Champion Typist Tangora Demonstrates at High Point College
Albert Tangora of Patterson New Jersey world champion typist four times 1923 1924 1925 and 1928 appeared at High Point college chapel in a lecture and demonstration. He wrote 137 words per minute and listed figures orally while testing a new machine ahead of the next world championship.
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Albert Tangora
Patterson
N. J
Underwood
Charlotte
High Point College
Tangora
High Point
Stanley Pugh
Peacock Bible Class Sees Surging Attendance
Dr. Dred Peacock spoke to Wesley Memorial Sunday school on recruiting Christian workers. Over 125 men attended, with attendance rising weekly since the new membership campaign began.
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Dred Peacock
Wesley Memorial Sunday School
Wheat and Cotton Weakness Shown in Stock Prices
The stock market opened irregularly and weakened as wheat and cotton futures slid to new seasonal lows. Profit taking and bear trading from southern resorts weighed on shares while several firms reported gains, including Coca Cola and South Penn Oil, though others like Timken Detroit and Beechnut Packing showed declines.
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New York
Florida
South Penn
Consolidated Gas Company of New York
Pierce Arrow Automobile Company
Midland Steel Products Company
Chesapeake Corporation
Beechnut Packing
Timken Detroit
J. I. Case
Auburn Auto
Gulf States Steel
Safeway
Atchison
Harlem
Funeral Services For Jenkins Child Sunday
Edward J. Jenkins died at the home of its parents Fletcher B. Jenkins and Mrs. Jenkins on Guilford street. Funeral services were held at Bulah Reformed church near Lexington Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock conducted by Adj. O Beirne of High Point. Pall bearers included Jauieta Jenkins Charlotte O Beirne Eisine Welch Mable Gallimore. Flower bearers were Alma Bostic Minnie Sink Anne Bell Jenkins Myrtle Jenkins May Caudell Virginia Sink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward J. Jenkins
Fletcher B. Jenkins
Guilford Street
Bulah Reformed Church
Lexington
Adj. O’beirne
High Point
Jauieta Jenkins
Charlotte O'Beirne
Eisine Welch
Mable Gallimore
York Pledges Militant Drive If Elected State Chairman
C R York announces candidacy for North Carolina State Chairman, pledging to lead a militant campaign to make the state Republican from township constable to governor and to support the full ticket if not chosen. He backs party unity, recognizes vote-getters, and asserts commitment to GOP interests statewide. The note ends with an unrelated remark about the moon showing no water or vapor.
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United States
Republican State Executive Committee
North Carolina
New York Stocks and Prices Mixed Across Major Firms
The page lists numerous equities and percentages including Am Car Fay, American Sugar, Cerm FROG, Cuban Cane Sugar, West Sugar, Sears Roebuck, Studebaker, Timken, Woolworth, and Westhouse Electric. Movements show varied gains and losses with many prices and percent changes, reflecting a volatile mid-session tally from the exchange.
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Beth Steel
Bee Wew
Cannon Mills
CO & O
Serene
Cola
Cveas
DRPOR
Eas
el Pow & Litt
Seesereess Brig BR Rocce
Cseeensse Jat Comb
Ccceevens Cae Beret
Acciau Tan Lorillard
Pierre
Eee
Sue Catbatees Mo Pacific
Ccc
Ceseesidds
Monte Ward
Cscevdeedcs
NF Central
Cere Northern Pac
e+ es POCKETE
Vowwe Pan Am Pet
Phillip Pot
Sesee Sou Railway Pfd
Chrysler
Ses
Hudson Motors
NTN
HB & Bild
Lasky
Robgag
Schulte
Sinclair Con of
Es Standard
Ebend Studebaker
Etia
United Cigar
Issane
Esse Westhouse
Ee West
Onion
Willys Over
Virginia Pastor Named For Green Street Baptist Church
Rev. George T. Tunstall of First Baptist Em poria Va has been called to lead Green Street Baptist Church in Emporia. Local members hope he accepts after he preaches in High Point and weighs the field. he has served in Emporia three and a half years and previously nine years in Oxford North Carolina.
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George T. Tunstall
First Baptist Church
Emporia
Green Street Baptist Church
J. A. Barnette
Turnstall
High Point
Oxford
N. C
Southern Baptist Seminary
Louisville
Barnette
H. T. Stevens
North Carolina
Stevens
Green Street
Additional Stock Quotations Summary
Continental and others show varied quotes with unusual formatting and unclear figures. The fragmented text hints at stock movement alongside percentages and dealer notes but lacks coherent data or legible names.
New York Cotton Opens Barely Steady Amid Broad Declines
Cotton prices fell across most positions as Liverpool cables weaken and near month liquidation resumes. March traded to 14.95 and May to 15.25, down roughly 24 to 25 points from prior levels, with most contracts hitting new seasonal lows.
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New York
Liverpool
Swedish Queen in Serious Illness Despair at Rome
In Rome on February 24 the Swedish queen, gravely ill, had life despaired of. Queen Victoria was near death from long pulmonary illness, with oxygen, camphor, and caffeine given. Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Soedermanland, arrived, and King Gustave has been present for some time.
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Rome
Sweden
Victoria
Prince Wilhelm
Duke
Soedermanland
Gustave
Interurban Electric Railways Jurisdiction Case Decided
The Supreme Court held the Piedmont and Northern appeal premature for lack of jurisdiction over ICC authority in interurban extensions. The decision notes the case would be a declaratory opinion and that the railway must await a proper controversy before seeking review.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Piedmont and Northern
Supreme Court
Brandis
Commission
District Court
Hamlet theaters bar under-eighteen in meningitis outbreak
In Hamlet North Carolina two new meningitis cases raise ten day total to four. Theaters will not admit anyone under 18 to curb spread. In Puerto Rico, Captain Angel Rivera Mendez, 68, died at his home near Trujillo Alto. In Washington, Chief Justice Taft condition unchanged per attending physicians.
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Amlet
N. C
Richmond County
Angel Rivero Mendez
United States Army
Trujillo Alto
Hit and Run Driver Held in Greensboro
J W Harris, 45, held on $3,000 bond for manslaughter and DUI after a hit and run in Greensboro that killed a little girl and seriously injured her twin brother Saturday night.
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Greensboro
N. C
J. W. Harris
Disciplining Of Bolters Gets Action
Southern party discipline actions reach courts and state responses as bolters face varying treatment. Alabama bars anti Hoover candidates while inviting bolters to vote. Arkansas contemplates third party bolters. Texas and Tennessee show different approaches. Virginia maintains post 1928 results with large Democrat wins and limited action elsewhere.
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Charles H. Kline
Atlanta
South
Herbert Hoover
Horace Wilkinson
Birmingham
anti-Smith
Supreme Court
Heflin
E. W. Pettus
Star Democratic
Arkansas
A. C. Millar
Texas
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentuck Democrats
Thos
Hoover
Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Fred H. Davis
South Carolina
Mississippi
Louisiana
Local Residents Return From Weekend Visits
About People Misses Alice Elizabeth Freezer and Nell Adams return from Chapel Hill after attending the mid winter dances. Miss Elva Blair comes back from three weeks in Washington DC visiting her nephew David H Blair Jr. Miss Elizabeth Adams plans to leave Wednesday for Washington to re enter Martha Wena Seminary accompanied by her sister Nell Adams.
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Alice Elizabeth Freezer
Nell»Adams
Chapel Hill
Elva Blair
Washington, D. C
David H. Blair, Jr
Elizabeth Adams
J. Adams
North Main Street
Martha Wena Seminary
Nell Adams
New Orleans Cotton Opens Lower Amid March Notices
New Orleans cotton futures opened 21 to 27 points down as March notices calling for 26 000 bales circulated. Prices slid to 14 72 for March and 15 07 to 15 31 for May July and other months fell 22 to 24 points. By midmorning a rally formed on shorts covering but after the first hour the market closed 38 to 40 points lower on the day.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
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Central Ave
Albany
N. Y
Balesman
Rex Cigar Co
Shelby, N. C
States Art Co
East
Edwards Business College
West Commerce Street
West End
Sample Furniture Store
Commerce St
Cummings
Cummings Electro Chemical CO
West Green St
Lennox
South Wrenn
Montheu
J. H. Rice
Leonard Dry Cleaning Co
South Main
English Street
Cor, Green and
West Russell Sts
West Green Street
Redding
Campbell St
Woodrow Avenue
Thistle
Bath
Fourth and
Richardson Sts
East Russell Street
Cross Street
Tate Street
D. T. Andrews
Walnut Street
L. F. Tinsley
J. N. McCreary
South Main Street
Ring Drug Co
J. P. Rawley
Montheu Avenue
Saale
D. Parker
Ellington, Florist
W. Commerce
Hudson
Chevrolet
Starr Motor CO. “Durant Dealers” Cor
Commerce & Hamilton
S. D. Parker
A. L. Kirkman
South Wrenn Street
High Point Junk and Metal Co
N. Wrenn St
Ideal Shoe Shop
Derond
Call
B. A. Woodell
Justice of the Peace Notary
Askin
W. C. Brown
North
Wrenn Street
ALF Sgles & Heels
Harvey’s Shoe Shop
W. Stead St
Lindsay St
Thurston Street
Denny Street
Leonard Pry Cleaning Co
R. D
Bob” Penny
Gen. Mgr
O’henry Hotel
Randolph County
Forrest Avenue
Otteray Drive
College
West Side
Amos Realty CO
Wachovia Bank
J. L. White Realty CO
Church Street
N. Main St
Thurston
Peacock Bible Class
Stanley W. Prenosis
Jenkins Child
C. R. York
Green ST
Baptist
Gcontinental OO
Fistecaes
By Cowan
TNE
Betty Norton’'S
Heri
Meginty
Seventh Avenue
Amy
Bulletins
Ashington
Taft
State Supreme Court
J. Thomas Heflin
State Party Committee
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