Striking Carmen Shut Up New York Surface Lines
A large strike on New York surface lines began early today affecting 6,600 conductors and motormen and 2,300,000 riders across Manhattan Queens and Bronx. Police guarded cars as demonstrations occurred with few arrests and service was largely near normal on many routes. The strike aims to win union recognition and higher wages, with sympathy actions spreading to Second Avenue and Queens lines.
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Carmen
New York
Associated Press
Manhattan
Queens
Bronx
New York Railway
Queens County Railway
Ines
New York Railway Company
Third Avenue
New York, Railway
Second Avenue
Third Avenue Railway Company
Second Avenue Lines
Queensborough
Brooklyn
New York Railway Pempany
Births Outpace Deaths in High Point July
In July High Point city and towns show 49 births and 22 deaths, a net population gain of 27. City records list 40 births and 17 deaths, with typhoid fever causing two city deaths. A local physician warns typhoid is preventable.
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High Point City
High Point
Sata
Despondent man jumps from 13th floor in Atlanta
Thomas A. Brown, 62, a bookkeeper in ill health, leaped from the 13th story of the Fourth National bank building in Atlanta and was killed instantly. Witnesses saw him pause at a window ledge before the fatal jump. He leaves a wife and family.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Thomas A. Brown
Fourth National Bank
Brown
Twenty High Point Men Seek Release From Military Duty
Camp Glenn reports twenty members of Company M applied for release under the dependent families law. Captain Zollicoffer endorsed eight of the twenty. It is unclear if the remaining twelve will be released, though some assert valid reasons under the law.
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Camp Glenn
Company M
Zollicoffer
Towery brothers flee mob after Moriss murder in Oklahoma
Will Towery and Cecil Towery are accused in the fatal shooting of oil producer Charles Vaughn near Morriss Oklahoma. A daylight posse pursues a mob bent on lynching Cecil while Will is fed breakfast at a nearby negro cabin. Bloodhounds deputies and citizens race to capture the suspects first.
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Associated Press
Muskogee
Okla
Will Towery
Cecil
Charles Vaughn
Morriss
Cecil Towery
Tulsa
Will
Lexington Board Targets Typhoid Control and Clean-Up Efforts
A special Lexington town commissioners meeting considered preventing typhoid spread amid local cases. Officials planned trash removal, weed cutting, sealant of ceespools, and widespread health circulars with Dr. Rankin to assist. Lindsey F P Smith, long-time resident, died after a brief illness, aged about 31 or 32, leaving son Ed F. Smith.
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Lexington
Board of Town Commisioners
Paulties
State Board of Health
W. S. Ranking
Standiny
Lindsey FP. Smith
Ecore
Ed. F. Smith
Series of cloudbursts flood Roanoke Virginia area
Roanoke Virginia reports a series of cloudbursts that halted city traffic for hours. Streets and cellars flooded as water rose to a foot deep on main thoroughfares. Stores suffered significant damage while several homes lost roofs but occupants were unharmed. Over 1300 telephones were knocked out. Damages extended to crops in rural districts.
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Roanoke
Debate on the Child Labor Bill Continues
In Washington on August 5 the senate pressed ahead with debate on the child labor bill, anticipated to pass next week. Senator Hardwick leads the Southern opposition arguing the measure is unconstitutional. The same dispatch notes the Interstate Commerce Commission dismissed complaints by the Eastern Shore Virginia Produce Exchange regarding railroad rates for potatoes from several southern states.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Today
Hardwick
Produce Exchange
Virginia Produce Exchange
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad Company
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Louisiana
Tennessee
Interstate Commerce Commission
White Man Shot by a Negro Watchman
Raleigh dispatch reports white man S Carden from Durham shot at 4 am by a black guard employed by H H Brimley curator of the state museum as he entered Brimley home. Carden wounded in hand and body and held for four burglary charges. Brimley home ransacked Thursday night and guard added last night. Knife found on Carden among stolen items.
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Associated Press
Raleigh
S. Carden
Durham
H. H. Brimley
State Museum
Brimley Home
Carden
Brimley
Industrial drive seeks funds to reach $2,000 goal
A community campaign calls for donations to raise at least $2,000 in support of local industrial work. Organizers urge timely contributions from residents and businesses to fund projects and job initiatives.
Two newspaper men clash over High Point industrial secretary
Industrial committee of the High Point Commercial Club seeks to raise at least $2000 to sustain a paid secretary and an industrial office. A ward-based fund-raising drive begins, with notes outlining four installment payments and a Tuesday night election to name the secretary.
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Industrial Committee of the Commercial Club Endeavor To
Industrial Committee of the Comfort
Tee
High Point
James T. Ryan
J. H. Adams
Steve ©. Clark
J. W. Harris
J.P. Rawhey
Charles F. Tomlinson
A. F E. Tate
Frank
N.C
Industrial Committee
Commercial Club of
Press Row Libel Warrants Amid Duel Threats in Birmingham
Commissioner Barbour swore warrants against Victor Henson publisher of the Birmingham News and E. W. Barrett editor of the Birmingham Ave Herald. He alleges criminal libel over a controversial article in the Age Herald that spurred a duel threat and a televised telegram exchange. C. M. Stanley, news editor of the Age Herald, is also charged.
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Public Service
City Recorder
Victor Henson
Birmingham News
E. W. Barrett
Birmingham Ave Herald
Age Herald
W. H. Jeffries
Henson
Barrett
Asheville
Age-Herald
Jeffries
C. M
Dr Stanton to Join North Carolina Surgical Club
Dr D A Stanton leaves tonight for Washington to join the North Carolina Surgical Club for a months visit to top U S clinics. The club of 20 progressive surgeons tours major hospitals in Cleveland Chicago Rochester and other cities visiting Mayo Clinic facilities and sharing knowledge. While away his practice will be cared for by Drs T M Stanton Grayson and Tayler.
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D. A. Stanton
Washington City
North Carolina Surgical Club
America
Eminer
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Chicago
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Brothers
Cheb
Viiting Club
Stanton
T. M. Stanton
Grayson
Tayler
Camp Glenn Soldier Attacked by Robbers
Mereread City August 5 Private M. Jarvis of Company G second regiment Raeford was found unconscious between here and Camp Glenn by the chief of police. He is in city hospital with a blow to the right kidney from a large stick and says two Black highwaymen robbed and struck him after a search. Jarvis is from Washington North Carolina.
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Associated Press
Mereread City
Fd. M. Jarvis
Raeford
Here
Camp Glenn
Jarvis
City
Washington, N.C
Southern to Carry Relief Supplies Without Charge
President Fairfax Harrison of the Southern railway has authorized free transport of state relief committee shipments from North Carolina for gratuitous distribution to victims of recent floods. The move aims to ensure the full fund goes to actual needs in the storm battered Western North Carolina.
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Washington, D. C
North Carolina
Fairfax Harrison
Southern Railway
State Relief Committee of
Weather forecast notes fair night and Sunday
The outlook calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Sunday with light variable winds.
British Capture Main Second Line on Somme Front
British forces report capture of the German second defense line along a stretch north of Pozieres as part of a renewed Somme offensive. French hold strong at Verdun with the Thiaumont fort now in French hands after costly German attempts to retake it. In the east, Russians press toward Kovel and Lemberg, while Turkish forces assault British positions near Romani east of Port Said.
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Associated Press
Somme
France
Pozieres
London
Thiepval
Verdun
Paris
Thiaumont
Fleury
Kovel
Lemberg
Tertens
Mise
Calica
Petrograd
Bragy
Sereth
Romani
Port Said
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
British Capture Second Line at Pozieres Front
London reports the British captured the main German second line on a 2000 yard front north of Pozieres on the Somme, per the official war office announcement this afternoon.
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London
Pozieres
Somme
War Office
Postoffice Receipts Show 20 Percent Increase
July 1916 postoffice receipts for High Post indicate rising business with a 20 percent gain over the same month a year earlier. July 1915 receipts were 2,997.78 while July 1916 reached 3,670.24, a 682.56 rise, reflecting stronger activity and optimism for the first half of 1936.
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High Post
Thunder Showers Forecast Across Southern States Next Week
The forecast calls for thunderstorms and showers across the southern states next week. Temperature near or above seasonal normals expected in the region including the South, Gulf states, and near the western Gulf coast.
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Stuntic
East Gulf States
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