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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1940
Page
9
A weekly column from The News offering farm tips and reader questions. It invites farmers to send in queries and news items and aims to serve as a swap for farm news in the community.
Facing severe market stress far beyond 1930s levels, flue cured tobacco farmers in North Carolina and several Southern states will vote July 20 on a three year AAA control plan. If two thirds approve, quotas would cover 1941 1942 and 1943 crops.
A 60th anniversary promotion invites readers to purchase multi year subscriptions at $1.00 per year. The offer runs from June 15 to July 15 with a chance to save 50 cents per year on any quantity. Act today.
The text notes a woman's periodic headaches irritability and cramps may be functional dysmenorrhea from malnutrition. It claims CARDUS helps by improving digestion and building up strength and energy, though wording is fragmented and promotional.
Senator Douglass backs the Larabie Thomas bill now before Congress, arguing it would fund North Carolina schools with an initial 628,000 and rising yearly. He says federal aid would reduce local disparities, noting NC would receive far more than New York or California, and that rural children would count equally with urban ones.
The Mount Airy News marks 60 years with a June 15 to July 15 offer inviting old and new subscribers to send 1.00. Subscribers receive the same credit as the 1.50 rate others pay and can extend for multiple years. A 5.00 payment covers five years of subscription.
Thierstein recalls his dog Pido a police dog in training who runs errands locks up and obeys commands in English and Swiss German. Pido clears empty bottles retrieves candy bars fetches the sweater and even helps stamp out burning cigar butts earning admiration and a refused $1000 offer.
The Trustee for the Bank of Pilot Mountain will sell at public auction in Pilot Mountain N C on June 29 1940 at 1 PM the interest of J Ernest Smith Coetta Smith and Rhoda E Smith in the deed of trust dated March 1 1926 securing the note to Bank of Pilot Mountain.
Court notices foreclose the note for 494.11 held by W H Plippin on 1078 acres in Surry County North Carolina. The second deed of trust is behind a first deed of trust for 2050.64 and recorded in Book 120 page 281. sale starts bidding at 11.00 and is subject to prior liens. Dated June 12 1940.
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