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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1925
Page
7
An old advertisement touts over 40 years of success for Halls Catarrh Medicine. It promotes a local ointment for fast relief and an internal remedy that works through the blood to reduce inflammation of mucous linings. Sold by druggists nationwide, including Toledo, Ohio.
Mount Airy July 28 Miss Lettie Gwyn returns from Greensboro where she attended summer school at NC College. Miss Willie Valentine to visit Clemmons with friends. Mr and Mrs James Walker and family of Faison visiting relatives here. Born to Mr and Mrs Phil Comba a son on July 27. Miss Annie Baughan visiting Elkin. They have gone to Pulaski Virginia for indefinite stay. Flat Rock Baptist Earnest Workers meet Friday at Mrs Herbert Burton home. Flat Rock Presbyterian joint meeting Thursday at Miss Myrtle Valentine’s home.
Thomasville reports a wide drought with almost no rain since planting. Corn on good land reaches only two to three feet, potatoes yield little or none, gardens fail, and many farmers seek other work as crops die. Tobacco leaves measure six inches but are poor.
Rev. Arthur H. Marshall ministers at Trinity Episcopal Church. Church school held each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Holy communion and sermon on the first Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Sermon by pastor on the third and fifth Sundays at 11:00 a.m. Sermon by pastor on the second and fourth Sundays at 7:30 p.m. TM in
Dr. C. D. Perrine of the Argentine National Observatory urged at the Pan American scientific congress for ultra high speed photographic plates to advance astronomy. He said better plates would make existing telescopes as capable as larger, more costly instruments by increasing light gathering and reducing noise in precise negatives. He backed pedal research to model these photographic super plates.
Amo Cady of Kolivar Missouri once played six instruments at once while blind. Twenty two years of blindness left him with acute tactile sensitivity that allowed a harmonica banjo bass drum cymbal triangle and Swiss bells to be played by various body parts. After regaining sight he can play only one instrument because touch sensitivity diminished and concentration changed.
While serving two years in Atlanta a prisoner invented a portable machine for making ice. Another convict created a shoe making tool and later joined a shoe firm earning via a large salary. A banker built an investment business earning substantial daily returns from prison. A murder convict confined in an asylum managed $20000 to grow toward $250000.
A notice of sale by a court commissioner under a 1925 order lists two parcels in Mount Airy Township Surry County N C formerly owned by James Wilson. The second tract has an upset bid of 1594 75 with bids due after 25 percent cash and the balance in 6 12 and 24 months. Bank of Mount Airy acts as commissioner for F M Poore et al v Surry County Loan and Trust Co guardian of Myrtle Poore.
The document lists cases set for trial at the Calends Yor Special Term in Surry County Superior Court. It names numerous parties and opposing sides across civil actions including banks, loans, auto firms, estates, and private individuals, reflecting a broad docket with varied claim types.
The account describes the plague’s spread from a Genoese fort in the Crimea to Constantinople Genoa and the Mediterranean coast. It notes England's first death in Dorset in August 1348 London by November and widespread devastation including Scotland and Norwich with labor and harvest collapse. National Geographic Magazine.
A nostalgic look at newsroom life and cub reporters, noting their adventures both humorous and perilous. The piece recalls the familiar tale of a timid cub interviewing a volatile capitalist whose daughter left with the chauffeur, ending with the reporter’s comical misstep and fall.
The Kansas City Times notes the Sacred Steps in the St John Lateran piazza in Rome. The 28 white-veined marble steps, believed to have belonged to Pilate’s house, are said to have been sanctified by Christ’s feet as he passed to judgment. Penitents may ascend on their knees, and boards cover them to protect the steps from heavy use. While ascending, Martin Luther reportedly heard the phrase The just shall live by faith, prompting his later actions.
Popular Science Monthly notes a 1774 London book containing Franklin’s kite method. The cited letter describes using a pointed wire atop a kite to draw electricity from thunderclouds and explains how the kite and twine become electrified as electric fire is drawn and loose fibers stand out.
The term Sit on the Woolsack means being lord chancellor of England. The lord chancellor sits on a wool sack in the house of lords. A wool export prohibition act under Queen Elizabeth kept wool wealth in mind, with sacks placed in the chamber for judges.
The bureau of biological survey states there is no hard and fast rule for teaching a parrot to talk. Progress depends on patience and consistent, simple phrases repeated daily with gradual introduction of more phrases.
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