North Carolina College Women Stage Boucicault Play for Charity
Greensboro readers learn the North Carolina College for Women drama club Playlikers will present The Streets of New York on December 5 to aid the unemployed. The 1867 play set in 1837 features Ern estine Halyburton Adele Hicks Mary Frances Padgett Reavelle Austin and local men in male roles.
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Greensboro
North Carolina College For Women
Owen D. Young
College Dramatic Organization
Dion Boucicault
Split Second Blind Intervals Measured by Moss
Cleveland scientist Frank K. Moss, at Nela Park, measured eye brain delay during reading. He found blind periods of seven to fifteen hundredths of a second, with about three tenths of a second per eye motion, using a rotating disc and 150000 measurements to gauge light needs for comfort.
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R. A. Bruner
Cleveland
Frank K. Moss
Nela Park
Moss
Changes in Amazon Cotton Mills Management
Thomasville reports major staff shifts at the Amazon cotton mills as O L Wagstaff resigns after twenty years as manager and superintendent W H Curlee is named superintendent. David A Long Jr becomes general manager and will move into the Wagstaffs former home formerly C G Hill house.
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Thomasville
Amazon Cotton Mills
O. L. Wagstaff
W. H. Curlee
Wagstaffs
C. G. Hill
David A. Long, Jr
Wagstaff
Board of Equalization hears petitions for district budget increases
The state board of equalization remains in Raleigh hearing delegations from Wake Halifax Greensboro and Buncombe counties seeking higher budgets for extended term education. Greensboro faces the tight 50 percent limit and Charlotte avoids excess while some Buncombe rural districts push beyond the 10 percent allowance. The board aims to keep expenditures down while maintaining adequate standards and may issue decisions at the end of the session.
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Board of Equalization
Greensboro
Charlotte
Buncombe County
Asheville
State Department of Public Instruction
TABLOIDS: Local oddities and miscellianeous echoes
The item reports Ray Hamilton paying 19 for bumping a freight train after confessing intoxication. Armistice day bonfire efforts in Sweetwater proceed without crowd or speakers due to a prank. Houston incident has a traffic officer vs Jim Hartfield over a stuck artificial leg. A Washington talk criticizes leaders for lacking culture. In Elyria a coin flip decides a township trustee tie.
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Sweetwater
Texas
Houston
Gilbert
Jim Hartfield
Hartfield
Elyria, CO
I. F. Diebrich
Elmer Portland
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