Government able to erase Ku Klux Klan, says officials
Federal officials claim Congress and courts can break up the Ku Klux Klan, estimating 700000 members. The piece outlines charges of government takeover risk, oaths, and violations of constitutional provisions. It notes Klan structure, history since 1915 reorganization, and the 1871 Enforcement Act that previously broke the original Klan.
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Washington
Congress
Department of Justice
Department
Knigit
Ku Klux Klan
United States
Klan
Federallhapitiog
Kul Klux Klan
William Joseph A
Atlanta
Perial
Simmons
Koo K. K
Georgia
Pulaski
Tenn
South
Fed
K. K
Sinn Fein Reply to Go Forward Tonight
Sinn Fein issued a reply to the British invitation for a London conference, expected for the Dail Eireann cabinet at its today meeting. the session opened at 1 pm but the dispatch of the reply was not anticipated before 6 pm. Strange eggs found in London by Oxford expedition from Snitzbergen report barnacle goose eggs never seen here before, challenging old beliefs.
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Sinn Fein
Associated Press
Fein Treland
London
Dail Eireann
Oxford University
Snitzbergen
Sings Popular Song On Gallows After Hangings In Chicago And Virginia
Chicago and Richmond reports detail executions. Carl Wanderer, convicted of murdering his wife and unborn child, sang a tune as he faced the gallows at Cook County Jail and prayed before the shroud was placed. In Virginia, Raleigh Hawkins and another man were executed in the state penitentiary electric chair for the murder of Stephen G. White, a merchant and postmaster from Dinwiddie County, on July 14.
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Cthcago
Carl Wanderer
Cook County
Wanderer
Wren
Richmond
Raleigh Hawkin
Griffith
Stephen G. White
Harper's Home
Dinwiddie County
Health and humor mix in wartime era notes
A colonial era style health column explains that most people carry tuberculosis germs but resist illness due to strong body defenses. It urges fresh air exercise and proper food and warns weak health harms immunity. Chaplin trivia and a note on German reparations crash threats follow, ending with a tease about camphor from turpentine discovery.
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Mediac Research Organization
the Knights of Columbus
Japan Assured U S Seeks Not to Rule Parley
Tokyo dispatch reports American Ambassador Charles Warren telling a dinner audience that the Washington disarmament conference will be a voluntary gathering among sovereign states. He said the United States aims for frank discussion and a declaration of principles to reduce conflicting interests and curb armament.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Washington
Popular Pastor Found Dead in Suspected Suicide Near Oxford
The Rev. R. C. Craven of Oxford North Carolina, pastor of the First Methodist Church, was found dead a mile from Oxford with a bullet in his temple and a pistol at his side. Authorities regard the death as a possible self-inflicted act. A separate note mentions losses in war and betting on races, and Bert Gailen, a mechanic, cashing in $1500 in six weeks after a police raid.
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Oxford
N. C
R.C. Craven
Methodist
Rochdal Eng
Bert Gailen
Gailen
Memorial Fund Boosted by Week of Rylander Theater Tickets
Manager Emory Rylander donates a share of box office receipts to Sumter county soldier memorials. Groups of Atlantic American girls, led by Mrs. Lawson Stapleton, will sell tickets at the Rylander theater lobby next week and this week canvass homes schools and other venues. Treasurer is Mrs. Fred B. Arthur. Names of participating girls listed, with sales reported to a central treasurer. The week’s picture program is advertised on page 5.
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Emory Rylander
Rylander Theater
Sumter County
Lawson Stapleton
Fred BR. Arthur
Dorothy Cargill
Vera Henry
Evelyn Bell
Alice McNeill
Marquess Maude Sherlock
Everett
Amber
Amber of Commerce, Ruth Council, Mary Sheffield, Mary Littlejohn, Laverne Thomas
Ois McMath
Agnes Gatewood
Gertrude Davenport
Mabel Ellis
Anne Ellis
Eugene Parker
Mary Glover
Henry Lumpkin
Mary Parker
Emma Love Fisher
Catherine Broadfield
Orlean Ansley
Mary Walker
Marie Frances Lane
Marie Perkins
Mary Merritt
Kansas Miner Chiefs Start Terms in Jail
Coal mines idle across the Kansas District as Alexander Howatt and August Dorehy begin six month jail terms for leading a strike last February. Reports to operators' association HQ confirm the sentences and widespread stoppages.
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Kansas
Pittsburg
Kans
Kansas District
Columbus
Alexander Howatt
August Dorehy
Kansas Union Miners
Operators’ Association
Scarborough Property Brings 513 At Sale
The Scarborough estate sale of the late Wo Scarborough’s store contents on Muckalee Hill drew buyers Morgan Stevens and his son among others. The mix included many goods and materials, with perishables already disposed of.
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Scarborough Property
Scarborough
Muckalee Hill
Morgan Stevens
Liverpool cotton market opens steady despite declines
Liverpool opens steady with prices down six points on a described market. Notations show values for fulls and 16,000 bales traded, with 1,540 bales received, including 1,249 American. Futures data across several contracts are listed with prior closes and openings.
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Liverpool
Best World Series Sizeup by Evans in the Times-Recorder
Bitty Evans, a 16 year American League umpire, will provide the Times-Recorder readers with an expert World Series sizeup of the Giants and Yankees or Indians. He will explain who will win and why and wire analytical game-by-game coverage from the press box. Evans has umpired five World Series.
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Bitty Evans
Evans
Times-Recorder
Giants
Yankees
Indians
No Pay Benefits If Railway Men Strike
Chicago reports a warning that a railway strike would likely deprive members of strike benefits from their union treasuries. The notice, issued Aug 29 1921 by four unions, cites laws barring strike pay in a general wage movement. Leaders oppose strikes, yet ballots favor one as negotiations stall and wage cuts loom amid broader labor tension.
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Chicago
Treasuries
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Order of
Switchmen’s Union
North America
Railroad Labor Board
Af Acergan
Railroad Brotherhoods
Southeast
Southwest
Pennsylvania Railroad
Rall Lalit
Pennsylvania
Cam
Raf Reais
Cer
Pago
Treaty ratified by Reichstag amid Communist opposition
Berlin reports Reichstag ratified the peace treaty with the United States with only Communist votes against the measure. In Washington, Senate leaders welcomed the move, while Senator Watson opposed ratification over concerns on league membership and espionage law provisions.
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Berlin
Reichstag
United States
Senate
Washington
Lodge
Republica
Watson
Sherman
League
Son
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Dorby
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Charley
Berens
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