Culpepper Evangelist Opens City Revival in Mount Airy
The Culpepper revival begins in Lovill warehouse with Dr. Culpepper delivering a fiery message. He warns against modern vices and urges strong parental guidance while detailing four team members and a music program for the community event.
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Culpepper
Lovill Warehouse
Dr. Culpepper
Mount Airy
William Sisserson
Ross Culpepper
John A. Robinson
Sisserson
Methodist Church
Robinson
Tobacco Crop Best For Several Years
Tobacco crops in the Greenville area show improved color weight and quality, with early curings near the top of plants rivaling heavy tobaccos of darker belts. Many growers expect to house their entire crop within ten days and officials predict yields will exceed many previous seasons.
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Greenville
Automobile Price Slashing Starts Amid Major Manufacturer Cuts
New York on August 1 reports extensive automobile price cuts by leading manufacturers this week. Wall Street views the reductions as a forerunner of intense fall competition, with some cuts nearing one third of prior values. Financial statisticians monitor sales and earnings as smaller firms risk disappearing or being absorbed.
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New York
Wall Street
State Keeps Up Rail Road Fight
Governor McLean approved plans by Attorney General Brummitt and A L Brooks to expand state participation in legal actions over the Atlantic and Yadkin railroad now in receivership. They aim to prevent Southern from regaining possession at sale and to protect stockholders and the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley connection.
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Raleigh
McLean
Brummitt
A. L. Brooks
Greensboro
Atlantic and Yadkin Railroad
Wilmington
Mount Airy
Sanford
Atlantic
Yadkin
Atlantic Coast Line
A. and Y
Southern
Brooks
Cape Fear
Yadkin Valley
Bryan Family Separates as Widow Heads to Florida
Mrs. William J. Bryan leaves Washington for Cocoanut Grove, Florida, to reside with her son William J. Bryan Jr. Other Bryan relatives plan travels. a grave marker debate ensues with opinions on mausoleum or plain tombstone amid family discussions.
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Washington
William J. Bryan
Cocoanut Grove
Fla
William J. Bryan Jr
Grace Hargraves
Florida
Pacific Coast
Reginald Owen
Pennsylvania
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
Masonic Grand Lodge Meets in North Wilkesboro Aug 24
The mid-summer session of the Masonic Grand Lodge of North Carolina will convene in North Wilkesboro on August 24 for four days. Hundreds of grand officers and delegates from lodges across the state will attend as locals prepare to host and entertain in the Blue Ridge City.
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Masonic Grand Lodge
North Wilkesboro
Masonic Grand Lodge of
North Carolina
Blue Ridge
Grand Lodge
Madame Yajima dies as Mrs Franks speaks in Japan
Mrs Frank attended a women workers meeting in Matsuyama Ehime Prefecture and planned to reference Madame Yajima the renowned Japanese welfare worker. Yajima died the day of the speech aged ninety three. She founded a Tokyo school led for forty years and led the Women's Reform Society since 1885. She urged prohibition gender equality and practical training for suffrage. The Emperor awarded her the Fifth Court Rank posthumously. The author recalls earthquake events in Japan and family notes from Gotemba near Mount Fuji. June 19 1925 Uwajima Japan J W Frank.
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Mrs. Frank
Matsuyama
Ehime Prefecture
Madame Yajima
Frances Willard
Japan
Tokyo
Women's Reform Society
America
Washington
Harding
Grady
Kobe
China
Gotemba
Mount Fuji
Uwajima
J. W. Frank
Snow damages crops in northern Wisconsin near Amberg
Snow fell for five minutes over several square miles near Amberg Wisconsin, about 46 miles northwest of Marinette. The freak storm was followed by hail that leveled grain and stripped green corn to the stalks.
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Marinette
Wis
Amberg
Hog Island Shipyard faces sale after $63 million toil
New York August 1 the Hog Island yard once the giants of wartime shipbuilding may fetch little from the government sale. Officials expect value not much above a few million with its 50 shipways 7 piers 946 acres and 80 000 workers features that built 122 carriers before government takeover in 1922.
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New York
Hog Island
United States Shipping Board
Sam
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Delaware River
Philadelphia
United States
Legion of Steel
American International Shipbuilding Corporation
Hog Toland
Quistconk
Woodrow Wilson
President Wilson
King Albert
Belgium
Ellsworth Plans Another North Pole Dash by Airship
New York August 1. Lincoln Ellsworth says he will try again to reach the North Pole, this time in an airship with Amundsen as leader if possible. The explorer returns from Norway buoyant and hints at October talks in New York with Amundsen to map a second polar attempt.
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New York
North Pole
Lincoln Ellsworth
Ellsworth
Roald Amundsen
Pole
Norway
Northland
Amundsen
Jumps From Burning Car Struck By Car Near Winston-Salem
Oscar Gamble of 711 Fifteenth Street Winston-Salem was badly injured when after his car caught fire he leaped clear and was struck by a passing automobile driven by Charles Seavers of Winston-Salem five miles from High Point on the Winston-Salem road. He suffered a broken arm and head injuries and was taken to a local hospital.
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High Point
Oscar Gamble
Fifteenth Street
Winston- Salem
Winston-Salem
Gamble
Charles Seavers
Tiny twins in Norfolk with fragile early life
In Norwood on July 28, a twin died after six weeks of care. The infants, born to Mr and Mrs Walter Crowell Thompson, weighed about 1% and 1% pounds. One twin survived briefly under incubator-like conditions with nursing support, but little hope remains for the other.
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Norwood
Walter Crowell Thompson
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Culpepper Party
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Lovill Ware
H. K. Boyer
Central Methodist Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Burke Culpepper
Bryan
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