Public Health Service study to curb eastern Carolina malaria
United States Public Health Service officials arrive in Raleigh to study eastern North Carolina health conditions and advise on malaria eradication methods. Doctors Carter and Rankin will coordinate with state health leaders, while county health bureaus expand to support county health departments.
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Raleigh
Corporation Commission
D. Y. Cooper
Henderson
L. B. Williamson
Burlington
H. W. Scott
Graham
N. A. Cocke
Z. V. Taylor
Southern
House wives convention to meet in Raleigh August 26 27 28
The North Carolina House wives convention will be held at the high school in Raleigh August 26 27 and 28 to discuss helping one another. Mrs Julian Heath of New York will speak on The Power of the Organized Housewife. Emily G Bossong of New York will lecture on cooking and canning with bread making demonstrations. Premiums include gold prizes for farm and county entrants and magazine subscriptions.
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Farmers’ Convention
A. & M. Farmers’ Institute
Department of Agriculture
North Carolina Farmers’ Convention
A. & M. College
Raleigh
Catawba County
Catawba Creamery
Killian
North Carolina
Julian Heath
New York
Housewives’ League of America
Emily G. Bossong
Wake County
Woman’s Magazine
Monroe
Union County Farmers’ Union
Court House
A. J. Brooks
J. F. Moore
Sanford Smith
J. P. Boyd
Greenville
O. L. Joyner
Pitt
Richmond
Greensboro
Ben Hazel
McClure
Sheriff Bain
Treasury Aid to Farmers Stirs North Carolina Bankers
North Carolina bankers meeting Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo pressed for federal loans to support state clearing houses and farmers. They urged funds from the $50 million program to cover Raleigh, Wilmington, and Charlotte areas and emphasized keeping money from reaching Wall Street.
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Raleigh
Washington
North Carolina
Joseph G. Brown
Raleigh Clearing House
B. C. McQueen
Wilmington
Charlotte
Treasury
McAdoo
Wall Street
Monroe trustees elected to lead graded schools
G M Beasley chosen by the board of aldermen as a trustee to succeed the late A W Siggers. The report lists other local items from towns including Wilmington, Red Springs, Tarboro, Edgecombe, Washington, Monroe, Greenville, Greensboro, Roxboro, Elizabeth City, Asheville, Durham, Kinston, and Charlotte detailing appointments, elections, deaths, accidents, tax levies, and business notes across North Carolina.
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Monroe
Board of Aldermen
Graded Schools
A. W. Siggers
Wilmington
George Benson
Fort Caswell
Academy Street
Main Street
Durham
J. C. Michie
Durham Water Company
Kinston
Chamber of Commerce of
Corporation Commission
Charlotte
Board of County Commissioners
Washington
Messrs. Davis and
Davis
North Carolina
Clarence K. Davis
Dennis F. Cox
Cannon
Willis W. Linder
Tuberculosis Death Toll Across Europe Survey
European TB causes up to 25 percent of deaths. Reported annual TB mortality per million includes Russia 4000, Austria-Hungary 3500, France 3000, Germany 2200, Holland 1900, Italy 1800, Scotland 1700, England 1400. The figures illustrate country disparities in TB impact.
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Europe
Russia
Austria-Hungary
France
Germany
Holland
Italy
Scotland
England
Salt Spilling Superstitions Across Regions
The article notes rural Russia beliefs urge salt spillers to crawl under tables and emerge elsewhere to avert bad luck. In New England the remedy is to collect every grain and burn it on the stove to end the spell.
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Russia
New England
Gulf Between Them Bridge Exchange Sparks Reserved Engagement
In a dialogue about a couple's future, she asks about smoking drinking or chewing. He notes her standards and replies engagement will never be announced. She discards from strength at bridge, and he calls such conduct foolish.
Some of Them Do Not Boast in Front of Their Wives
A Toledo Blade quote laments that self made men should avoid bragging to their spouses and stresses modesty in domestic life.
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Toledo Blade
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the Corporation Commission
FIED
United States
Public Health Service
Eastern Carolina
Methodist Sunday School Conference
Epworth League
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Southern Assembly
Lake Junalaska
Southern Church
Rowan County
Lee Ford
Ford
J.M. Garland
Lexington
Depot Street
Garland
Sheroff Manufacturing Company
League
H. Clay Grubb
H. C Grubb
Emma Grubb
Churchland
Davidson County
Achitects
American Institute of Architects
Asheville
Leake Carraway
Greater Charlotte
Bruce Kennedy
Montgomery Business Men’ Club
Southern Commercial Secretaries
J. Forrester
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
Kernersville
W. S. Linville
Henry Gordon
Internal Revenue District
North
South Carolina
Osborn
R. B. Tained
R. B. Sams
Internal Revenue
N. C
Ton
Flagman
Hickory
Southern Railway
Ivey Mill
Fred Wilson
Lenoir
Richard Baker
Ballenger
New Corn Club
Durham County
Carter
Boyd
Holton
Supreme Court of the United States
John H. Carter
American National Bank
U. S
National Bank Peral
Wilson
Evansdale
W. J. Davis
S. H. Crocker
W. W. Graves
Black Creek
John D. Mercer
J. L. Daniel
Tolsnot
Benson
Eleva Ion Township
Long Leaf
Red Springs
Laymen’s Missionary Movement
Southern Presbyterian College
Tarboro
Edgecombe County
C. W. Worth
Shanghai
China
Elizabeth City
Kate Nixon
Susan Nixon
Henrietta of Hertford
Nags Head
Hammer McHarge
Newport
McIntyre
Matton
High Point
Por
Mation Drug CO
Independent Telephone Lines
Concord
Saliisbury
Spencer
China Grove
Alber
Point Milling
High Point Milling Company
Rexall
Ring Drug Co
Brifish Woolen Mills
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