Mount Airy & Eastern Railway To Be Made A Standard Gauge Road
Meadowfield Lumber Company plans to purchase 40 000 standard gauge cross ties to develop holdings after acquiring the Rosslyn Lumber Company and the Mount Airy & Eastern Railway. The project includes rebuilding the line to Mount Airy as a standard gauge, creating a junction, a saw mill at the Junction, intensive log hauling, and freight service with 250 to 300 hires expected.
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Mount Airy & Eastern Railway
United States
Patrick County
Mount Airy
Pennsylvania
Meadowfield Lumber Company
Virginia
Stuart
L. T. Brandon
Pottsville
Donald Campbell
Brandon
Lycoming Timber & Lumber Co
Weldon
Garrysburg
N. C
Providence Forge
Campbell
W. W. French
Michigan
French
Brazil
Phillipine Islands
Panama
Allis-Chalmers Co
Wm Cook
Humbert
John Campbell
Clarksburg
W. Va
South Main Street
Friends Parsonage
Candler seeks divorce in Fulton Superior Court
Asa G. Candler of Atlanta files a divorce petition returnable at the September term of the Fulton Superior Court. He seeks legal separation from Mrs Mary Littleagan Candler, whom he married exactly one year ago today, with estrangement dating back to February 9 1924.
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Atlanta
Asa G. Candler
Atlanta Capitalist
Fulton Superior Court
Candler
Mary Little Ragan Candler
Executor notice for N. M. Simmons estate in North Carolina
Havine qualified as executor of the estate of N. M. Simmons deceased of Surry County. All claimants must present claims within the legally prescribed time or be barred. Debtors urged to settle promptly. Dated June 17, 1924. Robt Simmons Executor. H O Woltz Attorney.
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Havine
N. M. Simmons
Surry County
N. C
Robt, Simmons
H. O. Woltz
Bonus blanks now on hand for adjusted compensation
W. G. Sydnor announces that all necessary forms are available through T. B. McCargo Jr and G. L. Kohlesa to distribute blanks for the Adjusted Compensation Act. Applications go to War or Navy Departments then Veterans Bureau with first benefits not due until March 1 1925. Most county residents eligible except certain excluded classes.
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Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Hawaii
Phillipines Guards
Students Army Training Corps
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Statesville to Teach Bible in High School Elective
Statesville announces Bible study will be offered in high school next year as a non sectarian elective with two years of work the first year Old Testament history and the second year the Gospels Acts and Epistles. W M Boyce will lead the Bible department.
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Statesville
R. M. Gray
W. M. Boyce
Due West
S. C
Gray
Wilson
50 000 Chicks Shipped From Dunn
Fifty thousand baby chicks hatched at the Howard chicken ranch near Dunn were shipped by parcel post via the Dunn post office over 20 weeks. Chicks went to many southern states including Texas. An incubator with 10 358 egg capacity began operation in January. first hatch shipped February 12. about 2 500 chicks were produced weekly. The season closed this week.
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Dunn
Parcel Post
Dunn Pas
Howard Chicken Ranch
South
Texas
Atlantic to Pacific in a single day
Lt. Russell L. Maughan completed a daylight to dusk NY to San Francisco flight in 21 hours 48 minutes with five refueling stops. He landed at Grissy Field at 9:44 p.m. amid massive cheers as photographers captured the moment and colleagues carried him from the cockpit.
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Atlantic
Pacific
San Francisco
Russell L. Maughan
Army Flier
New York
Grissy Field
Maughan Joins World’s Elite by Transcontintental Flight
At Mitchel Field Lieutenant Russell L. Maughan crossed the continent in one day to join the world’s top aviators. He shares high rank with Lieuts John MacReady and Oakley Kelly, who set a 2,520 mile nonstop distance record from New York to San Diego on May 2 1923 in 26 hours 50 minutes 38 25 seconds. Maughan had attempted the crossing between dusk and dawn on three occasions.
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Mitchel Field
N. Y
Russell L. Maughan
Maughan
John MacReady
Oakley Kelly
New York
San Diego
Hang Negro In Death of Girl's Companion
Florence Arizona June 20 William B Ward a negro was hanged at dawn for the murder of Ted Grosh a University of Arizona student Grosh rode with Miss Maxine McNelly when Ward stopped the car shot Grosh and forced Miss McNelly to a tunnel where he attacked her and shot her two more times She survived and testified Ward attempted to kidnap two women missionaries in his cell and was beaten by convicts before rescue by guards
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Florence
Ariz
William B. Ward
Ted Grosh
Arizona University
Grosh
Maxine McNelly
Ward
Miss McNelly
R. B. Simms
Paris
Tex
Peaches Moving Aberdeen on Record Crop
The sandhills yield the largest peach crop ever with about 2,500 iced refrigerator cars of 450 crates each slated for shipment to northern and eastern markets. Additional cars will be canned or shipped by auto trucks to consumers within the state, aiming for a per capita export of over two peaches.
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Aberdeen
Sandhills
United States
A Second Primary To Be Held July 5th
J W Prank Raleigh dated June 19 reports in Uwajima Japan that a second primary in North Carolina was requested to nominate for attorney general. Charles Ross of Lillington withdrew, citing Brummit’s qualifications, while Frank Grist fights Shipman for labor and printing. The run off is set for Saturday July 2 with an estimated $25,000 cost.
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Raleigh
Charles Ross
Lillington
Dennis Brummil
Oxford
Ross
Frank Grist
Brummitt
M. L. Shipman
Grist
Shipman
Jenkins Goes to Raleigh to Begin Prison Sentence
Lexington reports L C Jenkins former chief of police of Thomasville travels to Raleigh to begin a 25 to 80 year sentence in the state penitentiary for second degree murder. He was convicted of killing Mrs Elizabeth D Jones of Appalachia Virginia with whom he had lived.
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Lexington
L. C. Jenkins
Thomasville
Raleigh
State
Elizabeth D. Jones
Appalachia
The Lesson of Odor and Order in a Drug Store
A medical professor recalls a frontier pharmacy mistake where a mislabeled bottle of corrosive sublimate, swapped by a careless clerk, nearly killed a patient. He warns that knowing others habits of mind is crucial in dispensing remedies for body and soul.
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Chase
The
Rosslyn Lumber Company
Rosslyn Company
Mount Airy & Eastern
McCargo and
Kohless
War Department
W. G. Sydnor
Red Cross
T. B. McCargo, Jr
G. L. Kohlesa
Bank
Maugan
Feat
Him
Peaches
Japan
KR. E. McAlpine
Southern Presbyterian
McAlpine
Margaret
James H. Ballagh
Richmond
Ballagh
Yokohama
Clisby
North Carolina
James
Davidson College
Agnes Scott College
John W. Moore
Moore
Winston-Salem
Grady
Kobe
Villaverde
Canadian Academy
Tokyo
Martin Hospital
Clarence Griffin
Griffin
Rikisha
Shipman and Grist
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