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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1925
Page
8
Ralph, a 20 year old East Memphis Bank and Trust messenger, vanished with checks and 310,000. He later reappeared claiming three bandits drugged him, but investigations showed he has seizures and memory loss. Officials accept his account and no prosecution is planned.
Miss Mary McCall sole owner of what may be the only exclusive college wom en's barber shop in Texas. Located on Baylor college for women dormitory first floor in Bel ton, the shop features a pole outside and an attract ive price list. McCall, a long haired barber, works while attending classes, typing in the education department and studying literature and physical education, balancing work with school and shop duties.
A Tampa oyster from Gulf Beach Packing Co revealed a solid mass of pearls embedded throughout the shell and body. The pearl count is estimated around 500, varying in size from pin head to cowpea with colors black brown cream and snow white. Only the oyster’s great muscle gills and mantel were free of pearls.
About 12 000 children were tested by the United States Public Health Service and 37 percent were found to have defective vision. The Bluesight Conservation Council of America calls these findings deplorable and a denial of eyesight in the nation’s schools.
Washington. The Interior Department engineers summarize tests on back pressure and oil and gas production. The paper by Swigart and Bopp notes gas conservation could extend well life and oil recovery if pressures are carefully controlled among neighboring wells.
Albany report says winter outdoor activity benefits children as much as summer. Dr H L K Shaw, pediatrician at the state health department, urges fresh air and proper winter dress, noting outdoor exercise boosts mood, concentration, and health despite cold. He criticizes overheated indoor environments and emphasizes brisk walking as enjoyable exercise.
Wyoming led all states with a 37.7 percent rise in votes over 1920, per National Association of Manufacturers and Collier’s Weekly. Mississippi followed at 36.1 percent, Texas 27 percent, California 26.1, Rhode Island 23.4, New Jersey 11.2, New York 7.4. twenty states declined, twelve in the South, national net rise 4.2 percent.
New York Cotton Exchange finds its last living charter member is William L. Black of Del Rio Texas listed as dead for fifty years. At 82 he read of the exchange announcing its death of the last charter member and wrote to claim his place as the sole survivor who helped organize the institution in 1870.
The Victoria and Albert museum in South Kensington has purchased the first English silver table fork dated 1632. The piece is engraved with the crests of the Manners and Montague families.
A German engineer Libertrau tested a device said to render ships unsinkable on Lake Constance. He sank a boat loaded with 200 kilograms of cargo, yet declared it would reappear within an hour and it did. The apparatus allegedly drives water out of the hold.
Administratrix Mary Norris notifies all claimants to present claims within twelve months from February 2 1925 or be barred. Creditors urged to settle debts promptly.
The advertisement from Stationers and Office Outfitters promotes Globe-Wernicke safes filing cabinets desks book cases adding machines typewriters and other office items. Kingsport Office Supply Co managed by Sam J. Bingham invites customers to quote prices before purchase.
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