Johnson County Building System of Good Roads
Johnson County advances in road building and industry as Doe Valley road nears completion linking Mountain City with Elizabethton and Johnson City. Butler gains Whitin Lumber and a furniture factory revival. Mountain City adds a reservoir and water supply, while farmers expect bountiful crops and renewed prosperity via paved highways and improved local outlets.
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Jim Rivers
Tennessee Line
Watauga
Tennessee
Johnson
County
Doe Valley
Mountain City
Elizabethton
Johnson City
Johnson County
Hley
Doe River
Old Springs College
Butler
Whiting Lumber Company
Roans Creek
Shoans
Captain Roby Brown
The
Mount Brothers
Johnny Martin loses job after off air remark
Johnny Martin, longtime CB C broadcasts figure, ends his program with a final goodnight. After venting frustration on air about fairies and children, several stations were still live and the Federal Radio Commission intervened six minutes later. Martin now seeks new employment.
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Johnny Martin
Sandman
Columbia Broadcasting Chain
Mr. Martin
Federal Radio Commission
Jesus Teaching In The Temple Sunday School Lesson
The lesson reviews Jesus teaching in Jerusalem after Palm Sunday, addressing taxes to Rome, resurrection, and the command to love God and neighbor. It notes authorities’ attempts to trap Him and highlights respond with dual duties to government and God, tying in temperance notes and pro and anti drink rhetoric.
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Jesus
Temple
Jerusalem
Bethany
Holy City
Monda
Palestine
Mount of Olives
Rome
Caesar
Edison
Ford
Masefield Named Poet Laureate of Great Britain
London reports John Masefield, famed for sea life and Britannia themes, appointed poet laureate by King George succeeding Robert Bridges. The post is honorary, its duties faded since Dryden’s pension era, though Masefield voices humility about writing on command. A French military plane crash in Lyons killed two airmen and injured a resident.
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London
England
John Masefield
Laureace
George
Masefield
Robert Bridges
Seven Seas
New York
Pacific Coast
Luke O’connor
Dryden
Tennyson
Beard’s Hill
Oxford
Texas Mob Burns Court House in Sherman Riot
A Friday mob in Sherman, Texas burned the Grayson County courthouse worth $60,000 after attempting to seize a jailed man. George Hughes, a Black man who had pleaded guilty to ousting a white woman, died in a fire that followed multiple clashes with officers using tear gas and clubs. The crowd also injured five white youths. one man reportedly shot during the unrest. The courthouse vault and structure were destroyed, and Hughes’s body was recovered from the ruins.
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Sherman
Texas
Grayson County Court House
George Hughes
Hughes
Texas S
Arthur Vaughan
Pilot Battles Drunken Passenger 3000 Feet Up
In New York a two minute flight at 3000 feet ended with pilot Tex Anding defending the craft from an intoxicated man who attempted to seize controls. After a furious struggle Anding knocked the intruder unconscious with a chin blow and landed safely. Five passengers rode for $1 each, including two women. The assailant escaped and was not caught.
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New York
Tex Anding
Gates
Jackson Heights
Anding
Ask Your Soldier Boy How Cooties Took Hold
Wartime appeal describes rats carrying vermin at European battlefronts and urges use of RAT-SNAP to prevent home infestations. Three sizes priced 35e, 65c, and 1.25. Sold and guaranteed by Boone Drug Company and partners in Boone, Hodges Drug, and D. P. Coffey in Blowing Rock.
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Europe
Boone Drug Company
Boone Hodges Drug Company
Boone
D. P. Coffey
Blowing Rock
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Johnson County Building System OF Good Roads
Shenandoah Valley
Suzanne Pollard
Pollard
Virginia
Winchester
Shenandoah
Samuel D. Price
Great Britain
Lyons
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senator Deneen
U.S
Illinois
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Burns Court House
Ice
Libby
Monarch
L. M. Farthing
Watauga County
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