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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
12
The Times Society Editor invites readers to send social notes about visiting friends traveling or returning home. Include details and signature with address or provide a telephone contact. Items accepted weekdays from 8 30 to 12 00 and 2 30 to 5 00 with phone number 136.
A Coppard poem opens with bright morning imagery and references to a garden and nature. The page also lists a Book Club meeting at Mrs. H. S. Angle on Holston Heights and a Union Bible Study Class led by Mrs. J. M. Morton on Wanda street. Indian Springs reports a Walnut Grove singing trip with a luncheon in the grove and an entourage including the Fleenors and Ketron among others.
Mr D A Pyle toured Jonesboro yesterday on a business visit, meeting local officials and potential partners to discuss opportunities. The trip highlighted cross town commercial ties and ongoing local economic outreach.
Miss Verna Pardue visits in the city while Mrs. L. W. Collins recovers from a minor operation at home. Several residents make day trips to Bluefield West Virginia and Knoxville while others plan longer journeys to Asheville Savannah New York and Atlantic City. A Tipton building business school opens October 7 offering day and night shorthand bookkeeping typing civil service and arithmetic courses.
The Times reports a flood of applications for a one year subscription plus 75 cents to obtain a $1000 accident policy. Offered through the North American Accident Insurance Company of Chicago, these policies are available to subscribers and their families ages sixteen to seventy.
News notes from movieland highlight Joyce Compton's rising star status and hobby of carpentry. Irene Rich travels Europe with twelve trunks while Alec Francis sports a high hat Pekinese. Reports mention hatmaking by Louise Fazenda, dieting by Dorothy Sebastian, and star injuries prompting higher insurance rates.
A newspaper notice explains that any family member can obtain an accident policy by paying 75 cents with a subscription from another family member. Policies last 12 months, renewals raise rates by 10 percent annually for five years, and a $1000 face value policy is offered for $4.75 by mail or $6.75 by city carrier.
The regular weekly band concert will be held at the Community Y tonight at eight oclock. W H Scott, director, announced progress after two weeks of new leadership. The program features marches overtures fox trots waltzes and selections culminating with The Star Spangled Banner.
Ireland owns more than 50 000 cottages built by local authorities for laborers with rents of 21 cents weekly in Cork. Initiated by a 1883 British bill championed by T. P. O Connor the program has expanded. now Cork cottages house milk vendors instead of poor agricultural workers, drawing complaint at the Cork county board of health meeting.
Indemnities in varying amounts are provided for loss of life, limb, sight, or time by accidental means. Both men and women are eligible. No medical examination or red tape is required for issuance. More details are explained elsewhere in this issue.
A brief item lists railway workers masons carpenters rate collectors and school teachers among local trades and public employees cited in community notices.
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