High Point High Junior Senior Debate Set On Grade Crossings
The High Point High School annual Junior-Senior debate scheduled for Thursday night January 14 at 7 30 in the auditorium will discuss a bond plan to eliminate city grade crossings. The proposition asks for 1 000 000 in bonds with railroads covering three quarters of costs. The junior team supports the affirmative and the senior team the negative. The four speakers are returning from last year’s lineup: Robert esrots Minnie Herman Henry Gurley and Gagland McPherson.
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High Point High School
High Point
Robertesrots
Minnie Herman
Henry
Gurley
Gagland McPherson
Miss Edith Moore To Give College Concert Friday Noon
Miss Edith Moore, lyric soprano from Atlanta and High Point, will present a seven number recital at the N C C W Greensboro college auditorium Friday at 12 15 p m. Four pieces will be in ante bellum costume including Knee Pattin Song and Soldier Won t You Marry Me. The program features old English ballad The Wraggle Taggle Gypsy O and other works. She is assisted by pianist Nellie Hyde Matton.
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Edith Moore
Atlanta
High Point
Greensboro
College
Miss Moore
New York
Red Cross
England
France
Italy
Germany
North Carolina
The
Atlanta Constitution
Ten Gent Stores to Close Early on Saturdays
The three five and ten stores in the city plan to close at 9 30 PM on Saturdays to give employees time to rest before Sunday. Local merchants excluding drug stores previously agreed to close by 10 PM, and Woolworth ArcAdellan and Kress will close even earlier.
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Woolworth
ArcClellan
Kress
Man Injured In Machinery Accident At Work
James Deaton, 48, a Peerless Vaner company employee in Denton, was caught in a machine while reaching for his dinner basket at noon today. His clothes tore, he suffered upper body bruising, and he was rushed to Guilford General Hospital where doctors said injuries were not serious.
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James Deaton
Peerless Vaneer Company
Denton
Guilford General Hospital
Funeral Hill Baby Coy Hill Rites Held
Funeral services for Coy Lee Hill infant son of Mr and Mrs C J Hill were conducted at three oclock at Marshall Grove Church with interment in the church cemetery.
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Coy Lee Hill
C. J. Hill
Marshall Grove
License Revoked for Norfolk Senator in Virginia
The Virginia Supreme Court revoked the license of Senator Alfred C. Smith of Norfolk County after he admitted in a surgical answer to the complaint that he acted under a misapplication for blemishes. The ruling follows swift, disputed testimony and relates to a disciplinary action by the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar.
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Richmond, Va
Alfred C. Smith
Norfolk County
Virginia
State Supreme Court
Smith
Norfolk-Portsmouth Barasatanal
Chaplin Highlights at Broadhurst Friday and Saturday
The Broadhurst announces a double bill featuring Charlie Chaplin in A Dogs Life and The People vs Nancy Preston with Marguerite La Motte. Four daily shows run from 3 pm to 11 pm, opening at 1 pm Saturday.
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New Broadhurst Theatre
Charlie Chaplin
America
Chaplin
People
Nancy Preston
Broadhurst
Marguerite la Motte
Douglas Fairbanks
the Nut
Mrs. Fair
Great Dresser Project Advances for Chamber HQ
Building permit issued by A B Horney sets cost at about $5000 for a large dresser to serve as Chamber of Commerce HQ. The structure, advertised nationally, will be placed on Arch and Main streets at a corner site near two national highways. Furnish journals and state papers have run pictures from architect plans. work is underway with hope completion soon.
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A. B. Horney
Chamber of Commerce
Arch
Main Streets
Cranford Baby Buried Following Funeral At Giles Chapel
Funeral services for Wilson C. Cranford eight months old son of Mr and Mrs Cranford were held at Giles Chapel Randolph County at two this afternoon. Interment followed in the church cemetery. Survived by two brothers and one sister and his parents.
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Wilson C. Cranford
A. W. Cranford
Davis Street
Giles Chapel
Randolph Eunty
High Point High Girls and Boys Face Winston-Salem Thomasville
Tonight at the Y M C A gym High Point High School hosts boys and girls basketball against Winston-Salem and Thomasville teams. Girls tip off at 7 30 p m with the boys to follow. Coaches Marlette and Shipman present strong lineups in a highly anticipated matchups. The article notes over 400 000 homes built in England and Wales since the war.
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Winston-Salem
Thomasville
High Point High School
Marlette
Louise Shipman
England
Wales
Plot to Restore Hungarian Throne Rumored Amid Turmoil
Reported scheme split between Fascisti backing Archduke Albrecht and legitimists supporting Prince Otto. Vienna rumor said Julius Gombos gathered forces near Budapest for a march within days. Count Bethlen reportedly sought means to crush Fascists and back Otto, linked to a 30 billion franc counterfeit plot used to fund royal ambitions.
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Budepest
Hungary
Fascisti
Archduke Albrecht
Otto
Charles
Vienna
Julius Gombos
Budapest
Count Bethlen
France
Albrecht
Christian Endeavor Union Holds State Convention in High Point
The North Carolina Christian Endeavor Union will hold its annual convention in High Point on June 18 19 and 20 1926. Hundreds of delegates from southern states are expected with plans to entertain them. State officers include J G Corbett president Stokes S Rawlins vice president J B Turner treasurer and Mrs Hester Steele secretary.
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North Carolina
Christian Endeavor Union
High Point
North Carolina Christiana Endeavor Union
J. G Corbett
Graham
Stokes S. Rawlins
Greensboro
J. B. Turner
Burlington
Hester Steele
Mebane
Poet Husband Dies by Own Hand in Despair
Isadora Dyp explains the death of her poet husband Hergai Yessinin as a voluntary act born from life’s despair. She notes one of his last poems was dedicated to Isadora alone, worthy of being loved by the poet, set in Cagnes, France.
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Cagnes
France
Isadora Dypcan
Hergei Yessinin
Isadora
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