High Point Bond Vote Urged for School Expansion
The High Point bond election on February 4 seeks 850000 in bonds to fund school buildings and ease crowded facilities. City leaders, including the five-member council and five-member Board of Education, back the issue, arguing growth requires expansion. The plan would refinance existing debt and fund new facilities, including a junior high and additional ward schools as enrollment climbs from 5400 to 7800, nearing 8000.
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T. Wingate Andrews
Salisbury
High Point Seeks Bond Issue for Schools Despite Tax Strains
The city’s 1925 assessed value was over 82 million, now exceeding 48.5 million. School buildings are well kept but inadequate. per capita school costs place High Point low among NC’s eight largest cities. Under the current superintendent, teacher standards have risen and confidence in schools grows. The city must provide support for the announced bond issue election.
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North Carolina
Taft Visits North Carolina to Regain Health
Chief Justice Taft travels to North Carolina guided by his physician to recuperate in the Asheville mountains. Local reception expected to be warm with notable admiration from many, despite past political tensions within his party.
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United States Supreme Court
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Asheville
Taft
Greensboro
High Point Candidate for Legion Chief
The local post in High Point tosses the hat for Dr I Thurman Mann as state commander candidate. Mann, with a long Legion and ex service record, drew broad support and national recognition including 1924 as vice national commander.
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Good Advice For Southern Cotton Farmers From Governor Gardner
Cotton growers are warned to reduce acreage in 1930 to cut the world surplus and strengthen their position with cooperative marketing groups. Governor Gardner urges North Carolina farmers to live at home, stressing prudent acreage and domestic focus to boost southern prosperity soon.
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Utility Beats Beauty in Shrewsbury Tree Trimming Ruckus
In Shrewsbury New Jersey the town council cut two of thirteen historic sycamore trees planted before the Revolutionary War by Patrick as symbols of the colonies. The action sparked protest and a petition from residents claiming the trees endangered traffic.
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Shade Trees and Highways Reflect National Values
A Shrewsbury street debate over removing historic shade trees to build a modern highway reveals a national pattern: practicality and speed over beauty and sentiment. The essay argues autos shape society, yet warns against valuing them above humane, leisurely living.
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Random thoughts mix jokes and jibes on curent events
A collage of sharp asides covers radio thefts in a factory, Henry Ford and Joy jokes, Hoover era proposals, senate gavel quirks, divorce rates in Chicago, fur fashion satire, Washington seating gripe, liberal caricatures, a professor linking radio to marriages, and a massive steel merger note with Babe Ruth speculation for 1930.
Hen rides bumper of car in Wellington Kansas
A hen in Wellington Kansas rode on the bumper of her owner's car as locals joke about New Year resolutions likely to be kept. The wry quip notes stock market gibes and the improbability of playing without money.
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A Waste of Money By Leland Stanford Jr Court Fragment
In a 1917 Seaboard Cotton Mill town a police court session opens with a lay judge and a solicitor presenting the case of Nobe Donnor charged with intoxication. The prisoner, unrepresented, admits guilt but proclaims the verdict a waste of money as he faces ten dollars and court costs.
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Special Term Court At Lexington Progresses Smoothly
Davidson county superior court special term in Lexington chaired by Judge T L Johnson of Lumberton made good progress in two days. Seventy cases opened on the docket with many disposed of by trial or continuance. Johnson plans a two week term and has announced a bid for North Carolina governor in 1932.
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On a Singing Girl Remembering Elinor Wylie
Poem excerpt pondering Elinor Wylie's memory and the fading voice. It uses imagery of wind frost and death to contrast mortal flesh with enduring song, as quoted by Robert Liddell Lowe in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
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Taiga Forest Extends Over Forty Thousand Miles
The Taiga forest spans more than 41 000 miles across Siberia, marking one of the world's largest forested regions.
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Missing Air Mail Pilot Down Safely
Spartanburg officials reported that Donald B. Johnson, pilot of the Richmond Atlanta air mail plane, made an emergency landing 25 miles from Atlanta at 10 this morning.
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Ira Thurman Mann Named North Carolina Legion State Commander
The North Carolina American Legion chapter honors Dr. Ira Thurman Mann for decades of rehabilitation service to disabled veterans. He chaired medical affairs in Louisville and led national rehabilitation efforts across several states, contributing millions in benefits and shaping tuberculosis relief laws. His dedication is praised as essential to sustaining faith and health in the postwar era.
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Local Man Backed for North Carolina Legion State Commander
Dr. I O T Mann faces support from many legion leaders as he is groomed for state commander. He has held key roles since 1921 including 1924 national vice commander and North Carolina rehabilitation chief with extensive national committee work across Florida Georgia Tennessee and Virginia.
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Father in a Car Crash Identified by Victim’s Relative
In a Madrid anecdote a witty remark links a gone moment to a stout gentleman run over, revealing the father as the decisive clue to the mystery. The exchange frames a humorous misdirection about a past incident and identity.
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