Bon Marche Plans Anniversary Banquet for Fortieth Second Year
Bon Marche will host a banquet on Thursday evening July thirtieth at seven oclock at the George Vanderbilt Hotel. The event honors its Forty-second Anniversary and invites customers who shopped in 1889 1890 and 1891 to attend and register at the store. Invitations will be issued later.
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Bon Marche
Eagle Street
Main Street
Biltmore Avenue
Asheville
North Carolina
George Vanderbilt Hotel
Seventeen Die From Heat in Southwest U S
Seventeen deaths occurred in a heat wave across the southwestern United States as temperatures ranged from 90 to 118 degrees. Needles California recorded 114 degrees, with Phoenix and the Imperial Valley each reporting multiple fatalities. In Brawley, Imperial Valley, temperatures hit 108 degrees, peaking at 118 yesterday.
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Los Angeles
United States
Needles
Calif
Phoenix
Imperial Valley
Brawley
The Destructive Rat Threat and Public Health
A discussion on rats as pests and disease vectors notes the formation of an international extermination group. It cites rapid rat reproduction, health risks from fleas, and outlines prevention methods such as rat-proofing, food denial, and poison control. The piece closes by contrasting a single tree to a fire with vast implications and cites Chicago public schools annual costs at $96 million.
Purification and Estate Notice From 1931
An advertisement touts Calotabs for cleansing the system with trial and family packages. An administrator alerts creditors and debtors of the estate of Mrs. W F Nichols, deceased, with claims due by July 16, 1932 and payment to be made to W C Nichols on Route 1 Old Fort NC.
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Nature
W. F. Nichols
Old Fort
N. C
W. C. Nichols
Catawba Tannery Not to Be Rebuilt Soon in Old Fort
The Catawba Tannery will not be rebuilt until business improves. Old Fort plant superintendent G Bistline and tannery official Norton of Ridgeway, Pa. discuss the decision after the fire destroyed the plant. The loss may force families to relocate as jobs shift to other plants or new fields. The tannery, insured for 250000.70 dollars, was one of United States Leather Co.'s largest facilities.
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Old Fort
G. 8. Bistline
Norton
Ridgeway
Old Fort J
United States Leather Company
New York
Catawba
United States Leather Co
Benefit Play Farm Folks by Methodist Ladies Aid
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church presents the play Farm Folks on Friday evening July 31 at 8 o clock in the school auditorium.
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Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church
Local and Personal Items of Interest in Old Fort
Col. D. W. Adams and Judge Tom Bowie spent several days in Moorehead City this week. Many residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on their travels and guests, from Hendersonville to Marion and Denver. Mrs. Mary Allison celebrated her 92nd birthday at her Old Fort home with a noon dinner for about thirty relatives and friends.
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Col
D. W. Adams
Tom Bowie
Moorehead City
Cooper
Louise Porter
T. A. Porter
Don Young
Asheville
Old Fort
Norton
Ridgeway
Hazel Swann
Myrtle Glass
Ethel
Myrtle
Gastonia
S. F. Mauney
Lucy
Jimmie
Mary Cowan
C. W. Graybeal
Reuben Cannon
Garnet White
Kansas City
John M. White
George Grant
Hendersonville
D. F. Short
Lynchburg
Homer Walker
Aless Walker
Hugh Tate
Marion
Johnson Nesbitt
Brooks Hayres
Cashiers Valley
J. A. Lowrey
Trula Collis
Spruce Pine
Clarence Mason
Emmett
Nebo
Durham
Gertrude
Fountain City
Tenn
Oteen
LeRoy Bates
Morganton
C. W. Morrison
Dickson, Tenn
T. L. Fuller
T. H. Gosorn
Denver
Colorado
Georgia Grant
Audrey Gosorn
Davis Bright
Nora
Emma Allison
Knoxville
Tennessee
Ed. Greer
John R. Banks
J. L. Rayle
Greensboro
J. B. Haynes
J. N. Nesbitt
Colo
Clinton
Charles Gosorn
June Epley
Lee Jordan
Great Bend
S. C
Miss Gosorn
Hubert Rector
Jacksonville
Fla
George Wicks
Chapel Hill
Fred Yennish
James
Sarasota
H. A. Westermann
Philadelphia
Effie Rodgers
Raleigh
Woodmen's Circle
Chas. Steppe
Bertha Miller
Nichols Avenue
Nelly Allison
Asheville Normal
Charles Stepp
Bernard and
Lytle
Fairview
W. H. Wall
Katherine Steppe
William Barnett
William
Franz Strickland
Lake City
Kimball Miller
South Carolina
Fort Moultrie
Charleston
Mary Allison
New Fort
Miss Kanipe Hosts Fifteen Friends For Ice Course
Miss Kanipe entertained fifteen guests at her home Saturday evening honoring her house guest Miss Anne Bridges of Forest City. A delicious ice course was served at the close of the gathering.
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Miss Kanipe
Bula Kanipe
Anne Bridges
Forest City
Breakfast cereals named for Ceres goddess of agriculture
The name of breakfast cereals traces to Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and mother earth, linking the product to agricultural origins and nourishment.
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Ceres
Mother Earth
Phillips Milk of Magnesia Tackles Excess Stomach Acid
A vintage health note praises Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the safe anti acid remedy for sour stomach and indigestion. It claims immediate relief within minutes and urges readers to use the genuine product trusted by physicians for 50 years.
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Chicago Public Schools
Coane
Aria
Ke AY Nini
Mrs. Allison
Allison & Melton
Old Fort, N. C
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