Young People Conference at Banner Elk Ends June 15
The Young Peoples Conference of Appalachia plans a June 7 to June 15 gathering in Banner Elk North Carolina with 232 attendees last year. Delegates pay 2 dollars registration and a 12 dollar term board to cover leaders and expenses. Programs include Bible units Presbyterians Kingdom Highways Home Missions Stewardship Personal Evangelism and Leadership Training plus a late night sacraments service on Wednesday at 6 30 in the morning outdoors if possible.
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Banner Elk
Young Peoples’ Conference of
Roof Becomes Home Of Fish In Kansas
The Board of Trade building in Kansas City hosts an improvised rooftop aquarium. A 40 by 60 foot fish bowl on the fourth floor is kept full by a water stream and flooded 2 to 5 inches each summer to collect street dust. Stenographers conceived the idea and hire a janitor to maintain it. offices contribute fish and staff feed them from windows.
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Kansas City
Board of Trade
Womens feet increasing in length across England
English women’s feet have grown larger amid the athletics boom. A. Lilley, head of a major boot factory, notes demand now centers on sizes five and six, up from three and four, with the average British woman's foot enlarging about a size and a half in three years.
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London
Atlantic
America
A. Lilley
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist to Visit Boone Monthly
Dr C B Baughman of Elizabethton Tennessee will be in Dr J B Hagaman's Boone office on the first Monday each month for practice. BABY CHICKS REDUCED We sell high quality blood tested day old chicks at 8c with only three more hatches left. Wilkes Hatchery C C Gambill proprietor North Wilkesboro North Carolina.
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C. B. Baughman
Elizabethton
Tenn
J. B. Hagaman
Boone
Wilkes Hatchery
C. C. Gambill
North Wilkesboro
N. C
Calm Survey of Prohibition Is Made by Special Writer
Special writer Caleb Johnson reviews how prohibition spread, noting most U.S. territory was dry before the Eighteenth Amendment. He explains bootlegging profits, enforcement shifts to the DOJ in 1930, and the ongoing question whether a nationwide vote should decide prohibition.
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Caleb Johnson
The
Democrat
United States
Washington, D. C
New York City
New York
Buffalo
Frank Patton Gets Federal Job
Greensboro officials back Morganton lawyer Frank C. Patton for U S district attorney in the Western District of North Carolina. On the final ballot Patton led over Fred D. Hamrick 42 to 36, a majority, with Senate confirmation expected before adjournment. Jonas remains under a recess arrangement after Senate rejection of his nomination amid partisan concerns.
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Greensboro
Republican State Executive Committee
King Cotton Hotel
Frank C. Patton
Morganton
Hoover
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
United States
North Carolina
Patton
Fred D. Hamrick
Rutherfordton
Senate
Congress
Jonas
Thos. J. Harkins
Asheville
Cameron Morrison
Charlotte
J. W. Bailey
Raleigh
Religious Act Turns Visitor Into Jail In High Point
J R Wood attended church for the first time in two years to confess sins. finding pews full he sat on the floor. A stray dog joined him, prompting a deacon to call police. Wood received a six month suspended sentence for drunkenness in police court.
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High Point
J. R. Wood
Wood
National Wet or Dry Referendum Proposed in Election
The author argues that a nationwide popular referendum on prohibition would reveal public sentiment, noting the lack of reliable data on enforcement and opinions. They suggest submitting the wet or dry question in a national election as the best starting point for discussion.
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America
Boer Rebel Is Caught After Thirteen Year Hunt
A man identified by police as Captain Fritz Jaubert Duquesne and by himself as Frank De Trafford Craven was arrested at the Quigley Publishing Company after a global manhunt. He faces charges of involvement in the 1916 bombing and sinking of the steamer Tennyson off Bahia Brazil, and previously escaped Bellevue Hospital in 1919 while awaiting extradition to England for murder. London sources say Duquesne had been linked to Earl Kitchener’s death claim but was reportedly cleared of that charge.
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New York
Fritz Jaubert Duquesne
Frank de Trafford Craven
England
Duquesne
Quigley Publishing Company
Tennyson
Bahia
Brazil
Bellevue Hospital
London
Earl Kitchener
North Sea
H. M. S. Hampshire
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Roof
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J. W. Norris
Boone, N. C
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Lena Mae McEachin
Parkton
John Nance Garner
House of Representatives
Red River County
Texas
Texas House of Representatives
Ettie Rhemer
Treasury Department
Prohibition Enforcement
Treasury
Department of Justice
Feee
Frank Patton
U. S
Middle N. C
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Watauga County Bank
J. L. Wilson
Watauga County
Executive Committee
Bugs
Paris
Bordeaux
Wade McGhee
Farmers Hardware & Supply Company
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