Farmers Institutes Prize Notes and Lunatic Press View
Prizes for women on farms to be awarded during Farmers Institutes across Wingate Waxhaw Prospect and Indian Trail with sessions on farming and home economy. A girls bread and women lunch prizes, subscriptions, and notes for participation. Also a satirical blurb about a weekly asylum newspaper run by patients at Morris Plains and its questionable feasibility.
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State Department of Agrculture
Farmers’ Institue Committee
Union County
Wingate
Waxhaw
Prospect. Ti
Indian Trail
Farmer's Institutes
Raleigh
N. C
W. A. Graham
Ofgriculture
T. B. Parker
Farmers’ Institutes
Louisville Journal
Morris Plains
N. J
State Hospital For the Insane
de Lunatico
Lazy Husband Law Enforced in Seattle Suburb
The Lazy Husband Law takes effect in Seattle Wash county officials have built a 65 acre stockade where husbands convicted of abandoning their wives and children will labor clearing stumps and rocks. Wives receive 1.50 daily pay sent to them, no need to visit an office.
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Seattle
Wash
Mrs Crawford Arrested for Murder After Four Years
Georgia July 13 Four years after the alleged crime Mrs Mary Belle Crawford fifty is arrested on charge of murdering her wealthy husband Joshua B Crawford by morphine and opium She is jailed without bail after surrendering to Sheriff Mangum in Unionville The killings and family drama unfold as heirs pursue charges amid a small town crime case atmosphere
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Cena
Georgia
Mary Belle Crawford
Joshua B. Crawford
Atlanta
Tucker
Charles Crawford
Mangum
Recorder's Court Case Docket Summary
Recorder's Court lists defendants C. W. Crawford and Ed Caudle both colored for assault and battery and violating ordinance 80 with costs. Cap Davis colored faces abandonment. judgment suspended on payment of costs. Alonzo Gunn colored found not guilty on disposing of mortgaged property. prosecutor taxed with costs. Luther Belk colored charged with violating ordinance 80 with costs.
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Recorder's Court
C. W. Crawford
Ed Caudle
Cap Davis
Alonzo Gunn
Luther Belk
Mr Simeon P Curran Dies At 88 In Burnsville Township
Mr Simeon P Curran a longtime Burnsville township resident and founder of Cedar Grove Baptist church died after a brief illness. He was 88 and leaves four children Mrs Hugenta Boswell and W C John W and Jesse Curran. His wife Laura Lee Curran died last April.
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Simeon P. Curran
Wadesboro
Messegner
Burnsville Township
Curran
Gedar Grove Baptist Church
Hugenta Boswell
Messrs. W. C
John W
Jesse Curran
Laura Lee
Screenings and notices from a Wilkes county paper
The item list reports film showings at Pastime Tonight with Norma Talmadge and Florence Radinoff in Steathing and Seven Years Bad Luck, plus Edison and Seelig shorts. It notes a Wilkes man arrested for liquor in North Wilkesboro, a fatal mule accident near Cleveland County, a Doster Blythe wedding, two rattlesnake deaths in Hendersonville, and various local incidents including a wine feast shooting and a mystery money story.
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Norma Talmadge
Plorence Radinoff
Vitagraph
Edison
Banton
China
Seelig
Monroe Mourns A W Biggers Death At 60s Heart Trouble
Mr A W Biggers of Monroe died suddenly at his College Street home early Thursday morning from heart trouble after attending church the prior evening. He was a leading businessman with Collins Biggers and later Collins-Biggers, long time Graded School Board chair, a deacon and Sunday school teacher at First Baptist. Survived by Jennie Pyron Biggers and five children, with five brothers and three sisters. Funeral at First Baptist Church, burial at Monroe Cemetery.
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Monroe
A. W. Biggers
College Street
Biggers
The
Baptist Church
Mr. Biggers
Garrison Bigers
Goose Creek Township
Jennie Pyron
Caroline
Martha
Mary Frances
Alfred
Garrison
Messrs
E. R
W. L. Biggers
J. Biggers
Florida
R. B
P.H. Biggers
Concord
Mesdames
Rufus Smith
George Furr
Stanly County
W. H. Austin
Cabarrus County
W. C. Starnes
T. C. Collins
Cobartnership
Colling & Biggers
R. HM. Hargett
J. E. Collins
Collins-Biggers Company
Charlotte
Graded School Board
Bapst
J. A. Bivens
Paptist Church
HoNroe Cemetery
Two Funerals at Shiloh Baptists Parish Church
Mrs Ellen Helms wife of John A Helms of North Monroe died Sunday after a long illness and was about 57. She had belonged to Shiloh Baptist Church for 26 years and was buried there Monday in a service led by Rev E Snyder. Mrs Sarah Jane Hargett 22 died in Charlotte hospital Sunday and was returned to Shiloh for funeral Monday conducted by Rev Braxton Craig.
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Hendersonville
Lilly Liverett
John Liverett
Stepp
Shiloh
Ellen Helms
John A. Helms
North Monroe
Sarah Jane Hargett
Mack Hargett
Rock Hill
Charlotte
Braxton Craig
Hargett
Marion Pressly
West Monroe
Baptist Church
North Carolina Hookworm Campaign Shows Progress in 1913
The campaign reports 24 906 people microscopically examined and 6 263 treated in the last quarter, bringing totals to 242 000 examined and 132 000 treated. Eighty-five counties provide free dispensaries, and Sanitary and Infection surveys cover most counties with Rockingham to Transylvania noted as progressing. Dr J A Ferrell promoted to direct southern work. Dr CL Pridgen becomes North Carolina State Director.
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AL Perrell
GL Pridgen
North Carolina
Rockingham
Davie
Cabarrus
Caswell
Transylvanian
Dur- Mim
Alamance
Stanly
Rowan
Jackson
J. A. Ferrell
South
Washington, D.C
CL. Pridgen
Dr Pridgen
Destruction and Atrocities Reported in Serras by Bulgarians
A Greek correspondent confirms sacking and burning of Serras by Bulgarian forces. Retreating troops shelled the town while bands looted, set fires, and committed widespread atrocities including assaults on women. Consulates, banks, hospitals and schools were destroyed or looted. American Tobacco Company losses reach one million dollars. Survivors suffer hunger and exposure as authorities rush aid.
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Saloniki
Serres
Yankoff
Macedonia
Zluttko
Bank of Athens
Oriental Bank
Metropolitan
American Tobacco Company
Rural Carriers Elect Officers and Adopt Platform
At the North Carolina Letter Carriers Association annual convention in Wilmington officers were elected: President EB J Wright Rockingham vice-president D B Honeycutt Raleigh secretary JA Rowe Burlington chaplain D N Hunt Oxford and an executive committee Thad M Lute chairman Henry A Barnes Wilson J H Mills Monroe. Resolutions urged higher salaries improved equipment funding by government larger uniform boxes and post care, plus added vacation pay and eligibility for sub-carriers. The report notes Redman Herring of Sampsonville killed by a mule during a storm and J D Redfearn of Jefferson visiting home.
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North Carolina
Lettter Carriers’ Association
Wilmington
EB. J. Wright
Rockingham
D. B. Honeycutt
Raleigh
Rowe
Burlington
D. N. Hunt
Oxford
Thad M. Lute
Henry
Barnes
Wilson
J. H. Mills
Mon 1Roe
Rex Theatre Feature Days Offer Romance and Drama
The Rex Theatre shows feature days with multiple one and two reel films. Highlights include The Good Within and Express C. O. D. on Tuesday, The Road to Ruin and The Widow's Strategy midweek, and Oh On Troubled Waters on Thursday with Brothers All and The Way of Mother on Saturday. Also scheduled are The Two Convicts and Funniens is tried for life in one reel offerings.
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Express C. O. D
Misserly Niecle
Summerland
California
Jack Horrigan
Daniels to Give Gavel to His Son at Perry Centennial
Erie Pa July 10 Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels promised before a harbor crowd to give a gavel fashioned from wood and iron taken from the Perry era flagships to his son to honor the naval hero. Senator Penrose presented the memento as Daniels recalled Lawrence and Perry and Worth Bagley. He then toured the naval parade and visited Captain Gridley’s widow placing a wreath on his grave before returning to Washington.
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Leon
Coomatore Pern
Erie
Lawrence
Niagra
Commodore Perry
Put
Josephus Daniels
Mavy
Eric
Perry
Mr. Daniels
Jerry
John van Jones
Daniels
Senator Penrose
United States
Harriet Gridley
Charles W. P. Gridley
Batte
Manila Bay
Griddley
Washington
Boy Clings to Life After Nine Story Fall in New York
Eight year old Hyman Kertoff slipped from a roof between 248 and 240 Srd Street, landed on papers and rubbish, and was rescued after about an hour by firemen who fished from rooftops with a rope. He was bruised but saved and sent to Bellevue hospital for repairs.
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New York
Hyman Kertoff
Srd Street
Bellevue Hospital
Hyman
East 3Rd Street
Louis
Morris
Rennie Bine
Bennie
Kertoffe
245
Bennie Bine
Smail
Philip Kertoff
Morris Kauffman
Kauffman
Ralph Magrino
Trick Company 11
Bart Daly
Edward Cavanaugh
John Landers
Philip Meadle
George Toepfer
Policeman McCoy
Union Market
State Laboratory to Furnish Typhoid Vaccine at Cost
The North Carolina Bulletin of Health reports the State Laboratory of Hygiene will soon produce typhoid vaccine at greatly reduced prices. The vaccine will cost about 1.50 per person and likely be sold at cost, potentially under 60 cents. Early supply expected within weeks, promoting public health affordability and protection for families. Early data suggest vaccines halve risk of contracting typhoid and may reduce death rates among those infected.
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State Laboratory
N.C. Bulletin of Health
State Laboratory of Hygiene
United States
Train Kills Woman Crossing Tracks Near Asheville
Secretary Bryan and Senator Lea witnessed a fatal accident as a passenger train struck Annie Williams of Gainesville Florida near Swannanoa four miles from Asheville. Williams decapitated, had just left the train, was heading to a hotel with a nephew. Body sent home. Other notes report a drowning in Wood County and a coroner's discharge for Burley Johnson in Charlotte killing Moore with a rock.
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Beyan
Asheville
Bryan
Luke Lea
Fies Annie Willaims
Gainsville
Florida
Swannanoa Station
Lew
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Augusta
Wadesboro Messenge
Joan Cameron
Hoke County
Raeford
P. C. Oakes
H. A. Oakes
Cameron
Unionville
Charles Hamilton
Winston
Essie Loftin
Savannoah
A. A. Secrest
Halleen Clemmer
Bostic
I. A. Williford
Maud Williams
Blake Price
Howard
Lancaster
8. C
Geo. Brewer
Melissa Hover
Edna Helms
Carmel
T. L. A. Helma
Price
Locust
D. A. Price
Sam Bivens
Jeff Little
Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Jennie James
Letha Hamilton
James
Inez Benton
Wilkes
North Wilkesboro
Jane
Cleveland County
Ann Wilson
Tray
Troy Marble Works
Nash
Cen County
Scott
Carey Silver
Death
Redman Herring
Sampsonvine
REX Theatre
Gavel
John Dean
Wood County
Burley Johnson
David
Fred Moore
Moore
Coroner
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