Materials Unfit for Fertilizer Mixes Advised By Experts
North Carolina farmers are urged to avoid certain fertilizer blends as moisture absorption and chemical reactions can occur. S S Walker cautions that nitrate of soda and potash salts harden with lime and moisture, while mixing with acids can cause ammonia loss. lime should be applied separately. For guidance contact NC Department of Agriculture agronomy chief B B Williams or director B W Kilgore.
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Raleigh
S. S. Walker
University of Florida Experiment Station
North Carolina
B. Williams
Division of Agronomy
Why Helen Holmes Entered the Photo Play World
Helen Holmes explains she loves action and began in films after meeting director James P McGowan in Chicago. She describes growing up with her railway father, traveling in his office car, and how McGowan gave her a chance, saying any girl with nerve to marry her director can get by.
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Helen Holmes
Lumberlands
McGowan
Chicago
Jimmie
Daddy
James P. McGowan
Notable Birthdays Mark Today in History
Joseph H. Choate born Salem Massachusetts 85 years ago today. Marcus A. Smith born near Cynthiana Kentucky 65 years ago today. Mrs Kate Waller Barrett born Stafford county Virginia 59 years ago today. Charles R Flint born Thomaston Maine 67 years ago today. Moses P Kinkaid born Monongahela County West Virginia 63 years ago today. Charles H Niehaus born Cincinnati 62 years ago today.
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Charles H. Niehaus
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Marcus A. Smith
United States
Arizona
Cynthiana
Kate Waller Barrett
Florence Crittenton League of Compassion
Stafford County
Charles R. Flint
New York
Thomaston
A Year Ago In The War January 24 1916 Antivari Events
A Year Ago In The War recalls Austrian occupation of Antivari and Dubigne. Germany submitted a Lusitania proposal removing warnings. French and German forces fought with hand grenades near Neuville. Germans pressed heavy attacks in Belgium and northern France.
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Antivari
Dubigne
Germany
Neuville
Belgium
France
Southern Railway Schedule Northbound High Point Trains
Railroad timetable lists No 107 No 141 No 143 No 135 depart High Point with No 135 Sunday only and arrivals No 142 at 7 05 am No 136 at 12 20 pm No 134 at 5 45 pm.
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High Point
Mississippi Battleship Ready for Launch at Newport News
Newport News Va Jan 24 Preparations complete for the launching of the battleship Mississippi at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock. The vessel will be named by Miss Camilla McBeath of Meridian Mississippi in a ceremony attended by Navy officials and Mississippi representatives. Mississippi, sister ship to Idaho, measures 624 feet in length with 97 feet 2 1 2 inch beam, displacement 32000 tons and 32000 horsepower. It will sail at 21 knots with four screws and a main battery of twelve 14 inch and twenty five 5 inch torpedo tubes.
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Newport News
Mississippi
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company
Camilla McBeath
Meridian
Navy Department
Washington
Idaho
New York Shipbuilding Company
Washington Monument
North Carolina conference backs open formula bill for medicines
The North Carolina Conference for Social Service in session adopts a resolution urging the legislature to require publication of formulas for all ready-made medicines on labels and packages. It calls for enforcement by a drugs division under the state board of health and a tax on manufacturers to fund enforcement.
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W. L. Poteat
Wake Forest College
North Carolina Conference For Social Service
General Assembly
State Board of Health Aid
Joseph H Choate Reaches a Historic Milestone at 85
New York January 24 Joseph H Choate distinguished orator and former ambassador to Great Britain is 85 today The veteran New York bar leader received a flood of birthday greetings from friends across the country and abroad reflecting a long career in law and public service He helped break the Tweed ring and as chief counsel won reversal for General Fitz John Porter later served as ambassador from 1899 to 1905 all without holding elective office He was born January 24 1832 in Salem Massachusetts and rose through Harvard College and Harvard Law School to a storied national career
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New York
Joseph H. Choate
Great Britain
Choate
Mr. Choate
New England
Salem
Mass
Harvard College
Harvard Law School
Boston
Massachusetts
Scudder and Carter
New York City
Butler, Evars and Southmayd
William H. Barnes
Evart, Southmayd
Tweed Ring
Fitz John Porter
Fremont
United States
Knit Goods Manufacturers Gather in Asheville Convention
Asheville hosts southern knit goods manufacturers meeting to discuss tariffs affecting the industry and Britain’s delay of shipments of German needles, seen as a threat to American producers.
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Asheville
N. Y
South
America
Hastings Hosts Nebraska Municipal League Convention
Hastings Nebraska hosts a two day meeting of the annual League of Nebraska Municipalities with more than one hundred mayors and city officials from leading towns in attendance at the opening session.
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Hastings
Neb
League of Nebraska Municipalities
Hardware Men Gather in Dallas for Texas Trade Convention
Representatives of the hardware and implement trade in Texas gather in Dallas for the state association annual convention. The event runs three days with discussions of key trade problems and industry concerns.
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Dallas
Texas
Hardware and Implement Trade In
Lines Worth Remembering From Washington
A compact reflection on frugality noting that many luxuries can be forgone while life’s essentials are found within us, attributed to Washington and delivered in a concise moral tone.
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Washington
Wedding of Miss Bessie du Pont and Reginald Huidekoper likely in Delaware
Society wedding filled Christ church in Wilmington with guests from many cities. Miss Bessie du Pont daughter of Mrs. E. G. du Pont and Reginald Huidekoper wed. After a southern wedding tour the couple will reside in Washington where Huidekoper bought the former Navy Secretary George L. Vos Meyer residence later occupied by George W. Vanderbilt.
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Wilmington
Del
Christ Church
Bessie (. du Pont
E. G. du Pont
Reginald Huidekoper
Washington
Huidekoper
the Navy
George L. Vos Meyer
G George W. Vanderbilt
Foley Cathartic Tablets Promote Quick Relief
An advertisement urges using Foley Cathartic Tablets to stop self poisoning from undigested food in the stomach and bowels. The product promises prompt action without griping and is sold by Mann Drug Company.
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Mann Drug Company
Save Sea Island Cotton By Early Maturing Varieties
Sea Island cotton growers in Georgia Florida and South Carolina met in Valdosta to learn from the Georgia State Board of Entomology how early maturing cotton can reduce boll weevil damage. Experiments in Lowndes county yielded four varieties fruiting in June July and early August about two months earlier than current types.
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Valdosta
Sea Island
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Georgia State Board of Entomology
Lowndes County
American trade mission sails for Japan and China tour
Vancouver report states the American honorary commerce commission, chosen by the Southern Commercial Congress, will depart on the Empress of Russia for a three month tour of major Japanese and Chinese cities to promote international trade and direct China US routes. Chambers of commerce and allied groups will host events in Yokohama Kobe Nagasaki Hong Kong Nanking Shanghai Pekin and other principal cities.
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Vancouver
B. C
United States
Southern Commercial Congress
Russia
Japan
China
Chambers of Commerce
Yokohama
Tonto
Nacazaki
Hong Kong
Nankin
Shanghaa
Pekin
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Bomilepost
Nebraska Municipal League
Delaware
Max Bones
Main St
Far East
J. A. Hart Drug Co
Lola
Ilgem Lcm Ee
Sivan
James C. Crane
Fulton Street
North State Telephone Company
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