Local Auction and Bargains At Mt. Airy Listings
Multiple ads announce an auction Saturday at 2 PM near the marble yard with items like hay rake grindstone wagons tools and livestock. Other notices promote transportation rates to Springs White Plains and Brewer’s Springs, millinery sales, building materials, cement, farm produce, clothing and household goods, plus services from S A Hennis Co Fulton's old factory Mt. Airy N C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marble Yard
A. Hennis & Co
Fulton's
Mt. Airy
N.C
New York Woman Inherits a Fortune Despite Misgivings
Miss Ada Kitching of New York is ordered to accept a $104 560 legacy from Frank Ripley who died in Brooklyn last November. She initially refused a $40 000 share saying the money was tainted but the appraisers found she would receive virtually the entire estate, with $75 000 claims for hospitals denied.
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Missadios
Kitching
New York
Miss Kitching
Frank F. Ripley
Brooklyn
Wiele
Record of Rock Island Engineer Jatwen H H Sheehan Retires
Tonk Island Florida native Jatwen H H Sheehan retires after half a century with the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad. He never injured a passenger or employee and has never received a scratch in an accident. Beginning as a brakeman at 16 in Chicago he rose to foreman. Pension set at 88.15 dollars per month.
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Rock Island
Jatwen HH. Sheehan
Tonk Island
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacife
Ana
Sheehan
Chicago
GS. Tis
Tax on moral advertisements in France boosted revenue
The London Chronicle notes France imposed inland revenue stamps on all advertising hoardings with penalties for multiple notices. The tax varied by hoarding size, starting at £0.01 per unit and rising to £0.16 for larger displays. The system aimed to curb visual pollution and support public aesthetics.
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McKennaie
France
Inland Revenue
London Chronicle
Wilson's vision of a universal peace and world federation
The piece extols President Wilson as a leading peace propagandist whose tentative plan could hasten the war's end. It outlines a world system with global diplomacy, a world tribunal, free seas, and nations governed by elected rulers, aiming to prevent future wars and keep the United States out of subsequent conflicts.
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Wilson
Charlotte
Europe
Germany
Great Britain
England
United States
Universal Peace Association
Destiny
Government Will Not Discuss Immediate A E F Withdrawal
Washington May 27 The administration remains firm against any proposal to withdraw the American expeditionary force in Mexico. Officials say the withdrawal question will not be on the agenda at the upcoming conferences between General Pershing and General Gavira Carranza's Chihuahua commander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Worhington
Mexico
Parshing
Gavira Carranza
Chihuahua
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and Jack Clifford wed in Maryland
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, recently divorced from Harry K. Thaw, and her dancing partner Jack Clifford returned to New York after a brief Baltimore trip and announced they had married in Maryland.
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New York
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Harry K. Thaw
Jack Clifford
Baltimore
Maryland
Scene of Droppel’s Graceful Demeanor Impresses Audience
An anecdote recalls how old Mr. Droppel responded to a request for his daughter's hand with exceptional poise. The speaker notes his performance rivaled stage actors in expressing sorrow.
Country planning needs state level push not local effort
A Washington conference on rural planning urges applying city planning care to farms, roads, homes, schools, and churches. Professor Frank A. Waugh argues for focused land use, ventilation, lighting, and social spaces, with state supervision to marshal resources for widespread country development.
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Times of Washington
American Civic Association
Washington
Providence
Frank A. Waugh
John Jones
Tom Smith
Parmer Jones
Parmer Smith
Smith
Notable local fruit grower and community leader Sparger
Mr J B Sparger is a prominent citizen in fruit growing, managing Sparger Orchards and Slate Mountain Orchard Co. He directed major local improvements including anti illegal liquor efforts and road development, served as Superintendent of Public Instruction and school principal, and is identified as a Methodist Republican known for wide civic influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Sparger
Sparger
Slate Mountain Orchard Co
S«Rt
Attempts To Board Train Ends In Amputations
Sanford May 28 Robert L Black of Cameron attempted to board a moving Sea board freight train yesterday evening. Both feet were ground off under the wheels of a box car and he was taken to the hospital. Doctors say both legs will have to be amputated. He was son of the late Neil Black.
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Sanford
Robert L. Black
Cameron
Seaboard Air Line
Monroe
Black
Neil Black
Life and its charm seen in Androses and June sunset
The lines reflect a speaker considering life’s worth after aging, contrasting worldly experience with the enduring beauty of love, roses, June sunsets, and the sea. The speaker asserts life’s glory comes from these living charms, even as time moves on.
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George Barlow
Mount Airy lot to be sold by order of Surry County Court
In Surry County North Carolina on June 30 1916 at 1 pm in front of the First National Bank T B McCargo Jr and E C Bivens commissioners will sell for cash the East side Price Street lot of G O Graves corner to Overby and Chapel Lot lines described as starting at Graves corner and running north 9 degrees east 106 feet to its corner with Graves line the sale notice dated May 25 1916.
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North Carolina
Surry County
Superior Court of
First National Bank
Mount Airy
Price Street
G. O. Graves
Graves
Chapel Lot
T. B. McCargo, Jr
E. C. Bivens
Also Mentioned on This Page
Business Builders
S. A. Hennis
White Plains
Brewer’s Springs
J. L. Harrison
F. L. Smith Hardware Co
Deans
S.A. Hennis & Co
Mt. Airy N.C
Lehigh Valley
Panama Canal
Kodak
Barber's
Winston-Salem
Sherwin-Williames Paints
Lilly of the Valley
Belton’s
Young Fresh
Relton's
Lilley of the Valley
Belton's
Belton
The
West Hill Company
Parcel Post
Express
Granite City Mills
E. M. Linville
Bennett College
Roxie Gregory
Needmore St
Charlotte Observer
U. 5S
Edward M. Linville
McCargo Building
Mount Airy, N. C
Cortrig Ars
W. E. Merritt CO
Purina
Purina Mils
St. Los
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