Local notes show Dayton Martin’s hospital return and many travel queries
Dayton Martin has returned from the hospital. Several residents travel to towns in North and South Carolina for family visits and business. Lent and visiting relatives fill the week with looks at Buncombe, Fayetteville, Rocky Mount, Waynesville, and Charleston. Cotton picking begins countywide while local officials organize the Cotton Association and school district reporting. Jack Markel and Alice Musseleman take new positions. Frank Hursey returns from Lancaster with the Herald.
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South Carolina Cotton Association
Court House
T. L. Manning
Manning
Intine
Peinteyi
Fone
Dillon
Ehrhardt
8. C
Cora Smith
Nellie Kersey
Knoxville
Tenni
Lightning strike near Mt Elim spooks melon team
Lamberton Robesonian reports Fulton Parker and Dudley Britt of Mt Elim were nearby when lightning struck an oak tree over their melon wagon. A crowd of colored bystanders were knocked down, Parker’s melon tore apart, and both men were stunned. The mule team fled briefly but caused no damage, and Parker noted the group had a miraculous escape from death.
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Lamberton Robesonian
Fulton’ Parker
Dudley +Britt
Mt. Elim
Boardman
Mr. Parker
Mr. Britt
Lumberton
Old wine in old bottles in Speyer museum
King Ludwig of Bavaria donated bottles dating to 1540 1633 and 1822 to the wine museum at Speyer just before his addiction. A Roman grave yielded a wine bottle believed to be the oldest in the world.
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Amsterdam
Ludwig of Bavaria
Wine Museum
Speyer
Rome
Yeggmen Bomb Rowland Post Office Loot
Rowland’s post office was robbed Monday night. Yeggs blew the safe, stole stamps and all cash, and damaged the building. Authorities note it appears to be professional work, first in years, with past gang members once pursued by federal post office sleuths.
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Rowland
Wireless talk across world within years promises UK links
London Aug 24 The Evening News quotes Sir Godfrey Isaacs of Marconi saying a wireless telephone system could let London talk to any part of the world for three minutes at a maximum cost of one pound within a few years if government red tape is removed. He warned delays could take 200 years, but if supported, Australia dialogue could occur within 200 days.
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London
The
Evening News
Godfrey Isaacs
Marconi Wireless Company
Australia
Germany in bad way described by Reuters Hanover
Reuters Hanover correspondent reports grim German conditions with thrift and industry fading, the mark dwindling and a lack of coal. Indescribable misery may produce existential European consequences. extremists plan a revolution amid party quarrels over war responsibility as Germany’s economic collapse nears due to coal shortages.
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London
Germany
Reuter
Hanover
Europe
Cured in Days: PAZ OINTMENT Claims Relief
Brief garbled notice cites PAZ ointment promising cure in 6 to 14 days for piles and related conditions. Attribution unclear, with fragmented phrases about relief and dosage. No verifiable entities or dates.
Daniels Talks on Presidential Candidacy
On board the U S 8 in New York to the Hawaiian Islands Secretary Daniels said the Wilson Administration has no candidate for President and that the people should decide. He added his own candidacy is also for the people to decide.
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U. S
New York
Hilo
Hawaiian Islands
Conference of
Hawaiian Democrats
Daniels
Wilson
Stoll Declares Candidacy for 6th Congressional District
A candidate named Stoll announces intention to run for Congress from the 6th Congressional District subject to primary rules. The statement signals entry into the race and adherence to party nominating processes.
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Stoll
Candidate announces for Congress in Sixth District
J J Evans Julius S McInnes J W Legrand and W F Statehouse announce candidacies for Congress in the Sixth District under Democratic rules. The copy references dates and party primary guidance but provides no election result details or locations.
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Congress
Democratic Party
J. J. Evans
Julius S. McInnes
J. W. Legrand
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Jnesville
N. C
Jack McLaurin
Jackson Springs
Edward
Reaves
Lamar Hyman
Florence
Margaret Melvin
Columbia
Earl J. Hayes
Fayetteville
Irma Medlin
Rocky Mount
Selma
N.C
Jack Markel
Baltimore
Morris Fass
David Horwitz
Charleston
D. H. Fasses
Inez Williams
North Carolina
John Gaddy
J. W. Gaddy
Eugene King
Aynor
E. C. Stanton
Maxton
Emily Moore
Dorothy Moore
Asheville
Kay Hamilton
Marion
D. V
T. Melvin
Charlotte
Town
Sgn
Fannie Sue Bethea
Latta
Alice Musseleman
Frank Loyd
L. Cottingham Co
Kitty Gaddy
J. P. White
Famiy
Wrightsville
Alex Saleeby
Fayletteville
John Hargrove
Sarah
Waynesville
James L. Kersey
Camp Dix
N. J
Frank Hursey
Herald Force
Lancaster
Paul Phillips
Darlington
J. W. Rowland
H. F. Surles
Ada
Kansas
Judson Allen
Allendale
D. S. Allen
Vashti George
Leland, N. C
William Bailey
Atlanta
J. Jeffress
Carolina Power and Light Co
Short
Goldsboro
L. K. Ker
John George, Jr
Johns Hopkins University
Lucy Rogers
J. J. George
Bishopville
W. J. Adams
Laurinburg
Joe P. Line
Bob” McMillan
Greenville
Mr. McMillan
Loyd Grandy
Bamberg
S. C
Grandy
Pershing
Dillon, Harris
Miller
W. F. Statehouse
Parham’s
W. C. Parham
Latta, S. Carolina
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