National and State Briefs From Across the Nation
A batch of condensed state and national news items covers injunctions against a Titusville oil well threat, Niagara Falls ice problems, North Pole search plans, university graduations, a steam trawler leaving Charleston, communist-suspect arrests in Tokyo, Australian ceremonies, Prohibition-era religion notes, prison holdouts and other regional notices from Meadville to Wilmington.
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Meadville
J ‘Titusville
C. Clarke Kent
George W. Sterlins
Tusvile
Ade
Laughing Around the World and Heraldry Oddities
A medical man seeks his family coat of arms and hires an heraldry expert. The researcher presents a coat of arms featuring two battle axes and a scroll. The tale notes curiosity over lineage and the quest to confirm noble insignia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Resner
Saree i
High School Students Elect Monitors
High School students elect monitors amid renewed public interest in the Spodumene deposit stretching from Archdale to Lincolnton. Prospectors note pale blue crystals signaling spodumene while miners and officials from the Smithson Institute and U.S. Bureau of Mines assess promising tests. Deposits sit along the tin belt with Kings Mountain near the richest section, suggesting future mining and industrial growth for the area.
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Archdale
Indian Creek
Neue
Lincolnton
United States
Dettms Farm
Cal
Smithson S Institute
Dakotas
California
Kings Mountain
Ground Hog Sees Shadow At Gobbler's Knob
Gobbler's Knob seer marked his 41st appearance and predicted six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow while students at Kings Mountain High School elected monitors for spring term. The list includes names across grades 8 to 10, with eligibility tied to perfect conduct, strong grades, and completion of prior semester studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ground-Hog
Gobbler
Knob
Punxsutawney
Mgh
Harold Jackson
Dilly - Phreneburg
James Alexander
Earl Clonfoger
Howard Edens
Corwin Furtick
Eugene Gault
Gartrel Harmon
Stokes Keller
Ernest Mayney
Miles Mayney
Manly
Morehead
Max’ Pearson
Herbert Pumphrey
Roy Smith
Raymond Spearman
Ben, Ware
Sara Herndon
Audrey Sudduth
Frances Crouse
Dorothy Greene
Mary Ruth Hicks
Sara Hord
Jennie Hallender
Jo. Keeter
Martha Kennedy
Louise Lowe
Fierine Mackey
Nell Mauney
Rachael Meclam
Juanita McSwain
Carol Morrow
Betty Lee Neisler
Nancy Nickels
Virginia Parker
Betty Patrick
Helen Ramey
Marjorie Rippy
Rachael Smith
Aileen “Welch
Dorie) White
Evelyn’ Wilson
Boy Scouts Week Plans In Kings Mountain
Five cents per copy extended mail delivery begins. Kings Mountain marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Boy Scout Organization. Week events include troop meetings at 7:00 p.m. Monday and a national Boy Scout program broadcast Tuesday. Thursday hosts the Community Father and Son Banquet at the High School Café with tickets reduced to five cents and an expected attendance of 280. Rev A G Sargeant presides over a church service and the district plans a city mobilization drill at the City Hall.
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Aubrey St
Kings Mountain
Boy Scout Organization
America
Man's, ‘Lab
AG Sargeant
A. G. Sargeant
Davidson
Jack Hulton
Ler
Bell
Parcel Post Service Expands in Kings Mountain
Parcel Post deliveries will begin February 15 in Kings Mountain with two daily home deliveries on extended city routes. Postmaster W. E. Blakely urges residents to install mail boxes as packages will be left only when boxes exist.
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Kings Mountain
W. E. Blakely
Clakely Aska
New de Very
Mauney “Mun Village
South Railroad Avenue
West Gold Street
New Stop Light Installed on East King Street
The third stop-go signal light on East King street was installed this week at the corner of Gaston and King streets. The other two lights in East King street at Piedmont Avenue and Cleveland Avenue have been in place for some time.
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East King Street
Gaston and
King Streets
Piedmont Avenue
Cleveland Avenue
Will Rogers Humorous Story Collector Looms Large
A garbled item references Will Rogers humorous prose and a listing of stores selling varied goods from a Voota-piek to a sewing machine. The fragment hints at a card or traceries in one meats, with a sense of family and community commerce, but lacks coherent detail.
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Cen
Week of Prayer and Dedication Service Leaders
Observe Week of Prayer January 20 to February 6 in the Presbyterian service. The speaker will be Mia H. L. Reaves of Grover, who has served as a missionary to China for eighteen years. The church urges prayers and gifts to support missionaries during times of danger and suffering.
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Mia. H. L. Reaves
Grover
China
Scout Council Meeting Attended In Shelby
A group of Kings Mountain men attended the Piedmont Council meeting in Shelby at the Hotel Charles on Tuesday evening. A county organization meeting preceded the council session, called by Aubrey Mauney, chairman of Scouting in Cleveland County and vice president of the council.
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Kings Mountain
Piedmont Council
Shelby
Hotel Charles
Aubrey” Mauney
Clevelan County
Kennedy urges new labor rules to calm chaotic shipping
James Preston notes Kennedy, retiring Maritime Commission chair, offers a reply in his annual reconstruction on shipyard issues. He argues that only a jurisdictional and bargaining restructuring can end strikes and labor turmoil facing private operators and crews amid ongoing industry stress.
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Joseph P. Kennedy
Maritime Commision
Atrife Ing
Condon Bask Bega
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