Duke Hospital Library to Grow Rapidly at Duke
Duke University plans a three floor hospital library in the new hospital and medical school building. By July 1 it will hold 20 000 volumes making it one of the largest southern medical libraries. Juried by Judith Farrar the library will catalog many German language titles and 400 periodicals. The library houses the J Howell Way collection on public health. De Vinci set copies and other rare works will enhance the collection. The hospital and nursing schools open in 1931 with broad access for staff, students, and researchers.
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Durham
N. C
Duke University
Hospital
Anw Cumn
Mwaves
Germany
Europe
Judith Farrar
Columbia, S. C
Marcellus BE. Winston
Rocky Mount
Bessie Baker
St. Paul, Minn
W. C. Davidson
J. Howell Way
Way
Leonardo da Vinci
George V
England
de Vinci
Medical School
New Konjola touted as quick victory by aged user
Seventy five year old Andrew Potts of Danville reports relief from kidney trouble and rheumatism after using Konjola. He says the medicine restored his vigor and sleep, claiming he feels as hale as ten years ago. Konjola is sold at Mann No. 1 Drug Store in High Point and by other local druggists.
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Andrew Potts
Lexington Pike
Danville
High Point
Mann No. 1
Bank executive Sam C King indicted on three counts
Birmingham on February 15 three indictments accuse Sam C King former vice president and cashier of the Bank of Ensley and ex member of the state banking board of embezzling 105000 false entry and accepting deposits after the bank became insolvent. Two former bank employees Fricks and Smith face false entry charges and confessed to taking about 300000 to buy real estate. A receiver was appointed last Saturday after depositors charged King diverted over 500000 for his own use.
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Birmingham
Ala
Bank of Ensley
Jefferson County
Sam C. King
Ensley Bank
State Banking Board
Wylam
Bank
KB. L. Fricks
William Herman Smith
George Lewis Bailes
Lberty
King
Alabama
Dogs Mother Hubbard case shocks New York neighbors
Mrs Anna Leary faced cruelty to animals charges after twenty five dogs were found at her home described as a dog paradise by Leary. Neighbors alleged mistreatment and the court released her pending further inquiry.
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Mother Hubbard
New York
Anna Leary
NC offers two year lease to boost private oyster farming
North Carolina's state board of conservation and development plans to lease state bottomlands free for two years to encourage private oyster farming and expand the aquaculture industry near Raleigh. The proposal signals government support for oyster producers and aims to grow local fishery activity.
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Aid Oyster Partners
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Board of Conservation and Development
Robsion Bill to Create Federal Department of Education
A bill introduced by Representative Robsion of Kentucky proposes a Department of Public Education to aid public schools, promote national educational facilities, and abolish illiteracy while preserving states rights. It outfits a Secretary of Education with a $15,000 salary, transfers the Bureau of Education, and creates a National Council on Education with state superintendents as members.
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Robsion
Kentucky
Department of Public Education
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Secretary of Education
Education
Bureau of Education
Department of the Interior
Department of Education
Commissioner of Education
United States
Department
National Council On Education
Alaska
Hawaiian Islands
Phillippine Islands
Porto Rico
Isthmus
Panama
Taft Hovered by Illness at Washington Home
Pretty Gertrude Manifold among nurses attending William Howard Taft as he fights illness at his Washington residence. Remarkably limited access to his room. few visitors allowed to interview the former President, who had resigned as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court due to his failing health.
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Gertrude Manifold
William Howard Taft
Washington
United State Supreme Court
Provisions on Education Department Accounts and Transfers
The text outlines annual congressional reporting on funds and work by the Department of Public Education and authorizes investigations by the Secretary of Education. It states act effectiveness 30 days after passage, with transfer provisions taking effect July 1, 1930, and notes walnut trees over 150 feet high in the Ohio and Wabash river basins.
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House of Congress
Ohio
Wabash
Hope For Cure Through Tuberculosis Breakthrough
Dr. William C. White of the public health service presents a potential tuberculosis cure based on a sugar created by the germs. The sugar may link germ and human cell, and separating the germ from the cell could make a practical cure.
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Washington
William C. White
Public Health Service
White
Business Women Plan National HQ Hotel in Washington
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women aims to build a $1,000,000 headquarters and hotel in Washington. The building committee led by Miss Mary Armstrong of New York has reviewed sites and will report to the 1931 convention in Richmond. Salt content noted: each gallon of sea water contains 0.2547 pounds.
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Washington
National Federation of Business and Professional Women
Mary Armstrong
New York
Richmond
Cure for Chronic Ailments Ad in Plain Wrapper
An advertisement promises a 50 page book mailed free in a plain sealed wrapper by Dr. W. J. McCrary, listing symptoms such as tiredness, headaches, skin eruptions, sore mouth, throat inflammation, mucus, indigestion, memory loss, and bowel issues. It cites a cure and provides a mailing address in Carbon Hill Ola for Dep’t A-20.
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W. J. McCrary, Inc
Carbon Hill
Ola
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Duke Hospital
Konjola
Farmer
Ensley, Ala
Taft
Irene Castle McLaughlin
Chicago
Sheaven
Majestic
Lowboy
Monarch OF the Air
Clinard Electric Company
College Street
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