Juniors Reunited in Professional Baseball Ranks Portsmouth
On July 30 the battery of Higbe and Williamson, famed Portsmouth Cubs alumni, formed a notable Legion duo. Higbe starred for Columbia, then Chicago Post 493, later reaching the pro ranks. Williamson, after catching for the Gamecocks in 1934 and 1935, entered his first pro year.
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Tsmouth
and Williamson
Portsmouth Cubs
An Legion
Unson
Battery
Columbia
8. C
Legion
Higbe
Chicago Post
Haas
Cage
Williamhind
Chicago
Williamson
University of South Carolina
The
Gamecocks
Construction of Jamestown underpass completed in Greensboro
Greensboro expects paving of approaches to begin in early to mid September after 90 day settlement of fills. W S Sizer, state highway official, said paving should take about three weeks and cover only four tenths of a mile.
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Greensboro
Jamestown
W. S. Sizer
State Highway and Public Works Commission
Sizer
Explosions and vehicle crashes plague roads in 1935
A dramatic comparison likens a car wreck to a bomb blast and questions who is to blame. The piece argues that 346 400 people were killed in 1935 by motor vehicle accidents and urges constant driver alertness to prevent crashes and losses.
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Ethiopia
Hari-Kari
Merit Shoe Co. Relocates To Spacious New 109 South Main
Merit Shoe Co. Inc marks eleven years in the city with a move to a larger, modern building at 109 South Main Street. Manager N H Caughman announced the upgrade will improve service as merchandise is moved from the old 134 South Main site. The store lines include full family footwear, slippers, rubber shoes, and hosiery the relocation closes the old shop while stocking the new location.
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Merit Shoe Company, Inc
South Main Street
North Carolina
Caughman
Merit Shoe Company
Main Drug No
Gracber Urges Care of Forests at Farm Week
Raleigh July 30 R W Graeber extension forester NC State warned farm and home week delegates that farmers must protect forest lands. He cited a fuel wood pile four by four feet reaching from coast to coast and urged reforestation to avoid wood shortages and high costs. He noted 20 million acres of farm woodland versus 6 million cultivated acres and urged farmers to value woodland as a major income source. Co B Williams and E C Blair urged proper crop rotation to preserve soils.
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Raleigh
R. W. Graeber
N. C. State College
Atlantic
Pacific
Graeber
Co. B. Williams
College Agronomy
E. C. Blair
Extension Agronomist
Three Are Held In Death Of Man
Sheriff W E McNair said he arrested a second woman in the Moore case from Lancaster South Carolina whose body was found July 16 in a pond near Rockingham North Carolina. Ollie Watts is the new arrest. Lawrence Spradley and Josephine Allen remain jailed. A third woman is being sought.
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Rockingham
W. E. McNair
John R. Moore
Lancaster
S. C
Here
Ollie Watts
Lawrence Spradley
Josephine Allen
McNair
Watts
Spradley
Moore
French Inventor Boissier Pioneers Iodine Battery
Francois Boissier, a French inventor, developed a storage battery using iodine as the active material. The design aims to improve energy storage with iodine chemistry and could influence future battery technology.
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Francois Boissier
Heat Wave In State Is Broken
Cooling temperatures ended a three day stretch of 100 degree heat across North Carolina as scattered storms brought relief. Minor damage occurred in a few areas with utilities briefly paralyzed in Roanoke Rapids and lightning damaging homes. A Wake county hail storm harmed crops and trees were downed. Charlotte saw heavy rain and showers statewide.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Roanoke Rapids
Wake County
Fur bearing animals killed yearly in U S reach thirty million
About 30 million fur bearing animals are killed annually in the United States to meet fur demand. Among these, around 20 million are muskrat opossum mole lamb marmot and squirrel.
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United States
County Education Board to Set Fall Rural School Opening Date
Greensboro July 30 Special Thomas R Foust county superintendent of education expects to set a definite fall opening date for all rural Guilford county schools at a county board of education meeting tomorrow at the courthouse 10 oclock Bids for additions and heating systems will be opened for six rural schools including Jamestown Sedgefield and Alamance Bessemers water sewerage work for Busick and Madison schools also planned
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Greensboro
Thomas R. Foust
Guilford County
County Board of Education
Jamestown
Sedgefield
Alamance
Bessemer
Busick
Madison
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Tarlon
Atlantic Coast
J. Mason Alexander
Myrtle Beach
Merit Shoe Co
N. H. Caughman
Angora
Jantzen
Bave
Ladies’ Shop
Sale Gar
Gracber
W.C. Brown Shoe Shop
North Wrenn
Britt Electric CO
Wrenn St
South Main ST
Main Drug NO. 1
Oak Bend
County Education Board
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