Meed Meadows residents face theft fear and new life
In a southern mountain tale Kate and Caroline Meed, with Major Sam Meed and trusted servant Zeke, adjust to a dilapidated house. A hidden table and past debts erupt, while Morgan Prentiss protests their setback as romance resurfaces amid upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate
Caroline Meed
Meed Meadows
Sam Meed
Althy
Zeke
Morgan Prentiss
Eve Elwell
Major Meed
Jeff Howard
Howard
Littl
Caroline
Granddad
Major Sam
Mr. Howard
Sam
Ole Miss
Fayette County
Virginna
Lucifer
Miss Kitty
Baltimore
Steve
Captain Bobby
Morgan
Morgan Prentice
Black-Draught Laxative Promoted as Vegetable Remedy
An advertisement extols Black-Draught as a purely vegetable laxative from leaves of some plants and roots of others. It claims the medicine is dried without preservatives and ground to release active ingredients in the digestive tract. The copy notes constipation relief and a 25-cent package yields about 25 doses.
Notice to Creditors Lulu B. Kirkman Estate
Administrator O Arthur Kirkman notifies creditors to present claims against Lulu B. Kirkman deceased at his High Point North Carolina office by September 18 1937. Creditors must also settle any debts promptly. Dated September 15 1936.
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Lulu B. Kirkman
Guilford County
North Carolina
High Point
O. Arthur Kirkman
Death of Marien Pew Former Editor and Crusader for Free Press
New York reports the death of Marien Pew aged 58, longtime editor of Editor and Publisher. A native of Niles Ohio he spent 42 years advancing independent press practice and served in multiple major outlets and war efforts. He is survived by his former wife and three children.
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Marien Pew
New York Hospital
New York
World
Trade Journal
Pew
Criti
Cal
Niles
Ohio
Cleveland Press
Scripps- McRae Press Association
New York Evening Journal
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Boston Traveler
United Press
Philadelphia News-Post
International News Service
Newton D. Baker
Susan
Paris
Marlon, Jr
New York Sun
Samuel
East
United States Steel plans huge Birmingham expansion
Birmingham leaders hail a $29,000,000 expansion by United States Steel, adding a tin plate mill and auxiliary plants. The project will employ about 2,500 workers with a minimum annual payroll of $2.5 million, described as the greatest single development in Birmingham's history.
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Birmingham
Ala
United States Steel Corporation
J. C. Persons
First National Bank
Iredell County Names Accountant After Shortage Found
Statesville elects 8 B Kelly, a public accountant, to fill the unexpired term of County Accountant W Roy Plott after an audit shows a cash shortage of 3254.43 in Plott's accounts. The vacancy was declared yesterday by the county board of commissioners.
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Statesville
County Board of Commissioners
Kelly
W. Roy Plott
Plott
Spiders Not Insects Like Birds Are To Reptiles
The statement notes that spiders share only distant relations with insects, just as birds with reptiles, highlighting broad evolutionary gaps between these groups.
U S Steel to Expand Birmingham Plant Creating 1500 Jobs
Myron C. Taylor and William A. Irvin announced U S Steel’s expansion in Birmingham calling it the greatest single development in the city’s history. Construction starts immediately with about 1500 workers and 16000 tons of structural steel involved.
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Birmingham
Myron C. Taylor
William A. Irvin
U. S. Steel
New York
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NEA Service, Inc
Meed
Flapper
By Sylvia
Fourth Estate
Liggett & Myers Tobacco CO
Iredell Man
Anne of Co
NBC
Mymas Toricco Coy
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