Governor Urges North Carolina to Enroll in Red Cross
Governor Angus W. McLean calls for statewide participation in the eleventh annual Red Cross roll call from Armistice Day November 11 to Thanksgiving Day November 24. He urges enrollment or renewal, stressing Red Cross relief work and urging emphasis in churches and schools during the drive.
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Red Cross
Lic
American Red Cross
United States
Legion of Mercy
Angus W. McLean
North Carolina
Angus W. M’lean
British Empire Sees Vast Reach Across Global Lands
The British Empire spans roughly one quarter of the world’s habitable surface, totaling about 13,406,103 square miles. This vast colonial footprint highlights the era’s imperial reach and geographic scope.
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British Empire
State Board Aims to Cut Textbook Costs for Children
Raleigh November 10 The State Board of Education seeks a substantial reduction in textbook prices but has not decided how to achieve it. Options include wholesale versus retail pricing and changes in distribution, with political considerations challenging any savings.
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Raleigh
State Board of Education
Board of Education
American historian J. Fred Rippy praises U S research lead
Duke University scholar J. Fred Rippy argues American historians now lead in modern historical research due to access to American and British archives. He spent six months in England for the Guggenheim foundation and will lecture at Johns Hopkins on British American rivalries. He plans further work with Woodrow Wilson papers and a Carnegie Institute funded study in Colombia.
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Durham
J. Fred Rippy
Duke University
United States
England
Guggenheim Foundation
Rippy
Public Records Office
London
Spanish America
Amherst
Mass
Ray Stanard Baker
Woodrow Wilson
Columbia
South America
Carnegie Institute
Purse Shapes Diversify Bags Expanding Beyond Rectangles
The article notes Tucker purses come in round oblong triangular and pentagonal forms as shopping trends move away from traditional square or rectangular shapes. The emphasis is on variety in purse design and consumer interest in new geometric styles.
Turner Visits Guilford College as Foreign Missions Secretary Tours Campus
F. P. Turner secretary of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America visited Guilford College to see his brother F. Hill Turner business manager. He recalled his 1895 visit and noted campus changes including a torn fence around Founders dormitory a brick meeting house Cox Hall the new Memorial hall library King hall and power plant built since then.
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Guilford College
Navy
F. P. Turner
Foreign Missions Conference of North America
F. Hill Turner
Raleigh
Foreign Missions Conference
Foreign Mission Boards of North America
Foreign Missions
Founders
Cox Hall
Turner
Memorial
King Hall
Bridges Rejects Clemency Grants With Holiday Spirit
Edwin Bridges, North Carolina pardons commissioner, told AP there will be no extra clemency for Thanksgiving or Christmas. He says real merit, not holiday spirit, governs paroles and pardons.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Edwin Bridges
Associated Press
Santa Claus
Silent Campaigner Wins Detroit Mayor Race
Detroit voters returned John C. Lodge a winner in a close mayoral contest as he faced challenger John Smith. Lodge, advocate of a police style to seek the man, appears to have defeated the liberal policy mayor in an election that underscored strict enforcement of prohibition laws and public safety concerns.
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Detroit
John C. Lodge
John Smith
Detroit mayoral race leads Lodge by over nine thousand
Returns from 4599 of 606 precincts tabulated by the Detroit Free Press show Lodge leading by more than 9,000 votes in yesterday's non-partisan mayoralty election.
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Detroit Free Press
Lodge
Belgium Convict Receives Three-Tenths of Wages End Term
A Belgian prisoner is entitled to receive three-tenths of his earnings when his sentence ends. The arrangement provides a portion of his wages as he completes the term of imprisonment.
Partition Petition In Guilford County NC Land Case
In the Superior Court before the clerk S C Clark as Bertha Yokley et al pose a partition action against John Hedgecock and unknown heirs. They must appear by December 10, 1927 in Greensboro to answer the petition seeking partition in kind of lands in High Point Township Guilford County with nine elevenths of the land allotted to the plaintiff and an 1 88 interest to each of the other heirs.
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State of
North Carolina
Guilford
S. C. Clark
Bertha H. Yokley
Mack Yokley
D. S. Hedgecock
Mary Lee Hedgecock
Lela Hedgecock
Vera Hedgecock
Orest Hedgecock
Louis Hedgecock
J.S. Hedgecock, Jr
John Hedgecock
Everett Hedgecock
Marvin Hedgecock
Cordie Hedgecock Smith
Robin L. Hedgecock
Greensboro
Guilford County
James Kk. P. Hedgecock
High Point Township
Distribution to Hedgecock heirs in Guilford County deed note
The document assigns interests to Bertha H Yakley Lela Hedgecock Vera Hedgecock Orest Hedgecock Louis Hedgecock and J S Hedgecock Jr and two eighty eighths 2 88 interest to D S Hedgecock and one eleventh 1 11 interest to John Hedgecock or unknown heirs. Dated November 1 1927 signed c S Lambeth Deputy C S C Guilford County Austin and Turner Atty.
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Bertha H. Yakley
Lela Hedgecock
Vera Hedgecock
Orest Hedgecock
Louis Hedgecock
J. S. Hedgecock, Jr
D. S. Hedgecock
John Hedgecock
C. S. Lambeth
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