Washingtons Bible now owned by New York Masonic lodge
The Bible used by George Washington for his presidential oath is housed at a New York City Masonic lodge and features a frontispiece portrait of King George II. The note adds that Turkey, established in 1923, became the first Muslim state to separate church and state powers.
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George Washington
United States
Masonic Lodge
New York City
George II of
Great Britain
Republic of Turkey
Synthetic Cigarettes Won’t Put Tobacco Farmer Out of Business
The USDA says synthetic tobacco for cigarettes remains unlikely to threaten tobacco farmers for several years. They note limited consumer adoption in the US and Europe, regulatory hurdles, and continued use of sheet and leaf tobaccos with evolving techniques such as puffed and freeze dried tobacco. The report cites declines in leaf tobacco per 1 000 cigarettes from 2.7 pounds in the 1950s to 1.9 pounds last year.
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Washington
U.S. Agriculture Department
Europe
United States
USDA
Britain
West Germany
U.S
Murder of North Carolina trooper rocks region as killers hunted
Patrolman Joe Wright, 42, of Roxboro, was killed on a rural road near Helena in Person County. Investigators spread an alert for an old green and white Mercury with three Black men aboard. Wright died after being shot three times with a .22 caliber pistol as he signaled a stop. farmer Harold Grinstead reported the scene and Wright’s final radio call. Wright, a July 1959 recruit, had served in Burlington before Roxboro and left a wife and three children.
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Ronborq
N.C
North Carolina
Virginia
Joe Wright
Roxboro
Helena
Person
Harold Grinstead
Wright
Grinstead
Biscoe
Montgomery County
Burlington
Bitter Little Loan prompts shareable plea to spread word
A brief item promotes telling friends about a small loan described as bitter. It frames the loan as noteworthy enough to share and echoes a social media style call to action.
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P.S
Retains Enclaves After Cession of Ifni to Morocco
Spain ceded Ifni to Morocco but keeps two enclaves, Ceuta and Melilla, as fortified and export centers facing Gibraltar. The denim cloth originated in Nimes around 900 A.D. named serge de Nimes before shortening to denim.
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Spain
Ifni
Morocco
Ceuta
Gibraltar
Melilla
Nimes
France
Impossible looking slam becomes makeable in bridge
Oswald and James Jacoby describe a slam contract where West opens clubs and South reads a singleton. After dummy gains clubs and hearts, South ruffs, cashes diamonds, and discards clubs to reach the winning line. East’s remaining cards could foil but the line succeeds for the declarer.
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West
South
Dummy
East
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