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Newspaper

Watauga Democrat

Location

Boone, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Jul 26, 1923

Page

2

Realtors and building and loan associations in Philadelphia

Samuel Stern argues real estate professionals should support building and loan associations as they fund mortgage loans from member savings. He urges Realtors to promote new associations, notes cooperative efforts by leagues, and explains loan disposition priorities and the Realtor’s essential role in funding home sales.

Philadelphia Homes Samuel Stern Pennsylvania Real Estate Association Stern National Association of Real Estate Boards Cleveland Ohio Building and Loan Association Building and Loan Associations United States League of Building and Loan Associations National Association of Realtors G Andi Ng Newsre Building Association Philadel- Real Estate Board Building and Loan Association Committee Lea P Ty Association Building Associations of Association Bulletin

Illiteracy in the United States Debate at Commission Meeting

Mrs Cora Wilson Steward, chair of the United States Illiteracy Commission, urged delegates to consider how widespread schooling should enable universal reading and writing. She argued curiosity and incentives should drive literacy as newspapers and thoughts demand expression.

United States Cora Wilson Steward

Literacy census prompts national education effort in 1910s

In San Francisco the National Education Association delegates discuss a literacy census showing ten million Americans illiterate and another ten million near illiterate. They warn that widespread illiteracy weakens commerce, governance, and national leadership, urging universal schooling to preserve the republic.

National Education Association San Francisco United States Sterada Republic

Community promotes home ownership through shared ownership plan

Town and county leaders call on residents to build or repair homes by offering shares to participate in a community ownership program aimed at expanding home ownership. The effort emphasizes broad citizen participation and cooperative investment.

Life and opportunity in a republic quote from Statesville Daily

The text asserts that citizens should bring life with the best equipment moral mental and physical for success and happiness. It argues for equality of opportunity or fullness of opportunity and equates this with mental efficiency, insisting every inhabitant should know how to read and write and that illiteracy should be virtually eliminated in a republic.

Republic Statesville

Pump with so much style inspires town pride

In a humorous verse Uncle Walt Mason praises Hugh Hengag for brightening his shack and farm with paint and flair. The town of Punktown is urged to celebrate neighbors, share encouragement, and boost community spirit to outshine rivals.

Hugh Hengag Halso Nile Hugh Hengag Johnsing Burg Walt Mason

It's A Fair Exchange With A Bank And The Paper Trail

A business man places his money in a trustworthy bank and receives a ledger recording the transaction. With this book he pays by check and conducts affairs on paper, solidifying his financial standing through the bank's probity and a short road.

Black Draught: A Biloxi Woman’s Liver Relief Story

Mrs. Alonzo Ford of Biloxi describes a year of nervous indigestion and constipation eased by Thedford’s Black-Draught liver medicine. She reports improved color, less pain, and reduced nightly laxative use after starting the remedy, and notes it also helped her mother.

Biloxi Miss Alonzo Ford Clay Street

Also Mentioned on This Page

Uilding and Loan Associations the Realtors Ihe Erican Tobacco CO Majestic A. E. South W. A. Gragg I. G. Greer David Bingham L. R. Bingham Larney Bingham Dudley Farthing G. P. Hagaman L. D. Woodard N. L. Perkins J. F. Hardin B. J. Councill A. G. Cook J. A. Sproles L. T. Tatum Miss Pearl Bridges Qualls’ Hardware Store The Watauga Building and Loan Association P. O Watauga Building & Loan Association D. J. Cotterel H. H. Greene Sec Treas Wee I. G. Greer W. H. Gragg J. P. Hodges R. L. Bingham J. E. Brown O. L. Coffey T. J. Coffey W. L. Holshouser J .T. Miller Cial Bank Blowing Rock, N. C Pany Thedford USCO J. B. Taylor J. H. van Cannon Banners Elk N. C
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