Appointment of Rev J H Earnhardt as presiding elder shocks Greensboro
The Shelby district appointed Rev J H Earnhardt to succeed the late Rev J H Weaver as Greensboro district presiding elder. Earnhardt, former pastor of Wesley Memorial in High Point from 1910 to 1914, will move into the district parsonage on Summit Avenue in Greensboro. The change creates vacancies in Shelby and Reidsville where Rev John F Kirk and Rev W A Abernethy move to fill posts, with Abernethy previously serving Spring Garden in Greensboro.
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J. H. Earnhardt
Shelby
J. H. Weaver
Greensboro
High Point
Earnhardt
Wesley Memorial Church
Gilbert T. Rowe
Charlotte
Summit Avenue
John F. Kirk
Reidsville
Purim Holiday Observances and Traditions
Purim will be celebrated Thursday March 8, starting Wednesday evening the 7th. It marks the deliverance of Jews in Persia from Haman’s plot with Mordecai and Esther, featuring the reading of Esther, merriment, costumes, Purim plays, and gifts to the poor.
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Persia
Haman
Ahasuerus
Mordecai
Esther
Adar
Ten Years Review of the State University
Chapel Hill February 20 Facts on a decade of UNC growth from the Alumni Review show student enrollment rising from 371 to 2469. Plant use up 20 percent with six day weeks and 18 percent longer sessions 10 months a year. Faculty grew little in four years while student numbers more than doubled.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Alumni Review
Food rioting resumes on New York City east side
New York February 27. Food rioting broke out here again yesterday on the east side as several hundred women attacked a vegetable wagon and dumped barrels of potatoes and onions into the street, prompting police to disperse the crowd.
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New York
Foley's Trial Package Offer From Mann Drug Co
A promotional slip invites readers to mail in their name and address to Foley & Co at 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Illinois to receive a trial package. The kit includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Foley Kidney Pills and Foley Catholic Tablets offered through Mann Drug Co.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Foley Catholic
Mann Drug Co
Cuban Rebels Defeated in Camaguey and Santa Clara
Cuba reports Colonel Pujol’s forces seized Camaguey with little resistance and freed political prisoners. Rebels at La Crisis plantation in Santa Clara province were crushed, leaving fifty dead and many wounded, while government troops captured two machine guns, horses, and equipment.
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Havana
Pujol
Camaguey
Santa Clara
Body of Mrs Zemar found buried on husband’s farm
Raleigh news reports the burial of Mrs. Zemar on her husband’s farm near Pactolus after officers found her body buried under a dirt pile. The husband, Zemar, fled handcuffed and is being tracked by bloodhounds as investigators pursue the case.
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Joseph Zemar
Raleigh
Pactolus
Zemar
Connecticut
Youth Falls From House With Minor Injuries
Salisbury February 27 Carl Barrier Brown son of Charles M Brown fell from a second story window at his grandmother Mrs F W Barrier home landing on a fence his injuries are only slight Billy Crawford on Chestnut Hill was badly bruised after trying to board a freight train but escaped serious harm Charles Sparks a showman treated in Baltimore hospital after stomach surgery his wife says he is improving Local Methodists plan a Sunday school institute March 13 14 Rev O B Shearouse resigns from Enochville Lutheran church to join Prosperity South Carolina field
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Salisbury
Carl Barrier Brown
Charles M. Brown
F. W. Barrier
Billy Crawford
Chestnut Hill
Charles Sparks
Baltimore
Clifton Sparks
O. B. Shearouse
Enochville
Rowan
Prosperity
Resolutions of Respect for Emory A Bencini
High Point Lodge No. 1155 B P O F mourns the loss of Emory A Bencini and records a tribute of love and memory. The resolutions praise his brotherly spirit and virtues, blotting out faults, and pledge to send a copy of the record to his bereaved family.
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High Point Lodge
Legion
Sister of the President's Wife Dies in Roanoke
Mrs. Mathew Maury sister of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson died at 5 30 after an operation for peritonitis. Born in Bedford county 51 years ago she was the second daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. William Bolling. She leaves her mother sisters Bertha Bolling and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and brothers Randolph Wilmer Julian Bolling. Her husband Mathew Maury and two daughters Anne Bolling Maury and Lucy Gertrude Maury survive. Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Roanoke
Mathew Maury
Woodrow Wilson
Maury
William Bolling
Wytheville Va
Bedford County
William H. Bolling
Hunter Galt
Bertha Bolling
Washington
Randolph Bolling
R. Wilmer Bolling
Julian Bolling
Rolfe Bolling
New York
William Archer Bolling
Louisville
Anne
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Purim
New York City
Ation
Mr. and
Sovereign
South
Virginia
Carolina
Emory A, Bencini
Roanoke, VA
Bolling Maury
Lucy Gertrude Maury
Mann Drug Company
F. F. Dalley CO. of
New York, Inc
Buffalo, N. Y
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