Local and regional notices blend with sports and world events
Guilford College plans a sacred concert at Friends Church Sunday at 7 30. Duke faces Carolina in Chapel Hill tonight. Cuban plant returns to American owners after labor trouble. Roosevelt seeks removal of political bosses from relief agencies. T D Cox funeral held at 217 Willowbrook Street with Tom Alderman Sykes in charge. World revolution outlook from All Union congress in Moscow. Woolworth building halts 10 to 24 elevators due to coal and copper shortage. Ruth Anderson marries Sidney Redding at L B Frazier home December 29 1923. Wilson’s death near. Champion Fibrey workers strike over hours. J Grady seeks unmasking K K K members. Imperial Wizard Evans in Raleigh.
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Guilford College R
Ral Friends Church
Gen- Amoco
General Tires
General Tire Rubber Company
Akron
T. D. Cox
Duke
Carolina
Chapel Hill
Moscow
Havana
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Canton
J Grady
K. K
Order
H. W. Evans
Grady
Raleigh
Willkie: Nation Needs Tough Tax Plan For War Debt
Wendell Willkie urged a wartime tax program of at least 16 billion dollars to fund the war and warned against letting debt erode victory. He called for postwar taxes to expand with higher rates and argued for ruthless wartime taxation while demanding an economy of government after victory.
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New York
Wendell L. Willkie
New York Times
Willkie
Titan
Reellions
Treasury
Congress
431 Missing in Action Soldiers List From War Department
War Department released 431 soldiers listed as missing in action. The report names individuals linked to North Carolina towns and families, including Albemarle Winston-Salem High Point and Charlotte, with next of kin details and addresses. Also notes deaths of Anita Augsburg in exile and record phone calls from New Jersey on Christmas Eve and Day.
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Washington
War Department
North Carolina
Areaeners
Coa
Coste
Cora M. Cooke
Albemarle
Elmer B. Doub
E. Doub
Windes Raborn
Wesley F. Greene
Daisy Greene
Marton
Henry M. Higginbotham
James C. Higginbotham
S. Stadium
Winston-Salem
Gilbert D. Lioyd
Emily J. Lioyd
E. Green High Point
Warren G. Maney
Annie Manal
Pennsylvania Ave
Ashevil
James B. Stilwell, Jr
Pearlie Mae Stilwell
Jefferson Ave
Charlotte
Tech
Nelson M. Boger
Ella A. Boger
Rt. 1
Graham
Southwest Pacific Area
Edward T. Constantin
Martha A. Constantin
Waynesville
T. Romulus F. Mull
All
Kannapolis
Fought For
New York
INS
Germany
Anita Augsburg
Switzerland
Aufbau
Trenton
New Jersey
San Antonio widow aids war by gathering silk for bombsights
Mrs. G G Gillette, a Texas mother, collects Black Widow spiders to supply silk for bombsight crosslines. She traps, milks, and ships the spiders to a California spider farm for wartime use, noting Texas spiders spin stronger webs and are easier to handle in cooler mornings.
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Betty Fiala
San Antonio
Tex
INS
Texas
Berlin
Golden Garden
G. G. Gillette
California
Emily Post books top servicemen library picks in Chicago
Emily Post has become influential in Chicago where her books guiding soldiers on letter writing and gifts top the servicemen centers libraries. Librarian Marie Kern Sar says poetry and philosophy verse also appeal while a ten thousand volume collection and a charity mail order effort ship volumes to overseas readers at no cost.
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Chicago
INS
Emily Post
Miss Post
T Boys
Marie Kern Sar
Indiana
Kern
Guadalcanal
Iceland
Turgenieff
Africa
Spider shipments aid troops in home front effort
Friends across the state send Mrs. Gillette small spider shipments for her monthly package to California. Spiders multiply quickly and can spin 200 yards of silk at once, helping support soldiers overseas as she explains there is no glamor, only a practical way to contribute to the war effort.
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California
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Tom Alderman Sykes
Randolph County
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J. E. Anderson
Ruth O. Anderson
Sidney Redding
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L. B. Frazier
Pony
Marvel
Sultana
Brown
Raleigh Cigarettes
APTE
Red Cross
Ralston
Pec
Kitcher Klenzer
White House
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Sunnyfield
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Ann
Ghetti
Macaroni
Ann Page
Tadee Coote Beans
GOP
Samuel G. Blackman
Tar Heels
William Forrest Louise Currie
Arepublic
IST
Paramount
King Features Syndicate
Doan’s
Pinkham’s
Walgreen's
South Main ST
Valentine
Velve
Mary
Tampax
Briar Pipes
Billies
Stokes
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Upjohn Unicaps
Olafsen
Orlis
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Moe Tabutes Eae Wee
Gillette Blue Blades
Treat £ Mrough
Walgreen Drug Stores
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