White's Listings Sell 126 Acre Dairy and Tobacco Farms
Classifieds advertise a 126 acre dairy farm with mixed soil, tobacco and grain potential, 7 room house, large barn, and good water. also a 28 acre tobacco and truck farm with two houses and multiple barns. Nearby homes on East Green, Auburn, and Forrest avenues priced from 1250 to 1750. Sale terms cash with possible terms, no trades. Id L. White Inc. Bank Building, Office 2683 Residence 8473. New York Cotton flutters with mixed demand and holiday trading.
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WHITE
East Green Street
Auburn Street
Forrest Avenue
Liverpool Cotton Prices and Sales Report
Cotton market in Liverpool shows steady rates with 3000 bales sold including 1400 American and 2000 received. Futures closed quiet with January 5.18 March 5.28 May 5.40 July 5.51 October 5.63, official noon December 1930 value 5.19.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
P.C
Silver Prices and Money Rates in London Market
Silver in London closed at 14 7 16 dollars per ounce. Money market rates show 3 1 4 percent for discounting. Short bills at 25 16 to 2 3 8 percent, three months at 2 5 16 percent.
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London
Magnet road sweeper recovers metal on Oregon highways
The magnet road sweeper used on Oregon state highways collected 13 870 pounds of metal last year, helping remove ferrous debris from main routes across the state.
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Oregon
Stocks End 1930 in Sigh of Relief
Wall street ends 1930 with relief as stocks rise on tax selling completion and hopeful January outlook. Major gains noted in U S Steel Westinghouse Bethlehem Air Reduction American Power and Light and others while trading dulls after early hours. Analysts caution that 1931 earnings may trail 1930 and dividend cuts could temper optimism.
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Claude A. Jagger
AP Financial
New York
Wall Street
U. S. Steel
Westinghouse Electric
Bethlehem Steel
Air Reduction
Eastman
American Power and Light
American Telephone
Stone and Webster
Borden
American Smelting
Union Pacific
New York Central
Chicago
Northwestern
Lackawanna
Auburn
Grain declines fade as wheat and corn edge lower
Chicago grain prices slipped with wheat down and corn off near the close. Oats hit season lows while messages from Winnipeg warned of indefinite and political Canadian grain relief plans.
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Chicago
Winnipeg
Earler
Judge Shaw to Retire After 25 Years on Bench
Greensboro North Carolina December 31 Judge Thomas J Shaw of the 12th judicial district will retire tomorrow after more than a quarter century on the bench He first sat in 1899 served 1906 returned in 1912 and has served continuously Since retirement he will continue to serve as an emergency judge
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Greensboro
N. C
Thomas J. Shaw
12Th Judicial District
Shaw
High Point Country Club Plans Organization Wide Reconstruction
The Country Club met with only two board members absent to approve a plan extending reconstruction throughout the organization to strengthen its role as the city’s social hub. Membership stands at a record 248, with new resident members this year setting a single-year record. Directors expressed optimism and unanimous support for the action and thanked the president for year’s service. The annual stockholders meeting is set for February.
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High Point
Explosions Destroy New Orleans Valentino Theater
Three blasts rocked the Valentino theater and five nearby buildings in New Orleans early today. The empty theater was dynamited, throwing residents from their beds and causing widespread pandemonium as police investigate possible foe of the owner.
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New Orleans
Valentino Theatre
Brace and Bit Thief Preys On Goldsboro
A "brace and bit" thief bored one inch holes in doors at Smith Hardware and Robinson's Drug in Goldsboro to breach panels and enter. A grocery store was entered through smashed glass. About $30 in cash $15 in stamps a stamp machine and several pocket knives were taken.
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Goldsboro
N. C
Smith Hardware Store
Robinson's Drug Store
Government Accepts Site for New Post Office in High Point
The High Point school board confirms the South Main street lot, 200 foot frontage, accepted by the government for the new post office. Purchase to be formalized after title abstract and surveying within 60 days. Owner J Elwood Cox sold property 25 years ago. new junior high to be built on east end of current High School property facing Jones street with capacity around 1000 students.
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High Point
South Main Street
T. Wingate Andrews
Horace Haworth
Sam Strickland
J. Elwood Cox
The Outlaw Otto Wood and His Prison Escapes
Identification of the man as Otto Wood comes from Chief Rankin noting a scar and gold teeth. The 34 year old brakeman and author escaped Raleigh prison four times since 1923, with breaks in 1924 1925 and 1926, various car thefts and a request for better prison conditions followed by letters from the Midwest. A nationwide manhunt persisted after his last escape on July 12 1930.
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Rankin
Wood
Kesler
Barker
Otto Wood
North Carolina
Raleigh
Guilford County Superior Court
Greensboro
A. W. Kaplan
Princeton
W. Va
Otto
John Starnes
Liberty
Roanoke
Freedom
Wilkes County
Midwest
Census Figures By Wards In High Point 1980 Totals
The Census Bureau released 1980 ward totals for High Point. Ward 1 has 8318 residents, Ward 2 7454, Ward 3 10075, Ward 4 10998, with a total population of 36745. The record notes missing 1920 and 1930 ward figures.
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High Point
Census Bureau
Outlaw Otto Wood Shot Dead in Salisbury NC
Otto Wood, notorious North Carolina convict who escaped multiple times, was shot to death at Salisbury. Authorities traced a $275 head bounty, outlaw label, and linked his companion in the escape plot as police identified the body and sought Mrs. Wood and the missing child Lucille.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Otto
O. Max Gardner
Raleigh
W. H. Wood
High Point
Mia
Wood
Salisbury
North Carolina
State
Max Gardner
George Ross Pou
E. F. Berry
Granite Quarry
Byrd Joins Chief McGhee to Salisbury for Body Identification
Reporters learned of the development this afternoon as Mr. Byrd departed with Chief of the BE A. McGhee and other officers for Salisbury to identify the body.
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Byrd
BE. A
Tobacco acreage cut urged to revive 1931 market
Henderson North Carolina December 31 An appeal by the Tobacco Association of the United States board of governors seeks reduced tobacco acreage for 1931 to halt price declines. The plan favors a live at home program with cooperation from newspapers bankers supply merchants fertilizer firms and farmers to curb supply and lift farmer finances.
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Bright Leaf Belt
Gasoline Rates May Be Reduced
The High Point, Thomasville and Denton Railroad and its connections proposed a rate cut on petroleum and gasoline products moved in carload quantities from Norfolk, Virginia to High Point, Thomasville and Denton. The current Norfolk to High Point and Thomasville rate is 35 cents per hundred pounds. If approved, the reduction could bring substantial savings to local consumers in the region.
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High Point
Denton
Norfolk
Virginia
Thomasville
Mrs J W Beane of White Hall Dies at Local Hospital
Mrs J W Beane of White Hall near Randleman died this morning in a local hospital after several weeks as a patient. Survived by husband four children Juanita Thelma Ruth and Francis Beane mother Mrs Needham Asheboro sister Mrs Glennie Manus Greensboro and brother Ted Howard Howard's Mill Funeral services set for Thursday at 2 30 pm at Pleasant Hill M P Church near Seagrove with burial in the church cemetery.
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J. W. Beane
White Hall
Randleman
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Thelma
Ruth
Francis Beane
Needham
Asheboro
Glennie Manus
Greensboro
Ted Howard
Howard's Mill
Pleasant Hill M. P
Seagrove
Railway officials announce promotions in freight division
Southern Railway announces January 1 promotions. R W Wirt moves from Charlotte to Jacksonville as assistant freight traffic manager. Bondurant rises from Philadelphia to division freight agent at Charlotte. Announcement made by G H Wilcox, freight traffic manager.
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Atlanta, Ga
R. W. Wirt
Southern Railway Division
Charlotte
N. C
Jacksonville
Fla
G. H. Wilcox
Ine
Bondurant
Philadelphia
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