Notable Disasters and Honors Sweep Across World Headlines
A look at brief world items includes Frank Lockhart’s death in a Daytona Beach crash at 200 mph from a tire blowout. Four Nolichucky River boys drown in Tennessee with a rescuer saving a fifth. A Chicago death tie with a man and boy found hanging, and Illinois congressman Martin Madden dies at 73.
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Frank Lockhart
Indianapolis
Daytona Beach
Fla
Irwin, Tenn
Nolichucky River
Chicago
Martin B. Madden
Illinois
Congress
House of Representatives
Capitol
Mr. Madden
The Life of a Dollar Recorded by Waukegan Commerce
A Durham Herald summary of a Waukegan Illinois chamber initiative tracking a single dollar bill as it changed hands over fourteen days. It notes repeated uses for salary tobacco cigarettes candy and various goods, with counts and outcomes. The bill remained unused for church or theater, returning worn and dejected.
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Waukegan
Durham Herald
Kill the Potato Bugs With Calcium Arsenate
Raleigh reports calcium arsenate, a favored poison for cotton boll weevil, also effective against Colorado potato beetle. Entomologist C H Brannon notes it is cheap and works as dust or spray when applied properly. Begin treatment as beetles appear and repeat as populations rise.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
C. H. Brannon
State College
Demand and Supply Country-bred Maid
A humorous aside from a German source notes a author who writes at length versus the ease of buying a sixpence novel. The fragment highlights modern trends in literature and consumer choice with a wry tone.
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Ster
Fliegende Blaetter
Munich
Itinerant remark on skyscraper design sparks snide rebuke
A passerby admires a tall building and wonders at its many tiers. A man retorts the design came from a mockingly branded snivel engineer, reflecting urban construction culture.
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Snivel
Little Mary Martha Bingham Celebrates First Birthday
Mary Martha Bingham daughter of Mr and Mrs C M Bingham hosted a Tuesday party at her Vilas home. Guests enjoyed bridges and old fashioned games with pink and white decorations. Mrs Hard Brown won the contest prize and cake with one candle served as centerpiece.
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Mary Martha’ Bingham
C. M. Bingham
Vilas
Hard Brown
Floyd Smith
Luther Bingham
Mary Martha
Geraldine
Luther Martin Bingham
Lewis Reece
Jean Reece
R. N. Brooks
Robert Brooks
Paul Smith
Ralph Fulkerson
Annie Rose Fulkerson
Virginia Bingham
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News OF World
Ames Jr. Walker
New York City
Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association
Stone Mountain Memorial
Hollis N Randolph
League of Women Voters
League
New York
Bremen
James Fitzmaurice
Baron Gunther von Huenefeld
Hermann Koehl
Rome
New
Atlanta
Bolling Field
Washington
Hadley Field
New Brunswick
N. J
Greensboro
Pension Bureau
Floyd Bennett
Byrd
North Pole
Bennett
Arlington National Cemetery
Pole
Air Fraternity
Atlantic
Blue Jacket
Kansas City
Europe
Methodist Episcopal Church
Anton Bast
Denmark
John P. Ingersleen
Jerusalem Church
Copenhagen
Bishop Best
Ingerslew
America
Baltimore
Bishop Bast
Ingerslow
Boston
Bast
F. M. Maltea Boone
N. C
Detroit
Dovce
Dodge Brothers
Midland
Mary Marth Bingham
Kotianceeaw
NNEW
Les Chevrolet
Fisher
Santa Onis
Boone Chevrolet Go
Boone, N. C
Boone Hardware Co
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