UNC Chapel Hill Scholarships Highlight Wide Range of Aid
The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill will award fellowships and more than 18,000 other scholarships of all kinds, a generous program not for sale. A pigment called Panaminian wax flower with cream yellow petals is on display at Shaw's Garden, noted for its artificial texture.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Ufhtheate’ School of the
University of North Carolina
America
Orchid Grown YUIS Unique Orchid Claim
An unusual note proclaims YUIS as the sole grower of a distinctive orchid. The fragment mentions the plant and its exclusivity, framing the claim as a personal or organizational assertion about cultivation.
Britain’s heaviest woman buried in Worthing
Mrs. Alice May Blecher, claimed to be Britain’s heaviest woman at forty four, was laid to rest in Worthing. A seven by three foot coffin required eight pallbearers. The remarkable burial marks the end of a highly documented life.
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Worthing
Eng
U.P
Britain
Alice
May Blecher
Yale Museum Recieves Major Fossil Collection
Five motor vans moved the Braun Schubert collection of invertebrate fossils and natural history objects to Yale's Peabody Museum in New Haven. The donation by Dr. Charles Schubert adds about 100,000 invertebrate fossils 10,000 shells and 3,000 mineral specimens from Fred Braun who built the World famous private collection with quarrymen.
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New. Haven
Yale
Peabody
Braun- Schubert
Charles Schubert
Fred Braun
Cincinnati
Ohio
G. E. Ashby
Schubert
Nothing Comic About Attachment Papers
In Norwalk Connecticut a comic legal attachment amused Lions Club members when President Louis Harris accepted papers he believed were jokes. The document was genuine and sought to withhold $100 owed to a waitress at the club’s meeting inn, after attempts to serve the secretary and another officer failed.
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Norwalk
Conn
U.A
Lions Club
Louis Harris
Lions
Pigeon Flies to School in Roanoke Classroom
In Roanoke Virginia Heights Ronald Collins keeps a pet pigeon that flies to his classroom daily just as the tale of Mary and her lamb suggested. The bird joins him at school each day, delivering a curious local note.
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Roanoke
Ronald Collins
Mary
Virginia Heights
Leg Broken During Sleep Tragedy In Adger Area
Arthur Richardson of Adger Alabama, farmer, woke to a leg fracture above the knee while asleep in bed. He does not know how the injury occurred and reports the left leg broke without warning in Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Ala
Arthur Richardson
Adger
Farmer
Oarsten Pass Familiar Scenes During Training
Cambridge oarsmen train along well known Cam landmarks such as the Little Ditch Red Grind and Railway Bridge while Oxford crews drill on the Isis and nearby stations. The piece notes rival training routes and mentions earlier figures including Wildcats and Mississippi farm capital stock in 1030.
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Eng
Goldie
Green Bank
Cambridge
Oxford
Isis
Thames
Kennington
Sanford Lack
Radley Common
Iffey
Haystack Corner
Free Water Stone
Randall's Bridge
Gut
Willows
Figures on Coal Mine Drawn Near Local Area
Stripper machine work beneath the surface exposed numerals "3 9 8 X" and other figures tied to a mine site. Clint Ramer reported the markings, found in a coal region near here, with origin of the numerals unclear and partially obscured by bore lines and weight readings.
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Linton
Clint Ramer
Outdoor Range Satisfies Hartford Police Call for Open-Air Practice.
Hartford Conn police demand an outdoor range to improve marksmanship arguing indoor practice fails on the streets. The department has requested construction of an exterior shooting range to boost accuracy and readiness for field operations.
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Hartford
Conn
Hartford Police Department
Painful Piles Go Quick No Cutting No Salve
Dr. J S Leonhardt offers HEMROID internal tablets claimed to end itching bleeding and protruding piles by healing and restoring the affected parts and reducing blood congestion in the lower bowel. Ward & Son guarantee money back if it does not end pile misery. Ad.
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J. S. Leonhardt
Ward & Son
Ady
Baltimore Leads Third Annual Traffic Safety Contest
Baltimore and fellow leaders Louisville Portland Providence and San Antonio lead the third annual traffic safety contest by the National Safety Council. The event runs from September 1, 1930, to August 31, 1931, with cities competing to improve road safety performance.
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Chicago
U.P
Baltimore
Louisville
Portland
Ore
Providence
San Antonio
National Safety Council
Pin Causes 10,000 Suit Against Carolina Baking Co
Raleigh, N C U A Lewis Fowler sues Carolina Baking Co of Charlotte for 10 000 damages claiming a pin baked in cake severely impaired his health. At 97 Mrs Marcilla Taylor of Andrews N C begins her 38th Bible reading.
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Raleigh
N. C
U.A
Lewis Fowler
Carolina Baking Company of
Charlotte
Marcilla Taylor
Andrews
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Bruce Dodson
Missouri
Hittner
Oarsten
North Carolina
Mississipp Farms Incorporated
University of Michigan
Theta Delta Chi
J.C. Penney Co
Thrift
Hollywood
Gay New Cretonnes
Pin
United States Gvernment Bulletin
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Mines
Washington, D.C
Stek
United States
Betty
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