Roosevelt Cabinet Picks Reflect Regional Balance
President elect Roosevelt names a 10 member cabinet with three from the South three from the East two from the West and two from the mid West. Daniel C Roper of South Carolina named Secretary of Commerce. Other appointments include Hull Treasury Woodin War Dern Justice Walsh Farley Navy Swanson Interior Ickes Agriculture Wallace and Labor Perkins. The lineup shows past Republican ties for Woodin and Ickes and Wallace as son of Harding era official.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House Council
mid-West
Daniel C. Roper
South Carolina
Homer Cummings
Connecticut
Philippines
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Cordell Hull
Tennessee
Treasury
William H. Woodin
Pennsylvania
New York
George H. Dern
Utah
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
James A. Farley
Navy
Claude A. Swanson
Virginia
Harold Ickes
Illinois
Henry A. Wallace
Town
Frances Perkins
Capitol Hill
Woodin and
Ickes
Wallace
Harding
Vinci iron tonic ad urges curves for women
An advertisement from Vatauga Drug Store promotes Vinci iron tonic with bold claims that it improves a woman's figure and tastes delicious. The copy urges filling thin places and achieving curves men admire.
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Vinci
Vatauga Drug Store
Welfare Department Names Crop Committee
The county welfare board appointed food crop committees in each township to organize families to plant gardens and fields for home consumption and sale. They will identify relief cases and assign volunteers to help with lands seeds and ongoing aid as planting season begins.
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County Welfare Board
Boone
Joseph C. Hodges
Tracy Councill
L. H. Hollers
Bald Mountain
W. N. Howell
Willett Miller
John Cox
Beaver Dam
Lee Swift
Jim Farthing
Wade Greene
Blowing Rock
Grady Greer
Arthur Moody
Ed Underdown
Blue Ridge
Banner Elk Power Plant Cuts Light Rates Across Board
The Edgar Tufts Memorial Association power plant in Banner Elk announces rate reductions effective April 1 for all customers. The new schedule lowers charges by about 3 to over 100 percent depending on usage, applies to residential, commercial, and motor power, and extends lines to Matney for first-time service.
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Banner Elk
Matney
Notice of Trustee Sale on Hodges Property in Boone North Carolina
Trustee W. H. Gragg will sell at Boone courthouse door on March 27 1933 at 1 pm the 15 acre 88 square rod tract bought from I J McGinnis and conveyed to Carl Hodges and wife Alice Hodges to satisfy $400 debt to Watauga Building and Loan Association. sale subject to prior liens and legal formalities. Trivette and Holshouser attorneys represent the trust.
Triangular Debate at Lees McRae College Tonight
Lees McRae Rutherford and Wingate colleges hold a triangular debate tonight in Banner Elk. The Lees McRae affirmative meets Wingate negative here, while Lees McRae negative confronts Rutherford affirmative. The topic: cancel all inter Allied war debts. Judges include J D Rankin, J C Shel, and Charles Hughes.
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Rutherford
Lees-McRae
Melvin Sumpter
Floyd
John Forbes
Roan Mountain
Tenn
Wingate
Fate Bear
Swannanoa
Alex Arledge
Hendersonville
Wingate College
Ruth Perry
Brevard
Abbie Seals
Bridgewater
Susie Glenn
Sherwood
Sarah Ramseur
Pineola
Lees-McRae College to Dig Large New Water Well
A contract with an eastern Tennessee firm funds a large drinking water well on the Ed gar Tufts Memorial Association property between Lees-McRae College and Grandfather Orphans Home. The project accompanies Wildcat Lake dam construction to create a stable water supply for power and domestic use. The well will draw clear mountain water, aided by a donated mile of pipe from a Banner Elk benefactor.
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Banner Elk
Ontaroga yearbook published by Lees McRae students
Lees McRae College students in Banner Elk plan to publish the Ontaroga senior album for 1930 run by editor Charles Weaver of Lansing and business manager Sarah Ramseur of Pineola with photos by L Davis Phillips the annual to be issued May 25th.
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Lees- McRae College
L. Davis Philips
Charlotte
Charles Weaver
Lansing
Sarah Ramseur
Pineola
Robert Agle
Albemarle
Lloyd Blalock
Tularosa
N. Mex
Melvin Sumpter
Floyd
Edgar Greene
Sugar Grove
Notice of Trustee Sale on Hodges Lot in Watauga County
By virtue of a deed of trust dated October 7 1930 to secure 1300 dollars with Watauga Building and Loan Association the loan is in default. The undersigned will sell at the courthouse door in Watauga County on April 1 1983 at 1 00 p m to the highest cash bidder the described real estate beginning at the northwest corner of a lot on King Street running east 21 feet to the wall of the old Methodist Church then 76 feet south 21 feet west to a lake and 76 feet to the start containing 1596 square feet more or less.
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Carl Hodges
Alice Hodges
Watauga Building and Loan Association
Boone
N. C
Andy Teague
Teague
W. R. Gragg
I. J. McGinnis
R. B. Hodges
Maude Hodges
Register of Deeds
Watauga County
R. C. Rivers
W. S. Christian
Henry Hardin
King Street
Old Methodist Church
State to distribute 125000 garden seed packages
Raleigh reports 125000 packages of garden seeds were awarded by the State Department of Purchase and Contract to aid destitute families through the Governor's Office of Relief. Families plant gardens to become self supporting with county farm agents and relief directors coordinating, aided by a planting calendar and budgeting guide from extension services.
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Raleigh
N. C
State Department of
Governor’s Office of Relief
State College Extension Service
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Claude Swanson
Norman Davis
Norman H. Davis
Pastime Theatre
Joan Blondel
Ricardo Cortez
INI
Miriam Hopkins
Kay Francis
Wallace Beery
Jean Hersholt
FLESH
George O’brien
Zane Grey
Welfare Department
W. H. Gragg
Trivette & Holshouser
Attorneys
Lees McRae College
George Hill
University of Tennessee
H. C. Amick
Lees-Mcrae College
Presbyterian College
Cto
Carolina
Carolina People
Rexall
France
Boone Drug Company
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