Junior Woman's Club Feted In Asheboro Home
Asheboro January meeting at Mrs. Ernest Kiesewetter's home mixed business with social time. Reports highlighted tubercular seal sales topping 400 dollars and gifts for Samaritan school children. Bridge games crowned winners and plans formed for future Asheboro Woman's club and charitable events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Ernest Kiesewetter
John Brittain
James York
Cecil Rosson
Ruth Covington
Samarcand School
Rosson
Joe Edmundson
T. A. Burns
Charles Fox
John Harris
Supper Party Honored Guests Before Raleigh Legislature Trip
Miss Esther Ross hosted a small Sunday evening supper for Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Ross who left Monday for Raleigh for the legislature. Guests included Mrs. Hal M. Worth Mrs. Wm. C. Hammer and Mrs. Harriette H. Walker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esther Ross
J. D. Ross
Raleigh
Ross
Hal M. Worth
Wm. C. Hammer
Harriette H. Walker
Grace Moore Captivates Town After Train Arrival
Grace Moore wowed a small town crowd after stepping off a train on Monday morning. The celebrated soprano posed for many cameras, spoke with warmth, and shared stories of her Tennessee roots and upcoming plans including a Connecticut home purchase at Faraway Meadows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Moore
Tom
Sheraton Hotel
Charlotte Amos
Miss Moore
Connecticut
New York
Tennessee
Olf
Riviera
Manhattan
David Uilusay
Helen
Lester Hodges
Champion Team Edges Through Final to Claim National Open Title
In a two session national open team of four, the champions totalled 40 of 58 after the second session and 56 of 88 after the final round, with a dramatic finish aided by Louis Newman of Washington who executed a precise diamond play forcing a key squeeze, securing four over tricks and victory over a runner-up squad led by E. R. Thomas Jr. and others from Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Thomas, Jr
James Sheern
A. R. Dick
C. W. Potts
Philadelphia
Asbury Park
Louis Newman
Washington
North
Newman
West
East
Declarer
Jack West
A Morley Fragment Illuminates a Woman’s World in 1930
The narrator recalls a bustling Chicago life in a house of three women, a Career Woman identity, and a circle of friends. They juggle work in beauty, decorating, and stockings, share kitchen duties, visit Manitou, and support a partner’s medical research while exploring love, marriage, and family legacies.
Printer C. L. Sholes Credited With Invention Of Typewriter
C. L. Sholes is credited as the inventor of the typewriter, marking a major milestone in communication technology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Sholes
Typewriter
Wartime double feature listings with classic 1940s films
A compact cinema page lists multiple theaters and their programs. Santa Fe Trail with Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland at several showings, Melody Ranch with Gene Autry and Jimmy Durante, Knute Rockne with Pat O’Brien and Gale Page, Irene featuring Anna Neagle Ray Milland and Robert Young, and Geronimo with Preston Foster Ellen Drew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina
Irene
Anna Neagle
Ray Milland
Robert Young
Strategic bases in Eire raise peril for Britain and Germany
The piece argues both sides crave neutral Ireland ports Queenstown Bantry Bay and Lough Swilly as naval and air bases. It warns German occupation could create a lifeline for Nazi offensive against Britain while de Valera defends neutrality to keep Ireland out of the war.
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Eire
Ireland
England
Germany
Britain
Eamon de Valera
Mr. de Valera
London
Cobh
Queenstown
Bantry Bay
Lough Swilly
Emerald Isle
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Atlantic
Irish Sea
France
Glasgow
Liverpool
Norway
de Valera
Asheboro Representatives On Important Committees
Asheboro Jan. 15 Randolph citizens praise the committee appointments of two local representatives in Raleigh. State Senator J W Wilson, first term, chairs the justice of the peace committee and serves on nine others including courts and judicial districts and judiciary No 2. J D Ross, Asheboro banker in his second term, chairs the banks and banking committee and serves on several panels such as Congress district, corporations, education, election laws, insurance, manufactures and labor. Ross also farms part time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheboro
Randolph
Raleigh
J. W. Wilson
Justice of Peace
Public Boards
Othrs
Wilson
J. D. Ross
Banks and Banking Committee
Congressional District Committee
Ross
Russian professor claims salt boosts beet sugar yields
Prof. M. A. Yegorov of a Russian agricultural institute reports after twenty years of study that using common salt as a fertilizer increases sugar extraction from sugar beets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Yegorov
Russia
New Gavel Presented To Mull With 140 Year History
Speaker Mull received a gavel gifted by Cleveland County friends. Presented by J. R. Davis the tool is carved from mahogany balustrade of Old Rock House built in 1803 near Kings Mountain. Kings Mountain friends attended the presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Mull
Cleveland County Friends
J. R. Davis
Cleveland County
Old Rock House
Kings Mountain
Kings Mountain Friends
Davis
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Helen S. Moore
D. C. Smith
Lexington Road
Greensboro
E. H. Steere
J. A. Burns
J. G. Crutchfield
Curry Loflin
Roy Reaves
Carrie Brittain
Newlin
Guilford College
W. L. Lambert
T. E. Myatt
Lambert
New
Annie Lou Myatt
J. M. Caviness
Embree Blackard
Senor Pareja
Ile de France
Lake Placid
Max Patch
Derstand
Mr. Hodges
May Tomlinson
Ogden Nash
America
Eden
McKenney
T. Pass
Christopher Morley
RKO Radio
Ginger Rogers
Dennis Morgan
Wyn
Delphine
Chicago
Frrico
School For Brides
Molly
Pat Kenzie
Tuscan Court
Michigan Avenue
Pat
Mac
Ronnie
Strafford
Mark
Wynnewood Strafford XII
Palmer's
Murphy
Manitou
Uncle
Thanksgiving Avenue
Trudy Weissenkorn
Lena
Fedor
Bernie Janssen
Army
Bernie
Kitty
Peg Ramsauer
Peg
Shee
the Dunes
Griscom Street
Sheepdog
Congress
Peder
Pearl Velour
Pearl
Kitty Foyle
Wyn Strafford
Hitler
Erro Flynn
Olivia Dehavilland
Broadhurst
Gene Autry
Jimmy Durante
Paramount
Knute Rockne
Pat O' Brien
Gale Page
Rialto
Robt. Ripley
Toman
St Louis
Moore House
Yorktown
Kara
Africa
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Baltimore
Anca
COM
Ae PY Lee Brey
Atlanta
New Orleans
Birmingham
Jacksonville
Orlando
Union Bus Terminal
N. Wrenn St
Eyhound
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