Roanoke Rapids Tops Nation in Insurance Results
Roanoke Rapids leads the nation in combined results for a major life and casualty insurer for 1933, announced by R. L. Edwards of the Nashville based company. The Roanoke Rapids district shows assets near 13 million and growth in force from 1 million in 1903 to 158 million this year with 1062 active accounts in the city. Local agents L. E. Hudson, C. F. Ogletree, Tommy Cox, Basil Glover, Bill Iddings, and George Brewer operate from the Imperial Theatre Building.
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Roanoke
Rapids
R. L. Edwards
Life and Casualty Insurance Company
Nashville
Tenn
Edwards
Roanoke Rapids
Imperial Theatre
Mr. Edwards
L. E. Hudson
C. F. Ogletree
Tommy Cox
Basil Glover
Bill Iddings
George Brewer
Ruth Chatterton as Michigan czarina in Female
Ruth Chatterton plays a factory head in Female at the Peoples, running Drake Automobile with eight telephones and sixteen department heads. The film also features Jim Thorne, George Brent, and a fashionable portrayal of industry life with romance and drama.
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Ruth Chatterton
Michigan Czarina
Peoples
Drake Automobile Plant
Wall Street
Catherine of Russia
Alison
Adonis
Georgia Tech
Jim Thorne
George Brent
Jim
Miss Chatterton
Lois Wilson
Johnny Mack Brown
$400 Scholarship Contest At High Point College
Rupert Hughes Cosmopolitan Magazine story and Adela Rogers St John screenplay feature Dorothea Wieck and a cast including Baby LeRoy Alice Brady Alan Hale Jack LaRue Dorothy Burgess. Also Ace Richard Barthelmess stars in Massacre at the Peoples next Saturday Feb 17. The second annual oration contest at High Point College offers 400 100 and 50 scholarships for the topic The Kind of a College Freshman I Would Like to be. Registration due February 15 with essays due March 1 and finals March 22 23.
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Rupert Hughes
Cosmopolitan
Adela Rogers
St. John
Dorothea Wieck
Baby LeRoy
Alice Brady
Alan Hale
Jack LaRue
Dorothy Burgess
High Point College
Prisoner Raymond Chester Inherits $20,000 from Aunt
Raymond Chester of New Orleans, incarcerated for pocket picking, inherits $20,000 from his aunt in a bequest noted by local probate records. The case highlights unusual asset transfers to inmates awaiting release.
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Chester
Raymond
New Orleans
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ST. Paul
Edward G. Bremer
Beauty
Armstrong
Miss Fane
the Peoples
Lyle Wilson
Richard Barthelmess
Ann Dvorak
Claire Dodd
Life and Casualty
Nashville, Tennessee
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Imperial Theatre Building
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