Native Carolina woman pictured on Mothers Day stamp
The Mothers Day stamp honors Anna Matilda McNeill Whistler, mother of James McNeill Whistler. Born in Bladen County, she raised her son in scholarly circles before his rise as a painter. The piece praised her modest devotion and influence on Whistler and American motherhood.
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Carolina
Anna Matilda McNeill
James McNeill Whistler
Bladen County
North Carolina
George Washington Whistler
New England
Old North
McLeans
McDuffys
McNeills
Jamie
Whistier
Peter the Great
Peterhof Palace
West Point
Robert E. Lee
Russia
Carlyle
Swinborne
Algernon
Whistler
America
Georges Clemenceau
Louvre
Morganton News-Herald
Calcium arsenate used to control Colorado potato beetle
Extension entomologist C H Brannon notes ordinary calcium arsenate, used for boll weevil control, is effective and economical for potato bugs. Dust or spray methods are viable. dust covers plants well, spray mixes include two pounds per 50 gallons or 10 tablespoons per three gallons. Apply as bugs appear and repeat as infestations continue. Ruby Travis, a 4 H club girl, raised 102 turkeys from six hens for a $220 gross income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Brannon
State College
Ruby Travis
Catawba County
Three Admin Leaders Speak on New Deal Direction
The Week in Washington reports interviews with President Roosevelt General Hugh Johnson and Rexford Tugwell. They discuss criticisms of the New Deal, inflation fears, government borrowing, and aims to invite private investment while resisting remonetization of silver and maintaining social regeneration through federal aid.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hugh Johnson
Rexford Tugwell
General Johnson
Dr. Tugwell
Tugwell
Business
Industry
Bankhead
Lankhead
Tugwell and New Deal policies spark debate on job creation
The article argues the NRA burden shifts, previews a large building trades plan to reuse idle capital in homes, and outlines Tugwell’s defense of reform. It notes opposition focusing on TVA, irrigation, farm land moves, and urban population shifts, with a forecast of city population reductions.
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NRA
Federal Reserve Banks
Tugwell
Tennessee Valley Development
Community Visitors and Local Hospitality Notes
Mr and Mrs Wade Reece and daughter Sue and Miss Madge Reece visited from Bristol for the weekend. Visitors from Elizabethton and Cleveland include Willie Roten and friends, Lee Wilson, Hunter Grogan, and others. Cemetery work day set for Thursday. Birth announced for a son to Mr and Mrs Fred Farthing in Wytheville Va. Mrs Farthing formerly Miss Effie Winnebarger of this place.
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Wade Reece
Sue
Madge Reece
Bristol
Willie Roten
Elizabethton
Tenn
Charles A. Greer
John Adams
Arthur
Kingsport
G. C. Greer
Howard Greer
Denver Church
Fred Castle
Butler
Link Culver
Lee Wilson
Hunter Grogan
Cleveland
Ohio
Anna Lou Greene
Sugar Grove
Don Campbell
Orrin Stephens
Henry Miller
Fred Farthing
Wytheville, Va
Junior Birdmen of America Promote Flying Club
Boys and girls invited to join the Junior Birdmen of America with pins prizes and training on aviation. Full details available in the Baltimore Sunday American and the Baltimore News and Post. Obtain the paper from a local newsboy or newsdealer.
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Birdmen of America
Baltimore Sunday American
Baltimore News and Post
Cinders to Sales and Weekend Visits Across Town
Mrs. Marshal Edmiston visited her sister on Thursday. Mrs. Roby Vines and children visited Mr. Frank Vines on Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walker from Virginia visit Aunt Alice Palmer and others over the weekend. Several locals toured Watauga River area and Bethel Sunday School enjoys strong attendance while farmers work whenever weather allows.
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Marshal Edmiston
Will Farthing
Roby Vines
Frank Vines
Richard Walker
Virginia
Walker
Alice Palmer
Ford Henson
Martha Jean
Spencer Rominger
Vance Hermon
Watauga River
George Edmiston
Missie Lena
Claudia Ward
Edith Anderson
Dee Moore
Roy Anderson
Hattie Vines
Roy Brown
Boone
Bethel
F F A Tryouts Highlight District Speech Contest
Three FFA chapters competed in April in the college building to earn a district speaker slot. Bill King spoke on cooperation with farmers, Fleenor Hodges on The Farm Home, and Monroe Johnson on The New Deal. Johnston of Booneville won first, Hodges second, King third.
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Future Farmers of America
Cranberry
Bill King
Cove Creek
Fleenor Hodges
Booneville
Monroe Johnson
Johnston
Hodges
King of
Grand Jury Reports Repairs Needed in Watauga County 1934
The grand jury reports to the April term of the Superior Court for Watauga County that county buildings show good maintenance but require repairs. They urge roof, porch, ceiling, and plaster fixes at the County Home, cemetery cleanup and fencing, woodshed roof repair, and a flooded jail floor remedy with a first floor valve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. P. Wyke
Watauga County
Board of County Commiss Nare
Grand Jury
Secrets of Bertillon Cleared in Detective Police
In the American Weekly issue dated May 6 the Baltimore Sunday American highlights how Bertillon methods solve baffling mysteries as part of a feature on the French detective police. Read about the starling facts and techniques revealed to readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertillon
Baltimore Sunday American
Newsdealer
Newsboy
Also Mentioned on This Page
NCAA
New York
Alton A. Small
Johnson
Zionville News
Fist of Fate
Gordon H. Winkler Watauga County Bank Building
Boone, N. C
Cinders
Chicago
Betty Robinson
Mother
Friend
Goodyear
Hodges Tire Co
Boone, North Carolina
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