Funeral of Washington Noted in Old 1800 Gazette
Floyd Hartman found an 1800 Ulster County Gazette inside his wife’s Bible recounting Washington’s funeral. The reporter laments the fallen greatness and proclaims Washington’s name will triumph over death. The piece notes a large crowd near Mount Vernon and describes the coffin’s head ornament.
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International News Service
Factoryville
INS
Floyd Hartman
George Washington
Ulster County
N. Y
Washington
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Would King Cole Be Merry With Stomach Ulcer Pains
Suffering stomach ulcers and related symptoms, readers are urged to try Udea Tablets from Manny's Drug Store and other druggists. First dose must convince or return box for double money back.
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King Cole
Manny
Rare Calderon Plays Found in UNC Library Collection
The UNC Chapel Hill library reveals seventeenth century Calderon de la Barca plays in five Madrid editions from 1640 to 1677. The Quinta Parte may be one of three surviving copies, with others housed in Vatican and Michigan libraries. The five volumes, rebound in buckram, arrived in 1925 from Bennett Nash’s nephew collection and bear Henry Phillips Jr.’s signature.
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Spain
Shelley
Madrid
Workaday
Buckram
Vatican
University of Michigan
Everett Hesse
University of Wisconsin
Calderon
Leavitt
Cotarelo Y Mori
Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Wagner
Michigan
Cotarelo
Bennett H. Nash
Harvard
Henry Phillips, Jr
Thomasville High Hosts Area Students Conference
Thomasville’s annual student standards conference drew representatives from Concord Lexington High Point Salisbury and Greensboro. Chief speaker Charles W. Phillips of Greensboro urged practical high school training as a secure foundation for the future. The program featured a hobby show hand music by the Omasville band and afternoon tea with a gym dance at night.
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Thomasville
Charles W. Phillips
Greensboro
Woman's College
Thomasville High School
Concord
Lexington
High Point
Salisbury
Martha Phillips
Leon Jones
Jimmy Grimes
J. T. Covington
Phillips
W. S. Horton
Edwin S. Lanier
University of North Carolina
Roy Armstrong
University
T. C. Brown
State College
Leonard
Harold Harrison
Jim Lambeth
Frank Lambeth
WMFR
North Carolina
Virginia
Omasville High School
Kiriakides Promoted to Air Force Captain
Robert Kiriakides former High Point resident and son of Mrs. Leslie Bryant has been promoted to captain in the Army Air Force and retired from active duty. He is now stationed at Culver City Air Base California with his wife and daughter Gay. He spent four months as a patient at the Army Navy Hospital after his transfer.
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Robert Kiriakides
High Point
Leslie Bryant
Army Air Force
Farm Labor Wages Rise in 1946 Across U S States
The average wage rate paid to hired U S farm workers in 1946 was 91 40 per month compared with 84 during a comparable period in 1945 Every state in the United States grows corn.
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U. S
United States
Beeson With Marine Band At Tsingtao
Pfc. Gilbert A. Beeson son of Mr and Mrs J R Beeson Rt 6 is a member of the June Wranglers band with Corn's A Poppin show broadcasting over ZABU Tsingtao China He marks his first year overseas after a prior posting in Japan with the Headquarters Company third Battalion Fourth Marines Corp Also notes prewar cabbage seed from Skagit County and a 1800 British law on starch tied to hair powder and shirt stiffeners.
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Pfc
Gilbert A. Beeson
J. R. Beeson
Rt. 6
June Wrangler
Corn
Japan
Tsingtao
Fourth Marines Corp
Land Rainfall Shortage Threatens U.S. Farming
Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s land area receives insufficient rainfall for safe general farming. The arid conditions raise concerns for crop yields and agricultural planning nationwide.
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United States
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Choral Society
Central Friends
Choral Society of
A & T College
Central Friends Meeting House
NBC
CBS
Wings Over Jordan
The
Coleridge A. Braithwaite
North Carolina Library
Agatha Adams
Chapel Hill
Sturges FE. Leavitt
Yarel
Kiriakides
Air Force
Beeson
Skagit County
Little Lady
Bambury
Travel
Flarllee
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