Gasoline Taxes of Carolina Reach Big North State Amounts
Raleigh Aug 20 Approximately $3,000,000 in automobile and gasoline taxes was collected in North Carolina during 1923 24 by the automobile department under Joe B Sawyer with total 7 954 000 collected of which 3 975 000 were motor vehicle licenses and 3 979 000 gasoline taxes. The department expanded to 38 offices, issued 162 000 plates and 86 000 titles, with total branch office costs about one third of one percent of revenue. Everett praised Sawyer as a top executive and noted theft bureau gains of about $300,000 in recovered autos and a big organized thieves ring busted with a trip to Atlanta to locate the other end of the outfit. The title department under Capt Spargue Silver has grown into a valuable service. Everett calls the department the state’s biggest merchandising proposition with gross revenue about $8,000,000 and sub-3 percent overhead.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Automobile Department
Joe B. Sawyer
W. N. Everet
Evernett
Everett
Joe Sawyer
Sawyer
Capitol
Theft Bureau
Richard Harris
Harris
Atlanta
Capt. Spargue
Legislators Clash Over Welfare Dept and Pay for Highway Chief
Amid heated senatorial sparring over welfare regulation and centralization, debate focused on state control and a parliamentary move to curb powers. The house pressed to raise Frank Page’s highway commission salary to 15000, adopting a rate twice the current. A referendum is expected, with opposition seeking limits on commission spending until ratified by voters.
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Senate
Halifax
Johnson
House
Frank Page
Highway Commission
Page
Tom Owen
Sampson
Clem Wright
Messrs
Walter Murphy
Lindsay Warren
Bowie
Commission
Cape Fear
Yadkin River Valley
Squires
Southern retail merchants meet in Richmond
Retail merchants from Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Georgia Alabama and West Virginia gathered in Richmond for the annual southern conference. Principal speakers included Maj A E Foote of the commerce department Norman H Johnson secretary of the Southern Wholesale Dry Goods association and T E Warriner the conference president. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia is set to speak tomorrow as about 1 000 merchants attend.
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Richmond
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
West Virginia
Southern Retail Merchants Conference
Maj
A. E. Foote
United States Department of Commerce
Norman H. Johnson
Southern Wholesale Dry Goods Association
T. E. Warriner
Carter Glass
Two Men Die as Eastern Iowa Storm Ravages Region
Des Moines August 19 reports two men killed in a major rain storm across eastern Iowa. The deluge destroyed hundreds of thousands in property and many cattle perished. Cities and towns flooded as Wapsi river Cedar and Big Creek overflowed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Wapsipinicon
Cedar
Big Creek
Paris Star Worries About Americans Demands on Singing
Paris revue star Mistinguette expresses concern after visiting the United States. She notes Americans are delightful but overwork, and they repeatedly request her to sing the Marseillaise, which she finds troublesome to choose between.
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Paris
Mistinguette
Americe
Local Advert Says Call For Guarantee Service
An advertisement notes a guarantee offer with contact details for a business at 212 High Street and a phone number 2714.
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Morrison
Special Commission
Vienna
Bohemia
Yao
Ea Rgar Ae
HI E
Jule Mendenhall
Thomasville
High Point
D. H. Parsons
TY. W. Albertson
High Point's
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Cial
Togular
Comedienne
North Main Street
Herbert B. Hunter
Wachovia Bank Bldg
Tire Service Co
Thearyou
Union Bus Station
High Street
Elwoced Hotel
Union
Building and Loan
W. Washington St
Artes
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Ine
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Southern Railway System
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Pullman
Southern Railway
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Danville
Washington Americans
Philadelphia
Walter Johnson
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Edwin Rommel
Athletics
Washington Monument
Library OF Congress
Zoological Park
Lincoln Memorial
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H. D. Saunders
R. H. Graham, D. P. A
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