Commission Faces Challenge in Lowering Electricity Rates
The piece argues the corporation commission must act decisively to reduce electricity charges in North Carolina. It notes the commission often facilitates rate increases or compromises, lacking funding and industry knowledge. Advocates demand thorough, illuminated study before any rate cuts, warning ill conceived changes could worsen outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corporation Commission
Raleigh
Commission
North Carolina
The Splendid Control of Gasoline Prices
An editorial decries rising gasoline prices as refiners and distributors raise by small amounts with no public explanation. It notes a two cent per gallon hike in the past week and accuses industry of coordinated price moves. The piece argues taxpayers bear heavier taxes as motorists suffer and urges consumer protections.
Unlawful Picketing at Local Mill Highlighted
Authorities opened the mill amid a workers strike after peaceful entry by a return-to-work group. The piece argues that mill picketing crossing into blockade and entry obstruction is illegal and dangerous, urging workers to stay within the law and avoid provoking strong police action.
A Man and His Conscience on Labor Day
A speaker argues that following conscience alone fails to curb history’s evils and emphasizes a spiritual basis for life. He urges churches to help the needy, confront internal and external forces, and align industry with brotherhood and ethical living to make Labor Day a People’s Day.
Labor Sunday Message by Federal Council Churches
The document argues unemployment harms society and stresses Christian ethics in economic life. It urges intelligent planning, fair wages, collective bargaining, cooperative ownership, social insurance, and world cooperation to build a just, humane industrial order. It calls labor and wealth holders to cooperate with faith-led reform.
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Churches of Christ
Christ
Jesus
Kingdom of God
Labor
Tts
Glorifying Yourself A Dark View of the Make-up Problem
The article discusses brunet varieties from schoolgirls to sultry señoritas and offers makeup guidance for each type. It details skin tones hair and eye color recommendations with powders rouges eye shadows and pencils and notes lighting changes affect shade choices. It leads into hair curling as the next topic.
Special Services At Calvary Church
Calvary Church holds Children’s Home Sunday with a church school remembrance at Winston-Salem Children’s Home. A silver offering will be taken and at 8 p.m. the singing class from the home will lead the service with a brief address by O. V. Woosley superintendent.
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Calvary Methodist Church
Winston-Salem
Christian Endeavor Union Meeting Tuesday
The High Point Christian Endeavor Union will hold its quarterly mass meeting Tuesday evening at 8 at Springfield Friends church. Rev. Clay Madison, president, will resign as he plans to leave the city for school this fall, and a new president will be elected to fill the unexpired term. All city societies are urged to send strong representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
High Point Christian Endeavor Union
Springfield
Mrs Bradley Returns Home From Guilford General Hospital
Mrs. D. V. Bradley has returned to the home of her mother at 420 Tate Street from Guilford General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. V. Bradley
Tate Street
Guilford General Hospital
Stars and heredity link proposed by Denver scientists
University of Denver physicists J. C. Stearns and Wilcox Overback suggest stars may influence heredity through cosmic rays. They compare cosmic rays to X rays, noting both can affect heredity and propose a possible stellar influence on human life.
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Denver
J. C. Stearns and
Wilcox Overback
University of Denver
America
Shop owner ends gun display after robbery attempt
In Knoxville B Joffe, owner of a second hand store, refused to keep loaded guns. A Black man entered, looked at a pistol, found it loaded, pointed it at Joffe, and demanded money. He took $10 and fled through a crowd.
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Knoxville
Tenn
B. Joffe
Joffe
A Miracle Moment Declared by Bertie and Gertie
In a midnight exchange from Pathfinder, Bertie proclaims a miracle as Gertie hesitates. The duo share a brief, dramatic moment suggesting a turn of fate.
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Bertie
Gertie
Nothing Else But The Girl Dialogue From Table Talk
A brief Melbourne column notes a exchange between a girl and a boy, with the boy complaining of a head cold and the girl replying it is only a cold. The piece captures casual table talk from the era.
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Harold
Melbourne
Waiting For Her Wife In A Quiet Night Exchange
A fragment shows a sleepy husband asking if the night is shut, while the wife hints at something uncertain and tense as the dialogue cuts off with an incomplete word.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anewors
Pearls and Youth Highlighted in Smiths Weekly
A brief comic note from Smith’s Weekly Sydney contrasts youth with gleaming teeth described as pearls in a lighthearted feature. The item labels a playful exchange between The Girl and Letting It Out The Youth.
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Pearl
Smith's Weekly
Sydney
Elopement Sparks Domestic Turmoil in Alla Stockholm
A household scandal unfolds as a man laments his ruined marriage happiness after an elopement involving the wife and a cook. The exchange hints at strain within the Alla Stockholm household and shifting marital loyalties.
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Alla
Stockholm
The Jamestown Weed Optimist and Pessimist Split Over Half Full
A column mixes poetry and sketches of life with a Labor Day reflection. It begins with an unnamed dog angel poem about waiting at heaven’s gates and a tale of a preacher and a town drunkard, then shifts to Labor Day praise of industry and the american worker before urging wage-plate adjustments locally.
The Giant Swing and Other New Novels Reviewed
R Burnett's The Giant Swing (Harper) is a long character study of Joe Nearing a jazz pianist whose ascent as a composer ends in local tragedy. Carolyn Wells anthology Best American Mystery Stories earns praise for its strong lineup. Inez Waynes Irwin's Youth Must Laugh (Bobbs Merrill) portrays eight Hart sisters amid Civil War era New England and Colorado life with courage and longing.
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R. Burnett
America
Little
Harper and Bros
New York
Joe Nearing
Joe
Strapp
Park Dance Hall
Ada
Sorrel
Carolyn Wells
Albert & Chas. Boni
Miss Wells
Ben Ames Williams
Dashiell Hammett
Arthur Somers Roche
Ben Hecht
Melville Davison Post
Clarence Budington Kelland
Fens
Inez Waynes Irwin
New England
Colorado
Lorena
Carbonade
Colo
Martha
Boston
Loven
Burroughs Tarzan Triumphant Dominates Adventure Fiction
The review highlights Tarzan Triumphant by Edgar Rice Burroughs, praising its action packed jungle saga with Tarzan rescuing captives, battling slave traders, and outsmarting enemies. It notes Gunner and Professor Smith as central figures and jokes by Gunner provide humor amidst peril.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc
Tarzana
Cal
Africa
Chicago
Lafayette Smith
Professor Smith
Patrick
Lady Barbara
Jezebel
Burrough
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Detroit
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Kansas City
Atlanta
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Dallas
Commission On the Church and Social Service
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Calvary Church
Christian Endeavor Union
Jamestown
Heaven
Death
Siler City
Jimison
Henry Holt and Company
Cornelius Weygandt
Hungary
Elizabeth von Schmidt-Paull
Bright Harbor
Daniel Whitehead Hicky
John V. Turner
Harper & Brothers
Sheila Hibben
Lippincott
Washington
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