High Point backs Guilford courthouse site choice
Officials chose a site on West Market Street for Guilford county’s new courthouse and planned to buy Colwell and Staple tracts, close South Ashe Street, and build a modern center-block building. Greensboro citizens surveyed largely approved, with strong support from High Point representative W C Jones and favorable editorials in the Greensboro Daily News.
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W. C. Jones
High Point
Board of County Commission
West Market Street
Jones
Colwell and Staple
Ashe Street
Greensboro
Greensboro Daily News
W. ©. Jones
Guilford County
South Greensboro Pople
Guilford College
L. L. Hobbs
Waz
Women Make Gains in Public Life and Politics
The report notes women entering Pittsburgh police ranks, near 90th birthday for Mrs. Russell Sage, ongoing eight hour day debates in Illinois, and the Daughters of the American Revolution planning their twenty sixth continental Congress in Washington in April. It highlights suffrage efforts in Philadelphia, Camp Fire Girls nearing 100 140 in membership, Missouri women petitioning against trade incentives abolishing trading stamps, and veteran actress James Lee at 67 with sixty years in theater. It also covers university president A Ross Hill scolding young women students, a Napoleon funeral survivor Mrs Owen in St Helena, Emma Brown’s long service at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Bessie Barth Richardson as flag bearer for the Grand Army of the Republic, and presidents and their wives accompanying inaugurations in March with Mrs Taft noted as first presidential wife to ride after inauguration and Mrs Marshall as first VP wife in the parade.
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Illinois
Continental Congress
Daughters of the American Revolution
Washington
Philadelphia
Camp Fire Girls
Boy Scouts
Missouri
James Lee
Moving Pictures
A. Ross Hill
University of Missouri
College Hospital
Tooting
Owen
Napoleon
Isle of
St. Helena
Paris
Emma Brown
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Bureau
Bessie Barth Richardson
Rock Island
Ill
Grand Army of the Republic
John Buford
Richardson
Pennsylvania Avenue
White House
Capitol
Taft
Marshall
Winter Carnival Opens at Dartmouth in Hanover
The Dartmouth winter carnival, hailed as a top national winter sports celebration, opens in Hanover on February 8 with hockey, skating, ski jumping, snowshoe races, and tobogganing. Canadian and eastern college competitors attend as fraternities host open houses, concerts, dinners, dances, and social events throughout the week.
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Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth College
Marguerite Clark Stars in Snow White at Broadway Next Friday
Marguerite Clark appears in Snow White on Broadway with plans for a Friday evening performance. The production features Clark in the title role and runs at a major New York venue, drawing attention from local theatergoers.
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Marguerite Clark
Snow White
Strange Vessel Seen Off Massachusetts Coast
Boston reports a sighting of a submarinelike craft four miles off Marblehead. Captain Smith A. Ross of a harbor tug described a 300 to 350 foot long, low vessel with a small conical superstructure, flying no flag and moving at 15 to 18 knots before veering south toward Cape Cod. Navy officials checked vessels but found no match.
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Boston
Smith A. Ross
Ross
Marblehead
Cape Cod
Navy Yard
Governor Bickett to Lead North Carolina Parade Staff
Governor T W Bickett plans to ride at the head of his staff in the March 4 inaugural parade in Washington. He aims to showcase North Carolina by including civic groups and a large contingent of militia recently returned from the Mexican border. The state will emphasize its pride in Josephus Daniels in Wilson's second inauguration.
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Washington
T. W. Bickett
North Carolina
Wilson
Josephus Daniels
East Side families spend average weekly food cost of 4.50
New York reports a biology teacher Miss Bernice Jenkins studied 150 homes on the East Side from First to Third avenues and Fifty ninth to One Hundred and Tenth streets. The study finds families spend 20 to 40 dollars weekly on food, with most children receiving about 90 percent of required calories. Substitutes for meat tested at No. 6 East Thirty ninth street show low costs for polenta cabbage and cheese macaroni and cheese and other dishes.
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New York
East Side
Bernice Jenkins
Tia Richmond High School
Miss Jenkins
School of Modern Cookery
East Thirtyninth Street
C. Houston Goodiss
Iowa Press Association Meet Opens in Des Moines
Newspaper publishers and editors from across Iowa gather in Des Moines for the Iowa Press association annual meeting. The sessions run through Saturday with business talks and entertainment features to address print paper concerns and related issues keeping editors awake at night.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Hawkeye State
Iowa Press Association
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Darker Hair
An old advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a cure for gray hair. It claims the tonic darkens hair evenly, restores thickness and luster, stops dandruff and itching, and can make gray strands disappear after a few applications.
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Wyeth
He Was a Soldier Then
Joseph P. Eaton of Batson Massachusetts visits New Bern for the first time in over forty years. A Civil War veteran, Eaton served with the 25th Massachusetts Regiment and was stationed in New Bern for several months during active service.
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New Bern
Joseph P. Eaton
Batson
Mass
Romeo and Juliet at the Rose on St. Valentine’s Day
The da Bara company presents Romeo and Juliet at the Rose theater on February 14, during a Valentine’s Day program. City taxes are due in the city offices.
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Theda Bara
the Rose
St. Valentine’s Day
Seventy-Year-Old Couple Claim Foley Kidney Pills Cure
A Harrisburg pair, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Carpenter, aged in the seventies, report kidney trouble cured by Foley Kidney Pills. They claim renewed vigor and relief from sleep disturbance bladder weakness backache and rheumatism. Mann Drug Co.
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T. B. Carpenter
Harrisburg
Foley
Mann Drug Co
Cut Out This Ship Offer From Foley Co
Advertisement promising a trial package of Foley products including Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Catholic Tablets in exchange for a 5 cent stamp and sender's name and address addressed to Foley Co at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Ill Mann Drug Co is noted as the distributor.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Foley Catholic
Mann Drug Co
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