Beloved Pastor of Sacred Heart Dies in Bluefield
The death of Rev. Father Emil Olivier at 8:45 p.m. at the Sacred Heart rectory in Bluefield ends a 30 year service to southern West Virginia Catholics. He led the Bluefield church founding and expansion, oversaw multiple missions and church buildings, and mentored a growing priestly cohort before his passing.
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Bluefield
West Virginia
Father Emil Olivier
Church of the Sacred Heart
Mercer Street
Father Olivier
Cincinnati
Sacred Heart
Olivier
Wheeling
Clarkshire
France
Rheims
Powhatan
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Donahue
Pocahontas
Hungary
P. Guilloton
Wytheville
P. H. McDermott
Immaculate Conception Church
Clarksburg
Father Gilsenan
Gary, Welch and
Williamson
St. Bernard's Abbey
Cullman
Ala
Bristol
Stonega
Dante
Virginia
Father Coglan
Norfolk and Western
Many Shopmen Laid Off at Albany West Albany Shops
Four hundred shopmen at the West Albany repair shops and a hundred other workers were laid off tonight by the New York Central Railroad Company officials in Albany New York.
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Albany
N. Y
New York Central Railroad Company
Boston and Albany to idle ten percent of workforce
The Boston and Albany railroad announced that ten percent of its 750 local workers will be laid off next Wednesday. Company officials cited a slump in demand as the reason for the reductions.
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Boston and Albany Railroad
Bakers urged to cut bread price in Chicago
Chicago bakers were urged at city hall by Russellle secretary of the council's high cost of living committee to reduce the price of bread from fifteen cents to ten cents for a pound loaf. If not, a campaign advising housewives to resume home baking will be launched.
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Chicago
Russellle
Council
Poole
Interstate order frees coal ships and flat bottom cars west
The Interstate Commerce Commission revoked west of the Mississippi orders restricting open top cars to coal only. The ruling also allows carriers east of the Mississippi to use flat bottom gondola cars for other commodities as well as coal.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi River
Mississippi
St Johns College Hazing Dispute Triggers Student Walkout
In Annapolis on November 15, about 250 students from the sophomore to senior and freshmen classes joined the walkout after rejecting a compromise proposed by the board of visitors and governors regarding hazing of freshmen.
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Annapolis
Board of Visitors and Governors of
St. Johns College
Hearing Ordered On Tariff Suspensions For Produce
The interstate commerce commission ordered a hearing for November 23 on proposed suspension of increased tariffs and restrictions affecting shipments of fruit and vegetables nationwide.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Federal grand jury summoned in Indianapolis for December 6
The federal grand jury in Indianapolis is convening Monday December 6. Prohibition law violations are expected to play a large part in the jury's deliberations.
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Indianapolis
Flw
Federal Grand Jury
Cornwell Proclaims Thanksgiving Holiday in West Virginia
Governor John J. Cornwell issues a Thanksgiving proclamation praising the nation’s prosperity and record crops. He designates November 25 as a public holiday in West Virginia and urges devout thanks and aid to the needy at home and abroad.
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Charleston
W. Va
John J. Cornwell
United States
West Virginia
Pennsylvania Railroad plans 2500 layoffs in five days
Philadelphia November 15. The Pennsylvania Railroad will lay off 2,500 men, 1,000 on the Philadelphia division, within the next five days. Since the end of October the net reduction exceeds 10,000 employees across the Pennsylvania system, most east of Pittsburgh.
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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburg
Richardson Named Prohibition Supervisor in Chicago
Prohibition Agent at Chicago November 15. Appointment of Frank D. Richardson as supervising prohibition agent in Chicago succeeds Major Alfred V. Dalrymple who resigned. Richardson has been connected with internal revenue work in Chicago for some time.
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Chicago
Washington
Frank D. Richardson
Alfred V. Dalrymple
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Hardson
Internal Revenue
Cornwell Elected Director of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Governor John J. Cornwell of West Virginia was elected a director at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad annual stockholders meeting in Baltimore. He succeeds the late J. G. Schmidlapp of Cincinnati, with the remaining old board members re elected.
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Cornwell B. & C
Baltimore
John J. Cornwell
West Virginia
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. G. Schmidlapp
Cincinnati
League of Nations opens as Hymans named president
In Geneva the first session of the League of Nations assembly elected Paul Hymans of Belgium permanent president. Delegates greet the opening with bells and a large crowd. Debates focus on agenda and new member applications while prominent figures from several nations take early leadership roles.
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Geneva
Hymans
League of Nations
Peru
Chile
Bolivia
Associated Press
Paul Hymans
Belgium
League
Motta
Switzerland
Ador
Leon Bourgeois
France
M. Hymans
United States
M. Motta
Wilson
Assembly
League Assembly
Hjalmar Branting
Robert Cecil
South Africa
Albania
Bulgaria
Austria
Lord Robert Cecil
Rene Viviani
Signor Tittoni
Chinese Pig Tails Carload Rate Asked
The Oriental Manufacturing Company of Houston asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve a carload rate for Chinese pig tails pressed into cloth shipping from Houston to multiple destinations. Clifford Thorne of Chicago testified the pigtails are used for filtration and straining soups. The commission took the application under consideration.
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Washington
Houston
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oriental Manufacturing Company
Clifford Thorne
Chicago
Big Cuts in Clothing Prices by Rochester Manufacturers
Nineteen Rochester clothing manufacturers members of the National Association of Manufacturing Clothiers announce immediate wholesale price cuts on men's fall and winter suits from a third to forty percent. Spring lines also opened at prices thirty percent lower than last year.
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Rochester
N. Y
National Association of Manufacturing Clothiers
Indicted in Sugar Fraud Case Tied to Waco Firm
Boston November 15 A federal grand jury indicted W M Foster of the Harry Foster Company commissioner thants TM of Waco Texas for a fraudulent Mexican sugar transaction involving thirteen thousand dollars the charge announced today.
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Boston
W. M. Foster
Harry Foster Company
Waco
Texas
Evacuation of Yerevan and Armenian refugee alarm
Cable dispatches report Yerevan evacuated, rail links to Tiflis cut, Armenians fleeing toward Batum along the Tchorok valley. Mustapha Kemal Pasha orders Batum evacuation as Georgian army mobilizes. About 100000 refugees cross into Georgia and Armenia lacking food clothing and shelter.
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New York
Erivan
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Armenia
Batum
Black Sea
Near East
Serge Bekzetian
Alexanddropol
Arpa Chai
Barley River
Akhalkalaki
Georgia
D'Annunzio Troops Seize Coast Near Fiume
Rome dispatch reports Gabriele D'Annunzio forces occupy the Mount Luban coast east of Fiume and seize all localities in Castua district without incident. The report cites the Messaggero correspondent.
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D’annunzio
Paris
Havas
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Fiume
Mount Luban
Rome
Messaggero
Castua
Athens election fights spark unrest and Venizelos setback
Reports from Athens show serious election clashes in several areas with troops guarding opposition leaders. Government lists appear defeated in Attica and Baetia while army vote results may still favor Venizelos. officials say the government will resign if defeated and await final results.
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Associated Press
Athens
Salonica
Attica
Baetia
Greece
Venizelos
Piraeus
Phelps Can Company Shuts Down In Weirton
Weirton West Virginia November 15 the Phelps Can Company has shut its plant for an indefinite period due to lack of orders about 200 employees mostly girls are laid off. The company hopes to resume operations late in December. The strip steel mill at Weirton Steel will operate only three days a week starting next week.
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Can Company
Weirton
W. Va
Phelps Can Company
Weirton Steel Plant
President Heard Over Riveting Defects on War Ships
Thomas H. Purtell testified before the Walsh committee that defective riveting on Emergency Fleet Corporation ships drew the President’s attention. He described “fierce” rivets, poor workmanship, and said he was fired for sending evidence to President Wilson before being reinstated. Admiral Benson defended board operations and pledged openness despite occasional wrongdoing.
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New York
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Wilson
Walsh Committee
Shipping Board
Thomas H. Purtell
Submarine Boat Corporation
Standard Shipbuilding
Philadelphia
Walsh
Purtell
Hurley
R. H. Bailey, Jr
Genoa
Associated Press
Charleston
8. C
Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Corporation
Benson
South Atlantic Ports Association
Sebastopol Falls to Russian Soviet Forces
Constantinople reports Sebastopol fell to Soviet forces at 5 pm after evacuation. General Wrangel last to leave aboard Koniloff, with Baroness Wrangel and others taken to Waldeck Rousseau. U.S. destroyers Whipple John Edwards and Humphreys evacuate wounded and head to Yalta and Theodosia. Fire destroys Red Cross stores. Allied officers hope to hold at Feodosia hill until noncombatants exit.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Sebastopol
General Wrangel
Koniloff
Baroness Wrangel
Waldeck- Rousseau
Whipple
John Edwards
Mozyr
Kiev
Kalenkovitche
Proskuroy
Nova Ushitsa
Petlura
Nova Ushista
London
Reuters
Crimea
American Red Cross
American Foreign Trade Corporation
MacCulley
Yalta
Overton
Feodosia
Wrangel
Twenty two of crew landed from Wildar wreck
Twenty two of the thirty three members of the Francis J. Wildar crew were landed at Sault Ste Marie Michigan after the Becker line freighter ran aground on Pancake shoals near Whitefish Point during Friday night’s storm. The rest travel to port aboard the Ainsworth.
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Sault Ste Marie
Mich
Becker Line
Francis J. Wildar
Whitefish Point
Own
Great Lakes Towing and Wrecking Company
Ainsworth
Harding abandons Isabel for Brownsville amid wintry norther
President elect Harding left Point Isabel due to a severe north wind and reached Brownsville by auto. He will spend two days in Texas at the home of J B Creager and then depart by special train for New Orleans to sail for Panama. Governor Hobby and Senator Fall plan to meet him, and Captain Elias Torres arrived in Brownsville amid interest in Villa surrender talks.
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Elias Torres
Villa
New Orleans
Panama
Mr. Harding
Point Isabel
Harding
Texas
Brownsville
J .B. Creager
Brownsville Country Club
Hobby
A. B. Fall
New Mexico
Senator Fall
Francisco Villa
Washington
Torres
Elect Harding
Mex National Band
President de Huerta
Mexico
Emile Kuntz
Association of Commerce
Weirton Steel Opens Seven Large Open Hearth Furnaces
Seven new open hearth furnaces at Weirton Steel Company are completed and will operate this week creating about 1000 additional jobs. Each furnace carries a capacity of over 100 000 tons and is hailed as among the largest built in the country.
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Weirton
W. Va
Weirton Steel Company
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St. Johns
Cornwell
Sam
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