In 1907, he and several others of his colleagues were arrested and sentenced to four months in prison under the pretext of not using books approved by the General Directorate of Education of the Salonica vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in the schools they were teaching at.
During his stay in Bucharest, he was editor of the newspaper Românul de la Pind ("The Romanian of the Pindus") for almost two years.
In 1909, Noe received a scholarship from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, graduating four years later with a degree in geography and history.
In 1913, the League for the Cultural Unity of All Romanians [ro] published his French-language memorial Les Roumains Koutzo-Valaques.
Afterwards, he migrated to Transylvania, then under Austria-Hungary, where he associated himself with important figures of the Romanian national movement of the region such as Ștefan Cicio Pop and Vasile Goldiș, among others.