House Ways and Means Considers Next Year Tax Bill
Washington May 16 AP Members of the house ways and means committee say they are already considering a 1939 tax bill. President Roosevelt has asked removal of exemptions on securities and salaries of governments and a two year limit on undistributed profits tax. Deficit forecasts may push new levies. Committee leaders discuss early session while senate finance hints at joint inquiry. Some demand constitutional amendment for broad taxation.
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Roosevelt
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Ways and Means Committee
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Cooper
D.-Tenn
Congress
Senate
Daniel Bell
Doughton
Harrison
D.-Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Local Gideons elect officers in two Carolinas Georgia meeting
The Gideons ministries of the two Carolinas and Georgia concluded a two day convention in Spartanburg South Carolina with state officers elected. In South Carolina J C W Biseh off Charleston was named president W H Tiller Spartanburg first vice president J B C McDavid J J Columbia second vice president Louie F Ostendorff Charleston secretary treasurer Clarence 0 Getty Charleston chaplain and William H Knobelock Charleston field secretary. In North Carolina H M Suther land Greensboro was president W O Burnham High Point first vice president Luther B Yandell Charlotte second vice president H Cobb Gennaboro secretary treasurer F Craven Greens ome chaplain and Andrew Edwards Greensboro field secretary.
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8. C
Ministry of Gideons
Two Carolinas
Georgia
South Carolina
J. C. W. Bisehoff
Charleston
W. H. Tiller
J. B
C. McDavid
J J
Columbia
Louie F. Ostendorff
Clarence 0. Getty
Spring Tonic Promises Energy and Strength
Promotes a tonic claimed to rebuild red blood cells, boost energy, restore weight, and improve skin tone. Advertises an internal remedy labeled 5.5.8 and variants, claimed proven by “centide research” and available at any drug store.
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Cclentide
Bush Breazeate Plans His Own Funeral in Cave Creek
Felix Bush Breazeate, 74, a Kingston area farmer, builds his walnut coffin and schedules a June 26 funeral at Cave Creek Baptist Church to hear the preacher’s message while he is still alive. Local interest grows as radio singers visit from Chattanooga and a printed program outlines the event. He lives on a pension, rides a mule, and has not married, explaining his distrust of women.
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Kingston
Tenn
Felix Bush Breameate
Cave Creek
Bush
Little White Cave Creek Baptist Church
Push
Chattanooga
Tilmnoils
Woolfe Creek Valley
Melvina Erwin
How Can I Clean Painted Woodwork Effectively
Question and answer column offers home care tips from Anne Ashley. It covers cleaning enameled woodwork with a vinegar and kerosene wash, cautions against varnish, and includes gardening and cooking queries such as keeping pansies blooming and broiling steak times.
Modern Etiquette Q and A From Roberta Lee Feature
A Roberta Lee etiquette column answers reader questions on table manners gifting graduates and wedding presents. It advises using fingers to remove a bone fragment, suggests pearls pendants stockings purses pens and books as graduation gifts, and notes gifts go to the bride rather than the groom.
Look and Learn by A C Gordon quiz questions
The page presents a quiz titled Look and Learn by A C Gordon asking five questions. It answers: Lutheran is the largest Protestant denomination with over 70,600,000 members. cacography means incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway. the average person consumes about 60 tons of food in a lifetime. the Dominion of Canada is larger than the United States.
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Dominion of Canada
Anne Hathaway
The
Lessons In English In Cord on
A reader’s guide on English usage and pronunciation lists common mistakes and mispronunciations. It defines adverbs and synonyms and offers a daily vocabulary tip focusing on the word adversity with a quotation about friendship in hardship.
Cranium Crackers Auto Fare Puzzle for Mr Brown
Mr Brown hired an auto to Los Angeles twenty miles away and back for eight dollars. A friend joined for four miles each way, adding three dollars to the fare. If the friend paid an equal share, would Brown gain or lose in money by the ride?
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Los Angeles
Mr. Brown
Want
Fossilized Cycad Specimens Highlight Ancient Plant Life
Museums today display well preserved fossilized cycad specimens dating from hundreds of millions of years ago. The exhibit showcases ancient plant life and offers insights into prehistoric flora and evolutionary history.
Doctor of the Mind
A crossword style clue list cites the phrase father of psycho analysis and fields on psychology terms across vertical and horizontal entries. It includes references to names, nations, bodily parts, and common words linked to psychoanalytic theory and general vocabulary.
Seychelles Island History and Wildlife Overview
The Seychelles, 600 miles north of Madagascar, consist of 101 islands totaling 156 square miles. British since 1814, they were first seen in 1502 and named for a French official. The archipelago hosts coco de mer palms with 35 to 40 pound nuts, tall trees, and wildlife including crocodiles and snakes. Today about 36,000 people of mixed descent live there, including Africans, Indians, English, and French.
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Seychelles
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
British Empire
France
Great Britain
Coco de Mer
Seychelle Islands
Maldive Islands
Maldive
Wargke Sige
Sigeneties Islands
Africa
India
Uncle Ray Travel Leaflet Offer in Paper Strip
A reader notes a travel leaflet titled Famous Cities of Europe available by sending an 8 cent stamped return envelope to Uncle Ray in care of the paper. The note mentions Tomorrow Great Island of Papua and describes 1,000 people as pure white in the Travel Section of a scrapbook.
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Uncle Ray
Island of
Papua
Motorcycle Crash Kills Two In Greensboro Heading Home
Greensboro on May 16 report states motorcycle riders Dayton Hamilton aged 22 and Mrs Myrtle Rogers 28 of Raleigh died when their motorcycle crashed head on into an automobile on a highway near Greensboro while returning from a motorcycle riders meeting in Boone.
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Dayton Hamilton
Myrtle Rogers
Raleigh
Here
Boone
Negro Is Held For Attacking Woman
CHARLOTTE May 16 Ed Robinson a 30 year old was held in the county jail there today after his arrest yesterday on a charge of raping Mrs Mert Overcash 22 at her Mooresville home Officers said Mrs Overcash reported the man entered a room where she was resting on a bed with her eight month old child beat her dragged her to the porch and assaulted her Robinson was arrested shortly after Mrs Overcash was treated at Mooresville hospital
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Charlotte
Ed .Robinson
Mert K. Overcash
New Mooresville
Overcash
Robinson
Florida Citrus Consumption Volume Revealed
The article reports that over 28.5 million boxes of Florida citrus are consumed each year, underscoring the crop's large domestic demand and sustained market presence. It notes Florida's role as a major supplier and hints at seasonal and regional production factors influencing supply.
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Florida
End of the Road and Concrete Highway Promises
Taxpayer savings from 1 to 465 dollars per mile yearly in surface maintenance on concrete highways cited. North Carolina urged to adopt concrete pavement as standard for safety, comfort, and economy, with a national group promoting research and engineering effort to extend concrete use.
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