Inside the White House poker game and Forbes Harding tale
The New York World prints Charles R Forbes story claiming a White House poker party with President Harding and figures like Will Hays Albert Lasker and Ned McLean. Forbes says $75,000 in bills lay on a Justice Department desk and describes Harding as loyal though misled by faithful friends. He also notes Jess Smith’s office had $75,000 in thousand-dollar bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
New York World Today
Ohio “Gang
Harding
Charles R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Forbes
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Washington
White House
Department of Justice
Sawyer
Will Hays
Albert Lasker
Shipping Board
Harry Daugherty
Ned McLean
Albert
Warren G. Harding
Alaska
Jess Smith
Jess
Daugherty
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure in Surry County North Carolina
The trustee Woltz under a deed of trust dated June 2 1927 by E C Westmoreland and Viola Westmoreland secures a 2000 dollar obligation for A Hennis. Foreclosure sale to the highest bidder at First National Bank Mount Airy NC on December 17 1927 at 1 PM. Property begins at a pipe on State Highway 66 near Allied old mill road and traces along Adams line to a highway corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Surry County
E. C. Westmoreland
Viola Westmoreland
A. Hennis
the Register of Deeds
First National Bank
Mount Airy
Old Mill Road
A. F
H. P. Stewart
Allen Adams Cold Estate
Adams
Namwe Ware
Woltz
North Carolina Forms Cancer Control Drive With Dr Bass
Raleigh reports North Carolina joins others in fighting cancer death toll. Dr H H Bass of Durham named state director for the American Society for the Control of Cancer. Cancer deaths nearly doubled in ten years from 821 in 1914 to 1367 in 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
H. H. Bass
Durham
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Bass
State Medical Society
State Board of Health
Governor Paroles 14 Year Old Killer
Alfred Denton, 14, who killed C O Tant in Nash County, is paroled by Governor McLean before serving a six year prison term. He will be sent to East Carolina Training School but will begin the sentence at the penitentiary Monday to satisfy the court. Commissioner Bridges will review records of under 16 inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Alfred Denton
C. O. Tant
Nash County
W. M. Bond
Nash County Superior Court
McLean
Denton
Edwin Bridges
Young Denton
East Carolina
Rocky Mount
Bridges
Notice to creditors in the Ellen Creed estate
Walter H. Marion executor of Ellen Creed's estate in Surry County North Carolina notifies all claimants to present claims by November 20 1928 at H H Llewellyns Mount Airy office and all debtors to pay by November 16 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Creed
Surry County
North Carolina
H. H. Llewellyn
Mount Airy
Payne Hb
Public Auction to Sell Land Under Deed of Trust
W L Stanley as trustee will sell at public auction for cash at the courthouse door in Dobson on December 10 1927 at 1 PM the land described as beginning at a black oak Alberty corner running 8 to branch then along Burcher and Corder lines to Pilson line and back to the beginning containing about 25 acres. A D Folger attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. N. Holyfield
Register
Dobson
W. L. Alberty
John Butcher
A. J. Corder
Corder
J. R. Pilson
W. L. Stanley
A. D. Folger
Also Mentioned on This Page
Netherlands
Walter H. Marion
Granite City Marble Works
M. B. Phillips
Prop
West Cross Roads
N. C
Goodyear Tires
Goodyear
Main Street
Mount Airy, N. C
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