North Carolina State College Textile Building Enlarged
Greenville firm J E Sirrine and Co. prepared plans for an eighty foot addition to the Textile building at Raleigh. Gallivan and Co. of Greenville, S C won the contract. work starts immediately. The three story structure will measure 764 by 230 feet with full heating lighting and sprinkler systems. About 100000 will be spent on enlargement and equipment raising total value to about 250000. An experimental department and separate research laboratory will study raw materials yarns and fabrics for the textile industry.
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J. E. Sirrine and Company
Greenville
S. C
North Carolina State College
Raleigh
Gallivan and Company
Monk’s Daughter Solovieff Writes Book On Rasputin Life
Mme Solovieff, Rasputin’s daughter, now in Paris, has completed a book about her father’s life in the Czarist household.
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Mme. Solovieff
Rasputin
Paris
Bid for Chapman tract lands sets high New York bid
A single bid of 2 836 560 dollars for the Chapman field military reservation near Miami Florida was submitted to the war department by Nathan Friedman of 870 Riverside Drive New York City. The 800 acre tract awaits department action.
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Washington
Chapman Field Military Reservation
Miami
Fla
War Department
Nathan Friedman
Riverside Drive
New York City
Split over La Follette reform splits Republican ranks in Senate
Washington dispatch reports a holdout bloc within the Republican conference debated whether to recognize Senator-elect La Follette of Wisconsin as a party regular. Key leaders seek to resolve the issue while La Follette's attendance and stance remain uncertain. In the House, Wisconsin insurgents hesitate on reorganization and backing for party offices.
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Washington
Senate
Curtis
Kansas
Moses
New Hampshire
Jones
Edge
New Jersey
La _ Follette
Republican Party
Watson
Indiana
la Follette
House
Nelson
Wisconsin
Longworth
Kipling gravely ill with pneumonia in Sussex home
Noted writer Rudyard Kipling lies ill with double pneumonia at his Burwash residence in Sussex. Lord Dawson, physician to King George, attends as Kipling is described as anxious but not dangerous. Mrs Kipling and two nurses stay at his bedside. Kipling’s past illness in 1899 and wartime loss of son John are noted.
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London
Rudyard Kipling
Burwash
Sussex
Lord Dawson
King George
Mr. Kipling
Kipling
New York City
Joseph Kipling
Elsie Kipling
George Bambridge
England
John Kipling
India
Carolina Balestier
Wolcott Balestier
New York
Brattleboro
Vermont
Church Museum to Rise at Lenoir Rhyne College Hickory
The North Carolina Synod of the United Lutheran church in America will fund a church historical museum on the Lenoir Rhyne college campus in Hickory. Forty thousand dollars is allocated for the building and twenty five thousand dollars annually for acquiring Lutheran church historical materials. The collection aims to reveal early congregational life in the old south before the Revolutionary War as churches relocated from coastal towns to the Piedmont.
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Hickory
L Lenoir-Rhyne College
North Carolina Synod of the
United Lutheran Church In America
Old South
Seacoast
Piedmont
Lenoir Rhyn system of schools proposed for Lutherans
Recommendations were discussed to establish a Lenoir Rhyn system of schools uniting all Lutheran institutions under one head. The proposal was tabled until the 1926 convention as part of the meeting's discussions along with plans to place church history in the historical museum.
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Synod
Soapstone deposit plant sold to Roanoke capitalists
The National Soapstone company plant and equipment in Ashe county North Carolina has been sold to Roanoke Virginia capitalists including G M Armes C C Nelms and J A Jamison The unit is renovated and ready to fill accumulating orders including foreign contracts for the large soapstone deposit and plant.
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Chimney Rock
National Soapstone Company
Ashe County
North Carolina
Roanoke
G.M. Armes
C. C. Nelms
J. A. Jamison
Bank of England lifts rate to curb gold outflow
The Bank of England raised its official minimum discount rate to 5 percent, a 1 percent increase. The move aims to stop gold outflow totaling 19 million pounds since October and over 10 million pounds since the country returned to the gold standard, with prospects of further withdrawals reported.
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London
Bank of England
Childrens Laxative Promises Weeks of Regularity
An advertisement touts Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a gentle regulating laxative for children that can establish natural bowel movement for weeks and even months between doses. It claims the product works across illness and fever, with a 60 cent bottle available at stores selling medicine.
Dollar and gold flows prompt New York rate caution
The New York exchange hovers near the gold point prompting consideration of measures to protect reserve ratios as gold outflows keep discounts at bank rate levels. London speculation grows in rubber shares with authorities seeking to curb foreign money inflows via higher rates.
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New York Exchange
New York
London Stock Exchange
Briand Secures Partial Victory in Chamber Debate
Paris December 2 Premier Briand presented his policy for the new ministry to the chamber of deputies and won a partial victory by securing a change in procedure and by setting aside interpellations. A bill by Finance Minister Loucheur to raise the paper money circulation was introduced and sent to the finance committee which asked for a session delay until 9 p m. The vote on the delay was 415 to 154.
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Paris
Briand
Cooly
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Loucheur
Finance Committee
Paris Opera Adopts Formal Dress Code for Men
Men must wear full evening dress and silk hats to gain admission to the opera comique in Paris. The rule signals strict, period-appropriate attire for audiences attending the venue.
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Paris
Goitre Gone Says Mrs. Linhart in Lewistown Md
Mrs. Chester Linhart of Lewistown Maryland reports her goitre has completely disappeared and she feels well. She hopes her experience will benefit others. Sorbol quadruple can be purchased at most drug stores or by writing Sorbol Company Mechanicsburg Ohio. Locally available at Matton Drug Co.
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Chester Linhart
Lewistown
Mechanicsburg
Ohio
Matton Drug Co
Cod Liver Oil Promoted as Blood Strength Builder
A period note urges every man woman and child to take cod liver oil to improve thin watery blood. It claims the supplement is blood making and tissue building and useful especially in the current season.
Allenrhu Rheumatic Remedy Guarantee From Cecil's Drug
Cecil's Drug store and all county druggists offer Allenrhu with a money back guarantee if it fails to end rheumatic pain. James H. Allen of Rochester New York, inventor of ALLENRHY, promises not to take a cent unless the remedy decisively conquers the disease.
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Cecil’s Drug Store
Allenrhu
James H. Allen
Forbes St
Rochester
N. Y
Allenrhy
Cecil
High Point Enacts Annual Dog Immunization Ordinance
City of High Point passes an ordinance requiring annual hydrophobia vaccination for all dogs effective January 1 1926. Owners must produce a certificate from a registered veterinarian upon request and face fines of ten dollars per offense per day for noncompliance.
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High Point
N. C
R. L. Picket
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Goodyear
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Church Museum
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Everett
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NEA Service, Inc
English Bank
W. B. Caldwell
Caldwell
Pepsin
Goitre
W. A. Davis
Sunshine Dynsh
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Hart Drug Co
Bayer
G. T. Russell’s Electric Shoe Shop
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Griffon
N.H. Silver
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