News of colored people items and meetings in city
Miss Willard Lucile Brincefield wed to Madison King in Baltimore Thanksgiving week. VFW Auxiliary meets Sunday Dec 8 at 4 30 at VFW home. Missionary circle Mars Hill Holiness church to meet at Mrs Inez Watson home. 20th Century club meets at YWCA tonight at 8. Evangelist Mamie Smith to preach Sunday at Mars Hill, Rev Brooks to preach at Shiloh Baptist at 8 p.m. Mrs Fannie B Mason improving at Evening Breeze. Temple Men's club to meet at Deacon Allen’s home with midweek prayer led by Deacons Leake and Peed Pom Shee. Hosanna Tents No 326 meet Fri Dec 6 at Odd Fellows hall 7 30.
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Willard Lucile Brincefield
T. L. Brincefield
Madison King
Baltimore
Maryland
Charles E. Johnson
Methodist Church
Fulton Avenue
VFW
E. Washington Street
Missionary Circle
Missionary Circle of
Mars Hill
20Th Century Club
YWCA
Mamie Smith
Brooks
Shiloh Baptist Church
Fannie B. Mason
Evening Breeze
Temple Memorial
Temple
Deacon Allen
E. Green Street
Barnes Sues Over Wife's Death for 85000 Dollars
Harve L Barnes of New Bern seeks 85000 dollars in Craven superior court for the death of his wife Helen K Barnes from burns in an explosion of a gas heater she tried to light. He names Tide Water Power Co and Standard Oil Co of New Jersey as defendants, alleging a today September 18 conversion from illuminating gas to propane by Tide Water and Standard Oil.
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New Bern
Harvey L .Barnes
Helen K. Barnes
Craven Superior Court
Tide Water Power Company
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Barnes
Tide Water Company
Standard Oil Company
Funeral services for John M. Sain in Branchville
Funeral services were arranged here today for John M. Sain 48 of Rowesville who was fatally injured yesterday when a log he was loading on a truck struck him on the head. The article notes that only 40 percent of men’s clothing was ready to wear as late as 1880.
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Joan M. Sain
Branchville
S. C
John M. Sain
Rowesville
Remind Arthritis Relief Promise in 8 Day Trial Offer
Thousands suffer pains from arthritis rheumatism swollen joints lumbago and neuritis may find relief as a doctor’s Remind formula circulates in blood after the first dose. An eight day trial offer guarantees results or money back with empty package return.
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Nature
Romind
Admiralty Suit Filed By Parents Of Dead Sailor
Mr and Mrs Roy L Cashwell of Sampson county filed an admiralty suit against the United States for 40000 damages over the death of their son Leland C Cashwell while aboard the S S Colin P Kelly Jr The complaint to U S Deputy Clerk J Douglas Taylor alleges the master and first mate ordered Cashwell and two shipmates to recover a life boat and rack adrift in a storm they were swept overboard and lost
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Wilmington
Roy L. Cashwell
Sampson County
United States
Leland C. Cashwell
S. S
Colin P. Kelly, Jr
U. S
J. Douglas Taylor
Cashwell
Cop Hater Shows His Contempt In Unusual Way
Chicago police officer Phillip Sylvester was dining when a stranger, Raymond C. Chappell, 26, grabbed a hot potato from his plate and dumped his coffee after declaring dislike for cops. Chappell was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to Central station.
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Chicago
Phillip Sylvester
Sylvester
Raymond C. Chappell
Central Station
Seedmen Open Three Day Convention in Winston-Salem
The North Carolina seedmen's association begins a three day convention in Winston-Salem with about 400 delegates expected. Lee M. Wiggins of Hartsville, South Carolina, a past president of the American Bankers Association, is slated to deliver the principal address at tonight's convention banquet.
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Seedmen’s Association
Lee M. Wiggins
Hartsville
S. C
American Bankers Association
Budapest hosts more than one ninth of Hungary’s people
Hungary has 8,604,000 residents and over one ninth live in Budapest, highlighting the capital’s large share of the population. The data underscores Budapest’s role as the country’s population center.
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Hungar
Inudapest
Groom Fails To Appear At Proxy Wedding Overseas
Boise dispatch reports Lt. Matthew Clayton Beck, stationed in Fulda Germany with occupation forces, married via proxy to Gloria Louise McAllister of Portland Oregon. Beck did not know the wedding time as the bride rushed to prepare and failed to inform him.
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Boise
Idaho
Matthew Clayton Beck
Gloria Louise McAllister
Portland
Ore
Beck
Fulda
Germany
Burley Average Tops $41 at Asheville
An average of 41.39 dollars per hundred was set at Asheville burley sales. Prices for thin smoking grades reached up to 60 dollars per hundred amid strong bidding. Total sales totaled 262,664 pounds for 108,718.94 dollars, with 248,550 pounds sold on opening day for 112,687.06 dollars. Benjamin Franklin left bequests of 5000 dollars to Boston and 5000 dollars to Philadelphia.
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Asheville
Burley
Military wedding plans and lumber trade note
A fragment notes a military wedding to be held in Germany with a lieutenant to be informed of the timing. It also mentions U S lumber consumption totaling about 30 billion board feet annually, reflecting wartime scale and industrial output.
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Germany
United States
Roofers Meet in Columbia Convention Tomorrow
The Carolinas roofing and sheet metal contractors association plans a convention in Columbia, with directors meeting tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Carolinas’ Roofing and Sheet Metal Contractors Association
Is Epilepsy Inherited Causes Its Link to Family History
A free booklet from the Educational Division invites readers to write to 535 Fifth Ave New York NY for opinions of famed doctors on whether epilepsy is inherited and what causes it. The material promises insight into the subject and urges readers to request the booklet while supplies last.
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Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
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