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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1924
Page
4
Rev John Barclay argues in a Rotary Club talk that mental development should balance business knowledge and literature. A local businessman counters that experts from both fields may lack practical grasp of essential topics, urging mutual respect for varied expertise and practical education.
Highway engineers announce the Everettts-Williamston road link will open tomorrow, creating a hard surfaced through route from Williamston to Rocky Mount and Spring Hope. The 160 mile corridor solidifies North Carolina road building progress.
At Harvey Ruffin’s front yard yesterday a boy about seven squinted at a dog, failing to locate it in the mud. The speaker recalled the famous line and teased that Harvey would dust off the dog, while the child stared in polite disgust and the elder laughed.
By power of sale in a 1923 deed, R F Bissette will sell at public auction on January 5 1925 between noon and 1 PM at the Wilson courthouse door a 20 acre parcel in Ola Fields Township Wilson NC. The tract runs from the Wilson Raleigh Road along R F Bissette and W K Bissette lines with paths and landmarks described, ending at the Wilson Raleigh Road. Dec 1924. R F BISSETTE mortgagee Co F BISSETTE assignee. 12-13
Atlantic Coast Realty Company held three sales yesterday. Morrison Forbes farm sold for 10500 at 10:30 a.m. Morrison Forbes brick store and eight East Nash street lots brought 7000 at 12:30. Westover lots, the day’s biggest sale, went for 30000 at 2:30, totaling 46000 with 95 lots sold.
Police recovered eighty gallons of mountain dew and impounded a touring car during a raid. The liquor runners fled on foot abandoning their vehicle as officers intensified a fresh drive on illicit liquor dealers and runners, with a dozen or more rounded up in recent days.
London reports the Baldwin cabinet nicknamed a ministry of silk hats and Londoners is mostly bald. Only Lord Birkenhead Austen Chamberlain and a few have notable hair while Worthington-Evans Churchill Gage Salisbury and Joynson-Hicks are described as bald or nearly so with distinctive top styles.
Paris reports 18,686,329 francs earned from 11 Renotiere collection auctions with a twelfth sale anticipated. The eleventh sale brought 1,984,640 francs and a blue 1858 one dollar para Rhumanian Moldavian stamp sold for 51,000 francs.
In Canton Ohio on December 19 Charess Sharp a local barber and LaFollette supporter paraded a large aggressive looking rat around a city block to honor his political wager.
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