Jugtown Pottery Revival in North Carolina Spotlight
North Carolina craft Jugtown, famed for 500000 pieces stamped Jugtown, is highlighted in the June American Magazine. Jacques Busbee and Juliana Busbee transformed a declining rural craft into a celebrated national art, launching a revival from a scattered Moore county community with kick wheels and row houses turning out jugs, dishes, and candlesticks.
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North Carolina
Jugtown
Moore County
Jacques Busbee
Juliana
Mrs. Busbee
Raleigh
Mr. Busbee
New York
Jacques Busbea
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Busbees
Bushees
Busbee
Died of Excitement Over Lindbergh Arrival
Aberdeen Washington May 21 1931 AP report says Richard Barrett aged 60 collapsed and died in the street while reaching for a newspaper extra announcing Captain Charles Lindberghs safe arrival in Paris.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Charles Lindbergh
Paris
Richard Barrett
Fountain of youth prank at Guilford General Hospital
A story claims doctors at Guilford General Hospital performed a gland graft from a monkey into an elderly Black patient in a bid to restore virility. The tale describes Dr. T. M. Stanton and Dr. J. G. Groome overseeing the procedure with a Greensboro shop monkey as donor.
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Page Ponce de Leon
Guilford General Hospital
Old Spain
Fountain of Youth
North Carolina
High Point
Old
de Leon
Florida
Guilford General
T. M. Stanton
J. G. Groome
Darky
Stanton and Groome
Greensboro
Groome
T. M
Hayes Invited to Travelers Convention in Quebec
Harold W. Hayes of High Point a top Travelers Insurance agent has been invited to a four day convention starting June 27 in Chateau Frontenac Quebec Canada announced from Travelers Hartford home office.
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Harold W. Hayes
High Point
Travelers Insurance Company
Chateau Frontenac
Quebec
Canada
Hartford
Travelers leaders club honor highlights nationwide agent
Group insurance excellence earned him vice president at large of the company’s group leaders clubs for last year. He shares the honor with nine others among thousands of Travelers agents in the United States and Canada. He is among 262 agents chosen to attend the convention as guests of the company.
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Group Insurance
United States
Canada
Turmoil Grows Near Hankow As Warfront Narrows
Dispatches from Hankow report a growing and menacing mood as armies move closer to the nationalist stronghold. General Yang Sen lands troops within fifty miles of Hankow and clashes with communist forces from Wuchang after aligning with Marshal Wu Pei Fu factions.
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Shanghai
Hankow
Yang Sen
Wu Pei Fu
Wuchang
Saturn Temperature Rumor Targets Frigid Conditions
Astronomers estimate Saturn’s surface temperature near 240 degrees Fahrenheit, well below freezing. Uranus is noted as even colder, highlighting extreme planetary temperatures in the outer solar system.
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Saturn
Uranus
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Center Ceramic Idusiry
Old North State
Juliana Busbee
Read Enterprise
Zailmer
Miueus
Georgette Crepe
L. L. Brown
Ing
John
Gilmer
U. S. A. Nainsook
SOC
Stoffels
Hite
White Sox
Phar
Columbia
Col Gs Coomassis
Gilmer’s
Batiste
Dimity
Hayes
Kiddie Korner
Children’s Union Suits
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