Each child in the family should receive a quart of whole milk daily for drinking or use in foods. The plan emphasizes daily dairy access to support nutrition and growth.
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Steve” Clark
Willie Slane
Randall Terry
Ile
Country Club
Herbert B. Hunter
Alexander Curzon
Milton Bronner
Lady Alexandra and
Association of State Orphanage Workers
Bell Furniture CO
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