Charlotte Sailor Killed By Truck On Highway Near Spencer
Salisbury North Carolina October 23 A Charlotte sailor named Benjamin J Swinson 29 was instantly killed when he fell beneath a trailer attached to a truck on a highway near Spencer Amos McLendon a colored driver for John Hardison of Wadesboro said he saw the man sitting on the roadside as the truck passed the man leaped for a ride missed his footing and the trailer wheels crushed his head killing him instantly Papers in his pocket identified him and showed he had shipping discharges and about 65 cents.
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Salisbury
Benjamin J. Swinson
Charlotte
Spencer
N. C
Amos McLendon
John Hardison
Wadesboro
Careful Selection of Ministerial Students Urged By Lutherans
The United Lutheran Church in America urged careful selection of students for the ministry at its ninth biennial convention in Savannah Georgia. A church board of education report warned against indiscriminating urging of boys to enter the ministry and stressed safeguarding church funds by choosing suitable candidates.
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Savannah
United Lutheran Church In America
Church Board of Education
Stop Chills and Fever Malaria Tonic Ad
An old advert claims malaria causes chills and fever and promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a treatment. It touts quinine to kill blood infection and iron to fortify blood, urging a bottle for relief and prevention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove
Wall Street Crash Remembered in Flynn Analysis
New York October 22 1934 John T Flynn revisits the 1929 stock market collapse and its causes Part one traces the buildup to the crash including misplaced faith in publicity over the economy risky bootleg credit and waning ticker capacity The piece notes public optimism and the scramble of bankers and politicians to steady the market with little warning of the era’s sweeping upheaval.
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John T. Flynn
NEA Service, Inc
New York
America
Irving Fisher
Wall Street
Leonard Ayres
Lamont
Steel
Westinghouse
Montgomery Ward
General Bisctric
Trinity Churchyard
Calvin Coolidge
Puble
Journal of Commerce
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
New York Times Index
United States Steel
Well Street
Chicago Stock Exchange
San Francisco
Chicago
Stock Exchange
Hoover
Julius Barnes
Henry Ford
Jimmy Walker
Persia
Rome
Market Rout Shrinks Value As Stocks Tumble
By evening five billion dollars in fictitious value was squeezed from the market. One stock sank 96 points that night, signaling heavy losses across trading floors.
Forebodings of Market Break Foreseen and Fulfilled
The speaker warned that a major market break could trigger ten million shares traded daily, plunging the Exchange into darkness. He compared a panic to a theater fire in lights out, a disaster kept from the public that later came true in full.
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Stock Exchange
Exchange
Shutdown of the Exchange in October Trade Collapse
Foreign lenders pulled bootleg funds as warnings hit shares in September and the October shock drove billions from the market. Stock totals surged and collapsed, with October 24 trading at 12 894 640 shares and October 29 at 16 410 030. Richard Whitney later cited a 33 000 000 share day as the ticker and systems failed, delaying opening until noon and a full shutdown through Monday.
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Standard Ol Co
New Jersey
Cities Service Corporation
Stock Exchange
Exchange
Richard Whitney
Peanut tax looms as Congress weighs penny bar fate
Washington column notes peanut pricing and a proposed processing tax to aid farmers who grow nearly a billion pounds yearly. It discusses how higher farm prices could reduce penny bars, the role of the AAA, and efforts to keep millers out of the pricing picture while Bethany Beach nostalgia shifts to Rehoboth. It also covers cabinet flags for Wallace and Cummings, and marine signal codes quirks.
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Pia
Wallace
Washington
Congress
AAA
Dan Dent
Henry A. Wallace
Navy
Japan
Jim Farley
Homer Cumminge
Hydrographic Office
International Codes of Signals
Cummings
Tenant Charged With Slaying Postmaster In Fifth Brawl
In Taylorsville North Carolina W R Reavis a tenant of the deceased post master James Linney is charged with killing him after a fist fight near Reavis farm Linney former post master at Hiddenite was found on a public road bruised about head and neck a motorist brought the body to town Linney survived by his widow a daughter Ruth Linney of Roaring River and a brother the Rev W E B Linney of Wilkesboro.
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Taylorsville
James ©. Linney
Hiddenite
W. R. Reavis
Reavis
Linney
Ex-Service Men Plan Barbecue Meeting Wednesday
Ex-Service Men's club to hold a meeting and barbecue supper at City Lake on Wednesday October 24 at 6 30 p m Announcement given by C A Craven chairman Neal Sinodis Astor Cafe manager donates supper A string band will provide music Seventeen new members to be initiated and invited to attend
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City Lake
C. A Craven
Neal Sinodis
Astor Cafe
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Carlysle
Titlans
Charles Mitchell
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Albert H. Wigson
Morgans
John D. Rockefeller
Morgan
Standard Ol
Ballyhoo
Wen
New York Exchange
Piedmont Motion
Baird
Efird
Bard
Charlotte. N
American Telephone and and Refining
Auburn
Bethlehem Steel
Consolidated Gas
General Electric
General Foods
International Ee and Telegraph
New York Central
U. &. Steel
U. S
Johnson
Bethany
Beach
Del
Atlantic
Rehoboth Beach
Farooh
Farley
Union Bus
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