Ford Endorses Living Wages While Dismissing Rail Board
Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, backs Hearst’s living wage idea, arguing high wages boost efficiency and prosperity. He cites a $6 minimum and $8 skilled wages, says Ford paid living wages since pioneers, and claims certificates yield 12 to 16 percent returns.
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San Francisco
Edsel Ford
Henry Ford
Railroad Labor Board
William Randolph .Hearst
Ford
Mr. Hearst
Mr. Ford
Labor Board
Bulratites
Ashboro Flower Show Opens at Courthouse
The annual chrysanthemum show starts Friday at 2 p.m. in the Ashboro courthouse. The Woman's Club hosts with chicken salad oysters cream cake and candies, plus a fancy work bazaar. The event draws town and county patrons.
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Ashbboro
Ashboro
Christ'an Endeavor
Presbyterian Church
States oldest printer dead in North Carolina
Spencer, Nov. 3. John R. Collins aged 80 known as Uncle Johnny died in a Charlotte hospital after years of feebleness and a recent decline. He was perhaps the oldest printer in the state with more than 60 years at the case and worked for the Raleigh News and Observer after the Civil War and later on the Spencer News.
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Spencer
John R. Collins
North Carolina
Johnny
Charlotte
Raleigh News and Observer
Spencer News
Rain Ends Haywood County Forest Fire Rush
Rain and gray clouds helped extinguish forest fires in Haywood County and western North Carolina after nearly a week of steady effort by firefighters. Weather improved last night aiding crews who had labored for four days straight.
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Asheville
Haywood County
North Carolina
Burning Sands at Broadway features Wanda Hawley and Milton Sills
The photoplay draws praise as better than The Sheik with thrills and strong staging. Wanda Hawley plays an English lady who loves Daniel Lane, a desert hermit and Arab tribe ruler played by Milton Sills. A renegade Englishman Barthhampton schemes to abduct Lane’s lover and thwart the government, leading to a climactic battle.
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Wanda Hawley
Milton Sills
Miss Hawley
Daniel Lane
Mr. Sills
Barthhampton
Lane
Train Crash Kills Two, Injures Several Near Miami
In Everglades 44 miles south of Miami a head on crash between a local freight train and a work train at 2 20 yesterday afternoon killed one white man and one Black man and injured four or five Black workers. The bodies were brought to Homestead for medical attention.
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Miami
Fla
Everglades
Homestead
Trinity College enrolls 906 students doubling figures
Durham author Henry Bela reports Trinity College has 906 enrolled this year, up from 456 in 1979 18. If growth continues, enrollment could exceed 1 800 in six years. Dormitory plans may be discussed at Benefactor's Day events as the board considers expansion.
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Trinity College
Trinity
Ethé College
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Mississip
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Phifnois
Indiana
Florida
Maryland
Alapam
Japan
Twenty years ago crime report contrasts genders in arrests
A historical note records that twenty years ago today more men were arrested for burglary than women, highlighting gender disparities in crime data from that period.
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Muskegon, Mich
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Grand Rapids
Rosalie Shanty
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Brazil
Threles
Methodist College
Henry Bela
Korea
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Hagee
Flame Office& Fountains
London
Poiret
Sonable
Cannon-Fetzer Company
South Main Street
Morrison
Hamilton St
Guilford County
W. F. Cole, M. D
Greensboro
Pierce Crucker
Crippled Children’s Commission
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