Ironic Snippets and Local Notes From North Carolina Social Page
A collage of random items from a Greensboro area paper includes humorous dispatches, church notes, and social updates. It mentions the Woman's Missionary Society meeting at First Baptist with talks on race uplift and Native conditions, plus multiple social visits, travel plans, and illness in the Jacobs family.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
R. T. Chappell
Willy
Joint Social Meeting of UDC and UCV in High Point
High Point chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy and local United Confederate Veterans hold a joint afternoon social gathering. Veterans welcome the Daughters with talks by members and refreshments. The meeting space gains from recent gifts, including 36 chairs donated by S. L. Davis, giving a homelike atmosphere.
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High Point
United Daughters of the Confederacy
United Confederate Veterans
S. L. Davis
City Women Fail to Volunteer for Red Cross Beds
Red Cross headquarters report no women from the city attended to sew hospital bed jackets this morning, disappointing officials who say one morning weekly would finish the chapter’s work. Elmer Shields visited Greensboro yesterday afternoon as a guest of friends and relatives. Rev G F Milliaway returns home to Greensboro after helping Pastor A D Shelton with church duties.
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Gilert T. Rowe
Wesley Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
City
Greensboro
Holt’s Chapel
Margaret Rankin
Charlotte
Red Cross
Elmer Shields
Italy to hasten action on Cocchi case in law limits
Rome reports the Italian government will act within legal limits to expedite Alfredo Cocchi’s case. Joseph W. Grigg, representing New York Police Commissioner Woods, met with the foreign ministry with American embassy introductions. The ministry promised to hasten proceedings to satisfy the United States ally.
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Rome
Alfredo Cocchi
Joseph W. Grigg
Woods
New York
Grigg
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Cocithi
America
United States
Cabinet Members Drill On Washington Lawn
Early morning in Washington saw four cabinet members along with Reserve Board members and other officials at William Kent's home practicing army setting up exercises. They toured Potomac Park, then returned for breakfast. Similar workouts are planned four mornings a week to improve fitness for civilian duties.
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Washington
Cabinet
Federal Reserve Board
William Kent
Tariff Commission
McAdoo
Lane
Wilson
Gregory
Davis
F. A. Delano
Paul M. Warbury
Reserve Board
William Denman
Shipping Board
Mr. Kent
Potomac Park
Flemington Farmhand guilty in triple murder
Paul Mayworen was convicted of the June 7 killings of William H. Queen and his wife and daughter in Mount Pleasant New Jersey. Justice Trenchard sentenced him to die in the electric chair, to be carried out at Trenton state prison during the week starting August 19. The jury deliberated overnight. Mayworen was found with the axe still in his hand.
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Flemington
N. J
Paul Maynoren
William H. Queen
Mount Pleasant
Justice Trenchard
Trenton State Prison
Mayworen
Queen
Sale to End Famous Labor Case in Danbury
The final chapter of the Danbury charters case opens Monday with 140 workers in Danbury Bethel and Norwalk facing public sale of their homes to satisfy Loewe and Company’s $252,130 verdict upheld by the Supreme Court. About $60,000 has been paid. roughly $250,000 remains due with an anticipated $200,000 from the home sales. Unions are said to intend indemnifying the defendants after losses.
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Danbury, Conn
Danbury Charters
Federal Court
Danbury
Bethel
Norwalk
Loewe and Company
Hatters’ Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Commercial Club Meeting on Special Greensboro Daily News Edition
Manufacturers and business men are asked to meet at the Commercial Club on Tuesday evening at 7 45 to consider purchasing space in a special edition of the Greensboro Daily News to appear soon. TRY, President Commercial Club. We are selling summer millinery at very low prices. Loflin's Millinery 13 21.
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Commercial Club
Greesboro Daily News
Loflin’s
Fifty Cents for a Haircut in San Francisco
San Francisco barber shops report record business as men rush in for low prices before a price increase. After today shops adopt a war schedule raising haircuts from 35 to 50 cents and shaves from 15 to 20 cents due to higher barber-supply costs.
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San Francisco
Cal
Russia Adopts Daylight Saving Time Ahead One Hour
Petrograd reports Russia begins daylight saving time today under the provisional government. Clocks are set one hour forward across the country to conserve fuel and align with other European nations.
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Petrograd
Europe
Russia
Lawn Party Opens Season at Markley's Grove
The opening lawn party of the season is planned for Saturday evening July 14 at Markley's grove under the Sons and Daughters of Liberty. Music by a wide awake string band promises a good time for all. Bring your friends.
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Markley’s Wrove
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Executor's Notice for Z A Burns Estate Guilford County
The court advertises that P BURNS has qualified as executor of the will of Z A Burns deceased in Guilford County North Carolina. The notice names W P Ragan W P Bynum and R C Strudwick as attorneys and provides Winston Salem address and P O Box. Actions required by creditors against the estate are implied.
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SNC
Guilford Co
Wt. P. Burns
Z. A. Burns
Winston-Salem
N. C
P. O
Land sale notice for Rev W W Lawrence farm in Randolph County
Power of attorney holder offers land of the late Rev W W Lawrence for sale. Located five miles from Se grove in Richlands township Randolph county North Carolina. Includes 502 000 feet of timber crop land 376 acres of tillable farming space with cotton tobacco and grain. House site well watered with water mill potential. Private bids invited. if not sold privately, auction to cash buyers at courthouse door in Asheboro North Carolina at noon Saturday September 20 1917. For more information contact FB L Stack South Mills North Carolina.
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W. W. Lawrence
Segrove
Richlands Township
Randolp County
N. CC
Auctio
Court House
Asiboro
N. C
FB. L. Stack
South Mills
N. KE
L. Stac
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Indiana
John Welch
Dispatches
Jie
Macon
Maine
San Francisco Bulletin
Woman's Missionary Society
Cross
Ehington
Mrs. Chappell
Iris Burrus
Pleasant Grove
Genevieve Moore
Ince Anthony
Eula Anthony
Nell Burnett
Bertha Burnett
Rath Burnett
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mary Louise Low
Winston- Salem
H. UW. Robbins
South Main Street
Methodist Episcopal Church
Blanche Murphy
Edwards Business College
The
Marietta Paint Company
Jessie Compton
Randleman
Frank A. Ogburn
Monroe
F. A. Ogburn
Stuart, Va
Helen Harper
Baltimore
Elizabeth Norwood
North Huokler
Bob Caley
J. A&. Lee
Moore's Springs
Margaret
Mrs. E. T. Jacobs
Daisy Stamey
Lincoln County
State Normal and Industrial College
W. L. Stamey
G. F. Milliaway
Greensoro
A. D. Shelton
Italy
Army
Navy
RB. Try
Comercial Club
Allen Shoe
Louis
Oxford
Vey
Oxfords
W. P. Ragan
W. P. Bynum
R. C. Strudwick
Att’vs
Pepsi-Cola
Didi
Eow
Pnaaer Water
Christo-Cola Bottling Works
High Point, N. C
Roadway Theates High Point
Robert Jichens
of Allah
Helen Ware
Thomas Santschi
Desert
Fea
Tures
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