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Newspaper
Watauga Democrat
Location
Boone, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1925
Page
2
Washington reports a government study urges smaller paper money. Proposals include reducing standard bill size by one third to fit envelopes and changing the $2 bill color to brown. Savings could reach about $1 million yearly, with 12 notes printed per sheet.
Rev F M Huggins led devotional exercises at chapel and Judge Wayland Cooke of Greensboro spoke on self help and sacrifice. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Stukenbrok of North Wilkesboro. Seventh graders split baseball with Boone 0 and 24 while Cove Creek teams lost 13 to 0 to Boone. Average daily attendance for the month was 116 in high school and 155 in grades.
Rev Sherrill contrasts sacred life with profane vanity through a pottery tale of a broken vase and a youth's growth. He likens Michael Angelo's David to divine touch and laments lost virtue. Francis Atta Miller seeks her mother who left a diamond necklace with a Wichita family after inheritance threats.
Washington reports reveal a wide array of defense studies with the army air service expansion pegged at about 79 million dollars yearly for ten years and 60 million thereafter to sustain 2500 planes in peacetime. Additional details cover manpower growth to 25 000 with 4000 officers, and related costs.
Mrs Jose Sanchez of Yuma Arizona has borne her twenty fourth child in twenty four years of married life. The mother is thirty eight and her husband fifty one. The twenty fourth child is a healthy girl. Only seven of the twenty four children are living. All were born singly in consecutive years.
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