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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1933
Page
6
The guide lists mixtures for tomato worms cucumber and melon worms cabbage worms and disease controls for cantaloupes and potatoes. It explains Paris Green calcium arsenate copper sulphate and Bordeaux mixture preparations with application timing and mixing instructions.
Washington news reports the house ending a weeks long deadlock by approving an amendment to exempt municipally owned electric plants from a 3 percent power tax and transferring the tax from consumer to producer. The measure extends the gasoline tax for a year and may allow cuts in first class postage if revenues hold. Roosevelt’s signature expected after senate approval.
Chicago June 11 ten people including pilot Carl Vickery 36 and co pilot Harry Jacobs 33 plus eight passengers visitors at the world’s fair were killed when the plane crashed in high wind near Glenview. Witnesses said a wing crumpled and the ship dived 600 feet into a freshly plowed field. Bodies burned beyond recognition. no passenger list was kept.
A Texas reader from Longview endorses Thedford's Black-Draught as effective for sick headache linked to constipation. The advertisement claims the product is a mildly vegetable laxative available in 50 and 60 cent bottles and praises its relief and pleasant syrup form.
The marker at the old mill near Ducktown honors Maggie Harris and George W. Johnson who wooed and married there in the eighteenth century. Johnson, a hunter of gold, wrote a poem about Maggie that became the song When You and I Were Young Maggie. The mill, once ground meal for Indians and pioneers, still stands as Tennessee historians recount the romance and the later musical setting by J A Butterfield.
Congress approves the Glass-Steagall bill without a dissenting vote and sends it to the White House. The measure creates deposit insurance up to 2500 dollars starting January 1 with broader coverage for reserve system members from July 1, 1934, and sets rules on bank affiliations, interest on deposits, and federal reserve credit use.
Winston-Salem officers report the burial of Benjamin Deardorf known as Uncle Ben. The German craftsman died January 15, 1915, at the Warren boarding house and his body lay embalmed at Vogler's Funeral Home for eighteen years viewed by thousands before interment in Forsyth Memorial Park Cemetery.
A devotional note notes that if you are in the place God desires he will put a song in your heart. It cites Paul and Silas singing in prison at Philippi as an example of faith.
An article notes the Netherlands has about 570 people per square mile on average, highlighting high population concentration and density in the country.
Reno report states Elliott Roosevelt and his wife seek a Nevada divorce on incompatibility after months of separation. The couple, parents of an eight month old son William Donner Roosevelt, married January 16, 1932. Mrs Roosevelt traveled to Nevada with President Roosevelt's hopes of an amicable settlement.
A pumpkin sized tube at Hoover dam will X ray 75 miles of steel welds on the penstocks. The 300000 volt device, housed in a movable X ray head, will inspect welds up to three inches thick as 159000 exposures and 24 million square inches of film are planned.
By authority of a deed of trust to Chimel Trustee on May 25 1931 W R Patterson and Ethel Patterson defaulted. The trustee C C Kimel will sell at public auction at the courthouse door in Dobson Surry County to satisfy the note. The sale includes two tracts totaling 150 plus 0 acres described by metes and bounds in the deed of trust. Sale date May 23 1933. W L Morris attorney Winston-Salem NC.
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