Fair price list urged to curb meat profiteering in North Carolina
District Attorney Hammer warns of gouging in High Point Asheboro and area as Swift breakfast bacon sells 70 cents a pound locally vs 48 cents wholesale. He cites 18 to 20 cent profits and urges vigilance as fair price committees prepare to set fixed lists and enforce government suggested caps.
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Mr. Hammer
Hammer
North Carolina
Desert Points in Peril as Rail Strike Halts Water
Rail strike by four Pacific coast brotherhoods threatens water supply in California and desert regions. Embargoes on passenger traffic persist while auto stage lines emerge to move passengers to Los Angeles. San Francisco reports water shortages and restricted gasoline amid the stoppage and federal efforts to operate the railroads.
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Cleveland
Pacific Coast
Brotherhoods
Federal Administration
San Francisco
California
Los Angeles
Arizona
British troops to leave Caucasus. US relief urged
Paris Aug 28 British troops began leaving the Caucasus on Aug 15 and will be out of the Armenian district by Sept 15. David Arnold of Providence head of the American committee for relief in the Near East said he met Viscount Peel who warned Britain cannot keep troops in Armenia without US military assurance within two or three months.
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Caucasus
David Arnold
Providence
R. I
American Committee For Relief In the
London
Viscount Peel
Armenia
United States
Arnold
Constantinople
Turkey
Moontown Spider Proclaims Union Win Beside Brown's Store
A large crowd in Moontown gathered to view a colored California sand spider nesting behind Brown's store. The spider’s web bears the message Union Will Win which villagers interpret as a forecast for labor unions.
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Moontown
California
Brown
Slayings and odd spider theory haunt Uniontown and Weimar
In Uniontown Pennsylvania a nine year old domestic worker Carrie Bowens was found killed with a hatchet her body mutilated and police sought another family employee. In Weimar a Potash committee bill to export potash to Switzerland and Scandinavia was presented amid concern over Alsace losses and Spanish discoveries. A spider exhibit was advertised at Rosa Smith’s Beaman Street home drawing skeptical visitors.
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Uniontown
Carrie Bowens
Weimar
Assembly
Switzerland
Scandinavia
Alsace
Spain
Germany
Rosa Smith
Beaman Street
Thomases
Carnegie will reveals vast fortune and gifts
The Carnegie will places the estate at 25 to 80 million dollars with real estate to Mrs. Carnegie. It records gifts and charities exceeding 300 million and leaves annuities to Taft and to widows of Cleveland and Roosevelt. Public bequests include 200000 to Hampden University in Virginia.
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Taft
Grover Cleveland
Thomas Preston
Theodore Roosevelt
Peierls Earlet Por Ke
Ireland
Ublic
Hampden University
Virginia
Convicted in double slaying Charles Dalton faces Raleigh electrocution
Franklin report says Jerry Dalton was found guilty of first degree murder for killing Maude Grant and Marrill Angel. He is scheduled for execution in Raleigh on October 6. The case centers on the 22 year old widow Maude Grant and traveling salesman Marrill Angel.
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Franklin
Jerry Dalton
Macon County
Raleigh
Maude Grant
Marrill Angel
Virginia Solons Debate Suffrage Amendment
Governor Davis sent the national woman’s suffrage amendment to the Virginia legislature without recommendation. President Wilson recently urged immediate action on the measure.
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Virginia
Richmond
Davis
Wilson
Mrs. T. G. Connor Visits Sister in City
Mrs. T. G. Connor of Spartanburg South Carolina arrived in the city today to visit her sister Miss Annie Mae Walker of Lindsay Street.
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T. G. Connor
Spartanburg, S C
City
Annie Mae Walker
Lindsay Street
Unionists Picket Plants Rally Size Grows
Unionists resumed picketing this morning at the Southern Chair and Union Furniture plants near South Main street school. About 200 to 300 workers joined, marking the first organized effort in days with no disorder observed and police briefly summoned but nothing noteworthy found.
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Southern Chair Company
Union Furniture Company
South Main Street
Mexican Rail Workers Appeal to U S Brothers
An appeal from Mexican railway workers urges U S rail labor to refrain from fueling international conflict. The message, sent to J G Lahrsén head of the American Train Dispatchers Association, asks that it be spread to all U S railway employee associations.
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U.S. Brothers
Spokane
U.S
J. G. Lahrsén
United States
Millionaire Red Joins Tulsa Weed Gang in Vacant Lot Fight
Tulsa reports Henry Morrison an Osage, once near millionaire with oil holdings, is part of a weed gang. He was given ten days by Police Judge Lol Marren for drunkenness as he chops weeds on vacant lots.
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Lol Marren
Three Men Dead in Saw Mill Blast at Stonewall Mill
New Bern Aug 28 three negroes are dead two severely injured and several others hurt as a battery of three boilers exploded at W J Swann’s large Stonewall saw mill in Ambeo county causing the mill to be ruined. Officials believe low water in one boiler triggered the chain reaction.
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New Bern
Stonewall
Ambeo County
W. J. Swann
Catholics Warned to Steer Clear of the YMCA
Lima Peru August 28 Mon Signor Emilio Lisson the archbishop of Lima published a communication through all newspapers warning Catholics not to participate in the movement to establish a YMCA branch under penalty of being suspected of heresy and incurring general ecclesiastical censure.
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Lima
Peru
Emilio Lisson
I Communication
All News
Rage equality in peace treaty hearing on Negro delegation
At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, A Whaley of New York and William Monroe Carter of Boston urged amending the peace treaty to ensure racial equality for Negro delegates. They warned of possible trouble if Negroes are denied fair treatment, stressing the urgency of change as few committee members attended.
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Washington
National Equal Rights League
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Additional street cars resume service in Charlotte amid calm
Charlotte officials report no riots overnight and plan limited service beyond North Charlotte. Civilian and state guards are released. city prepares provisional unit of 150 overseas workers while an inquest into Tuesday deaths proceeds.
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Charlotte
North Charlotte
80Th Division
Akron Man Says He Is Too Good for Any Woman
In Akron Ohio on August 28 a wife petitions for divorce from Paul O Thorpe claiming he said he was too good for any woman and that he could not live with a wife. The filing notes Thorpe allegedly admitted the remark and the wife seeks the court to grant the relief.
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Akron
Ohio
Paul O Thorpe
Montenegro Revolt Grips Nation Amid Uprising
News from London reports Montenegro in full revolution with fighting across the country. Serbians employ strong measures to suppress the uprising as dispatches reach the capital.
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Montenegro
London
Hog Mart Takes Tumble in Chicago
In Chicago at the Union Stock Yards a drop in live hog prices occurred with hogs down 1 to 1.25 per hundredweight. Dressed pork futures also fell with the September delivery opening at 40.50, two dollars below yesterday. Grain weakened as corn slipped to 21.4 cents a bushel and oats 7-8 cents.
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Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Derby fliers found safe after plane troubles
Mount Clemens Mich August 28 Lieutenant Sliger and Sergeant Strickland believed lost in Lake Ontario or blown off course landed at Selfridge field and are safe. Their Buffalo to Toronto flight in the New York to Toronto derby encountered engine trouble forcing a return to their home field.
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Derby Fliers
Lake
Mount Clemens
Mich
Lieuenant Sliger
Sergeant Strickland
Lake Ontario
Creway
Buffalo
Toronto
New York
Selfridge Field
Slager
Gompers Enters Conference On Wage Policy With Rail Unions
Samuel Gompers arrives from Europe and meets with officials of 15 railroad unions in Washington to discuss President Wilson's wage policy during the cost of living campaign. A statement was anticipated, but union officials would not reveal Gompers stance.
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Wilson
France Seen Near Ratifying German Treaty
Paris dispatch reports the chamber of deputies weighing the peace with Germany. If France gains guaranteed military protection, ratification could end the debate. Provisional motions of regret over the document’s terms may be presented, reopening discussion.
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Germany
Chamber of Deputies
Sme
Elerete
France
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