Swing Club Gossip Foreshadows Dombey Mystery
Newspaper photographer Bob Tait runs into Nelda Starr at the Golden Bowl as Archie Mackey hints at Lud Dombey's volatile past. The pair discuss perfume costs and Nelda’s swing singer ambitions while Tait probes a link to Dombey and a mysterious earlier sighting at Claremont Apartments. The scene ends with Nelda describing Lud’s guitar groove as “like nothing human.”
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Rehie Mackey
Bob Tait
Mr. Tait
Archie
Ackey
Tait
Archie Mackey
Pacific Plaza
Thetic
Nelda Starr
Ludden Dombey
Lud
Harrison Mountain
Lud Dombey
Mackey
Stephens
Miles Starr
Methods for stitching heavy fabrics and preserving color
A reader asks how to sew cretonne or canvas easily. The answer suggests rubbing soap on the seam to ease needle entry. Another query on frying oil asks to add a teaspoon of vinegar to reduce absorption. For cretonne color, washing in bran water is advised instead of soap.
Etiquette Answers on Names Tuxedos and Breakfast Etiquette
The guide says a woman may use the junior suffix if her mother-in-law is in the same city. When calling, she can say This is Mrs Robert Walker Junior. It cautions that confusion and embarrassment may occur otherwise. A tuxedo is for informal evening occasions after 6 pm such as informal parties theaters and informal dinners. It also recommends attending breakfast when visiting a friend.
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Robert Walker
Cranium Crackers Yes or no quiz from Want Ad page
A short quiz asks which statements are true and false. It includes Lindbergh being from St. Louis an opidan a turtle Byrd a polar explorer New Orleans on the Gulf and Library of Congress as the largest library. Answers appear on the Want Ad page.
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Lindbergh
St. Louis
Commander Byrd
New Orleans
Gulf of Mexico
Library of Congress
North Carolina
Carolina
Union Bus Terminal
North Wrenn &T
Lessons in English by W. L. Gor
Public language note teaches correct usage and pronunciation. Highlights include common misuses like shall not hear to it and the emphasis on consents. It defines desultory as abrupt and irregular in switching topics and offers daily vocabulary goals.
Look and Learn quiz by A C Gordon questions
Answers include Ohio for the Indian name meaning Beautiful River Victor Emmanuel II for the King of Italy Twenty two for the age of most prisoners in 1937 John Philip Sousa as the great March King and Halifax Nova Scotia as Canada's easternmost seaport.
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Italy
Canada
Ohio
Victor Emmanuel II
Twenty
John Phillip Sousa
Halifax
Siler City approves $12,000 bond issue for sewage plant
In Siler City on October 25 residents voted 111 to 7 to approve a $12,000 bond issue. The funds would supplement a WPA grant of $28,000 for construction of a sewage disposal plant. Also noted were 1947 aircraft produced in the U S during the first six months of 1938 versus 1623 in the same period of 1937.
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Siler City
United States
Fires Aboard Deutschland Erupt as Atlantic Gale Roars
A blaze erupted in Deutschland No 2 hold 200 miles southeast of Cape Race drawing aid from 591 passengers 392 crew and ships including American Traveler and Europe. Captain Karl Steincke reported fire under control as rescue fleets converged amid raging seas and gusts with no injuries.
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New York
North Atlantic
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Karl Steincke
Associated Press
The
Deutschland
Hamburg
Steincke
Pride
German Republic
Ebert
Hamburg American
Hansa
Europe
U. S. Coast Guard
Boston
New London
Conn
Foundation
Franklin
Port Hawkesbury
Man awaiting trial for assault on 14 year old girl
Dockery Revels, 28, held in Robeson County jail awaiting Superior Court trial on a charge of criminally assaulting a 14-year-old white girl. The grand jury returned a true bill. The girl said she asked to drive and he took the wheel and assaulted her twice in a wooded area.
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Lumberton
Dockery Revels
Revels
Robeson County
R. CC. Cox
Writer of I Ain't Got Nobody Dies at 53
Roger Graham a blues era songwriter who wrote the lyric for I Ain't Got Nobody died after a several month illness in Cook County Hospital. He was 53 and authored about 200 songs.
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Chicago
Roger Graham
Cook County
Graham
Opening Speech by Dr Tippett at NC College Conference
Dr James B Tippett of Greenville NC will deliver the opening speech this afternoon at the 18th annual meeting of the North Carolina College conference in Greensboro.
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Sperech
Greensboro
James 8. Tippett
Greenville
8. C
North Carolina College Conference
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Rae Rumi
Pane Lee
Myrna Dombey
Ife
Robert Tait
Anne Lester
Myrna
Dannie Feeley
Luddenmbey
Picer
Bob
Dombey Cave
Nelda
Starr
Millbay
Claremont Apartments
Swingateers
N Drug Company, Cecil Drug Eckerds and
All Good Drug Stores
Buick
General Motors
Fisher
Rex Ehlers
North
Main Street
Anne Ashley
Roberta Lee
W. L. Gor
A. C. Gordon
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Bike
Cas
Firestone
Geesility Auto Supply & Service Stores
North Main
Churon
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