Special Design of Rum Boats Ties to War Blockade
Washington reports that specially designed speed boats used in Rum Row traffic will be pressed into service to enforce the blockade under Volstead act enforcement rules. Treasury prepares regulations to use seized vessels, with auctions continuing but tighter safeguards. In the year to June 30, 1924 the prohibition unit seized 5214 automobiles valued at 3 226 889 and 236 boats and launches worth about 279 198, while the coast guard seized 251 vessels in 1924.
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Washington
Rum Row
Treasury Department
Department
Coast Guard
Bank Statement Shows Currency Is Inflated
Paris April 9 The Bank of France confirms parliamentary reports that circulation exceeded legal limits by over two million francs. Advances to the state were declared twenty two million francs, the stated limit, though the government acknowledged excess went to it. Bank cites government convention as authority awaiting parliamentary ratification.
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Paris
Bank of France
S W Walton Buried at Randleman Yesterday
Funeral services were held at St Paul M E church near Randleman for S W Walton who died Tuesday. Rev P J Cook led the services. Walton was a well known citizen and a member of the Randleman council of the Junior Order. Council members served as pallbearers and floral bearers included Eutha Pearle Snider Figure Snider Alice Walton and Mary Walton.
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St. Paul M. E
Randleman
S. W. Walton
P. J. Cook
Walton
Randleman Council
Eutha Pearle Snider
Fugure Snider
Alice Walton
Mary Walton
Week Holiday at the College Here
Glasses were discontinued at High Point college yesterday afternoon for the Easter holiday. They will not be resumed until next Thursday morning. Out-of-town students left for homes in the state and South Carolina, leaving mainly the baseball team to stay for a Duke game. This is the only holiday in the long interim between Christmas and June, and students will prize the Easter break. Most students live west of the college, with Florence, South Carolina, being the farthest trip.
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High Point College
South Carolina
Duke University
Florence
Hindenburg Named President Candidate as Ludendorff Honors Him
Munich April 9 The nomination of field marshal Von Hindenburg as Reich president candidate coincided with General Von Ludendorff’s sixtieth birthday celebrations He praised Hindenburg as the best of the German army during the event
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Munich
Field Marshal
von Hindenburg
von Ludendorf
Electro plated overcoats could revolutionize rubber fabric
Baltimore April 9 The rubber division of the American Chemical Society in its sixty ninth meeting at Johns Hopkins University heard Dr E B Shephard of Rochester describe electro deposition of rubber. The process would coat finished garments with a leak proof rubber layer by electric deposition of charged colloidal particles and may eliminate seam splits and rips.
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Baltimore
Rubber Division
American Chemical Society
Shephard
Demonstrations At Aberdeen Proving Ground Explored
Gates visited the Army proving grounds at Aberdeen Maryland to witness demonstrations of many devices used in warfare highlighting early testing and military technology.
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Gates
Army Proving Grounds
Aberdeen
Mrs Dobson Dies At Randleman Home
Mrs Christena Nelson Dobson wife of Charles Lee Dobson died at her home in Randleman this morning after an extended illness. Born in En ship Sweden on April 20 1890 she came to America about 15 years ago. Survived by her husband and three children Joseph B Dobson Charles W Dobson and Nancy Dobson Funeral services set for Friday morning at Randleman.
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Christena Nelson Dobson
Charles Lee Dobson
Randleman
Dobson
Enship
Sweden
America
Joseph B. Dobson
Charles W. Dobson
Nancy Dobson
Interment Set At Oakwood Cemetery
At 10 o'clock by Rev. P. J. Cook, interment will follow in Oakwood cemetery here.
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P. J. Cook
Oakwood
Gerald Chapman's Alias Life and Sing Sing Return
The article traces the career of Gerald Chapman known as Curley of the Park Avenue mob. Identified by detectives at the Tombs, he was sentenced in 1908 to three and a half years at Sing Sing, left in 1912 in prison garb, and repeatedly evaded his true name while relatives denied his existence.
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Elmira
Sing
New York City
Sing Sing
Chapman
Gerald Chapman
George Chartres
Public hush as man proclaims own life after loss
A quoted speaker asserts his brother is dead and declares he wants to live his own life. The remark highlights a moment of personal choice amid tragedy, with emphasis on the speaker's resolve and absence of kin to influence his path. The phrase Phat man is dead frames the sentiment without sensational detail.
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Phat
Wills and Weinert sign for Polo Grounds bout
Harry Wills the negro heavyweight and Charles Weinert of Newark signed articles for a 15 round fight at the Polo Grounds on June 19. The match is set for New York.
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New York
Harry Wills
Charles Weinert
Newark
Polo Grounds
Governor to Seek Reprieve for Promoter Russell Scott
Chicago April 9 Governor Small was to be asked to pray to reprieve Russell Scott former Toronto Ontario promoter whose writ of sentence to be hanged April 17 Charles P R McCauley counsel for Scott announced today.
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Chicago
Small
Russell Scott
Toronto
Ontario
Charles P. R. McCauley
Scott
Quick Lunch Rooms Added to Filling Stations in England
London reports quick lunch tea rooms to be added at gasoline stations for motorists. Stations, new to the area, spread rapidly with some new houses near London dubbed petrol palaces. Many offer free wash and brush up rooms alongside tea cake and sandwiches during fueling.
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London
England
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