Prizes for Children of the Confederacy Contest
A list of North Carolina and general prizes for Children of the Confederacy chapters. Awards include medals, cash for essays on topics such as The Battles Around Richmond and Old Plantation Days, and a Hillman station style roster effort. Submissions due by September 8 to Mrs Rothrock Mount Airy NC with details and envelopes.
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North Carolina
P. S. Rothrock
Mount Airy
N. C
Richmond
R. B. Broyles
Fifth Court
South
Birmingham
Ala
Rothrock Churchhill Loving
Robert FE. Lee
Virginia
Jefferson Davis
Sidney Lanier
Hall of Fame
Fireproof Construction Cuts City Fire Losses
An editorial notes that fires destroy property worth half a billion dollars annually and burn $1,000 per minute. It urges fireproof design with concrete first floors and basement walls, stating an all concrete home greatly reduces fire risk and can be built with only slight added cost. It explains the term Deadhead as a pass holder derives from caput mortuum.
Peppery tonic claims boost energy for women
An advertisement touts a tonic that hundreds of women say steadies nerves improves eating, sleep, and mood. It promises relief from periodic headaches and backaches and encourages readers to ask their druggist for a bottle today.
Local Units Face Loss of Ninth Month School Funding
A North Carolina study shows at least 15 local units planned a nine month term this year but may be barred from operating the ninth month next year if in default on interest or principal. The April 1 1933 default list includes Beaufort Cherokee and Craven counties and towns such as Murphy Elizabeth City Lexington High Point Sanford Salisbury Elkin Hendersonville and East Spencer with Raleigh cited as previously in default but claiming obligations met.
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Raleigh
Local Government Commission
Beaufort County
Cherokee County
Murphy
Cherokee
Pasquotank County
Elizabeth City
Craven County
Lexington
High Point
Iredell County
Sanford
Salisbury
Elkin
Polk County
Wilson County
Henderson County
Hendersonville
East Spencer
Lindberghs Leave Deserted Hopewell Home
Col Charles A Lindbergh and his wife abandon the house in the Sourland Mountains where their first son was kidnapped and later found dead. A steady stream of threatening mail arrives daily, reviewed by a New Jersey state police detail, as authorities pursue the kidnappers with federal cooperation.
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Charles A. Lindbergh
Sourland
Hopewell
N. J
Lucky Lindy
Lindberghs
New Jersey
Virginia
John Morrow
June Farm Calendar Tips for Crop and Livestock Care
County Agent J. W. Crawford outlines June tasks for farms including sowing feed and hay crops, planting soybeans and cowpeas, cultivating gardens, spraying fruit trees with Bordeaux mixture, and maintaining hogs, cattle, poultry, and bees. Emphasizes weed control, soil improvement, proper irrigation, and timely harvest strategies.
Advertising Illusion and Truth in Marketing
Don Knowlton of Cleveland argues in the Atlantic Monthly that absolute truth in advertising would displease readers who seek illusion. He cites common desires and dreams as the real drivers behind ads, suggesting truthful copy would undermine consumer hope. American Press notes his claim that illusions sustain desire and market fantasies.
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Don Knowlton
Atlantic Monthly
Mr. Knowlton
Cleveland
Minnie Schultz
Luella Witherspoon
Sale of Land in Dobson North Carolina Mortgage Proceeding
Notice of sale under a 1925 mortgage L F Hudson and Julia Ann Hudson defaulted. The Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank as Mortgagee will auction at the Dobson courthouse on June 4 1933 at noon for cash the parcel of 146 acres more or less in Elkin township Surry County adjoining Jim Hudson Shade Gwyn Jackson Collins Cooper Ring with detailed metes and bounds.
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L. F. Hudson
Julia Ann Hudson
Register of Deeds
Surry County
North Carolina
Dobson
N. C
Elkin Township
Jim Hudson
Shade Gwyn
Jackson
Collins
Cooper
Ring
Dobson Road
Cooper's Corner
Fannie Guyer
Fanny Guyer
Hudson
Cooper's
Greensboro Joint Stock Land Bank
War Declared On Underground Fires In West Mines
The Emergency Conservation Corps declares war on subterranean coal fires in the West. Robert Fechner said President Roosevelt approved a plan to establish a 200 man camp in the Little Thunder Basin of Wyoming to battle fires.
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Washington
Emergency Conservation Corps
West
Robert Fechner
Roosevelt
Little Thunder
Wyming
Purification to Restore Health With Calotabs
Physicians endorse purification as a foundation of health. Take Calotabs once or twice weekly for several weeks to purify the blood by stimulating the liver kidneys stomach and bowels. Available in 10 and 35 cent packages. All dealers.
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Carters
Carter
C.M. Co
Nature
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Confederacy
Lydia E. Pinkham
Commission
Lindberghs Desert Home
J. W. Crawford
Sudan
Mer
Animal Husbandry
Colorado
Carbon Mountain
Abe
Comfort Home
S. Ar
Kleen Kopy
Rawley & Apperson
North Main St
Winston-Salem
J. T. Johnson
the Mountain News
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