Burbank Garden Club Plans Wednesday Meeting
The Burbank Garden club meets Wednesday at 10 00 a.m. with Mrs John Teague at her Hillcrest Drive home.
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1929
Page
6
The Burbank Garden club meets Wednesday at 10 00 a.m. with Mrs John Teague at her Hillcrest Drive home.
Professor Z C Johnson spoke at 10 a m to the Gleaners class of the First Presbyterian Sunday school and at 11 a m at the First Baptist church on Three Phases of Motherhood. He praised the modern mother, stressed continuous maternal care, and compared mother love to divine love guiding a child’s life.
Disturbances surrounding the American Bemberg and Glanzstoff rayon plants in Elizabethton prompt state and local guards to remain on duty. Police report 600 to 800 workers entered the plant in minutes, arrests and warrants swirl as tension mounts.
An advertisement promotes MELLO-GLO Face Powder as smooth spreading, long-lasting, and preventing shine. It claims a French process keeps makeup in place, reduces pastiness flakiness irritation and large pores, with Mann Drug Co as retailer.
Divergent opinions surround the blaze as Captain H T Johnson cites a gasoline odor and suspects arson while state troops guard the mills. Dr Mothwurf says workers will return and full operation may resume by midweek as Tennessee labor leaders prep a convention motion for a day off to inspect conditions.
Three French pilots Rene Lefevre Armeno Lotti Jr and Jean Assallant plan a 30 hour try to fly from Roosevelt Field to Le Bourget in a single motored monoplane aiming to beat Lindbergh 1927 record by three hours. They arrived at the field with Lotti financing the venture set for a great circle route to Paris. The plane cruises at 130 mph and can reach 140 mph.
A quotation contrasts made to measure footwear with ready made options. One figure cites $15 for bespoke shoes while another suggests half the price for ready-made. The exchange appears in Fliegende Blaetter.
A. M. McWhirter, secretary of state Republican HQ, hauled two large bundles of stove pipes up Hendersonville Main Street to mark a bet on the mayoral result. The pipes bore placards declaring he now backs Democrat W. M. Shepard, elected last Tuesday, after paying the wager from Hendersonville Hardware.
Monday the House plans to resume tariff debate while the Senate weighs a farm relief bill under an agreement limiting debate after 30 p m. The Senate judiciary committee also takes up a resolution to inquire into the president’s power to withhold public lands from oil operations. Sunday shows the Senate and House adjourned with party leaders conferring on legislative and political issues.
Over the weekend the Senate division on the debenture provision remained evident as leaders aimed to finish amendments to the farm bill and speed a vote. A letter to Senator Fess attacked Senator Borah and other so called pseudo Republicans, fueling clashes between chambers over initiation of legislation. Hoovers dinner invite to Borah and White House luncheon lists added to the tension as recess plans floated for three weeks or all summer while tariff bill debate continues.
Sr. C. J. Hedley-Thornton, chairman of the English artificial cotton corporation, arrived on the Adriatic to present a new fibre from South American nests. After nine years and 85 plant crossings the material resists boll weevil, grows in varied climates, and in London sells for one fifth the price of ordinary cotton. experimental plots have begun in Florida.
The 1929 Yackety Yack yearbook from the University of North Carolina is dedicated to Dr. A H Patterson former Dean of the University School of Applied Science who died last fall. The volume features nine sections with alumni, campus views, faculty favorites, student activities and athletics. Editorial work by June Adams Jr and business manager Guy E Hill is highlighted along with a record delivery for the year.
The Union Pacific reports $27,000,000 on call at year end, up from $22,500,000 a year prior. The Delaware and Hudson states it reached $50,000,000 in the call market at one point and earned $1,117,000 in profits during the year.
Hong Kong May 13. The British river gunboat Moorhen reported she was fired on almost continually yesterday while steaming up the Sikiang from Samshui to Wuchow. Much of the voyage occurred in the fighting zone between the Keangsiites and Cantonese.
Little Gilbert Furgurson an unconscious 2nd story window fall victim taken to hospital this afternoon at 509 Jones Street doctors say injuries not serious despite the initial danger.
The association against the prohibition amendment projects the federal cost at 886 million yearly, 4 million more than last year’s personal income tax take. It estimates lost liquor tax revenue plus enforcement outlays, with total national costs near 1.2 billion including federal and local enforcement.
Raleigh will supply night lighting for Curtiss Flying Service airport and Curtiss will provide facilities for night landings. County authorities will close a 300 acre road briefly and reroute it along the field edge. Local manager E H Treadgill says the plan aims to have 500 pilots and assistants connected with the enterprise.
Raleigh May 13 Thirteen cases from the nineteenth judicial circuit are set for two days of hearings Tuesday and Wednesday before the regular summer recess. A state tax suit against Hans Rees Sons Inc involves several thousand dollars of income taxes. Bill Daniels appeals his two year road sentence claiming inadequate time and excessive punishment. The Southern Railway faces a $15,000 verdict for the Parker estate. Docket items include Daniels Lumber, Welch Power and Light, and other civil actions. U.S. law exports lawnmowers at 12,000 monthly.
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