Ur of the Chaldees Excavations Yield Early Graves and Ziggurat
The joint British Museum and University of Pennsylvania expedition reports uncover the Ur ziggurat walls in 2300 B C and reveal early graves dating to the fifth and fourth millennia B C at Tell El Obeid. Finds include Sumerian artifacts, wheel made pottery, and a complete skeleton, with temple remains of Nin Khursag and ties to Ur dynasties and Kish.
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Philadelphia
British Museum
University of Pennsylvania
Mesopotamia
C. Leonard Wooly
Ur- Engur
Tell-El-Obeid
Susa
Dungi
Hall
A-An-Ni-Pad-Da
Sumer
Akkad
Kish
Methusaleh
Erech
200000 LIQUOR CARGO SEIZED IN HARBOR BATTLE
Police of the Manhattan seized 200000 dollars worth of liquor and a 50 thousand dollar ocean going tug after a gun battle in New York harbor that stretched to Chambers Street. Six men were captured or overpowered and the cargo was turned over to federal authorities.
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New York
Manhattan
New York Harbor
North River
Chambers Street
Capital No. 1
New York Bay
Governor’s Island
John S. McCann
College Point
Panama City Portraits in Bay County Florida
The piece surveys Panama City as Bay County’s capital and growing hub. It notes the Bay County courthouse, the handsome high school, and a historic building tied to Old John Brown, overlooking the Gulf. It mentions Satsuma orange cultivation, gulf climate, and frost protection in groves, with plans to cover Melville and Bay Harbor next.
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CW. A. Watson
Florida
Times
Panama City
Gulf of Mexico
Bay County
Panama
Iho
North Carolina
High School
John Brown
Egypt
Satsumaland
Satsuma
Japan
Georgia
South Carolina
Melville
Bay Harbor
Boone
Enough Cars to Carry All Americans in One Time
The piece notes 13,000,000 registered vehicles including buses and trucks, implying about eight people per car. It cites 1922 output over 2.5 million, 1923 near 4 million, and January 1924 as a peak period for a large auto industry. H Clifford Brockaw says no single best car, most 1924 models near their price.
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United
H. Clifford Brockaw
Popular Science Monthly
Cow offers math help to owner in witty vow
The speaker cow claims to aid the man who owns her by adding to his bank account, subtracting from mortgage principal, multiplying his success, dividing his cares, giving more interest to his work, and discounting his chances for loss. The quip highlights humor about a cow offering financial benefits.
What Farmers Learn in High School Vocational Agriculture
The passage asks what farm boys learn to solve farm freight rates, form cooperatives, market quality products, access credit, grow suitable crops, control pests, vote on public issues, seek protective legislation, and produce cheaply for profit. It argues vocational agriculture under well trained rural teachers helps students study these problems and asks if you are profiting by it.
Cove Creek News Items Highlights and Local Updates
Miss Ethel Wilson travels to Johns Hopkins for X ray and possible operation. Hattie and Ruth Bingham accompany. Kingsport visitors Carl Henson and L A Hays. Walter Bingham ill for days. High School students attend basketball game in Boone versus Appalachian Training School and Crossnore. Cove Creek Baptist Church installs steam heat. Willowdale Baptist Church adds four Sunday School rooms and auditorium. John H Mast advances electrical plant. lights expected by February. A J Payne attends life insurance company meeting in Richmond. Rev Brittain visits school for chapel. School enrollment 280 with 97 in high school. attendance high. Mrs T M McBride of Washington College attends burial of her father Kinley P Mast.
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Ethel Wilson
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hattie
Ruth Bingham
Carl Henson
L. A. Hays
Kingsport
Walter Bingham
Boone
Appalachian Training School
Crossnore
Cove Creek Baptist Church
Willowdale Baptist Church
John H. Mast
A. J. Payne
Richmond
Brittain
Methodist Church
T. ©. McBride
Washington College
Kinley P. Mast
Wayne Waters Walks 15000 Miles For Education
Wayne Waters a Cosby academy senior near Newport Tennessee has walked ten miles daily for eight years to pursue his studies. Principal R L Marshall notes he lives five miles from school and has walked the distance twice daily or more than half the world’s circumference to attend classes and maintains a strong attendance record.
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Wayne Waters
Cosby Academy
Baptist Mountain School
Newport
Tenn
R. L. Marshall
State college agents visit thousands of homes in 936 communities
Home agents on the staff of the state College and Department of Agriculture conducted organized outreach in 936 communities. They visited 11,387 homes and reached 43,319 people in the office during the past year.
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State College
Department of Agriculture
Prizes Classified as Lottery by Attorney General
The Attorney General rules that merchant prize schemes using coupons or tickets amount to a lottery and are forbidden by state criminal laws. A $25 license tax cannot legalize the plan, and many merchants may not realize it violates both state and federal law when advertised in newspapers or mailed media.
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Statesville
Greensboro Merchants’ Association
Manning
Greensboro
Charlotte Observer
Lenoir Hickory Concrete Road To Be Let Thursday
The 16 mile hard surfaced road project from Lenoir to the Catawba county line will be let on Thursday January 31 by the state highway commission. Cald well county bonds of 200000 support early construction. The asphalt with concrete base road follows an old route then shifts to the Catawba River crossing near the river cliffs and returns toward Hickory.
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Lenoir
Catawba County
State Highway Commission
Catawba River
Caldwell County
Loce v
Granite Falls
Philadelphia
Hickory
National wealth doubles in ten years cited at Anti-Saloon League
Bishop Thomas Nicholson of New York, president of the Anti-Saloon League, says prosperity from banks and life insurers, plus lower unemployment, shows prohibition's success. Senator Fess urges Congress to crack down on bootleggers, while home agents note 20 boys and 53 girls entered college last year as a youth outreach result.
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Broadway
Thomas Nicholoson
New York
Anti-Saloon League of America
Nicholson
Fess
Ohio
League
Congress
Training School hosts Dr Losey lectures amid cold Boone
Boone endures subzero cold as the Training School hosts Dr. Fredrick D. Losey for a fifth annual lecture series. He spoke on Othello interpretation humanity as an organism and language as thought, noting profanity signals intellectual poverty. A basketball doubleheader ended Mountain 383 Boone Public School 23 to 26 in favor of the visitors.
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Boone
Fredrick D. Losey
New York
Wordsworth
Mountain
Newland
Boone Public School
Local Church Sunday School Schedules and Activities
Local churches list Sunday School times from 9:45 to 10 a m with various superintendents. Morning worship at 11 and evening services noted. Luther Leagues, Light Brigade, and missionary societies held at different times. Public invited to services across Mt Pleasant Mt Zion and Grace Boone churches with multiple pastors and presidents named.
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Watauga
Holy Communion
Light Brigade
Perry Townsend
Woman
W. P. Townsnd
A. Townsend
H. W. Jeffcoat
Mt. Pleasant
Jacob Burkett
Luther League
Mt. Zion
Wm. Winebarger
Ed Lockabill
Grace—Boone
Baptist Church Sunday Services Schedule
Sunday School at 10 a.m. led by W R Gragg. preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Bicy.ch U. at. 6 p.m. Prayer service and choir practice 1 p.m. Wednesday. sermon topic Sunday morning Coveteousness. Quarterly communion next Sunday. cordial invitation extended. F M Huggins seeks lost keys with name on metal plate.
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Methodist Church
J. B. Steele
Epworth League
THE
Baptist Church
R. Gragg
F. M. Huggins
Farm and Home Agents Host 31 County Encampments
Farm and home agents organized 48 encampments and club trips in 31 counties last year. Attendance included 2,819 girls 1,628 boys and 5,617 visitors across the events.
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Harbor Police
Rumrunner
Cove Creek
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