Guilford to Consider New Court House Site in 1917
Guilford County commissioners meet to discuss building a new courthouse, set a January 8 1917 special session to review site propositions and financing options, with the current site to be offered for sale and future construction to begin within the year.
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Guilford
County Board of Commissioners
Greensboro
Guilford County
Wright
North Elm Street
City Hall
O’henry
Cone
West Washington Street
Morehead Place
Eugene Street
Delinquent Girls Labeled Mentally Deficient by Scientist
New York Dispatch reports H H Goddard of Vineland Training School for Girls argued many delinquent girls are mental defectives who could have been saved with early appeat training. He cited 94 percent of 50 parolees as detectives who could have become useful. criticism of lax care followed. Prof Bird Baldwin noted high rates of mental impairment among delinquent girls, white and colored, in Swarthmore study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Goddard
Vineland
N. J
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Bird 'P Baldwin
Swarthmore
Railways in Receivers Hands End Year With 63 Roads
The year closes with 63 railways totaling 34,559 miles in the hands of receivers according to the Railway Age Gazette. At the start of 1916, 8,661 miles were under receivers. Major 1916 changes include St Louis and San Francisco and subsidiaries losing 4,749 miles plus 1,000 more. Western Pacific 943 miles. Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic 633 miles. Boston and Maine gained 2,300 miles and Texas and Pacific 1,944 miles. Eight roads were put into receivers' hands this year, totaling 4,439 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cazette
St. Louis
San Francisco
Western Pacific
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
Boston and Maine
Texas and Pacific
Exposition Closes as Sheink Heink Speaks Final Toll
The Panama California Exposition closed at midnight after two years of public access. Mme Brenestine Schumann Heink led a performance with taps and Auld Lang Syne as the outdoor organ ceremony marked the end of the event in San Diego California.
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San Diego
Cal
Mme. Brenestine Schumann-Heink
Shore Doctors Cause of Large Amount of Drug Habit
Atlantic City Dispatch reports Chief of Police Miller accuses local physicians of flooding addicts with narcotics via indiscriminate prescribing. He notes a two dollar bill buying drugs, a dollar per prescription, and a man given two pounds of prescriptions. One jailed witness allegedly cured while incarcerated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City Dispatch
Miller
Lumber production in New Brunswick rises in 1915
New Brunswick timber output for 1915 reached 633 518 000 feet board measure from 240 mills, up from 414 808 000 in 1914. The rise spans spruce, balsam fir, white pine and other lumber types, while hemlock share fell from 6.3 to 2.4 percent. Total value of production stood at 9 002 202 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New, Brunswick
Forestry Branch
Dominion Department of the Interior
Moncton
EK. Verne Richardson
New Brunswick
Signs of good health and digestion aid
Bright eyes clear skin alert brains and energetic moves signify health. Digestive disturbance with fermenting foods blocks intestines. Foley Cathartic Tablets promise relief without pain griping or nausea. For sale by Mann Drug Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mann Drug Company
Rae Tanzer Faces Second Trial In Dear Oliver Case
New York reports Rae Tanzer, 23, on trial again over her identification of James W Osborne as Dear Oliver. Charles H Wax, who claims to be Oliver Osborne, likely to testify, with Wax later facing charges. The public intrigue centers on love, betrayal, and a web of indictments from the 1915 affair.
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Oliver
New York
Rae Tanzer
James W. Osborne
Charles H. Wax
Wax
Chicago
Miss Tanzer
Slade and Slade
Supreme Court
Miss Tanner
W. Osborne
Oliver Osborne
Bronx
Plainfield
N. J
Embray
Osborne Law
Mr. Osborne
Pa James W. Osborne
Man of Mystery
Miss Rae Tanzer
Lindsey Says Church Weakness Aids Crime
New York January 2 Judge Ben B Lindsey Denver juvenile reform authority says modern churches fail to curb crime with empty precepts. He told the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences that many boys before him were former Sunday pupils and warned against violence and sentimentality while urging humane reform. He linked WWI causes to youths’ bad acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Lindsey
Mercer University to admit women to law school
The Mercer University directors decided to admit women to the university law school marking a historic integration. This change opens legal education to female students at the institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer University
University Law School
Young British Sportsman Signals Wartime Duty
A witty note from Puck quips about a young British sportsman who taunts a rival, proclaiming patriotic spirit and a claim of “six blooming German earp” while joking about avoiding trenches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Withington
Puck
Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Medicine Ad
An old ad promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a quick remedy for colds coughs and croup. It claims to heal inflamed membranes loosen phlegm ease breathing and stop throat tickling with no opiates and lists Mann Drug Company as the seller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Mann Drug Company
Family Avoids Serious Sickness with Black-Draught
Mrs J B Whittaker of McDuff Virginia says Black-Draught relieved her family’s sick headache and stomach trouble after a friend recommended it ten years ago. The purely vegetable remedy aids digestion, relieves indigestion and related symptoms and is sold for 25 cents by druggists.
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McDuff
Thedford
N.C
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Shore
Phan
O. E. Mendenhall
W. R. Morrow
A. Te
Bank of Commerce
J. E. Guy
Elwood Basement
South Main St
W. F. Clayton
Bk. of Commerce
J. Fred Tesh
C. E. McManus
G. Roth
Bank of Commerce Building
New York Life Insurance
F. A. Ogburn
High Point
N. C
R. E. Andrews
UD 2Choviaz Bank & Trust Company
Loflin & Brockway
R. L. Loflin
L. L. Brockway
Main Street
High Point, W. C
J. A Hart Drug Co
North Carolina Public
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