Four Witherspoon sisters among victims of drunken car crash
Sunday tragedy on the Sparta Jefferson highway left Miss Tottie Devine Witherspoon dead and Flora Witherspoon Ray Kathleen Witherspoon plus Ray Witherspoon hurt after a speeding car driven by Oscar Bare and passenger Biddie Wagoner, both intoxicated, swerved off the road. The car dragged bodies about thirty six feet. Bare and Wagoner were jailed. Flora Witherspoon Ray survived, though badly injured. Tottie was the oldest daughter of A. G. Witherspoon and Mrs. Geneva Shatley Witherspoon and a prominent community figure.
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Skyland Post
Misses Tottie
Flora
Ray
Kathleen Witherspoon
Sparta-Jefferson
Tottie Witherspoon
Kathleen
A. G. Witherspoon
Mr. Witherspoon
David Burkett
Oscar Bare
Biddie Wagoner
Miss Tottie Devine Witherspoon
Geneva Shatley Witherspoon
Summer garden work starts next month urges horticulturist
E B Morrow, extension horticulturist at State College, notes June garden work sets summer value and advises irrigation if needed. He recommends deep planting for tomatoes and asparagus, continuous succession plantings for sweet corn, early runners for strawberries, Bordeaux spray for cantaloupe, and June vine cuttings for sweet potatoes to avoid disease.
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E. B. Morrow
State College
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Specialist Visits Boone Monthly
Dr. C B Baughman of Elizabethton Tennessee will be in Dr J B Hagaman’s Boone office on the first Monday of each month for his practice. Also help wanted steady farm work in Watauga County with no experience required. McNess Company seeks farmers. S C Eggers seeks houses or rooms for rent in Boone with applications on hand.
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C. B. Baughman
Elizabethton
Tenn
J. B. Hagaman
Boone
Watauga County
McNess Company
Dept
Pf Freeport
Illinois
S. C. Eggers
Itp
Gold And Its Bearing on World Affairs Has Enlightening Story
A special column explains how international gold reserves work and why large gold shipments from New York to Europe last autumn were not a sign of a dollar collapse. It outlines ear marked reserves, deposits with the Fed, and the Genoa plan's impact plus the shift toward silver as a monetary basis.
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Caleb (Johnson
The
Democrat
Congress
United States
Europe
New York
Federal Reserve Bank
United States Treasury
Federal Reserve Bank of the
America
Treasury
International Conference of Financial Experts
Genoa
Italy
Holland
Belgium
Switzerland
Bank of France
England
London
Federal Reserve
Ontario
Canada
Kirkland Lake
Land and labor themes echo from Ford to England
The piece links land ownership to employment, noting Ford's 20000 acre Dearborn estate and IHMs miniature farms for laid off workers. It cites a Czech report praising land based worker support and recalls England’s landless stigma while warning against introducing wildlife from abroad. It also notes pests and a 106 year old Englishwoman who lived without gas or electricity, musing on simpler indoor life.
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Ford
Dearborn
International Harvester Company
Czecho-Slovakia
England
Veteran NYC store clerk marks 70 years of service at Arnold Constable
William Creamer, nearly 81, celebrated seventy years at Arnold Constable and Company in New York, starting at age ten. He recalls serving famous figures such as Mrs Lincoln and Mrs Grant, and even a Roosevelt son shopper, finding romance in his long career. The piece praises his steadfast devotion and memories.
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William Creamer
New York
Arnold, Constable and Company
United States
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Ashe
Biddie Wagner
J. L. Qualls
Boone, N. C
Wilkes Hatchery
C. C. Gambill
North Wilkesboro
N. C
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Dutchess County
Harvard
Columbia Law School
Anna Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Wilson
North America
Australia
Arabella Bridgeman
Hartford Electric Light Company
Connecticut
Hartford
Power Trust
Watauga County Bank
Goodyear Speedway
Rg.Cl
Goodyear Pathfinder
Sore
Pia Ea Ae Es Tube
Goodyear
Central Tire,Co
A. E. Hodges
Boone, North Carolina
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