Washington Whirl Over Shriners Convention Hype
Washington hums as Shriners head to town with a moratorium on normal business. The White House bleachers rise and traffic is redirected while vendors fear shortages and prices rise for invited crowds and visitors.
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Washington City
Greensboro
Washington
Shriners
Supreme Court
Coney Island
United
White House
Harding
Treasury
John Howard
Visitor buys plot next to White House in Washington
A visitor, guided by a pretend real estate agent, purchased a property near the White House for $125 down as Washington hosted its first convention, highlighting the town’s small scale.
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Payne
White House
Washington
Saving the garden crop by timely spraying tips
G W Fant extension plant disease worker for the State College and State Department of Agriculture urges timely spraying to protect home gardens from disease and reduce grocery bills. He notes tomatoes grape fruit rot and wilt diseases. recommends Bordeaux mixture arsenate of lead for pests. suggests soil borne wilt can be managed with resistant varieties and that spraying watermelons muskmelons celery in beds and fields yields healthier crops.
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G. W. Fant
State College
State Department of Agriculture
Division of Plant Diseases, State College
Raleigh
Mildew on Roses Causes and Control Tips
The reader recommends early morning dusting with sulphur to prevent mildew spread on rose bushes and repeated dusting after blossoming and before spring blooming. If spray is used lime sulphur diluted 1 to 50, apply near bloom time to avoid paint staining and foliage discoloration.
Church Built With Fifty Cents Orphanage Tale
Fifteen years ago a crippled boy named Little Joe at Barum Springs orphanage whispered a wish for a church on campus. His hidden fifty cent treasure funded a porch lined church, growing into a $10 000 campaign and the present Little Joe’s Church, a testament to generosity and faith.
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Joe Gilland
Presbyterian
Barum Springs
Little Joe
Joe
Reilley
Little Joe's
Farmers of Halifax County Build Seed Breeders Network
Farmers in Halifax County bought 6000 baby chicks and formed a seed breeders association with Holstein and Guernsey cattle. They also sold a carload of graded sweet potatoes in Los Angeles at 95 cents per bushel, per county agent reports via Cot Agent.
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Halifax County
Los Angeles
California
John B. Steele
Notice of Execution Sale in Watauga County
Sheriff C M Critcher will sell on July 2 1923 at the Watauga County courthouse between 10 AM and 4 PM the described real estate to satisfy a 1923 Superior Court execution in the case W C Wilson and D M Wilson vs D I Stansbery and J S Stansbery. The property totals about 552 acres with a 10 acre homestead tract carved out.
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Watauga County
W. C. Wilson
D. M. Wilson
D. I. Stansbery
J. S. Stansbery
Ladrine Eggers
Davis
Landrine Eggers
Egger
Dogwood
Price
Landrine Egger
Landrine Eggers’ Jr
J. S. Stansberry
C. M. Critcher
Coffey Lands in Watauga County Put Up for Sale
In North Carolina Watauga County commissioner appointed by the Clerk of the Superior Court offers for sale on June 9 1923 at the courthouse Boone at 1 pm lands in Watauga township known as the Geo Coffey lands about 20 acres bounded by Hill Wright and others Terms announced sale day
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Superior Court
Watauga County
Court House
Boone
Watauga Township
Geo. Coffey
Hill Wright
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Atlantic
Michael J. Sullivan
Canadian Shipping Company
Salem
Mass
Izzy Jacobs
New York
Homeric
Sullivan
Jacobs
Thos
Glasgow
Nova Scotia
First National Bank of
Ozone Park
Long Island
New Jersey Highlands
Secret Service
Ivan
Federal Secret Service
Thomas J. Tucker
England
A. G. Miller’s
Brownwood
N. C
A. G. Miller
Charles A. Greer
Dp. S
North Carolina
G. M. Sudderth
Fred Coffey
Globe Realty & Auction CO
Johnson City, Tenn
F. M. Richards
Banner Elk
W. H. Gragg
George F. Blair
Blowing Rock
Wrigley’s
Boone Garage
Walter Johnson, Messer
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