Mrs Pat Young Hosts Bridge for Norfolk Bride
Lexington society centered on bridge and rook parties last week with Mrs. Pat Young hosting at West Side Drive for Mrs. James Ralph Hooper a recent Norfolk bride. Guests enjoyed sweet peas larkspurs and gladioli, with Hooper receiving a crystal goblet prize and a vase for high score. consolation went to Mrs Vance Beck. Fourteen attended including rock club members and visitors.
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Lexington
Jaue
Pat Young
West Side Drive
Bridge
James Ralph Hooper
Norfolk
Hooper
Claudia
Meta Baker
Marguerite Ebelein
Elizabeth Ford
Hostess Honors At West Fifth Avenue Rock Club Meet
Mrs. Fred Hackney served as gracious hostess to members of the rock club and guests at her home on West Fifth avenue Thursday afternoon. Three tables were in play with garden flowers in the living room. High score prize went to Mrs. W. M. Shuford who received Godey prints. Visitor prize went to Mrs. A. D. Shoaf for high visitor score and Yardley soap was awarded.
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Camille Hunt
South Main Street
E. Bugg
Durham
Bugg
Woodrow McKay
W. F. Brinkley
Holt Hunt
FE. I. Bugg
Fred Hackney
West Fifth Avenue
W. M. Shuford
M. Wail
A. D. Shoaf
Yardley
Woman's Missionary Society Meets at Mrs. Jones Home
The Woman's Missionary Society of Midway Methodist Episcopal Church held its regular monthly meeting Tuesday evening at Mrs. G. E. Jones home with seventeen members and one visitor attending. After an engaging program the hostess served refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Missionary Society of
Midway Methodist Episcopal Church
G. E. Jones
Autoist Dies After Hitting Girl in Berlin
In Berlin a man named Johan Hartmann lost control of his car and struck a schoolgirl. He handed the wheel to his nephew and later died of heart disease before reaching the hospital. Doctors said the girl’s injuries were slight and she survived.
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Berlin
Johan Hartmann
MW Hartmann
Motorcycles surge in Norway with year round use
Norways motor cycle imports in 1929 doubled from the previous year as two wheeled travel widens. Riders equip machines with skis to tackle winter roads and long distances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oslo
Norway
Carillons Through History and North Carolina Ties
A discussion of notable carillons from Europe and the Netherlands with mentions of Moscow and Antwerp. It notes the twilight role of bell music, the Bok tower’s far-reaching chimes, and highlights the Morehead and Patterson families linked to the University of North Carolina and its donor history.
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Kremlin
Moscow
Antwerp
Netherlands
Europe
Continent
England
Chapel Hill
Els
Bok
Florida
University
Patterson
Morehead
Stockholm
United States
Sweden
Moreheads
Pattersons
North Carolina
Light Fiction Roundup of Summer Novels and Mysteries
A summer shelf of popular novels including Zane Grey's The Shepherd of Guadaloupe marking his 20th year as author. Also The Doorstep Murders by Carolyn Wells with detective Kenneth Carlisle solving a baffling set of doorstep killings. Plus Happy Landings by Fanny Heaslip Lea and Young Man of Manhattan by Katherine Brush. BeGGarMan by Jane Abbott closes the lineup with a dramatic inheritance tale.
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Guadaloupe
Zane Grey
Western Desert
Carolyn Wells
Kenneth Carlisle
Fanny Heaslip Lea
Hollywood
Manhattan
Katherine Brush
Toby Mclean
New York
Little Ann Vaughn
Milton Propper
Jane Abbott
Alice St. John
State Parks plan urged after Linville meeting
Col. J. W. Harrelson the NC Conservation director said the National Conference on State Parks boosted support for preserving Linville Falls and Gorge. He noted visitors endorsed securing the area as a State Park and urged North Carolina to accelerate a statewide parks and forests system for future economic and scenic preservation.
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Harrelson
North Carolina
Linville Falls
Bells Fixed in Place Limit Peal to Twelve
The article notes that bells in a chime or peal are fixed rather than swinging and that their number does not exceed twelve, distinguishing between bell arrangements and their operation.
Expedition Aims to Break Arctic Ice Fields
The Oceano graphical Institute launches an expedition to the Barentz Sea with a termite explosive to blow up Arctic ice fields. The mission seeks to test explosive effects in polar ice while advancing scientific and practical knowledge of sea ice disturbance.
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Leningrad
The
Oceanographical Institute
Barentz Sea
Arctic
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Mrs
High Point
ADELE
Grimes Street
Grimes
Paradise Point
L. Morehead
J. Lathrop Morehead
Garrett Morehead
Rufus Lenoir Patterson
William Lenoir
King’s Mountain
J. N. McCrary
Fred Younts
F. E. Moses
Hugh Leonard
High Point Publ
Black Patents
Brown Shoe Store
Buster Brown
J. B. Johanson
Hese Detection
435
Majestic
Majestic Automatic
Model
Clinard Electric Company
Stere
Ectrica
College Street
Cannon’s
Cannon Mills
Winston-Salem
van Dyke
C van Dyke
Maye
Winston= Salem
van Dyke's
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