Entertainer Gilbert Recounts Transatlantic Flights and Hollywood Hustle
Gilbert, a restless producer, has crossed the Atlantic 80 times and owns two planes. He juggles calls from his pilots to move a field or lift off, while planning his next play with stars Ina Claire and Nancy. A Jaipur Calcutta trip and a pricey phone bill surface as a minor saga unfolds around a Rialto marriage plan and a stubborn groom.
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York
Jan
Gilbert
Atlantic
London
Broadway
England
Lmade
Eric Lonsdale
Ina Claire
Miss Nancy
India
Jaipur
Cal
Rialto
Scottie
Danger Signals Urge Alkalize and Flush Poison
A brief ad advises readers to alkalize and flush out poison with juniper leaves and other ingredients. It promises relief from nights of scanty flow burning or backache and suggests obtaining 25 cents worth of juniper from Mann Drug Stores in High Point.
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Mann Drug Stores
High Point
State Fights Federal Control Of North Carolina Power
North Carolina officials press three pronged challenge to federal control of power projects. The attorney general works with Aluminium Company lawyers to overturn the Federal Power Commission ruling requiring a federal permit for a Tuckertown project. Senator Bailey seeks to amend the law creating the Power Commission to ensure state legal standing in court. The Conservations and Development board condemns the FPC action and reiterates that Yadkin projects should remain under state control.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Attorney General
Carolina Aluminium Company
Federal Power Commission
Tuckertown
Washington
Josiah W. Bailey
The
Power Commission
Bailey
Conservative and Development Board
Bargain Bedding and Apparel Sale
Fast Color Percale 81 by 99 bed sheets priced at 1.98 and 1.00 each. Four In Hand men’s pajamas offered in irregulars at 1.00 per item. Boxed men’s initial handkerchiefs also listed at 1.00.
Dog man’s voyage ends in unexpected wedding then death
A narrator recounts a voyage to a paradise isle interrupted by quarantine officers detaining his pet. In despair he returns to New York where he reunites with his would be bride and they marry a week later. The dog dies 24 hours after the ceremony, having fulfilled its mission.
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Paradise Isle
New York
Unborn Suffer from Untreated Syphilis Threat
The American Social Hygiene Association urges blood tests for expectant mothers to cut syphilis related infant deaths. States consider mandatory prenatal screening as Pershing led campaign raises $500000 to fund 1938 anti syphilis effort and education nationwide.
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American Social Hygiene Association
Association
John J. Pershing
Syphilis Tops North Carolina Reportable Diseases
Syphilis led all reportable diseases in North Carolina last year with 12,299 cases, forming over a tenth of total illnesses. Measles and whooping cough followed, with 7,937 and 7,782 cases respectively, among 50,591 total reportable cases. fuller reporting may explain the rise.
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N. C
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. C. Knox
State Board of Health
Knox
Education Viewed as Key to Safer Highways by Hocutt
Ronald Hocutt, assistant director of the North Carolina Highway Safety Division, urged school education as the main long term solution to highway dangers. He cited 1173 motor deaths last year, noted a December stretch of fifteen days with 26 fatalities in five crashes, and called for a state wide school campaign to teach road courtesy and vehicle handling.
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Enterprise Bureau
Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Ronald Hocutt
State
Hocutt
Bome
Man 96 to sail World Voyage in first sea trip
Connersville Pa John Parkhill aged 96 will depart February 11 on his first sea voyage a round the world trip. He says the voyage will fulfill a lifelong dream and adds I dont expect to get seasick.
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Connellsville
John Parkhill
John
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National Foundation For
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Candlewick
Cannonwick Jacquard
Filarlee
Cape
Odds and Ends
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Gossard
Warner—Carrera Corselettes
Girdles
Children’s and Infants Department
M. C. A. Has
Happy Landing
United States
American Local Hygiene Assocatic
Ancient Mariner
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