davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1937-01-04

in-the-dough gold coast danes, I got
a swell idear for a touch. Cause
never give a sucker even break
like the fella says. Well, this one'll
be pushover, OIL opportunity right
at our door. C'mon n look"
Jaw, I'm too tired" rasped a mush-
room-faced fat man who sat cuddling
a stove as pot-bellied as himself.
His thin voice whined like mill
band-saw tearing into resinous log.
AN I'm tired, too, of being holed
up here in this cold shack and me
ailing-with 800 bucks cash salted
down. Some like, Sarah, with your
old man under the weather. you could
loosen up with enough for a bottle,
tonic-like for my rheumatism. And
my backache-"
COMETHING like a smothered laugh
- interrupted, evoked from the COM
atose flesh behind the stove: Sarah
Jepson, If you amt yelled poor mouth
so long to fool folks. you're forgettin'
yourself and tryin' to kid even me.
We amt so awful poor, not with our
sweet little racket Of selling our fur
niture, hiding the dough and quitting
work to let charity support US. Kind
Of idle rich we are, Sarah, with our
money hid there safe AS"
"It amt safe with you so nouthy," p"
Sarah warned sharply. You fool.
Oh, we wouldn't have nothing II 1t
wasn't for me, Jepson. Who thought
Of hidin' out our assets you might
say? Smartest trick ever turned
in all my S. years. She cackled
proudly at the nest egg she had laid.
yeah? Most too smart" COM
planned Jepson's falsetto. Laying on
that thin mattress right down on the
bare floor at night nearly kills my
weak back.
But you was SO set on selling
even the bedstead to make this place
look more pitiful when the social
service people come the first time.
You sold every stick of furniture but
the talking machine and that only
cause the secondhand guy wouldn't
give nothing for 1t. He says: I'm
tellin' you tn honest trut', lady, a
OIL photograph like that there is out
Of style in these here times. see?'
And now it's worth q pretty penny,
$500 hid in its dusty innards, huh?'
And his high voice whinnied.
CARAH JEPsON laughed, too. her
- amber bead eyes rolling swiftly
toward an old-fashioned cabinet-style
talking machine where her gaze
fingered to caress the cloudy and
cracked veneer inch by inch. Sure,
he should know that now it's worth
plenty bucks ali right"
"As good as a banks SAFE" agreed
Jepson. grinning. Who'd ever think
of booking
"Shut up. That rich bratll hear.
She's heading in here sure enough" "
Sarah's muff1ed whisper seemed
scarcely audible at all, for there was
now a knocking at the sagging, un-
painted door, that door with its knobs
and locks long gone.
Tim Miss Kingman, Marjorie
Kingman," a sweet young voice in
formed them naively from the
threshold. I'm going away on a mar
velous trip to Europe tomorrow to
have myself time, so-well, purely
on impulse, thought I'd like to do
a little something for somebody else
before I went. Daddy wanted me
to wait for him, or at least to take
Jenkins along, but-well. here I am" 4"
Evening star., 1937-01-04
Africans Fear Twins.

Twins in Africa, especially among
the Bantus, are regarded with horror.
A missionary t here, fighting this GUS
tom, rescued two such infants and
their mother, but. carrying them to
her own home, dared not use the path
home. for 1t would have become so
polluted by tho passage OF the twins
and mother tn Rt no one would have
ever passed o, er it again. SO she
stood waiting while new path was
being cut to e. able her Just to get
through to her pwn grounds.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
She stopped. . lit
tie breathless.

She stopped. . lit
tie breathless.
Hers was q fragile
prettiness with hair
funng out In q
golden haze around
q pale face. But heA
eyes held bright
color enough, the
warm blue Of Sum-
mer's delphiniun1.
They were wide
and open eyes. for
the girl was OBJ
viously startled by
the gutter gray
poverty Of Sarah's
backdrop.
. . . .
"CTEP right On
in, miss. You
can see we're ter
rible poor" Sarah
had contrived q
whimper. but We
amt complaining
none. We're sort Of
used to It, ma'am, !"
Evening star., 1937-01-04
CARAH JEPSON

Sarah JEpsoN T.
- looked like Q
parrot hair Pc
roxided to a hashy
yellow, slicked ba lex
from q low fore
head, and q great
heak Of q nose
arched up between
lashless, quick
moving eyes. She
was applying the
latter now at her
shanty's front win
dow.
Hey. Jepson, "
she chartered over
her shawled shoul-
der, there's a big.
snooty-looking car
coming UP through
all that snow over
there by the city
dump looks like
society stuff out
Summing. Say. If
she really Is one
of these here up.
Evening star., 1937-01-04
BANKER PROPOSES
NONE Y PROGRAM
Control PIa n Would Prevent
Short-LiV ed Boom, Says
w. w. AIdrich.
1y the Associate d Press.

9y Iuc ASoOCldtc fAcoo'
NEW YORK January 4.-Winthrop
W. Aldrich, or esident OF the Cham
ber Of CONNER ce of the State Of New
York and chair man of the Chase Ma
tional Bank, ou| timed yesterday pro-
gram of monetary control to prevent
business recovR Try from becoming q
short t-lived boom.
Applauding t he recent move OF the
Treasury to IS terilize" new gold ac-
ouisitions as a wise" plan, he sug-
eested In a ye ar-end statement the
following poinJs in a control pro-
gram:
A balanced j federal budget to end
"defcit financi ng through extension
Of bank credit.
Increase in Federal Reserve men,
Der bank reserve requirements to the
full extent prn[ lifted by law.
Discontinuanfe of silver purchases
by the Treasury.
Management Of the tripartite eX-
change agreene ent among England,
France and the United States toward
the goal of res toring "the regulatory
function of the international gold
standard" as S BON as possible.
He explained the aim of the last
suggestion was to bring equilibrium
between prices, interest rates and for
eign exchange rates in the different
countries of the world.
Noting a tire nd toward credit ex-
pansion in 1886, he warned that
unless great prudence is exercised
and unless monetary controls are in
voked in time, recovery can all too
easily degenerate into short-lived
boom"
While appr9 wing the Treasury's S
plan for prever ting gold imports from
entering the already vast base for
potential loan d expansion, he described
It as merely 8 palliative" which did
not reach the fundamentals Of the
situation.
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
AShe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of a certain
deed of trust executed by w. E.
Johnson to w. H. Worth, Trustee for
the Bank of Ashe, on the 10th day of
August, 1882, which deed of trust is
recorded in the office of the Regis
ter of Deeds for Ashe County in
Book 81, page SO, I, w. H. Worth,
Trustee, will sell to the highest bid
der at the Courthouse door in jeff
erson, North Carolina, on the 9th
day of July, 1887, at one o'clock P.
M. the following described land, to-
wit:
Situated in the town of jefferson,
containing three 81 acres, more or
less, and bounded on the North by
the lands of E. A. McNeill, on the
East by the lands of the ]. E. Foster
estate and on the South and West by
the lands of the w. T. Coward
estate, and known as the w. E.
Johnson home place.
This June Z, 1887.
IL w. H. WORTH, Trustee.
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Battle Front News
OF Little Interest
France Seeks to End Year-Old
War in Spain by Program
of NOn-InterventiOn

Spanish civil war news the past
week generally has indicated devel-
opments on the battle fronts have
been of somewhat minor importance
although there have been some
bloody engagements.
Friday news from Paris told of a
new move by the French govern
ment to end the Spanish war. As
non-intervention powers appeared
on the verge of success in their ef-
forts to win back Germany and
Italy into the neutrality naval pa
troll, France proposed that as soon
as the two Fascist countries did re.
sumo cooperation with it the
Hands off Spain" committee should
seek an end to the war, which is
nearly year old. The French gov
eminent suggested:
Reinforcing the control plan tc
bar foreign fighters and arms from
Spain.
Withdrawal of all foreign soldiers
now in Spain, and,
Mediation between the Spanish
government and insurgents.
Bilbao, stategic seaport and cap
ital of the semi-autonomous Basque
republic, whose capture has been
the chief goal of the insurgent forces
for many weeks, has not yet fallen
and no early surrender was indi-
Gated. In fact the past week appar-
emily was marked by a sore of lull
in the activity around Bilboa and q
renewal of activities on other fronts
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NOTICE
North Carolina
Acho County

North Carolina
Ashe County
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk
Effie Lee VS.. J. ]. Lee.
The defendant, ]. j. Lee, will take
notice that an action as above en-
titled has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Ashe County
North Carolina, for divorce a vincu-
10; and
The said defendant will further
take notice that he is required to ap-
pear at the office of the Clerk OF
the Superior Court of Ashe County,
at the courthouse in Jefferson, North
Carolina, on the 9th day of July
1887, or within thirty (30) days
thereafter, and answer or demur to
the complaint in said action or the
plaintiff will apply to the Court fol
the relief demanded in said COM
plant.
This the 9th day of June, 1887.
J. D. STANSBERRY,
7-8a Clerk Superior Court.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS
$4,000
Town Of West Jefferson, N. CarOlina
SEWERAGE BONDS

Town Of West Jefferson, N. Carolina
SEWERAGE BONDS
Sealed bids will be received until
II o'clock a. M, E. S. T., June %,
1887, by the undersigned at its office
in the city of Raleigh, N. c., for
$4,000 Sewerage Bonds of the town
of West Jefferson, N. c., dated
March l, 1887, maturing annually on
September 1, $500 1888 to 1915, in
elusive, without option of prior pay
ment. There will be no auction.
Denomination $500, principal and
interest (M and SD payable in law
full money in the town of West Jeff
erson; general obligations; unlimited
tax; coupon bonds; delivery at place
of purchasers choice Interest 48t
per annum. The bonds will be
awarded at the highest price offered,
not less than par and accrued inter
est.
Bids must be enclosed in a sealed
envelope = marked = Proposal for
Bonds" and be accompanied by a
certified check upon an incorporat-
ed bank or trust company, payable
Internationally to the order of the
State Treasurer of North Carolina
for $4,000. The right to reject all
bids is reserved.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
COMMISSION
By w. E. Easterling,
Secretary of Commission.
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ALL WORKERS MUST HAVE
SOCIAL SECURITY CARDS

RALEIGH, June 14.-All employ
ees, even students working for the
summer and those doing occasional
work, are required to secure Social
Security account numbers through
the local postoffice. Those who
reached IS years of age before last
January l are not eligible to parti-
cipate in old age benefits, under the
Federal program, but if they contin-
ue work after that age, they should
have numbers for the State Unem-
ployment Compensation records,
Chairman Charles G. Powell re-
minds. Both the employer and en-
ployee are required to see that they
have numbers before July /.
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EXECUTORS NOTICE

Having qualified as executor of
the estate of A. J. Baker, deceased,
late of Ashe County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the estate of
said deceased to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Jefferson, N. c., on
or before the Goth day of May, 1888,
or this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate will please
make immediate payment.
This the 10th day of May, 1887.
JOE WORTH, Executor
Of A. J. Baker, deceased. 6-24
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE
North Carolina
Ashe County

North Carolina
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed to the undersigned
trustee by Davis Bare under date of
July 16, 1880, which deed of trust
is duly recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for Ashe County
in Book 20, page 80, to which record
reference is hereby made; and
Default having been made in the
payment of said deed of trust, as
therein provided; and having been
requested to do so by the party at
interest;
I, w. B. Austin, Trustee, will on
the 10th day of June, 1886 at 100
o'clock P M. at the courthouse door
in Jefferson, North Carolina. sell to
the highest bidder for cash to satisfy
said deed of trust, interest and cost,
the following described real estate,
to-wit:
Beginning on spanish oak near
the fork of road, running with said
road North 35 West IL poles to q
stake in the road; then North 81
East II poles to a stake in the road
then North 68 East S poles to stake
in road; then North Al East 10 poles
to stake in the road; then North
sc 1-2 East poles to stake in the
road; then North u IL East 4 pole:
to a stake in the road; then NORTH
80 East II poles to stake in the
road; then North 46 1-2 East pole:
to a stake in the road; then NORTH
80 East poles to a stake in the
road; then North SO East poles tt
a stake; then North IS East Is poles
to a black gum, Alfred Lyalps line
then South S West 81 poles to {
stake near a pine; then South Il
West 26 poles to small chestnut
oak; then South 9 IL poles to &
chestnut oak; then North 60 West
SO poles to the beginning, containing
20 acres, more or less.
This the 18th day of May, 1887.
6-17 w. B. AUSTIN, Trustee.
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JUNE II, 1887

for sale and sell to the highest bid
der for cash the following described
property:
ALI that certain piece, parcel or
tract of land containing fifty-nine
and 71-16O ESQ 71-160) acres, more
or less, situate, lying and being on
the Creston-Todd public road, about
two miles almost south from the viii
lage of Creston, in Creston Town.
ship, Ashe County, State of North
Carolina, having such shapes, metes,
courses and distances as will more
fully appear by reference to a plat
thereof made by c. w. Ray, Survey
or, on the LIST day of June 1925, and
attached to the abstract now on file
with the Atlantic Joint Stock Land
Bank of Raleigh, the same being
bounded on the North by the lands
of Frank Phillips, A. H. Lewis, and
James Latham, on the East by the
lands of Thomas Latham, on the
South by the lands of Robert Rash,
and James Latham, and on the West
by the lands of Cora Humphrey and
the Brewer lands, and being the
identical lands described in the fol-
lowing deeds, to-wit: Deed from Ira
Prather and wife Nancy Prather to
R. M. Milan and wife Della Milan,
dated February q, 1908, and re-
corded in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Ashe County, State Of
North Carolina in Deed Book Al,
page $40, together with the deed of
c. w. Ray, T. H. Ray, and J. A.
Hodgson, Commissioners of the
Court in Partition Proceedings, de-
scribing Lot No. to Roy and Della
Milan, the same being recorded in
said Ashe County Registry, in Book
GIL, Page AIS. Deed from J. T. Pless
and wife to Roy M. Milan and wife
Della Milan, dated July %, 1920,
and recorded in said Ashe County
Registry in Book Az, Page 70. Deed
from J. S. Graham and wife Alice
Graham to R. M. Milan dated
March 4, 1926, and recorded in said
AShe County Registry in Book K-2,
Page 1873. Deed from T. T. Latham
and wife Emma Latham to r. M.
Milan dated March 4, 1926, and re-
corded in said Ashe County Registry
in Book K-2, page 1877. Deed from
Marion Powell and wife Laura Pow
ell to R. M. Milan dated January %,
1911 and recorded in said Ashe
County Registry in Book il, Page
325. To all of which deeds and rec
ords reference is made for a more
complete description of the said
land.
Terms of sale cash and trustee will
require deposit of 10 percent of the
amount of the bid as evidence of
good faith.
This the fourth day of June, 1887.
H. E. STACY,
IL Substituted Trustee.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Having qualified as administrators
of the estate of Chares r. Latham.
deceased, late Of Ashe County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against the
estate of the said deceased to exhibit
them to the undersigned at War
rensville, North Carolina, on or be-
fore the 7th day of May, 1888, OF
this notice will be pleaded in bar
of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment.
This the 7th day of May, 1887.
MRS. BESS DUVALL LATHAM
Administrative
of Charles B. Latham, decd. 6-17
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NOTICE OF SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
North Carolina
Ashe County

|
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of power
vested in the undersigned by a
Judgment of the Superior Court in
certain action entitled Beldon
Wyatt, Administrator of Eliza Wy
att, Deceased, VS.. John Wyatt, ct al,
which judgment is duly recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the Super
ior Court appointing the undersign-
ed as Commissioner to sell the lands
hereinafter described for the pur-
pose of paying debts and for distri-
button;
The undersigned will, therefore,
on the 5th day of July, 1887, at the
hour of l o'clock, P. M at the court
house door in Jefferson, N. c., offer
for sale to the highest bidder for
cash the following described real
estate, to-Wit:
First Tract: Beginning on a hic-
kory on the bank of the road, D. A.
Bare's and Laura Woodie's corner;
then South 70 east 81 1-2 poles to
stake in Q. A. Woodie's line with
water oak pointer; then South A
west with the Q. A. Woodie line sc
poles to bunch of chestnut sprouts
on the bank of the road; then north
II west with the road % poles to a
locust on the bank of the road, then
north west Is 5-4 poles to the be-
ginning and containing eleven acres
and 1876 rods.
Second Tract: Beginning on a
white pine on the bank of Peak
Creek Laura Woodie's corner; then
up and with the creek to a stake on
the bank of the creek, c. E. Woodie's
corner; then north II East 80 poles
with the c. E. Woodie line to a stake
at the road, c. E. Woodie's corner;
then down and with said road 26 3-4
poles to stake by the road, Laura
Woodie's corner; then westward
with the Laura Woodie line 80 poles
to the beginning, and containing 6
acres more or less.
This LIST day of June, 1887.
CLYDE HAYES,
5-24 Commissioner.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
North Carolina .
County of AShe

North Carolina
County of Ashe
Under and by virtue of the power
and authority contained in that GER
tain deed of trust executed by r. M.
Milan and wife Della Milan to The
Raleigh Savings Bank and Trust
Company, trustee, which said deed
of trust is dated first day of Sep
TENDER 1926 and recorded in Book
26, Page 81, of the Ashe County
Registry, default having been made
in the payment of the indebtedness
thereby secured and in the condi-
tons therein secured, the undersign-
ed substituted trustee by instrument
recorded in Book U-2, Page $50,
Ashe County Registry, will on Mon
day, July S, 1887, at or about twelve
o'clock noon, at the courthouse door
at Jefferson, North Carolina, offer
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NOTICE OF TRUSTEES SALE

, North Carolina
Ashe County
Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a certain deed of
trust executed by R. L. Austin, ct
al, to the undersigned Trustee under
date of February Is, 1896, which
deed of trust is duly recorded in the
office of the Register of Deeds for
Ashe County in Book %, page q, to
which record reference is hereby
made; and
Default having been made in the
payment of said deed of trust as
therein provided, and having been
requested to do so by the parties at
interest;
I, w. B. Austin, Trustee, will on
the 10th day of July, 1887, at 100
o'clock, P. NJ, at the courthouse
! door in Jefferson, North Carolina,
sell to the highest bidder for cash
to satisfy said deed of trust, interest
and cost, the following described
real estate, to-wit:
First Tract: Beginning on a white
oak, G. w. Shepherds corner; run
ming South 81 poles to a chestnut,
fuckers corner; then with fuckers
line 88 West rs poles; then South 70
West 26 poles; then West ID poles;
then South rs West 4 poles; then
South Sc 1-2 West poles to chest
nut oak; the Reed and Hill corner;
then North ii West Sc poles; then
North 10 East 81 IL poles to a stake,
Osborne's corner; then with fence
South rs East 80 poles; then South
"a East 8 poles; then North 88 East
Is poles; then North rs East poles;
then South 81 East Is IL poles to
an old road; then North 10 East
6 As poles to Hopper's corner; then
with Hopper's line South IS East 4
poles; then South As East 10 poles;
then North 70 East "a poles and Is
links to maple in Shepherds line;
then South 20 poles to spanish oak;
then South 81 East % poles to the
beginning, containing 80 acres.
Second Tract: Beginning on a
chestnut oak; the Hill and Reed
corner; running North 81 West SO
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PUZZLE ANSWERS

B objects: Boy, blouse, breeches,
bow, body, bark, branch, ball, box,
banana, bread, board, building,
blade, bull.
Goofygraph: Whistling squirrel,
badge on back, sleeve different,
barrel of gun crooked, trouser leg
white, snake in pocket, snake rattle,
one horn missing on deer, one ear
too long, goatee with bow, ''B" back
wards on rock, shooting misspelled.
birds nest on ground.
Lighthouse words: Light, house,
height, to, tough, hose, it, let, lot, is,
lose, soil, oil toll, dot, got, sight,
right, out, govt, get, he she.
Dots: African wildman.
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poles to a gap; then West 8 poles;
then with ]. w. Richardson's line
North Is West SIS poles to a chest
nut oak on South bank of road; then
Eastward with Road to a stake in
Hill tract line; then with said line
to the beginning, containing "a ga
acres.
This the 10th day Of June, 1887.
7-8 w. B. AUSTIN, Trustee.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina
A

North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
If J. S. Miller, late of Ashe County,
North Carolina, this is to notify all
persons having claims against said
estate to present them to the under
signed for payment on or before the
4th day of June, 1888, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery.
ALI persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
nent to the undersigned.
This June 4, 1887.
C. A. MILLER, Administrator
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

North Carolina
Ashe County
Having qualified as Administrator
of Effie Shoemaker Vinson, late of
Ashe County, North Carolina, this is
to notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present them
to the undersigned for payment on
or before the 1st day of June 1888, or
this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will please make immediate pay
ment to the undersigned.
A. R. SHOEMAKER,
Administrator
of Effie Shoemaker Vinson, dec'd.7-8
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-11-01
U.S.DogW
Sudnk Sh0W
In London

LONDON, Nov. l G.N.S0.-The
dignified atmosphere of London's
swank Kennel Club Show at
Olympia suffered an unprece-
dented shock recently
1t had just been announced
that Shelterock Merry Sovereign,
American champion Airedale
owned by S. M. Stewart, of New
Jersey, had been awarded the Ken
mel Club Championship, when a
woman with a strong English
North-country accent, pushed her
way through the crowd of 1000
people toward the judges stand.
Austere eyebrows we're raised in
shocked disbelief. But when the
woman gained the judges stand
and began to shrek charges Of
favoritism. calling the u Id e S
fools" polite murmurs of protest
turned to angry Kisses and boos.