Summer School Gets Underway at University of North Carolina
Registration for the first term of UNC summer school opened with prospects for large attendance. New features include courses in junior college administration and deanship of girls in secondary schools. The law school starts Monday with first year men eligible. Noted visiting instructors include Prof. Richard Howell, Justice George W. Connor, Prof. William R. Vance, and others for both terms. A teachers bureau and expanded library courses are planned.
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Summer School
G. P. Butler
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Carabel Murphy
Edison High School of
Los Angeles
Cali
Law School
Richard Howell
Columbia University
George W. Connor
North Carolina Supreme Court
William R. Vance
Yale University
Percy W. Phillips
United States Board of Tax Appeals
Roscoe B. Turner
W. J. Brogden
World's windiest spot measured in Antarctic circle
A location south of Australia in the Antarctic circle records an average wind speed over 22 months of more than 44 miles per hour. This measurement highlights extreme wind conditions and marks the area as exceptionally windy compared with other regions.
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Antarctice Circle
Australia
Blues and jobs through verse in a 1930s city scene
A fragmentary collection of poems and dialogue sketches from a rough urban day, featuring African American workers, a high school graduate seeking work, and a Jewish family at a drug store curb, all reflecting scarcity and humor of the era. The pieces reference blues about prosperity, poverty, and unemployment, including sly social commentary on politics and need.
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Abraham
Father Abraham
Letter From President About War Debt and Bonds
A June 1 1931 missive from the Office of Uncle Sam to a business partner describes strained government finances after the stock market crash. It laments cash losses from the Soldiers Bonus, notes a large deficit, and jokes about the partner’s rent as vital support while doctors were sent to aid recovery.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
D. C
Hawley-Smoot
Tragic Vision of School Life Also Uncle Sam Letter
Davidson College president Dr Walter L Lingle spoke to summer school teachers stressing that modern schooling is machine like yet individual influence remains essential. He urged teachers to imprint personality on students and inspire better, nobler Christian lives.
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Davidson College
Davidson
Walter L. Lingle
Robert Louis Stephenson
New Notaries Commissioned in Raleigh Area
The following new notaries have been commissioned: Co. E Durham Charlotte J F Eckerd Charlotte C R Everett Robersonville A C Harris Seagroves Miss Alice Jones Raleigh G C McIntyre Wilmington H S Parrish East Durham H T Reece Booneville Miss Ava I Stout Leakeville Henry Gibbs Morehead City.
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Raleigh
Co. E. Durham
Charlotte
J. F. Eckerd
C. R. Everett
Robersonville
A. C. Harris
Seagroves
Alice
Jones
G. C. McIntyre
Wilmington
H. S. Parrish
East Durham
H. T. Reece
Booneville
Ava I. Stout
Leakeville
Henry &. Gibbs
Morehead City
Discovery of Cecostomy Cures Mercury Poisoning in Some Cases
A cecostomy procedure described by Drs Berger Appie baum and Young at Mt Sinai Cleveland offers a way to wash mercury poison from the body before fatal gangrene develops in the lower intestine. Success hinges on performing within hours after ingestion, with several expected deaths averted in early cases. An accompanying report notes an X ray method for lead-poisoned babies and a study linking rat mites to endemic typhus.
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Howard W. Blakesler
Associated Press
Philadelphia
American Medical Association
Samuel Berger
H. &. Appiebaum
M. D
Berger
Edward C. Vogt
Infante’ and Childrens’ Hospital
Boston
Bedford Shelmire
Dallas
Tex
Walter E. Dove
U. S
Typhus Strain Noted in Northeast Texas Areas
It has been observed recently in various parts of northeast Texas. Officials say it is not the virulent type of typhus.
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Texas
Charters Granted in North Carolina Offices
Certificates of charter were filed with the secretary of state. Maria Parham Hospital Association Inc lists Henderson as its principal office with non stock incorporators Ellen Coop J W Jenkins John D Cooper and others of Henderson. Dunn Pastime Club Inc lists Dunn as principal office with A E Dearman W C Jackson and William Shaun of Dunn as incorporators. Dixie Inns Inc lists Wilson as principal office with authorized capital stock of 50000 and subscribed stock 4100 by Walter Mercer W N Harrell Oliver G Rand and P Weeks of Raleigh and Wilson listings.
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Raleigh
Maria Parham Hospital Association, Inc
Henderson
Ellen Coop
J. W. Jenkins
John D. Cooper
Dunn Pastime Club, Inc
Dunn
E. Dearman
W. C. Jackson
William Shaun
Dixie Inns, Inc
Wilson
Walter Mercer
W. N. Harrell
Oliver G. Rand
P. Weeks
First Indian sound film studio opens in Calcutta
The first studio in India for producing sound pictures opens in Calcutta using American portable equipment suitable for newsreel production, marking a new era in Indian cinema and journalism.
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India
Calcutta
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University of North Carolina
Greyling
Amos Realty CO
Wachovia
Hutchen’s Bakery
East Washington
Chestnut, Tipton
Ridge Avenue
High School
N. C. Hines
M. C. Rowland
N.C
Asheville
Jane Secrest
Monroe
N. C
Max Gardner
Secrest
North Carolina State College For Women
Greensboro
Grove Park Inn
Bert William
Hoover-Mellon
Prosperity
Maude Muller
Depressed Business Hospital
Sam
Notaries
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Paris
James Roosevelt
Ce Ee
New York
North Carolina
Guilford
Court House
City of
Point
Blair Street
Johnson Street
Farlow
High Point
North
of Farlow Insurance & Realty
Office of the Register of Deeds
Guilford County
J. Allen Austin
T Austin
Liggett & Myers Tobacco
Eggett & Myers Tobacco Co
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