Debate over Detention Home for Tubercular Patients in Guilford
The Jamestown Weed urges public opposition to a proposed county move to establish a Detention Home for loathsome diseases. It contrasts with calls for a Training School for wayward children and highlights needs for a larger Tubercular Sanitarium and greater county capacity.
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County Board of Welfare
Guilford County
Jamestown Weed
Union
Jackson Training School
Guilford
Endowment funds to guide American historical research program
The American Historical Association outlines an eleven point plan to spend a $1 million endowment on national tasks. Key aims include coordinating scholars for research on immigration, regional issues, and African family history, and creating inventories of manuscript materials across private and public collections. The program also envisions photo reproductions, small scholar grants, new publications, and a survey of archival work to boost access and preservation.
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Raleigh
American Historical Association
Association
National Endowment Committee
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
America
North Carolina
A. R. Newsome
North Carolina Historical Commission
United States
West End club drafts larger cocktail menu for visitors
A West End club committee responds to American guests by revamping its cocktail list to include at least 81 drinks. The menu features items such as Old Etonian, Depth Bomb, Whiz Bang, Diki Diki, Monkey Gland, Princess Mary, Groom Raiser and Third Degree along with dry cocktails like highballs smashes and pussyfoots.
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London
West End
Red Cross reports first quarter relief and cautions
The American Red Cross notes aid to 36 disasters in the first quarter of 1926 including domestic floods fires and uprisings abroad. Volunteers logged 81800 Braille pages 29426 garments and 591557 surgical dressings. They warn against amateur eye surgery and push public health nurse efforts to correct children's defects before school opens.
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American Red Cross
United States
Middle West
Pacific Coast
First Aid Service
American Red Cross Public Health
State study on feeblemindedness proposes care plan
A North Carolina committee outlines definitions for feeblemindedness, classifies affected groups, and details treatment aims from non institutional to institutional care. It estimates 2000 institutional cases, favors special classes, and argues against broad sterilization while proposing funding from parents counties state and inmate earnings.
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Caswell School
McLean
Dr. Rankin
North Carolina
Arctic short wave tests link Morrissey expedition to New York
Short Wave experiments by United States Canadian and Nova Scotia amateurs connect the Morrrissey expedition to New York as they test battery powered sets across 42 meters. The Morris sey, under Captain Robert Bartlett, sails from Rye to Greenland with a science team including George Putnam Knud Rasmussen Robert Peary and others.
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Mateur
United States
Canada
Nova Scotia
American Radio Relay League
North Pole
Rye
New York
Greenland
American Museum of Natural History
George Palmer Putnam
Knud Rasmussen
Robert Peary
Arthur Young
Daniel Streeter
H. C. Raven
Fred Linekiller
Carl Dunrud
Morris Kellerman
Edward Manley
David Binney Putnam
Utah
Return
Morrissey
Arctic Circle
Manley
Chartered Certificates Filed in North Carolina
Davis Brothers Inc of Marion files to run a general electrical business with authorized capital of 50 000 and 4 000 subscribed by G L Davis R K Davis and Geneva E Hawkins. C F Morriss Inc of Greensboro to operate brokerage and commission business with authorized capital 16 000 and 2 000 subscribed by C F Morris Greensboro and T E Hughes.
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W. H. Wadsworth
J. A. Hartsell
Concord
North Carolina Hickory Manufacturing Company
Reidsville
Minor W. Catshall
Edward Bermath
J. Carlton Tatem
Eastford
Conn
Raleigh
W. N. Everett
Davis Brothers, Inc
Marion
G. L. Davis
R. K. Davis
Geneva
E. Hawkins
Old Fort
C. F. Morriss, Inc
Greensboro
C. F. Morris
T. E. Hughes
Tiger Has Fish Over His Cabin
Paris report notes Georges Clemenceau’s Vendee cabin cost under a hundred pounds to build and is inhabited half the year by the French statesman nicknamed The Tiger. His valet Albert saved his life in the trenches, and Clemenceau’s daily expenses run about 20 francs plus a car gifted after the peace conference.
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Paris
Vendee
Georges Clemenceau
America
Albert
Frances
Clemenceau
Dancing halls ban Charleston due to crowding and shins
Berlin officials report dancing masters ban the Charleston at suburban ballrooms. They say the move is needed to protect customers shins and stockings as dancers kick in all directions leaving little room for safe movement.
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Berlin
Blood life apes closer to human blood study says
Dr. H Gideon Wells told a Columbia University class that chimpanzee and orangutan blood is more closely related to human blood than that of horses and donkeys. The remark came in New York on September 13.
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New York
H. Gideon Wells
Columbia University
Judge Reduces Fine After Dice Reveal Seven
In Washington on September 18 Alton Staten a Black man faced a traffic charge. The judge noted a natural seven when a pair of dice spilled from Staten’s pocket and lowered the fine from eight dollars to five.
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Washington
Alton Staten
Staten
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English St
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Red
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Arctic
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Alaska
Philip A. Goetz
Herman A. Goetz
2CTF
Riverdale
California
Manney
Marietta College
Ohio
J. J. Fassett
CLAR
Dartmouth
N. S
George N. Withington
University of Pennsylvania
Goetz Brothers
Hudson
Phillip A. Goetz
Edward Mantley
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