Tobacco prices soar as Greek crops become hot wartime trade
Thessaly and Peloponnesus tobacco harvests rise in price due to Bulgarian occupation and Greek coast blockade by the French fleet. American firms hold large stocks in Serres and Cavalla while buyers from Egypt, England, Holland and the United States push prices up. Some grades jump manyfold, and delays in censorship fuel gambling-like risk for tobacco agents in Volos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Volo
Thessaly
Egypt
England
Holland
United States
Argos
Karditsa
Policastro
Almiras
Vol
Baraca Class Banquet Draws Large Crowd in Thomasville
The Thomasville Baraca class at Main Street Methodist church held its annual banquet in Lambeth hall with over 200 young men attending. A six course dinner was served and speeches were delivered by Dr. Gilbert Rowe Rev. William Courtney Bunyan Snipes Womble A. R. Williams F N Tate Dr I M Mercer and Col F S Lambeth. The event closed with a group singing of Bless Be the Tie That Binds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Baraca
Main Street Methodist Church
Lambeth Hall
Austin Finch
Gilbert Rowe
Wesle
High Point
William Courtney
Winston-Salem
Bunyan Snipes Womble
Winston- Salem
A. R. Williams
State Association
F. N. Tate
I. M. Mercer
First Baptist Church of
Col
F. S. Lambeth
Saving an Individual Line Advantage
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company presents a brief note on the benefits of preserving an individual line for clearer communication and reliable service. The item underscores efficiency and customer ease in telephony operations.
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North State
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Danville
Lynchburg
Charlotte
Artanburg
Ss. C
Reenville
S. C
Washington, D. C
Atlanta
Gainesville
Raleigh
Henderson
Petersburg
Ichmond
American twine dominates British harvest despite appeals
London reports that American binder twine will be used almost exclusively for next year’s British harvest. U S mill agents on the ground have placed orders, arguing English prices and space savings favor home production, but farmers and dealers largely ignore calls to buy English.
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Associated Press
London
United States
Atlantic
Christmas Exercises At Wesley Memorial Tonight
Christmas exercises by the Wesley Memorial church Sunday school will be held in the church Sunday school room at 7 30 this evening. The room is decorated with cedar trees and Santa Claus is expected to appear after the children's program. The older participants will observe a white Christmas, with over 40 dollars raised last Sunday for the Associated Charities. The children will receive a small remembrance.
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Wesley Memorial Church
Santa Claus
Associated Charities
Three Firemen Die In Explosion Aboard Steamship
In Norfolk Virginia on December 22 three firemen were killed and several others injured when an explosion struck the Old Dominion Steamship company Princess Anne. The liner was bound for New York and the blast occurred near the Chesapeake Bay mouth. Later wireless reports said three negro firemen were killed outright and others suffered minor injuries. Details were not yet released.
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Dee
Old Dominion Steamship Company
Princess Anne
New York
Chesapeake Bay
Unidentified Ship Sunk By Mine in Adriatic
Berlin report, via Sayville, says a vessel unnamed in December 15 mine strike in the Adriatic sank with its entire crew. Lieut. Gen. Oreste Bandini, Italian Albania commander, and many sailors were drowned according to Overseas News.
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Berlin
Sayville
Frankfurter Zeitung
Lugano
Switzerland
Adriatic
Oreste Bandens
Albania
Preparations to Launch the Battleship Mississippi
Newport News expects the battleship Mississippi to be launched January 25 after a Navy department review. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and his wife are likely to attend along with Mr and Mrs H E Huntington and members of the Mississippi congressional delegation.
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Newport News
Navy Department
Secretary of Navy
Josephus Daniels
H. E. Huntington
Mississippi
Congress
Chicago Plans New Transportation System for 5 Million
Detailed plans for a city wide transit system to serve five million people at a projected cost of 490 million dollars in 1960 were submitted to the city council today by the Chicago Traction and Subway commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago Traction and Subway Commission
Rev. J. L. Deering Dead in New York Hospital
The Rev. J. L. Deering D D a Baptist missionary veteran of 26 years in Japan died at Clifton Springs New York from spinal meningitis. He was widely known in Providence R I where the notice was received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. Deering
Providence
R. I
D. D
Japan
Clifton Springs
N. Y
Piedmont Building and Loan stockholders meeting set
The Piedmont Building and Loan association will hold its annual stockholders meeting at 8 p m January 16 1917 in Wachovia Bank and Trust company office High Point North Carolina. Directors to be elected and other business to be transacted. Stockholders urged to attend. December 15 1916. C Idol secretary.
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Piedmont Building and Loan Association
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point
N. C
C.idol
Trans Andine Railway End South Pass Favored
Valparaiso Chile November 22 public works weighs Chilean end of a new Trans Andes railway linking Bahia Blanca to Lebu across the Andes. Proposals favor southern pass over central routes due to avalanches in the north and central zones. The Argentine end nears Chilean frontier. work paused awaiting western slope progress.
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Bahia Blanca
Lebu
Longuimay
Andes
Chile
Chamber of Deputies
Senor Domingo Duran
Bueos Aires
Valparaiso
Great Plateau
Upsallata Pass
Panama Canal
Europe
Christmas Entertainment at First Reformed Tonight
The Christmas entertainment at the First Reformed church will be rendered tonight at 7 30 o clock. A juvenile cantata Grandmas Christmas Eve and primary exercises will be performed. The event promises to be unusually good and the public is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Reformed Church
Mortgage Sale Notice for Guilford County property
Mortgagee W J Armfield Jr offers sale of Lot No. 42 in Roland Park, High Point Guilford County North Carolina at public auction for cash on January 8 1917 at 12 oclock at courthouse door due to default under a November 6 1914 mortgage W L White and wife conveyed title to Roland Park Company plots referenced in deeds
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. White
Guilford County
N. C
City of
High Point
High Point Township
Roland Park Company
Ster of Deeds
Roland Park Co
W. J. Armfield, JR
Snow Storm Grips Old Fort With Six Inch Snowfall
Old Fort, December 22, endures a heavy six inch snowstorm that has hardened to slick ice. The mountains lie white and traffic remains cautiously steady as trains manage reasonable timetables amid the conditions.
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Old Fort
Sale of Islands Ratified by Treaty with United States
From London the document reports the bill ratifying the treaty for the sale of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The vote was 99 in favor and 16 against with five absent.
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London
Folkething
United States
Ratifica
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Pelopponesus
Thomasville Baraca
Souteern
Teleph
and Telegraph Company
Great Britain
Wesley Memorial
Billy Sunday
The
Ocean
Buenos Aires
Tehuantepec
Panama
International Tunnel
Billy Sunday Tabernacle
Broadway
168Th Street
New York City
Ken Taylor and Company of
Boston
Eben E. Olcott
William A. Sunday Evangelistic Association
Olcott
Washington Avenue
City Real Estate Company
Institute For the Blind
165Th
168Th Streets
First Reformed Tonight
Bennett's Market
Kampfmueller’s
Jake Winkler
Philpot
K.R.R
Aes Ae
J. A. Hart Drug Vo
Agents
High Point, N. C
Inted
the Commercial National Bank
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