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...Gardner gave North Carolina the "live-at-home" movement. Last week the North Carolina Press Association gave Governor Gardner a "live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits from Biltmore, hosiery from Morganton, coughdrops...
...marchers. From Boston, Providence, New York, Albany, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. New Orleans, Birmingham and Philadelphia streamed a black-&-White horde of Reds, traveling in rented trucks and wheezy old cars. Their demand: $50 for every jobless citizen. One city cold-shouldered the motorcades along to the next. At Wilmington, Del., 24 were arrested for disorder...
...Richard Scudder Neff, of Chicago, Illinois, Clarence Cecil Pell, Jr. of Westbury, Long Island, New York, John Winslow Putnam, of Dedham, George Clair St. John, Jr., of Wallingford, Connecticut, William Sowden Sims, Jr., of Boston, Peregrine White, of Beverly, Samuel Huntington Wolcott, Jr., of Milton, Harold Raymond Woodard, of Wilmington, Delaware, Edward Yeomans, Jr., of Cambridge...
When Mr. Cord in Beverly Hills. Calif, saw the imminence of that threat last week he fairly popped with rage, sent his lawyers rushing into court at Wilmington. Del. Just as the Avco directors sat down to complete their merger plans for submission to stockholders, the Wilmington court granted a temporary injunction restraining the board from further action. Avco pried loose the injunction, but agreed not to consider the deal further until next week when Mr. Cord would be back in New York...
Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest...