Endeavorers Open Meeting Today
A detailed schedule for the Christian Endeavor convention outlines sessions on methods, leadership by G H Beatty and C F Evans, plus talks by Dr J G Leonard and W M Danner. The day features prayer meetings, reports, songs, and district officer reports with a focus on union, junior, and intermediate methods.
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D. H. Rolston
D. D
Conference On Christian Endeavor
G. H. Beatty
Charlotte Union
C. F. Evans
Southern
J. G. Leonard
Isabel McDougall
Dixie
T. C. Bales
Mount Airy
Bert G. Jones
C. FL
Evans
Commercial club dance for city ladies returns home
The Commercial club offers a complimentary dance this evening at nine. Members promise an enjoyable affair for the young ladies who have recently returned to the city for the summer vacation.
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Commercial Club
Local visitors and summer plans noted in city brief
Nash M Wyant of Lincoln county visited W Stamey’s family on shore from the Was ae reunion. Monroe of Greensboro and J e George Limide of Wik also spent time on business. Mrs Pharres T Hamilton and son Hugh Will depart Monday for Black Mountain to spend the summer. Mrs Hamilton owns a cottage there.
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Nash M. Wyant
Lincoln County
W. Stamey
Was Ae
Monroe
Greensboro
Harry “Barton
Pharres T. Hamilton
Son Hush
Black Mountain
Hamilton
Local residents enlist and attend weddings in town
Several residents join the United States army. Charles Phillips and William Norment arrive to spend the summer. Hey studied at the University of North Carolina. The Philathea class of Trinity church hosts an ice cream supper on the tennis court Saturday at 7 PM. The public is invited. Ellis family members return from North Wilkesboro after attending the Horton Robbins wedding.
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Eral
United States Army
Charles Phillips
William Norment
Hey
University of North Carolina
Philathea
Trinity Church
W. F. Ellis
W. F. Ellis, Jr
George 5. Ellis
Robert Ellis
North Wilkesboro
Horton-Robbins
State controls insurance could yield revenue
The Hague June 8 The proposal for a state monopoly of life and fire insurance in the Netherlands could eventually bring about 36 million dollars annually according to M W Fig Treub a rough estimate. The plan aims to fund social programs and gradual reform while shifting control from private to government oversight amid ongoing financial concerns.
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Hague
Netherlands
Singster M
Not Kidnappers Says Chief A False Pretense Charge
Wilkesbarre detective Hergert denied that three men and a woman arrested at Sunbury are connected to the Keet kidnapping case. A warrant at Sunbury charges them with obtaining money under false pretenses and a constable delivered the prisoners. Police say the kidnapping charge has no foundation at present.
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Wikesbarne
Praia
Hergert
Wilkesbarne
Sunbury
Keet
Wilkesbarre
Ten Airplanes Scatter Liberty Loan Appeals
Ten U. S. Army planes dropped 500 pounds of circulars over New York from Long Island and Governor's Island. The pilots warned a German bomb danger and urged residents to buy bonds. Captain Walter G Kiiner led the fleet, claimed the largest such American flight.
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New York
United States Army
Long Island
Governor's Island
Walter G Kiiner
District Lutheran League Meets Soon in Concord
Concord June 8 An event of importance will be the district meeting of the Lutheran League an organization of young people in the Lutheran churches of North Carolina which will hold its next convention in Concord with the St Adams Lutheran League Delegates are expected from every rescue in the state and according to figures now on hand that 10 percent of the committee on entertainment will be present. The meetings will last for two days beginning Friday afternoon June 1d.
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Concord
Uuthen Leiggae
Lutheran Churches of
Fancy price paid for five months old calf at sale
Worcester Massachusetts June 8 D W Fields of Brockton paid 53200 for a five months old bull call at the Holstein Friesian association convention. The seller was Oliver Cabana Jr of Buffalo New York. The bull is named King Ormsby Jane Ray Apple. The previous record price for a bull calf was 55000.
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Worcester
Mass
D. W. Fields
Brockton
Holstein-Friesian Association
Oliver Cabana, Jr
Buffalo
N. Y
King Ormsby Jane Ray Apple
Hoover Urges U S Action to Build Grains Surplus
Washington June 8 Herbert C Hoover reports to the government on steps needed for the United States to secure a billion tons of cereals to meet future demand. He outlines policy actions and production goals for national food security and farming support.
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Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
United States
Allies' Food Demands Highlight Next Year's Needs
A fragment notes that allies require a billion tons of cereals next year along with meat fat and sugar. It emphasizes neutrals to be considered and hints at ongoing wartime food planning.
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Tain
Foot
Yyaterday
Mexican general orders all cultivable lands to curb world food shortage
Washington report notes that on June 8 the Mexican embassy announced General Carranza directed every arable plot to be farmed to combat a looming global food shortage.
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Washington
Carranza
United Daughters donate to Red Cross ambulance fund
The J EB B Stuart chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy in Fayetteville donated 25 dollars to the local Red Cross unit for materials and 45 dollars to the Red Cross ambulance fund. It marks the first voluntary Red Cross contribution in the city amid Confederate veterans meetings in the capital.
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Fayetteville
J. EB. B. Stuart
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Red Cross
Red Cross Ambulance Fund
United America
Daughters of the Confederacy
Argentine Ship Obama Sunk by Submarine in Mediterranean
Paris reports the Argentine sailing ship Obama was sunk by a submarine in the Mediterranean on Wednesday. The crew were saved by a French ship after the submarine shelled the vessel and crew members set bombs in the hold and detonated them, sending the ship to the bottom.
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Paris
Obama
Mediterranean
Ministry of Marine
House Passes Espionage Bill With No Censorship
The House approved the conference report on the administration espionage bill 86 to 22. The measure strengthens embargo provisions and expands anti espionage laws while removing the newspaper censorship feature.
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HOUSE
Washington
Administration
House Today
Norway Demonstrations Across Nation Pass Quietly
A nationwide protest against high living costs in Norway proceeded quietly with a Christiania street parade of 40 060 participants. A demonstrators' deputation met with the Storthing president for talks.
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Christiania
London
Norway
Storthing
Newcastle education chief denounces cinema as education
The director of education in Newcastle on Tyne told the Cinema Commission that he does not regard cinematography as a serious educational instrument. He warned that peptonized mental pabulum atrophies intellectual digestion and that education by cinema would harm learning.
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London
Cinema Commission
Director of Education
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Memorial services of Piedmont Camp No 62
W O W summons all sovereigns of Piedmont Camp No 62 to meet Sunday June 10 at 6 p.m. in their hall for memorial services. Sovereigns of other camps are invited to join. Clerk A C Staley signs the notice.
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Piedmont
No 62
City Transfer Co. Reassures Competent Hauling Service
The City Transfer Co. says it employs competent men and assures patrons their hauling is thorough. No job is too large for them to move, and they do your haul ing with tight efficiency.
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City Transfer Co
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