Cinderella Girls on European Tour Draw Curtis Store Drama
Billy Wells and two roommates join T. Q. Curtis on a European voyage to escape Colfax life. Nyda Lomax and Winnie Shelton vie for the magnate's favor while Billy secretly befriends T. Q. Curtis amid romances, thefts of attention, and hints of adoption. News arrives of a Dublin to London to Paris trek with jewelry gifts and a looming home return.
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Billy
Dal Romaine
Nyda
Winnie
Romaine
T. Q
Colfax
Curtis Department
Europe
T. Q. Curtis
Mrs. Meadows
Nyda Lomax
Winnie Shelton
Billy Wells
New York
Liverpool
Paris
Vienna
Naples
Monte Carlo
London
Angela Struthers
Englishmau
Rome
Berlin
T. Qs
Vatican
India
Dal
Constance Bradley
Florence
Billy Dear
Constance
Billy and Clay Curtis Progress in Music and a Fortune Teller
Billy notes Clay Curtis advancing musically while she remains still. In the following chapter she visits a mysterious fortune teller seeking guidance.
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Billy
Clay Curtis
Demand for Power Growth in Southern States Seen
Preliminary estimates project a 30 percent rise in electric power demand in the south by 1950, totaling 21 billion kilowatt hours. For ten southern states including North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida and Arkansas the extra need amounts to 6 million horsepower, averaging 450,000 horsepower yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asys
South power outlook and Muscle Shoals debate prompt alarm
Alabama businessman Mr. Martin warns the southern power supply may fall short of 6,000,000 additional horsepower needed by 1940 as undeveloped capacity lags. He flags congressional moves to allocate 1,340,000 horsepower to private concerns and urges distribution to southern industries. He notes power output rose 18 percent from 1925 to 1926 amid good rainfall. Corn and truck crops rise while cotton acres hold steady. dewberry harvest near Wilmington expected soon after strawberries.
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Martin
South
National Congress
Muscle Shoals
Tennessee River
Wilmington
Tobacco acreage to rise in North Carolina year
The Enterprise Bureau reports the State Department of Agriculture predicts a material increase in tobacco acreage this year. Field reps from the tobacco belt say planting is rapid from Raleigh south and east to Smithfield Goldsboro New Bern and Beaufort with many farms adding one to two new tobacco drying barns.
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the Enterprise Bureau
Raleigh
State Department of Agriculture
Smithfield
Goldsboro
New Bern
Beaufort
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