Mount Airy to lay sidewalks on Willow Street
Mount Airy Board of Commissioners on June 15 1925 adopts an ordinance to build five foot sidewalks on both sides of Willow Street from Elm to Rawley Avenue. Property owners are notified to complete front sidewalk work within days. if unpaid the town will lay and bill costs by front footage. Sidewalks to be concrete on rock or stone base with proper grading and curb placement.
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Mount Airy
Board of Commissioners
Willow Street
Elm Street
Rawley Avenue
Board of Commission
Airy
F. M. Poore, Sec. & Treas
Commissioner's Sale Of Mount Airy Property 1925
Court orders sale of real estate in Mount Airy in the Chas McKeiver et al case. Property described as a lot bounded by Penn's lot and Oak Street, about four tenth of an acre. Bidder pays half cash and rest in six months, sale subject to court confirmation. W F Carter Jr, Commissioner, dates June 17 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. McKeiver
Winston McKinney
Mount Airy
Penn
Executor notices claims against estate of M Venable
Qualified as executor of the will of the late M Venable I notify all having claims to present them within 12 months or be bar recovered All parties indebted to the estate should settle immediately This June 23 1925 Geo Badgett Exr Jesse M Venable decd BR O Woltz Attorney
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Venable
Geo. Badgett
Jesse M. Venable
O. Woltz
Water as Gypsy Cureall in Hygeia of Nabita Text
Konrad Bercevici, a magazine writer born a gypsy, discusses Gypsy beliefs in water as preventive and curative. He notes immersion at birth, continual water use for ailments, and waters as basis for happiness and love or hate potions. They favor water, fat lard, grease, and butter on wounds with sunlit prayers to Tehlama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Konrad Bercevici
Hygeia
Tehlama
Two Theories on the Origin of Gazette
Two theories explain the origin of gazette. One says Venice issued a manuscript paper during 1568 war and charged a reading fee, naming it gazetta then gazette. The other derives from gazza meaning magpie, suggesting a fitting newspaper name.
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Venice
Gazetta
Gazette
Pathfinder
Tracts and Tracks at the Gate of Walker Mountain
Uncle Bill Walker of Great Smoky and his brother Sammie, a local magistrate, are visited by Mormon missionaries who offer tract literature. Walker replies jokingly that the tracks may be left as long as they point toward his gate, reflecting small-town frontier humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Walker
Great Smoky
Sammie
the Smokies
New Faith
Scots and Anguses in a Culled Tale of Plows and Pride
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt presents a row between a Scot land estate owner and his new plowman. Tammas replies with patient wit about crooked drills, comparing to Angus and a globe-like wake, illustrating cultural humor through farm labor and ancestry.
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Scotland
Angus
Tammas
Philadelphia Ledger
Common misspellings confuse students and readers
A New York Times teacher cites spelling trends where gauge is often misspelled and stamped as such on products. Buoy weird and delible spark frequent errors, while indelible misleads by its differing form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Boy Writes Sentence With Amphibious Word Puzzle
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts young Waldo, age twelve, struggling to spell amphibious for a sentence. After several teacher prompts, he completes a lengthy, wriggling lesson and finally presents his work to be read aloud.
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Waldo
Abe
Philadelphia Ledger
Jews invest heavily in Palestine land and development
Jerusalem report details the Jewish National Fund's nearly 6 million dollar investment from 1920 to 1925 in land purchase and improvements in Palestine. Most funds supported agricultural and urban land, with 29 of 43 colonies built on land bought by the fund and over 60 percent of Palestine Foundation Fund spending in the Land funded by American Jews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Fund
Palestine
Herbert Samuel
Fund
Palestine Foundation Fund
Keren Hayesod
Jewish National Fund
Jezreel
Jewish National Fond
World Zioniat Organization
H Land
Trustee Sale Notice North Carolina Mount Airy
By deed of trust dated June 20 1924 J H Gwyn and Blanche Gwyn defaulted on a note. The land adjoins L P Wedell and others in Mount Airy and will be sold at public auction in front of the Bank of Mount Airy N C to the highest bidder. The sale is conducted to satisfy the indebtedness secured by the trust instrument. The notice also references Early Dobson Eva Dobson and Edw M Linville as trustees and parties to a separate deed of trust recorded in book 72 page 120 in Surry County Register of Deeds.
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North Carolina
Surry County
J. H. Gwyn
Blanche H. Gwyn
RE. C. Bivens
Early Dobson
Eva Dobson
Bank of Mount Airy
Mount Airy N. C
Boundary description to satisfy note of twelve hundred twenty six dollars
Legal notice describes property lines from Fancy Gap Road to an oak and Everett’s corner to Paney Gap. The line runs 68 feet to an iron stake and 174 feet to an oak, then 115 and 98 feet to the road. It secures a note of 1226.68 with interest to be added, by E. Bivens, Trustee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fancy Gap Road
Everett’s Corner
Gap Road
Paney Gap
E. ©. Bivens
Land sale description tied to Bud Hilton lands trustee report
Edw M Linville trustee records a sale description with lot lines and road boundaries between lots 4 and 5 near Ward's Gap Road. The document notes an indebtedness of 250 dollars plus interest and costs, dated June 20 1926.
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Ida Dobson
Bud Hilton
Rr B. McCargo
Ward's Gap Lane
Warde Gap Road
M. Linville
Church Services and Sermon Schedule
The church holds Sunday services at 10.00 a.m. Holy communion and sermon occur on the first Sunday at 11.00 a.m. Sermons by the pastor are on the third and sixth Sunday at 11.00 a.m. Additional sermons on the second and fourth Sundays at 7.30 p.m.
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Illinois
Walter W. Macdonald
Pairview Ave
Edwardsville
Lil
Walker
Church of the Latter-Day Saints
Everybody's Magazine
Jerusalem
The
Mount Air
L. P. Wedell
Wealey Hil
Trinity Episcopal Church Services
Arthur H. Marshall
Cecil B. DeMille
Janie MacPherson
New
York
Leatrice Joy
Agnes Ayres
Nita Naldi
Estelle Taylor
Julia Faye
Theodore Roberts
Richard Dix
Rod la Rocque
Charles Ogle
Charles de Roche
Children of Israel
Egypt
Mount Airy, N. C
Hugo Riesenfeld
Rivoli Theatre
New York City
Ethel Lineback
Pharoah’s
Red Sea
Moses
Mt. Sinai
South
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