Historical Pageant to Highlight North Carolina Fair
The Carolina-Virginia Fair hires John B Rogers Producing Co to stage a four night historical pageant with 400 county participants. The fair, Sept 13 to 16, offers $4,400 in premiums plus a $2,000 purse for daily races and features the Nat Reese Shows with aerial acts, high diving, and a frog act. County agents receive $50 for exhibits. judges prize corn, live-at-home displays, poultry, and needlework. Local officials emphasize community cooperation to create an educational, entertaining county-wide event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edw. M. Linville
Bank of Mount Airy
State Department of Agriculture
Carolina-Virginia
Linville
Nat Reese
Galore Bros
J. Luther Wood
Carroll
Patrick Counties
Sarry
Fair
J. B. Sparger
J. H. Hall
Walter Banner
J. D. McCollum
Hill Flour Mills
Greensboro
Dan Valley Mills
Danville
J. R. Smith
E. S. Henken
John B Rogers Producing Co
Fostoria
Ohio
Evolution trial defense plan outlined by Johns Hopkins scientists
A defense strategy for Professor John T. Scopes is sketched by Johns Hopkins experts in Baltimore. The plan argues anti evolution laws threaten medical education and cites man and apes as cousins while detailing evidence of evolution and the appendix as relic of ancient digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galaxy of Lights
Baltimore
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Johns Hopkins University
J. W. Gaines
Galaxy of Legal Rights
Scopes
Gaines
Adolph Schultz
Schultz
Prof
Conference of Defense Counsel
Notices Mailed for Auto License Plates in North Carolina
Raleigh reports that 85000 letters were sent from the post office informing auto owners they must obtain new license plates by July. The State Revenue Department stamped letters. clerks labored to cancel marks and sort a disorganized, massive mail pile across a busy day.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
State Department of Revenues
State Department of Revenue
State Departments
Bootlegged Aliens Flood U S As Immigration Window Narrows
Ellis Island officials report 330 000+ aliens entered the United States in the first nine months of selective immigration law operation, with 104 000 admitted under quotas. Exemptions and smuggling push total, as ships Conte Rosso and Aquitania bring about 1 000 aboard and 500 more detained for review.
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New York
Ellis Island
Columbus
Lloyd
Tall Men in Society For Mutual Protection
Marshfield Oregon reports twenty eight six footers forming the Long Fellow Club No 1 to aid tall men. They seek longer hotel beds Pullman berths bathtubs and theatre seats plus wider street awnings and broader car seating to improve living conditions and promote friendship among members.
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Marshfield
Ore
Loeb not sent to insane asylum despite illness report
Joliet June 6 Richard Loeb slayer of Bobby Franks will not be sent to an insane asylum despite his mental condition. Warden Whitman said physicians report Loeb remains unbalanced though not shamming after a measles illness and a delirious collapse. He will stay at the prison hospital for treatment. The new Statesville hospital is prepared for insane patients.
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Statesville
Loeb
Whitman
Nathan Leopold
Bobby Franks
New Prison
Allies Demand Major German Disarmament Reforms
London reports Allied note to Berlin outlines stringent demands to meet Versailles disarmament terms. Calls for Reichswehr overhaul reducing forces to 100000, abolition of security police, and dismantling of Krupp and other war materiel plants. Warns failure would allow reconstitution of a nation in arms.
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London
Germany
Luther
Berlin
Baron D‘abernon
Council of Ambassadors
Cologne
Allied Control Commission
Reichswehr
Krupps
Control Commission
One Car For Every Seven Persons In U S A
Washington June 7 The Chamber of Commerce reports one automobile for every seven people in the United States with total motor ownership at 17 500 000 passenger cars and trucks The report highlights the car as a national necessity and notes banks and insurers show rising assets and savings alongside expanding vehicle use in 1924 there were 4 200 000 automobiles on 6 500 000 farms plus 370 000 motor trucks
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Washington
United States
Chamber of Commerce of the
Chamber of Commerce
America
Fearful Dwellers Brave Transportation and Dentists
A brief note reports varying fears among people including cars planes and dental visits. Some individuals avoid travel or dental appointments while others face their anxieties with differing levels of resolve and coping.
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Linville— Fair
W. G. Sydnor
J. F. Prather
W. W. Carter
Sec
W. J. Byerly
T. G. Fawcett
J. F. Yakley
J. D. Saggent
G. C. Levill
W. A. Hilton
Meadows of Dan
John H. Gwyn
J. Airy
N.C
Gulley
Tyler
Rocky Mount
W. C. Gulley
R. V. Tyler
Rocky Mount Road
N. A. Sinclair
Edgecombe
Tarboro
Joe Armstrong
Sinclair
U. S
Richard Loeb
Philadelphia
Chicago
Rocky Mountains
Quaker City
Atlantic
Upper Lake
Atlantic Seaboard
Iowa
Dakotas
Laramie
Wyoming
Medicine Bow Peak
H. C. Hilton
Medicine Bow Forest
Denver
Denver and Salt Lake
Continental Divide
Corona
Mercury
Dallas
Texas
Middle Western
Chicago Weather Bureau
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Ocean
U.S. A
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