North Carolina Food Administration to Tighten inspections
Raleigh June 8 Plans to expand the state food administration under Henry A Page include hiring inspectors to audit bakers and wholesale dealers records and to curb sugar profiteering. New controls require absolute sugar sale records and potential penalties for misreporting, with emphasis on preventing price gouging during wartime shortages.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Henry A. Page
Herbert Power
Washington
Page
Anticion
Pe&t
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Rers
Food Administration
Ad Administration
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United
Ieater
Horns of Food Administration
Courtin A Gentlemen Dealers Inspectors Report
A quoted policy states special reports from dealers and inspectors to examine books and accounts to detect violations. The aim is to punish offenders and benefit producers, dealers, and consumers through greater enforcement.
True Incident of Civil War Vet Reuniting With Grandson at Fort Caswell
A Confederate veteran lost a leg at Gettysburg travels from his distant home to Fort Caswell in Southport North Carolina. He reaches the war camp but faces guards and a crowded station. A community organizer locates the grandson aboard a moving troop train, grants access, and reunites them in the camp parlor.
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Gettysburg
Fort Caswell
Southport
N. C
Messener
Piner Brothers to Team in Sanitary Field Move
Eben Piner longtime head of the sanitary police force resigns effective June 10 and will be associated with his brother T. D. Piner a North Second street vulcanizer and garage man. Eben would not say if the partnership is permanent or temporary. He is building a handsome structure by the Post Office park for the new business home.
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Eben Piner
Sanitary
T. D. Piner
North-Second Street
Piner
Mrs Finley J Sheppard Ill With Appendicitis In New York
Mrs Finley J Sheppard formerly Miss Helen Goul l is seriously ill with appendicitis at her Fifth Avenue home. Attending physicians report condition satisfactory and hope to avoid surgery.
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New York
Finley J. Sheppard
Helen Goul l
Fifth Avenue
Prohibition Battle Rumors Stir Public Debates
A publicity page from the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers association claims governments dare not challenge prohibition. The piece questions whether the American public will stand by as this trade presses its influence and risks the country.
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National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Oklahoma hotel policy questioned in Johnston inquiry
William E. Johnston asked Oklahoma hotel keepers if prohibition policy benefits the hotel business. Only eight of fifty five replied negatively. Some hotels pictured in The American Issue have been erected since the policy was adopted, costing about half a million dollars each.
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William E. Johnston
Oklahoma
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Food Control Board
Wiz
MR. Piner
Mrs. Sheppard II
Wilmington
Sweetwater
Virginia Capes
Nawl Shipbuilding Company
Thmington Iron Works
Hagle Island
Norfolk
Clothier
North Front Street
House of Kuppenheimer
Strauss Bros
J. M. Solky & CO
Greenfield Park
Messrs. Rhodes & Underwood
Howard & Wells
Lessees
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