Richard Harrison dies at 70 after stroke in New York
Richard Berry Harrison who played De Lawd in The Green Pastures died at Fifth Avenue hospital in New York after a paralytic stroke suffered on March 2. Born September 28, 1864 in London Ontario he rose from obscurity at 66 to star in the acclaimed play and served as a beloved figure in Negro theater.
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History Quiz Answers and Behind the Scenes Details
Answers include $10,000 for the largest U S bill Attila the Hun as scourge of God and Bull Run on July 21 1861. Ozark Mountains run through Missouri and Arkansas with additional backstage notes on actors and Harri son in a New York theater scene.
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Modern Etiquette Questions With Answers From Roberta Lea
The text presents a Q A on manners including how to handle dancing pairs at a ball and the proper greeting when introduced. It also recounts the life of Paul Dunbar Harrison from early jobs in Windsor and Detroit to hosting a drama school at Greensboro and finally joining The Green Pastures.
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Young Woman Makes First Solo Flight After Short Instruction
Charlotte Hodgskinson, a 22 year old, achieved her first solo flight after two hours and twenty seven minutes of instruction. She practiced imaginary flying from a chair using a broomstick as the aircraft’s stick.
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Charlotte Hodgskinson
Daily Lessons In English By W. L. Gordon
A snippet from a language column listing common usage errors and pronunciation pitfalls. It notes elude and alude confusion, morose pronunciation, misspelling boycott, and defines ostentation with an example. The item encourages vocabulary growth by studying one word daily.
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W. L. Gordon
What Do You Know About Your State?
Answers detail the Great Smoky name origins, Cherokee terms for Great Mountains, and name usage by General Campbell in 1781. It notes the Imps of Hell era from Rutherford in 1784, Governor Vance's May 1865 arrest, and the Boston Tea Party date of 1773. It covers eight years for Stamp Act defiance and notes voting limits in the 1784 North Carolina Franklin era, plus Edward Stanly’s Union governorship efforts in 1862.
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Great White Mountains
Griffith Rutherford
Rowan County
General Assembly
Statesville
Samuel Wittkowsky
Salisbury
Edward Stanly
New Bern
Stanly
California
Union
Cheaper Auto Tags Reported Favorably By Roads Committee
Raleigh March 16 cheaper automobile licenses for owners of smaller lighter cars may result if the bill reported favorably by the joint committees on roads is enacted. The bill would set a minimum license at 9 dollars a year and reduce the licensing base from 55 to 50 cents per 100 pounds. The measure would raise or reduce highway revenue depending on sales projections, with an estimated annual impact of 530000 to 620000 dollars.
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Sir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Joint Committees On
Senator White
Robeson County
C. W. Tatum
House Roads Committee
How Can I Make Household Tasks Last Longer
A reader asks how to extend the life of oil cloth on a kitchen table by using flour paste to fasten it, and suggests brass corner ends for square tables. It also covers soot removal by burning potato peels or sprinkling wine scraps over a hot fire, and keeping parsley fresh in a Mason jar with the lid on in a cool place.
South America Vehicle Ownership and Bus Operations
Among 171000 registered motor vehicles in South America, about 124000 are owned in Argentina and Brazil. Brazil operates more motor buses than the rest of the continent combined.
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South America
Argentina
Brazil
Hammond Township Aids Auto Owners and Dog Owners
In Hammond Indiana a township relief program provides financial help to residents who own cars and households with dogs. Funds aim to ease transportation and pet care costs for needy families.
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Hammond
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Scientists pinpoint Siberian town as world’s coldest spot
Researchers estimate a northeastern Siberian town lies 1400 miles from the North Pole as the planet’s coldest location based on recent measurements. The finding highlights extreme low temperatures recorded in that region.
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North Pole
Cockatoo Proclaimed World’s Noisiest Bird
A cockatoo is described as the world’s noisiest bird, capable of making a noise loud enough to drown out a dozen automobiles and a steam whistle.
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