Cotton slump hits Cairo clothing demand
Cairo reports ongoing cotton price weakness and reduced demand causing clothing output cuts of up to twenty percent as buyers pull back.
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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1920
Page
10
Cairo reports ongoing cotton price weakness and reduced demand causing clothing output cuts of up to twenty percent as buyers pull back.
Annapolis freshmen at the Naval Academy hazed each other after being left without housing due to quarters segregation from first class students. The incident highlights tensions over residency policy and student conduct at the academy.
Philadelphia December 7 joint scale committee of anthracite operators and mine workers adjourned after an all day session without action on wage increase demands. Operators met late today to decide their position and likely reveal it tomorrow. No official statement issued but discussions showed little progress and signs of drifting into another deadlock.
Resolutions adopted at a Salt Lake City conference of cattlemen's officials from twelve western states call on Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to launch an investigation into how packers and retailers keep meat prices high and to pursue reforms to reduce prices.
A Senate interstate commerce subcommittee plans a December 15 investigation into cable landings in the United States. The probe will examine the broader issue and the dispute between the state department and Western Union Telegraph Company over a Barbados cable landing at Miami Florida.
The Volatead resolution to repeal war time laws was favorably reported by the house judiciary committee. An amendment exempts the war finance corporation act from repeal, along with Lever food control, District of Columbia rent and trading regulations.
Text notes that the measure exempts liberty and victory bonds from certain provisions under the resolution introduced, detailing the authorization framework and the specific exemptions applied.
Staten Island heavyweight Al Roberts knocked out Pittsburgh’s Mickey Shannon in the sixth round of a ten round bout in Jersey City. Shannon failed to regain consciousness and was taken to a hospital with possible skull fracture. Roberts weighed 183 pounds and Shannon 195.
Police reserves were called to quell a riot at the Labor Temple during the annual election of officers by division 85 of the Amalgamated Association of Electric and Street Railway Employes. Several injured and five men arrested for disorderly conduct.
Andrew Merlo attempted to shoot the hat from Amanda Georgi’s head at a cafe on a wager but aimed too low. His statement to police helps clarify the earlier finding of Georgi’s body seated at the cafe table in San Francisco.
The state bank of Loraine in Kenville county closed today because of depleted reserves. It marks the twenty third state and the lone national bank failure in less than a month across the region.
Washington December 7. A resolution by Representative Blanton Democrat of Texas proposes a House military committee investigation to fix responsibility for the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll draft evader.
Two male stags at the Sevenoaks home of Lord Sackville locked tusks and fought until one stag was killed and the other severely wounded, forcing it to be shot.
In Uxbridge England a severely wounded ex-service man who applied for a pension was refused because records classify him as officially dead. The notice notes the pension denial based on this designation and the affected veteran's eligibility status.
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