Ordeal of Ann and Mary Frances in a shifting town tale
In 1932 High Point North Carolina an ordinance tightens traffic and parking on English Broad and Phillips streets. Ann meets Phil and a vaudeville actor while Mary Frances, youth and ambition, faces romantic complications with Kenneth as she contemplates love after loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecily
Mary Frances Fenwick
Rosalie
Ann
Philip Bcroyd
Mary-Frances
Earl DH Armount
Phil
Letty
Letty King
Kenneth Smith
Mr. Smith
Kenneth
Lure of Liquor Profits Claims Lives Of Rum Runners Swept Over Niagara Falls
A collection of fragments describes a dramatic rise of rum running and the fatal hazards of Niagara Falls. Readings shift to Ann and Phil in a domestic vignette, then pivot to Colorado wilderness policy and vast protected areas. The text juxtaposes personal life passages with landscape preservation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Niagara Falls
Niagara River
Ordinance Adds Throughways in High Point Streets
The High Point City Council amended the 1929 travel and traffic ordinance to include West English from Main Street to the city limits, West Broad from Main to Phillips, and Montlieu from Main to the city limits. The measure declares an emergency for immediate public safety and takes effect upon passage. LOIS WELBORN City Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
High Point
North Carolina
West English
Main Street
English Street
West Broad Street
Phillips
Montlieu
Main
Lois Welborn
Galli Curci to Sing at UNC Memorial Hall
World renowned coloratura soprano Galli Curci will perform at the University of North Carolina Memorial Hall on Wednesday January 27 at 8 30 p m under the Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity. University officials expect high demand with 700 of 1850 seats already reserved. Her early career began in Trani Italy with acclaim spreading to Rome and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
Memorial Hall
Galli-Curci
Trani
Italy
Rome
Costanzi Theater
Egypt
Russia
Spain
South America
America
Chicago
Metropolitan Opera
Colorado Wilderness Areas Designated in State
Colorado lists 15 wilderness tracts totaling about one million acres. Definitions from Tolbert R. Ingram describe wilderness as regions with no permanent inhabitants, no conveyance by mechanical means, and vast enough to be distant from civilization, all within national forest boundaries.
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San Juan-Upper
Rio Grande
Grenadier Range
Wolf Creek Pass
Continental Divide
Rio Grande Pyramids
White River National Forest
Flat Top
Gore Range
Colorado
Denver
Colo
Tolbert R. Ingram
State Board of Immigration
Thief Loots Basement Cask of Wine. Barrel Splinters on Hill
A thief looted a basement on East Fifth Street in Los Angeles and tried to move a 26 gallon wine cask. The barrel slipped from the thief’s grasp, rolled down an incline, struck a curbstone, splintered, and wine flooded the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
East Fifth Street
Japan Emerges as Major Global Rubber Footwear Producer
Japan's rubber footwear industry, though largely a postwar development, has grown quickly and propelled the empire into a leading position among world producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Empire
Romans Also Had To Worry About Traffic Problems
Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Commissioner Benjamin G. Enyon notes that ancient Rome faced parking and one way street issues. He cites 396 B C traffic law granting women driving rights and Caesar era market congestion requiring strict entry rules for ten hours after sunrise.
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Harrisburg
Benjamin G. Enyon
Pennsylvania
Bynnon
B. C
Rome
Circus Maximus
Julius Caesar
Administrator Named for Clementine Meredith Estate
The administrator of the estate of Clementine Meredith de ceased has qualified and seeks immediate settlement before the clerk. Dated December 23, 1931, by administrator Meredith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clementine Meredith
Meredith
Notice to Creditors in the Estate of Ot y J Horney
Notice to creditors and all claimants against Ot y J Horney deceased to exhibit claims at the administratrix Dema Horney residence by December 11 1932 or be barred from recovery. Debtors urged to settle with MaNOSIANS GN Jamestown North Carolina. Dema Horney administratrix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Horney
Coun North
Weing
Dema Horney
Jamestown
N. C
Sale of valuable land by trustee in High Point
In Guilford county North Carolina the trustee will auction a 50 by 150 foot land parcel in Kinley and a Cc plat. The sale occurs at 2:20 PM on Tuesday January and will be held in front of the Municipal building of the City of High Point. W A Idol trustee and Peacock & Dalton attorneys note the December 15 1931 date and public notice content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gay
Guilford County
High Point
North Lina
T. Willis
Kinley
Sak Weuniel Ie “Salodes N. Beoomning
Jessie Calvin
W. A. J. Idol
Peacock & Dalton, Attys
Notice of Foreclosure Sale in Guilford County North Carolina
Notice of foreclosure sale under a December 2 1925 deed of trust recorded in Guilford County. The trustee is J Allen Austin with Austin Turner as attorneys. Highland Street in the city is referenced as the security property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of
North Carolina
Guilford
Highland Street
High Web
J. Allen Austin
Austin & Turner, Attys
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Oett
Broad Street
State Highway Commission
College
Phillips Streets
Phillips Street
Broad
English Streets
Monument Park
College Street
Said Street
Lind- Rep
Dad
Mater
Quarrel
Miss King
Goat Island
Hulk
Madam Violet
North Main Street
Carolina
Fraternity
Scot
Vision Agres
Bond
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