May Work By Home Demonstration Agents Across Districts
May activities across the piedmont and mountain districts are summarized by Miss Martha Creighton. In Gaston county Nell Pickens built a model house shown to 220 visitors with plans for club meetings on house planning. Hendersonville hosted a curb market and new food and textiles clubs formed, with Miss Wallace visiting. Catawba County saw profitable basketry through boys and a mother learning to sell, while fair plans feature an eight to nine episode historical pageant. Forsyth clubs pursued interior decoration and kitchen improvements with kitchens attracting 170 visitors. Cabarrus County saw new work under Miss Mattie Lee Cooley. Cleveland County focused on fruit preserves, Polk on whole-wheat products, Mecklenburg on a large garden contest, Transylvania on selling goods to tourists, Rutherford on balanced breakfasts, Rowan on house furnishings contest, and Davidson on food prep and decoration with sewing ongoing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piedmont
Mountain
Martha Creighton
Gaston County
Nell Pickens
Gastonia
Henderson County
Rachel Everett
Hendersonville
Mise Everett
Wallace
Miss Everett
Catawba County
Anna Rowe
Miss Rowe
Fair
Alice McQueen
Forsyth County
Cabarrus County
Ada Walker
Transylvania County
Anna Edwards
Rowan County
Salisbury
Miss Wallace
Miss Creighton
Miss Edwards
Lees County
Miss Little
Davidson County
Dr Amai Clarence Dixon Dies in Baltimore
Raleigh and Greensboro report a two part obituary and legal update. Dr Amai Clarence Dixon renowned preacher, founder of University Baptist Church Baltimore, dies in Union Memorial Hospital at age 71. Greensboro notes a separate two million dollar Bailey Case action wiped from records via judge non-suit. details recount Bailey Brothers Tobacco and Reynolds Company litigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Amai Clarence Dixon
North Carolina
Baltimore
Union Memorial Hospital
Dixon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
London
University Baptisl
E. Delia Dixon Carroll
First Baptist Church
Shelby
Thomas
Amanda Elizabeth McAfee Dixon
Wake Forest College
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Louisville
Chapel Hill
Asheville
Brooklyn
Boston
Chicago
Mr. Dixon
Thomas Dixon
New York City
Frank Dixon
University Baptist Church
Charles and
Thirty-fourth Streets
Druid Ridge Cemetery
W. L. Pettingill
Philadelphia School of Bible
Dr. Dixn
Greensboro
E. Yates Webb
W. L. Ashley
Patrick County
Virginia
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Mitchell S. Lyon
W. R. Leake
R. M. Hanes
F. H. Fries
W. N. Reynolds
Winston-Salem
Bailey Brothers Tobacco Company
Ashley
Bailey Bailey Company
Bailey Company
Reynolds Company
Reynolds and
Brown-Williamson Tobacco
Bailey
Plug Tobacco Manufacturing
Buncombe County Demonstrations Expand Poultry Teaching
Mrs. Sarah P. Ellis of Buncombe county reports vast work this month in clothing, food planning, and home beautification. She visited five poultry demonstrations, helped start 119 demonstrations in 19 communities with 50 standard chicks each, and oversees brooder houses. She also aided rug sales totaling 66.10 dollars and shipped 27.50 dollars in goods to a gift shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah P. Ellis
Buncombe County
Ellis
Tilson
SWS Teak Vsee
Ted Heck
Scopes Rejects Offers Amid Evolution Trial Moves
New York June 13 John T Scopes declined offers totaling about 150000 while in Albany conferring with lawyers ahead of his Dayton Tenn trial over teaching evolution A film rights deal for 50000 and additional syndicate offers were rejected as Scopes focused on the serious legal proceeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
John T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
Scopes
Motion Picture Corporation
Chicago Liquor Raid Nets 200 Arrests After Slayings
In the largest Chicago liquor raid to date, over 200 people were arrested in the Italian district as police seized hundreds of stills and thousands of gallons of moonshine. The operation followed the killings of two detectives and a wave of gunman arrests citywide. State's Attorney Crowe called for forty more judges for the summer term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Miller Street
Blue Island Avenue
Halsted Street
Crowe
McMillan Plans To Find Lost Aeroplane Explorers
Winston Salem dispatch reports the Amundsen rescue plan as Captain Donald MacMillan leads the Bowdoin and Peary from Wisccasset Maine toward Etah and Cape Hubbard to search for Amundsen Ellsworth expedition. Lieut Richard Byrd pilots the planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMillan
Boston
Amundsen
Donald MacMillan
Polar Explorer
Wiscassett
Maine
Cape Hubbard
Peary and Bowdoin
Etah
Portage
Polar
Amundsen-Ellsworth
Charlestown Navy Yard
MacMillan
Peary
Southport
Bowdoin
Bunker Hill
Charlestown
Richard E. Byrd
Etab
Greenland
Cape Thomas Hubbard
Cape Columbia
Mac- Millan
Spitzbergen
Checks Not Good For Auto License Plates
Raleigh June 14 The annual distribution of license plates to North Carolina's nearly 400000 automobile owners will begin Monday by the state automobile license bureau and its 59 branches. Letters have gone out to last year's purchasers enclosing application blanks and announcing that no checks will be accepted. Last year the bureau faced trouble from returned checks. About 268000 plates were sold, an increase of 81000 over the prior year, suggesting distributions could exceed 400900 this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
State Automobile License Bureau
Tte 59
Laundry furnace cremation shocks Raleigh readers
Coroner L M Waring ruled no law was broken after a Black infant’s body was cremated in the Oak City Laundry furnace for burial cost reasons. H W Mimms of Brown's Undertaking asked staff to burn the bundle. charred bones were found by a Black fireman. The infant of Gladys Duell had died naturally and lacked funds for burial. Cremation permit was issued. cremation followed in an informal, incomplete fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Oak City
L. M. Waring
H. W. Mimms
Brown's Undertaking Establishment
Warling
Gladys Duell
Chapel Hill
Wake Forest
W. T. Davis
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Search For Amundsen Now Being Pushed Aboard the Ingertre
The Ingertre captain received orders to sail immediately to Advent Bay Spitzbergen to begin a search for Captain Roald Amundsen and the missing Polar expedition. Lieutenant Lutzow Holm will disembark with aircrew at Advent Bay to fly a search, meeting the Farm which will report weather before the flight to Kings Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. S. Ingertre
Spitzbergen
Ingertre
Roald Amundsen
Advent Bay
Lutzow Holm
Amundsen
Kings Bay
Dog Meat An Article Of Diet In Germany
Berlin reports that dog meat is still consumed by some as food. The Berlin chief of police stated that existing meat inspection regulations will apply to dog meat in the future, with dogs slated for slaughter to be examined before and after killing to ensure safety and compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Berlin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mattie Lee Cooley
Tidewater District
Northampton County
Cleveland County
Irma Wallace
Polk County
Lois Holderbaum
Halderbaum
Mecklenburg County
Bertha Proffitt
Miss Proffitt
Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs
McKimmon
Rutherford County
Hatties Neill BeBrayer
Elizabeth Cornelium
A. C. Dixon
Bailey Broth
Timore Hospital
Jamen Monroe King
Winston Steam Laundry
King
Fred Jones
Sam Blue
Woodleaf
Arctic
Grantland
North Pole
Bowdoin and
Canada
Dominion
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