Furniture Sales Rise for Third Straight Year Amid Demand Shifts
The furniture industry reports 1935 totals at the highest since 1981 with a 35 to 40 percent rise over 1934. Production and orders climb toward 1936 targets, led by medium priced items and modern designs. Prices rise 6 to 15 percent for retailers, wages up, and bankruptcies edge higher among manufacturers while wholesalers and retailers see continued declines.
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Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Ccee
VFW to Sponsor Open Meeting Next Monday
High Point Post No. 619 veterans of foreign wars will sponsor an open meeting at the VFW hall on East Washington street next Monday night. A. B. Conrad, pastor of the First Baptist church, will deliver the address and the progress of the bonus bill to date will be reviewed. All veterans in the city are invited.
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High Point Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
V. F. W. Hall
East Washington Street
Post
R. A. B. Conrad
Home Furnishings Set For Big Year In 1936 Markets Indicate
Chicago reports a surge in home furnishings demand as buyers register nearly 9 000 at six Merchandise Mart markets. Sales gains span furniture housewares floor coverings curtains lamps and china with increases from 5 to 60 percent and merchants eye higher price brackets. General Manager J J Reed notes renewed consumer confidence and a strong push to modernize homes this year.
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SiPecca
Gnter Ree
Chicago
America
Merchandise Mart
J. J. Reed
the Mart
Davidson Camp to House Only Negroes in Davidson County
Davidson County prison camp near Lexington will house only Black prisoners under a new state policy. White inmates are being moved to other Piedmont camps, while future white prisoners from Davidson will go to Sandy Ridge camp near High Point. The camp will also receive inmates from Forsyth County and possibly Guilford.
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Lexington
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Davidson County
Lexngton
Holly Grove Road
Piedmont
Orange County
Fred L. Everheart
Sandy Ridge
High Point
Davidson
Forsyth County
Guilford
Mrs Nettie V Thomas Pioneer Resident Dies at 82
Thomaville Jan 21 Mis Nettie V Thomas longtime resident and beloved woman of the community died at her Randolph street home yesterday afternoon age 82. Survived by two sons Robert Lee Thomas Washington DC Arthur K Thomas Richmond VA two daughters Irene Allen Hattie Davis seven grandchildren Funeral Wednesday 11 am at Randolph street home Rev R Dwight Ware in charge assisted by Rev John Cline and Rev W R Jenkins Interment Fairview church cemetery southeast of the city
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Thomaville
Nettie V. Thomas
Thomanville
Randolph Street
R. Dwight Ware
Main Street
M. E. Church
Mr. Ware
John Cline
W. R. Jenkins
Fairview Church
Seek To Alleviate Traffic Congestion
THOMASVILLE Jan 21 The local police department asks the cooperation of the public in enforcing existing laws against double parking on Salem and other streets in the business district which has been causing traffic congestion for sometime. Police have been instructed to enforce the present laws as to parking within the indicating lines and observing the forty five minute parking law in busy sections blocking of driveways entrances etc Violators of this law will be fed to court and steps taken to handle this aggravated problem.
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Thomasville
Salem
Modern Explorer Horizontal 1 Lincoln searcher for new lands
A compact puzzle list with clues and answers across horizontal and vertical orders. It includes terms like Lincoln, Ale, Particle, Monkey, Sun, Sloth, God of love, and other varied items, interspersed with numbers and directional hints, forming a themed word grid.
Business lecture frames four core processes of industry
Harry Clark of Cleveland, efficiency expert, spoke to the Thomasville Chair Company gathering at the Main Street school auditorium. He described business as a cooperative societal mechanism with four processes recovery fabrication exchange and consumption, arguing prosperity depends on balanced execution by individuals rather than gov ernment or unions.
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Thomasville
Harry Clark
Cleveland
Thomasville Chair Company
Main Street
Dorothy Hoskins
Thomasville High School
T. Austin Finch
Tom A. Sykes
Central Friends Church
High Point
Clark
Frank Way
Fire crews respond to Beeman's alley blaze caused by defective flue
Firemen from companies one and two were called this morning to Beeman's alley to extinguish a small fire in a residence caused by a defective flue. Damage was slight, Fire Chief ER K Inglesham said. Friends of Fred Newby, 215 Chestnut street, report he is seriously ill at Burrus Memorial Hospital after complications forced his removal last night.
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Beeman's Alley
ER. K. Ingram
Pred Newby
Fred Newby
Chestnut Street
Burrus Memorial Hospital
Country club annual meeting set at clubhouse tonight
The country club will hold its annual meeting to vote for the election at the clubhouse tonight at 8 o'clock.
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Wee Meeting Country Club
Talmadge suit challenge to Bankhead act asked to be dismissed
The U S government asks dismissal of Governor Talmadge Georgia suit challenging the Bankhead cotton control act filed in the Supreme Court. A prior Bankhead suit was dismissed on jurisdictional grounds. The Georgia suit seeks to block enforcement of the act on the state's two prison farms.
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Washington
Eugene Talmadge
Georgia
Supreme Court
Talmadge
Gald
Secretary of Agriculture
Swanson Case Sent Back On Lesser Charge In High Point
Paul Swanson Kernersville newspaperman and attorney, held on arson, is remanded to High Point municipal court on the lesser charge of attempted arson after an alleged attempt to set fire to a tenant’s house. Swanson was ordered held for Superior court on arson with a $1,500 bond.
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Kernersville
High Point Court
Opegia. PO
Enterpr
Greensboro
Paul Swanson
High Point
Swanson
Monroe Tate
Alton Clodfelter
Julius A. Rousseau
William Pendry
H. J. Williamson
Grace Moore
Pendry
Williamson
Moore
L. C. Tickle
Church Council Formed in State Greensboro Meets
The North Carolina Council of Churches formed a permanent organization at First Presbyterian Church Greensboro electing Dr Walter L Lingle as president succeeding Dr H Shelton Smith. Officers include Dr W W Peele first vice president Rev Walder H Allen second vice president Rev J A Vache secretary treasurer. An inter racial relations cooperating committee was named with Dr E B McNeill Poteat Mrs H A White Rev Leonard Cook Bishop J Kenneth Pfohl and Dr W A Stansbury. Delegates from High Point include Dr P S Lindley and Mrs Alice Paige White.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
N. C. Newbold
Raleigh
Division of Negro Schools
State Department of Public Instruction
EB. McNeill Poteat
Mra
H. A. White
High Point
Leonard Cook
Kinston
J. Kenneth Pfohi
Winston-Salem
W. A. Stansbury
P. &. Lindley
Alice Paige White
Friends
First National of Thomasville Names Officers For 1936
Stockholders held the annual meeting and elected directors who named officers for 1936. Directors include J. W. Byles and Austin Finch among others. Officers continued: Austin Finch president, R. L. Pope vice president and trust officer, W. W. Rapp cashier, J. F. Garner assistant cashier.
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Thomasville
First National Bank
J. W. Byles
M. L. Bales
T. A. Finch
Cc. F. Finch
Geo. D. Finch
Doak Finch
M. B. Hite
W. G. Hinkle
Cc.l. Harris
Walter Lambeth
de. C. H. Phillips
C. F. Phillips
A. H. Ragan
Austin Finch
R. L. Pope
W. W. Rapp
J. F. Garner
Lost readings for Bluestone dam depth noted
In Hinton Virginia the engineer in charge reports readings for January 10 on the New River were lost with no hope of recovery. He jokes that the gauge reader's baby ate them. The note mentions trout life in captivity exceeding 20 years.
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Hinton
Bluestone Dam
Modern swing dominates Southern Furniture and Rug Market
Southern furniture makers push a broad modern trend at mid winter market with 50 to 70 percent of lines in modern designs. New walnut bedrooms, Continental simplicity, and innovative features appear from High Point, Globe Parlor, Carolina Parlor, Lloyds, Kent Coffey, and Thomasville Americraft, signaling a lasting shift toward contemporary living room, dining room, and kitchen ensembles.
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High Point Furniture Company
Jiranak
Globe Parlor
Carolina Parlor Furniture Company
Statesville
Lloyds
Kent Coffey
Lenoir
Thomasville Chair Company
Ameriecraft
Thomasville
Chicago
Carolina Inn to Host General Alumni Center Move
The Carolina Inn will become the General Alumni Association headquarters and the official hospitality center for the university. Alumni offices move from the South Building to the Inn as part of giving the property an alumni club atmosphere. A housewarming is set for February 13 along with the annual Alumni assembly and the second annual Student Faculty Day, likely drawing many alumni and visitors to Chapel Hill.
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Chapel Hill
Carolina Inn
University of North Carolina
John Sprunt Hill
Durham
General Alumni Association
Alumni Association
South Building
The
Alumni Review
Regular Fellow Maintains Perfect Attendance at College
A University of Kansas engineering student has not missed a single class in four and a half years of college. The diligent student’s record reflects consistency and commitment to studies.
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Dent
University of Kansas Engineering
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Constellation
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Bankhead
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Walter L. Lingle
North Carolina Council of Churches
First National of
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Electrolux
South Main
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