Kings Mountain Herald Promotes Welfare in Kings Mountain
The weekly Kings Mountain Herald serves the citizens of Kings Mountain and vicinity by providing welfare oriented news and entertainment. It is published every Friday by the Herald Publishing House and entered as second class matter at the Kings Mountain post office under federal law. The edition includes a Bible verse Proverbs 17 18.
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Kings Mountain
Herald Publishing House
Kings Morain
N.C
State Cement Plant Considered for Kings Mountain Site
A 1949 legislature special commission explores a state owned cement plant to supply state building and road construction. Kings Mountain is named as a possible site due to rich limestone resources and strong rail and highway access, with nearby locations in Fletcher, Andrews, Kinston, and Alamance county also noted. Local support from city administration is reported.
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Kings Mountain
Ed Hanford
Burlington
Fletcher and
Andrews
Kinston
Alamance County
Herald
Southern Railway
North Carolina
Sta
Bullish Weekend Outlook For U S Economy
Weekend financial pages report strong auto production and a firm dry goods market with merchants replenishing inventories. Employment shows upswing while a potential steel strike looms as a major risk. Harold Moulton predicts vast future gains, echoing Roosevelt era economic caution about fear causing losses.
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Financial Page
Secretary of Labor
Kings Mountain
Harold Moulton
Brookings Institution
Kings Mountain store buyers in New York trade
Kings Mountain shoppers read of Falr merchandise selections as Byron Keeter Martha Frances Meir Keeter Fred Stailworth Ruth Barrage and R D Goforth Myers Department Stores prepare offerings for local customers. Social notes mention Carl Mauney BEam families visiting Statesville and Lake Waccamaw with trips to New York City for the World's Fair.
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New York
Byron Keeter
Martha Frances Meir Keeter
Fred Stailworth
Mise Ruth
Barrage
Belk
R.D. Goferth Myers
Carl Mauney
No Sone
Statesville
N.C
EF. Beam
Besswiner Ciy
August Reunions and Country Ham at McGills Gathering
An elderly observer recalls August as reunion month with church homecomings and large family gatherings across rural communities. The piece notes enjoyed meals, especially country ham, and cites the Boom reunion at New Prospect church drawing over 1,000 kinfolk, boosted by newspaper ads. It reflects on reunion administration, births, deaths, marriages records, and local social ties amid wartime disruptions.
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America
William McGills
Ey McGills
Gaston
Commonwealth
New Prospect Church
Cleveland Times
Wrights Carrier Wins Navy E
Wrights Carrier Valley Forge earns Battle Efficiency Pennant and E for fiscal year 1948 49. Navy tradition ties meatball insignia and sleeve E to sailors with six months aboard. Valley Forge operates from San Diego with designation as a peacetime training instrument despite wartime lessons. Legal notices follow for real estate sales in Cleveland County North Carolina with trustees and sale dates in 1949.
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Great Lakes
Ill
L. C. Wright
USN
Kings Mountain
N.C
Valley Forge
Whic
Department of the Chip
Usod
Navy
San Diego
Calif
L. C. Hord, Jr
Edith Hord
Register of Deeds
Cleveland County
Kings Mountain Building and Loan Association
Shelby
North Carolina
Charlie Cash
Kings Mountain - York Highway
D.C. Mauney
Tol. C. Hord
Register of Deeds Office
B.S. Neill
R Davis
Luther Kibler
Home Building and Loan
Home Building and Loan Association
Caroline
Renna Burris
B. D. Batterree
Plank
Herndon
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National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
A. L. Bulwinkle
S. Mauney
Mesvit Library Board
Clyde R. Hoey
Senate Investigating Committee
Hoey
Atppears
Washington
Rath
Ben F. Beam
George Moss
Susan Moss
Logan Stowe
Lake Waccamaw
Hoh. Houston
Pageland
FE. Finger
W. S. Dilling
Cora’ Hunter
Kings ‘Mountain
Bonclark
Joe Lee Woodward
Luia Woodward
New York City
Martin’s Medicine
By Martin Bermion
McGills
Geston
Tom Fulton
Intel Statistica
Wright
McCarter's Cash Grocery
James S. Bailey
Optometrist
First National Bank Building
Iasie
Greyhound
U.S. A
Canada
Mexico
Abdullah Loren
Erro
Sunrise Dairy
Gastonia, N.C
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