Governor Appeals for Navy Recruits in North Carolina
Governor T W Bickett urges a statewide Navy recruiting drive from April 28 to 30 to meet the 400 man quota, with mass meetings and recruiting stations in Asheville Charlotte Winston Salem Greensboro Raleigh Fayetteville Goldsboro and Wilmington. He warns failure to enlist harms the state’s wartime duties.
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Raleigh
T. W. Bickett
United States Navy
Bickett
Navy
Asheville
Charlotte
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Fayetteville
Goldsboro
Wilmington
North Carolina
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Pittsburg
Gertrude Weill
Sallie
Carrie L. Price
E. D. Atkins
Gastonia
Daisy Denson
Walter Woodard
Wilson
A. W. McAllister
M. L Kesler
Thomasville
Medical Society Adjourns After Notable Asheville Session
The sixty fourth annual North Carolina Medical Society meeting at Battery Park Hotel concluded with papers on children's diseases. Officers elected: President I W Faison Charlotte first VP Wm D B McNider Chapel Hill second VP Joseph B Green Asheville third VP Ben F Royal Morehead City. Secretary Benjamin K Hays Oxford treasurer W M Jones Greensboro hold over until Pinehurst April.
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Asheville
North Carolina Medical Society
Battery Park
House of Delegates
I. W. Faison
Charlotte
Wm. D. B. McNider
Chapel Hill
Joseph B. Green
Ben F. Royal
Morehead City
Benjamin K. Hays
Oxford
W. M. Jones
Greensboro
Pinehurst
Jesse Robert Gerstle
Chicago
Faison
Charles L. Minor
Thompson Frazer
Lewis W. Ellis
Elias
Lewis Webb Hill
Boston
Mass
Association
Board of Health
Army
Navy
Fire destroys large roller mill and properties at Tyre
Fire of unknown origin at Tyre Davidson county destroys the large roller mill owned by Baxter Leonard with grain flour and feedstuff losses. Also consumed a sawmill lumber yard lumber and a store building owned by J C Davis. Estimated loss around 10000 dollars with insurance undetermined.
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Spencer
Tyre
Davidson County
Baxter Leonard
Mr. Leonard
J. C. Davis
North Carolina Briefs Highlight Local Initiatives and Plans
Rocky Mount schoolchildren under ten may receive seed from R L Huffines for tending gardens. Four Oaks gains electric lights soon. Wake County farmers push more food crops. The State Fair promotes poultry preparedness led by Colonel Joseph E Pogue. North Wilkesboro plans street improvements. Dr Anna H Shaw to speak in Durham on April 25. Spencer railroad workers receive January back time pay under the Adamson eight hour law.
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R. L. Huffines
Rocky Mount
Four Oaks
Johnston County
Wake County
Joseph E. Pogue
North Wilkesboro
Anna H. Shaw
Durham
Spencer
Four Brotherhoods
Honey Recipes And Soy Bean Notes In A Mid Century Menu
A collage of kitchen tips includes honey based desserts and savory dishes like Honey Jumbles Coffee Cake and Good nature quotes. It also covers soy beans as a profitable crop and recipes for Black Bean Soup Baked Beans With Sour Cream and Kidney Bean Salad with practical kitchen guidance.
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Cambridge
Real and Foster Father in Fight for Boy
Willie Platz a fifteen year old boy was found attempting to crank a stranger's car at Tenth and Oak. Fred E. Roberts at the M C A called police. Willie claimed he lived with Frank Platz at Benton boulevard and that the man was not his father. Mr Platz and his wife had raised the boy after a mysterious man left him with two weeks of care fourteen years earlier. The boy implicated John Cavanaugh as a man who may have been his father, but Cavanaugh said he had not seen his son in fourteen years. Juvenile court involvement followed.
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Ansas City
Willie Platz
Tenth
Oak Streets
Fred E. Roberts
Roberts
Joey
Frank Platz
Benton Boulevard
Platz
Willie
Cavanaugh
Hindoo Prince Weds Omaha Bride In Jewel Cache Tale
A Hindoo prince with a 1 million dollar jewel casket wed Miss Lu Tesa Widenga in Omaha. The treasure was kept in First National Bank vaults and guarded to San Francisco by attorney Warren Howard. The prince, Anglicized as Peter E. C. Paul, travels to India with his bride carrying priceless pearls and Oriental stones.
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England
Peter E. C. Paul
Calcutta
Baltimore
Omaha
Edward P. Smith
Paul
Lu Tesa Widenga
Sioux City
Gust. Harvalis
San Francisco
Warren Howard
Smith
Fontenelle Hotel
Onion incident roils Malden Mothers league meeting
A Malden Mothers league gathering in Bryant hall devolved into a near riot after Mrs. Levine admitted craving an onion, a symbolic forbidden fruit in the boycott. The scene featured taunting and a heated crowd before an arbitration that framed the episode as a shared moment of weakness among women.
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Malden
Willie Jones
Jimmy Smith
Faithful Subway Mule Retires as Pensioner
In New York the bay mule Dick Croker, named for a Tammany figure, retires after three decades of subway work for Degnon & Co. At thirty by his teeth, he leaves the dark tunnels for Merrick road, becoming a pensioner with oats and grass awaiting him. His sidekick Tom Platt had left six years prior.
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York
Dick Croker
Degnon & Co
Tammany
M. J. Degnon
Dave Degnon
Dave
M. J
Merrick Road
Tom Platt
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