Bassett Builds What It Claims Is World Largest Chair
Bassett in Washington plans to move a 19 foot 2 inch chair to Curtis Brothers Furniture in Washington DC. The chair weighs 4600 pounds and is a full scale Duncan Phyfe replica made of African mahogany. The claim pits Bassett against Thomasville which holds an 18 foot chair, with each side touting supremacy while Thomasville counters with being the best.
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Thomasville
Bassett
Salem
Main
Curtis Brothers Furniture Co
Washington, D. C
Virginia Furniture Manufacturing Company
Duncan Phyfe
Bowman Gray Offers Two Day Emergency Medical Course
Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem will host a two day course on emergency diagnosis and treatment November 14 and 15. Dr. David Cayer coordinates the program with thirteen faculty members guiding sessions covering barbiturate poisoning diabetic emergencies bleeding peptic ulcers throat bleeding blood transfusions heart attack acute urine retention and acute alcoholism. Sessions run in the medical school amphitheater with presiders Dr. Cayer Friday morning Dr. Vernon W. Taylor of Elkin Friday afternoon and Dr. W. Bryce Hunt of Lexington Saturday morning.
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Winston - Salem
Bowman Gray School of Medicine
David Cayer
Bowman Gray
Cayer
Vernon W. Taylor
Elkin
W. Bryce Hunt
Lexington
Boy Scout Humble Act Earns Life Saving Notice
In Norfolk Virginia 10 year old Jesse Couch learned to apply a tourniquet by watching TV and applied one to his mother after a car crash saving her life. Dr M C Maddrey will sign a certificate recognizing the life saving act.
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Norfolk
Jesse Couch
M. C. Maddrey
Senior High High Points Miss Piedmont Festival Candidate
Seniors at Senior High select one of three seniors Jerri Martin Susan Carter or Sandra Ellerbe as the Miss Piedmont Festival candidate for Thomasville November 28 29. The winner earns 500 in apparel gifts. runner ups receive 250 and 100. The pageant includes a 3 minute talent act and Miss America Mary Ann Mobley will crown the queen.
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High Point High School
Jerri Martin
Susan Carter
Sandra Ellerbe
Thomasville
Civic Center
Amelia
North Carolina
Jerri
Susan
Sandra
Mary Ann Mobley
Fire alarm bell rented for Rockville 1893 plan
In Rockville Connecticut one of the first fire alarm systems was a rented bell. In 1893 the city voted to rent the Methodist Society church tower bell for fire alarm use at thirty dollars per year.
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Rockville, Conn
Methodist Society
Weather Tests for Film Scenes in Marblehead
Hollywood director Mervyn LeRoy shot scenes for Home Before Dark in Marblehead Massachusetts during winter. LeRoy prepared three weather versions snow rain and high winds to cover all emergencies for the Ellene Bassing novel adaptation starring Jean Simmons Dan OHerlihy Rhonda Fleming and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
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Hollywood
Mervyn LeRoy
Warner Bros
LeRoy
Jean Simmons
Dan O'Herlihy
Rhonda Fleming
Efrem Zimbalist Jr
Marblehead
Mass
Eileen Bassing
Two Charged With Perjury In Julia Lyles Will Case
Bibb County grand jury indicted two witnesses for perjury in connect ion with a purported will of Julia Young Lyles, mother-in-law in Anjette Lyles poisoning case. Indicted are Mrs. Robert L. Almond Sr. of Columbus and Mrs. J. B. Bryan of Macon. A third witness Otis W. Pruitt is dead.
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Macon, Ga
Bibb County
Julia Young ‘Lyles
Annette Lyles
Anjette
Julia Lyles
Marlena
Robert L. Almond Sr
Columbus
J. B. Bryan
Macon
Annette
Otis W. Pruitt
Recrener
Almond
Bryan
Bible Ordinary
Walter C. Stevens
Julia Young Lyles
Oldest fruit grape traces to dawn of history
The grape is described as the oldest domesticated fruit with cultivation dating to the dawn of history and not rare even in Noah's time.
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Washington
DAR
Raleigh
Pointer
Jack Frost
Pat
Belk-Beck CO
Belks
Pita
Christman A.B.C
NYLON
Butto
Ini
Govr
Crompton Mills
Ieee
Colo Pittle
Mann
North Main
Faith Temple
Highland Ave
Daytona Beach, Fla
D. B. Yow
Rev
E. G. Parron, Jr
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