Hope Dwindles for Amundsen Return on Fourth Day
Hope for Roald Amundsen’s return from the Pole fades after four days without contact as observers at Kings Bay Spitzbergen weigh weather, possible landings, and risks. If planes fail, the crew must trek with limited rations toward Greenland or Fort Conger, facing extreme cold and long odds.
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Kings Bay
Spitbergen
Amundsen- Ellaworth
Pole
Amundsen
Spitzbergen
Greenland
North Pole
Peary
Robeson Channel
Fort Conger
Sverdup
Nansen
Fram
Etah
Bible not a scientific book says Dr Poteat in Greensboro
Dr William L Poteat told a Greensboro Open Forum crowd that the Bible is not a science text while affirming God created all life. He explained evolution and Darwinism and noted the Bible lacks scientific detail though its creation account aligns with modern science when interpreted sanely.
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Greensboro
William L. Poteat
Poteat
Quake Leaves Hyogo District Devastated With Thousands Homeless
Tokio dispatch reports heavy damage in the Sanin district of Hyogo prefecture after a major earthquake surpassing the 1923 Tokyo quake. Relief trains with doctors and ambulances move to Toyooka and Kinosaki as fires burn and water mains break.
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Tokio
Sanin
Hyogo Prefecture
Osaka
Tajima
Toyooka
Kinosaki
Tsuiyama
Yokohama
Yakegatake
Sunday Engaged for Year Ahead
Rev W A Billy Sunday plans five evangelistic campaigns over summer and fall 1925 to 1926 each lasting six weeks with brief travel gaps The schedule opens September 6 1925 in Portland Oregon and includes Williamsport Pa Birmingham New York Baton Rouge La and Cape Girardeau Mo The series ends in April 1926 in Cape Girardeau Mo
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Winston-Salem
W. A
Billy) Sunday
Portland
Oregon
Sunday
Williamsport
North Carolina
Billy Sunday
Binghampton
New York
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Cape Giradeau
Missouri
Mid-West Shivering As Heat Wave Reverses Shocking Flip
Chicago and the Midwest cooled from a May heat wave to near freezing with temperatures dropping over sixty degrees in three hours. Lake Michigan beaches that morning saw a record high of 94 while by night the loop wore overcoats as farmers warned of possible crop damage and strawberry losses from the cold blast.
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Chicago
Midwest
Lake Michigan
Agricultural Survey Station
State Highway Commissioner Committed to Insane Hospital
Raleigh May 20 John E Cameron State Highway Commissioner of the Second Highway District was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane by Dr W W Dawson of Grifton The commitment cites uraemia and resulting nervousness and recklessness Cameron is 58 a farmer and married with property No changes are expected in the highway commission while he is cared for Other board members will oversee his district temporarily
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Raleigh
John E. Cameron
Second Highway District
State Hospital For
W. W. Dawson
Grifton
Dawson
State Hospital
Highway Commission
Earthworms Grind Soil Finer Than Farmers
Observations in Yorbaland West Africa show earthworms surface 2 200 tons of soil per square mile annually. Over thirty years every inch two feet deep is treated by worm casts. An acre of soil holds about 200 000 worms acting as tiny mills, refining soil more effectively than man made devices.
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Yorbaland
West Africa
Wooden Leg War Rages at Central Convict Camp
May 23. The wooden leg controversy at the central convict camp centers on Robert Hannah an aged prisoner who dominates county authorities with his paraplegic leverage Hannah sent his wooden leg home declining wear it out for the county since then he aids by splitting wood and kindling but cannot perform as before Capt J Al Rankin says the county is stumped The situation pits Capt Rankin and Capt J Giles Foushee county commissioners against Hannah who leads his own makeshift army in a long running dispute over control and labor assignments
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Greensboro
Central
Robert Hannah
J. al Rankin
Board of County Commissioners
Hannah
Wooden Leg
J. Giles Foushee
White Plains High School Ends Year With Fine Programs
In White Plains on May 22 the closing exercises featured songs recitations and drills by the elementary school drawing a large crowd. Rev P B Lindley of High Point College delivered the sermon and the elementary staged The Stolen Flower Queen.
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White Plains
Bessie Atkins
Hawkes-Boyles Company
Mount Airy
Glenn Robertson
Jackson Brothers
W. C. Wicker
North Carolina
Bill
O. Hanser
Surry County launches free vaccines for typhoid and diphtheria
The Surry County Health Department will offer free vaccines to about 35,000 residents starting Monday June 8. Dr. Lancaster and assistants visited more than 40 county sites to promote three diphtheria doses for ages six months to ten years and three typhoid doses for ages six to sixty every three years. He notes vaccines are 80 to 90 percent effective and urges accompanying hygiene and public health practices.
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Surry County
Dr. Lancaster
Irate Father Requests Execution Permission in Morganton Case
A Raleigh letter to Pardon Commissioner H Hoyle Sink declares a father’s wish to be the electric chair executioner for Arthur Montague a Black youth condemned for assaulting an 11 year old girl inmate at Morganton. The writer identifies as father of another inmate.
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Raleigh
Hell
H. Hoyle Sink
Arthur Montague
Morganton
Cooperative Tobacco Association Holds City Hall Meeting
Over 200 association members met in city hall Monday night to review the Raleigh May 19 annual meeting. J Luther Wood presided and introduced Mr White who discussed association progress, costs, and issues with overzealous solicitors. Members pledged support, with plans for local loyalty and contract work and upcoming elections in Surry County.
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Co- Operative Tobacco Association
Raleigh
Carolinas
Virginia
J. Luther Wood
White
Winster-Salem
Field Service Department
Joe Dobson
Newspapers should publish crime news despite discomfort
A News & Observer opinion argues suppression of crime reports harms law enforcement. General Smedley Butler endorses publicity, saying timely crime details force action and help solve mysteries, while urging balanced coverage without sensationalism.
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Fayetteville Observer
Smedley Butler
Public Safety of
Philadelphia
Butler
News & Observer
$2 500 Salary Looks Large to Austrian
Professor Alfonso Kleinemen of the University of Vienna arrived in New York on the United American liner Cleveland. He will earn $2,500 next year while visiting as one of the lecturers for the National Research Council in Washington, a stable salary after Vienna’s wartime shortages.
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New York
Alfonso Klemene
University of Vienna
United American
Cleveland
Vienna
America
National Research Council
Washington
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