Redheaded Workers Claim Higher Efficiency in NYC
A New York restaurant fired its entire female staff and now hires 55 redheaded waitresses, with management claiming greatly improved service. A local manufacturer also staffs many redheaded workers, including hundreds of men and women. Scientists link red hair to Scandinavian blood, while the author favors the view that red hair signals quick intelligence and heightened nervous energy.
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New York
New Yorker
Gambling Brothers Win Derby Sweepstakes Grand Prize
Two Dougherty brothers paid $1 for a Canadian sweepstakes ticket tied to the Derby horserace and won 179600 dollars. They traveled to Canada to collect the prize. The piece cautions that sudden wealth often ruins people and contrasts luck with earned success.
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Dougherty
Canada
New Orleans
Astors
Vanderbilts
Names for Planets and Towns Reflect Naming Traditions
The piece contrasts classical naming of planets like Pluto with American town naming, noting New York officials once used Greek and Roman names for townships, producing places such as Syracuse Rome Utica Troy Niobe Ilion Ithaca Carthage Pompey. It cites Portland Oregon and St Petersburg Florida as examples of name origins from founders' choices.
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Pluto
Mars
Venus
Neptune
Saturn
New York
Greece
Rome
Syracuse
Utica
Troy
Niobe
Ilion
Ithaca
Carthage
Pompey
America
Chatham
North Chatham
East Chatham
Chatham Centre
Old Chatham
Portland
Oregon
Boston
Maine
St. Petersburg, Fla
Pioneers Explore Unmapped Alaska and Global Frontiers
The piece notes Alaska remains largely unexplored as young American engineers plan a highway survey through remote terrain. It also mentions a German noblebound for Peru with U S engineers to assess an Andes railroad and an American engineer headed to Abyssinia to build a dam. The author lauds enduring pioneering spirit driving global discovery.
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Alaska
Alaskan
Peru
Andes
Abyssinia
United States
Revival of Great Lakes Sea Channel Debate
A renewed push to connect the Great Lakes to the sea via a ship canal gains traction. Proponents propose either an international route via the St Lawrence or the Erie Canal takeover from Buffalo to Albany. Army engineers deem a 25 foot or deeper New York to Buffalo channel feasible despite railroad opposition.
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Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
Buffalo
Lake Erie
Albany
Hudson River
New York
Six Airplanes Fly Over West Jefferson Town
A cordon of six planes passed over West Jefferson last Thursday morning heading west. The group appeared first to the east, and residents called this the largest number of airplanes seen crossing the county with noticeable movement about their destination.
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West Jefferson
Raleigh Democrats Gather for Harmony Convention
About two thousand North Carolina Democrats from all counties met in Raleigh for a party convention featuring platform debates on taxes and school terms. Speakers included Josiah Bailey Governor Gardner Clyde Hoey and Judge Varser as keynote, praising Democratic unity and criticizing Hoover Republicans.
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Josiah Bailey
O. Max Gardner
Clyde R. Hoey
Raleigh
Harmony
Hoover
North Carolina
L R. Varser
Lumberton
Josiah William Bailey
Shelby
A. L. Brooks
Greensboro
O. M. Mull
Judge Varser
Lindsay Warren
Varser
Gardner
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
White House
Permanent Organization Committee
Warren
John A. McRae
Charlotte
Josiah W. Bailey
Commonwealth
Republic
Bailey
Association For the Advancement of the Colored People
Ambassador Morrow
Clyde Hoey
Eleven Rural Schools Open Regular Six Month Term
Eleven public schools opened for the six month term under County Superintendent Smith Hagaman with several new buildings and extensive repairs. Schools listed include Mable North Fork Poplar Grove Rutherwood Meadow Creek Lower Elk Cool Springs Shawneehaw Skulls Mills Tracy Pottertown and others. Consolidations will move Whiting Boone Fork Bradshaw Penley Phillips Mast to nearby sites to improve access and save about 1150 in taxes.
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Smith Hagaman
Mable
Arthur Thomas
Hazel Norris
Effie Winebarger
North Fork
Lillian Thomas
Poplar Grove
Lula Austin
Rutherwood
Mollie Wheeler
Cool Springs
Dewey Mitchell
Shawneehaw
Mr. Triplett
Skulls Mills
Pearl Luttrell
Hazel Fox
Tracy
Nell Thomas
Pottertown
Roby Trivett
Ola Winebarger
Castle District
Todd
Liberty Hill
Grandfather
Board of Education
Hagaman
Ernest
Whiting
Boone Fork
Blowing Rock
Bradshaw and
Penley
Phillips
Mast
Cove Creek
Minister Conference Set for July Fourteen at Watauga
The Watauga County Baptist Ministers Conference will meet July 14 1930 at 10 a m with Proffitt's Grove Baptist Church. The program includes devotional services enlistment of youth and laymen how to foster Baptist fellowship a dinner a women’s enlistment and church financing business and adjournment. Pastors deacons Sunday School superintendents and church leaders are invited and urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watauga County Baptiist Ministers’ Conference
Proffitt’s Grove Baptist ‘Wen
G. M. ‘Oulton
Roy Dotson
I. G. Greer
S. C. Blackburn
W. C. Payne
Smith Hagaman
H. M. Winkler
Hooverization Debate Sizzles In 1930 Campaign Convention
A lively address criticizes Republicans for supposedly winning the 1928 election by false pretense. The speaker attacks Hoover’s influence on the nation and calls for accountability. A. L. Brooks and Walter D. Siler participate as platform figures with debate over party loyalty and timing.
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Hoover
A. L. Brooks
Greensboro
Brooks
Harmony
Walter D. Siler
Fiddlers Convention Highlights Walton League Gains
The Izaak Walton League hosted a three variety trout fundraiser at a courthouse event. Winners received prizes from $1 to $10 for categories like String Band Violin Banjo and Guitar. Net proceeds exceed three hundred dollars for rearing 150000 trout at the Rutherwood hatchery. The league plans releasing rainbow European brown and brook trout once five to six inches long, boosting local fishing waters.
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Watt H. Gragg
Midnight Raiders
Blue Ridge Log Rollers
Greer Sisters
Carter Farthing
Charles Isaacs
Tom Reese
Poss Foster
John Sikes
George Farthing
Tell Reed
Burl Osiborne
Mable Cook
Minnie Greer
Ray Brendall
Jay Ballard
Ben Miller
Erwin Ballard
J. W. Bryan
Ethel Grogan
M. G. Reese
Rutherwood Hatchery
League
113th Field Artillery to Hold Annual Reunion
The 113th Field Artillery Reunion Committee set August 15–16, 1930 at Fort Bragg for the Second Triennial Reunion. The NC unit, mainly Tar Heel in makeup, will host veterans with a $3 registration covering meals and lodging for two days. WWII-era veterans from Raleigh, Durham, New Bern and other towns invited. Watauga County contributed nearly twenty members.
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113Th Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
Tar Heel
Raleigh
Durham
Washington
New Bern
Wilmington
Wadesboro
Monroe
Mooresville
Lenoir
Concord Winston-Salem
Kannapolis
Watauga County
113Th F. A
Bulwinkle Leads Jones by 2051 in Ninth District Runoff
An unofficial tabulation of complete precinct returns in the Ninth District shows A. L. Bulwinkle of Gastonia leading Hamilton C. Jones by 2,051 votes in the run off for the district nomination to Congress. Bulwinkle carried seven of ten counties and will face incumbent Congressman Charles A. Jonas in the general election.
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Charlotte
A. L. Bulwinkle
Gastonia
Hamilton C. Jones
Bulwinkle
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
Water ban urged as town conserves supply
The Board of Aldermen has ordered a halt to using city water for irrigation until reservoir levels recover. Officials warn the unusually dry season has pushed supply to a danger point and urge full citizen cooperation. Water may be used only for household purposes for now.
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Board of Aldermen
Seining Fish Banned in County by State Officials
Director Harrelson of the Department of Conservation and Development Raleigh warns against net and gig fishing in this county and urges use of hook and line even for coarse fish. County Warden Farthing pledges strict enforcement to protect local fish.
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Harrelson
Department of Conservation and Development
Raleigh
H. G. Farthing
Warden Farthing
Dollar Bill Play Draws Large Local Crowd
A large crowd attended Tuesday afternoon and night as the United Daughters of the Confederacy presented the musical comedy Dollar Bill. The show featured a large, well coached cast under Miss Eileen Lewis and proceeds benefit U D C charitable aims.
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United Daughters of the Confederacy
Eileen Lewis
Atlanta
U D. C
Use Your Bottom Land For The Fall Garden
E B Morrow extension horticulturist urges fall garden on moist bottom lands with irrigation or thorough soil pulverization. Overhead irrigation suits plots over a half acre. smaller areas rely on hose watering. Planting too late risks frost, warns Morrow.
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E. B. Morrow
State College
Morrow
Prohibition Agents Seize 100 Distilleries in Eastern North Carolina
Federal officers report 100 distilleries seized in June in eastern North Carolina, along with 448 gallons of whisky and 75 845 gallons of beer. The tally includes 450 fermenters and seven cars, with 48 arrests. Agent P L Flinchum was killed in the line of duty during a clash with rum runners near Goldsboro.
Caldwell prisoner attempts self harm with razor blade
Dan Gray, inmate at Caldwell County Jail, tried to kill himself with a safety razor before daybreak. The wounds are healing and his condition is not serious. A separate note says a disabled English soldier was ordered to pay $52.50 rent arrears at 50 cents a month, spanning about nine years.
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Lenoir
Dan Gray
Caldwell County
Gray
Newmarket
England
Editors urged to visit Watauga County during Blowing Rock meeting
North Carolina editors invited by Boone Civitan Club to tour Watauga County during the NC Press Association convention at Blowing Rock. Josiah William Bailey will address the gathering while John E. Allen speaks earlier. editors may dine in Boone and tour local farms and industry.
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Bers
The
North Carolina Press
Wataugas
Blowing Rock
Josiah W. Bailey
Boone Civitan Club
North Carolina
Boone
Josiah William Bailey
United States Senate
John E. Allen
Linotype News
New York
Charlotte Observer
Observer
Watauga County
Watauga
State Press Association
Watauga Democrat
Dougherty Brothers
Association
North Carolina Farm Convention Sets Week of Meetings
The twenty-eighth annual North Carolina Farmers and Farm Women's Convention at State College runs July 28 to August 1. The program includes the Crop Improvement Association, Home Demonstration Clubs, Co operative Cotton Association, and Beekeepers Association. Fort Bragg band will perform. lectures repeat in mornings. contests and visits to Raleigh sites planned. Master Farm Homemakers will be honored. Dr William Louis Poteat and Dr Frank Graham to speak. Mrs W C Poll and B B Everett named leaders.
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North Carolina Farmers’ and
Farm Women’s Convention
State College
I. O. Schaub
North Carolina Crop Improvement Association
North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs
North Carolina Co-operative Cotton Association
North Carolina State Beekeepers Association
Schaub
Fort Bragg
Raleigh
College
Farmer’s Wife
National Farm
William Louis Poteat
Wake Forest College
Frank Graham
State University
State Federation of Home Demonstration Clubs
B. B. Everett
Palmyra
W. C. Poll
Elmwood
Federation of Farm Women
Jolson to Star in Mammy at Pastime Theatre
Al Jolson and Irvin Berlin team for the Jolson Warner Brothers Technicolor musical Mammy arriving at the Pastime Theatre the first three days of next week. Berlin writes the play source for the film and supplies its melodies Jolson delivers in his signature style alongside a stellar supporting cast.
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al Jolson
Irvin Berlin
Jolson
Warner Brothers
Berlin
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