Industry Moves Unevenly as Retail Trade Holds Gains
The AP notes mixed industrial activity and steady retail gains year over year as cooler regions buoy buying while heat slows fall purchases. Steel capacity rose to 72.5 percent, scrap prices climbed, freight carloads fell 8.5 percent after Labor Day, and electricity output lagged due to the holiday. Automobile production increased as 1937 models began.
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Associated Press
Department of Commerce
Pittsburgh
Flapper Fanny Predicts Recovery in Motor Output
Forecasts indicate motor industry output will lift in the new production season with gains in purchasing power seen in recent reports. Analysts expect final quarter production around 1,300,000 units versus 1,100,000 a year earlier while Sears Roebuck posts four weeks ending September 10 sales of 37,057,510, the period’s high mark and 32.7 percent above 1935.
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Sears Roebuck
Reddick Rites Will Be Conducted Today
Funeral services for Rufus J. Reddick who died in Watauga South Dakota from boutism will be held at 4 o clock this afternoon at the home of his sister Mrs C C Cagle in Trinity. The Rev G W Williams will officiate. Interment will be in Thomasville cemetery. He was a member of McIntosh Post No 139 American Legion of McIntosh South Dakota.
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Rufus J. Reddick
Watauga
South Dakota
C. C. Cagle
Trinity
G. W. Williams
Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church
Pot Pourri by George B Craven
Craven defends his Pot Pourri column amid letters supporting and challenging his views. He predicts Dr. McDonald will speak more often than Mr. Hoey in four years, comments on a Morehead City reader’s query about a pictured subject, and laments noon meal versus lunch confusion at Chapel Hill. He muses on staying modern while sticking to his spelling preferences.
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George B. Craven
Mr. Hoey
Dr. McDonald
Morehead City
Jimmie Coltrane
Jimmie
Chapel Hill
Rome
North
Boone N C rebuts New York Sun attack on WPA work
In a North Carolina reflection the writer defends Boone and its WPA project. He recalls visiting county courthouses for bond sales and criticizes the Sun's jab at Boone detailing street repairs and public works funded by federal aid. He notes population and employment implications.
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North Carolina
New York Sun
Boone
N. C
Wpa
Federal Treasury
Calvin Cool
Randolph County parents and teachers unit meets in Asheboro
The Randolph county council of parents and teachers held its annual school instruction meeting at the Asheboro high school auditorium. Leaders included Mrs. C. F. Caveness and Murray Field with group discussions on safety, new school buildings, and public property care. Special committees addressed budgets, memberships, goals, and study groups.
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Asheboro
Randolph County Council of Parents and Teachers
C. F. Caveness
C. G. Smith
Franklinville
J. T. Buie
F. R. Owen
Caveness
T. L. Matlock
I. C. Moser
Bess Rosa
Esther Moon
Reginald Turner
The Hen That Laid The Silver Dimes Incident
Mrs. G. G. Coffey of 1806 West Green street found a dime in the gizzard of a hen she kept. The fryer was too small for the hen to swallow the coin, and the event appears to be an odd mystery.
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G. G. Coffey
West Green Street
If the heckler speaks I am sure we shall be glad to make his acquaintance
An eloquent political speaker is interrupted by a recurring heckler in the crowd. After many interruptions the speaker asks the man to identify himself instead of shouting his profession, prompting the crowd to ask why opera singers.
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Idar
Painful comparison in reading columns from Margot Moody
The speaker muses on the pain of reading and notes John Mebane's Act of Spades column parallels Margot and Silas Moody. They remark Margot's Sunday dinner recipes are the only interesting part and admit confusion about the Witness Chair.
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John Mebane
Margot
Silas Moody
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