Supreme Court ruling orders equal power rates for public service firm
Jurisdictional decision forces Southern Power through its North Carolina subsidiaries to supply the Public Service Company with electricity at the same wholesale rate as to other customers. Chief Justice Walter Clark wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hoke and Walker concurring. several justices dissented. The ruling underscores state power to regulate benefits from water power resources and marks a landmark in North Carolina court history. The Public Service Company operates plants in High Point, Greensboro and other cities.
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Public Service Company
Public Servce Company
Walter Clark
W. A. Hoke
Platt D. Walker
Growth of large business combinations in England
London December 23 report notes a shift toward big combinations across many sectors. Promoters are forming emalgaimia tions affecting cinema, banking, restaurants, baking, confectionery, chain cigar and drug stores, and shoemaking as consolidation expands.
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London
England
Fighter Wins Yank New York War Bride Agnes Menefee
Mrs Agnes Menefee arrives in America as the wife of American artillery officer Harry C Menefee of Covington Kentucky. She served five years at the front with a Russian battalion of death and was a prisoner of war for six months in Germany. She was twice decorated by the czar.
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New York
Agnes Menefee
Germany
America
Harry C. Menefee
Covington, Ky
How to Earn a Large Income Says MP Higham
London reports MP C. F. Higham says most healthy people can reach 10,000 pounds yearly by acting decisively and shaping opportunities. He urges conviction, self belief, appearance, punctuality, courtesy, and risk taking while noting public servants and directors are underpaid compared to big earners.
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London
C. F. Higham
Tis
David Lloyd George
Tie
Fragonard Panel Found in Pittsburgh Saloon Back Room
In Pittsburgh on December 23, a back room discovery at Fritz Ueberle’s North Side saloon reveals a fourteen foot Fragonard panel bought for a quart of whiskey five years prior. Professor E F Savage of the Carnegie Institute of Technology calls it Fragonard work and seeks further authentication from peers. The tapestry had hung behind the bar at Hotel Antier before its closure years ago.
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Pittsburg
Fritz Ueberle
North Side
Fragonard
Frick
Morgan
E. F. Savage
Carengie Institute of Technology
Hotel Antier
Ueberle
American Cooperage seeks empty barrels in Baltimore
Special notice from The American Cooperage Company of Baltimore Maryland advertises highest prices for complete empty barrels. Main office at lith and Fayette Streets. Proprietor Morris Latinsky. Date 12 6 26.
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American Cooperate Company
Maryland
Fayette Sts
Baltimore, Md
Morris Latinsky
War on Rum Over Country Now on War on Rum Over Country
A daily communique reports widespread liquor enforcement across North and South Carolina. Wilkes County notes 23 illicit distilleries this week and large copper stills with 150000 gallons beer seized. Yadkin Wake Buncombe and Johnston counties detail raids, bonds, jail crowding, and operators jailed or fled.
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Wilkes County
Buncombe County
Allard Case
Henderson County
Carolina
Moonshiners Build Stockade to Fend Off Officers
Moonshiners in Calhoun County built a stockade around their still with barbed wire entanglements and kept ammunition and weapons inside. Officers arrived while they were away, escaping with their lives, but finding 58 gallons of moonshine and a large still captured.
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Huntington
West. Va
Calhoun County
Stash of liquor found in mattress in Frontenac home
Police recovered sixty four half pint whiskey bottles a quart of blackberry cordial and three quarts of apricot brandy concealed within a mattress at the home of Mrs Mary Bosetti in Frontenac Kansas.
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Frontenac
Kan
Mary Bosetti
County Attorney Kellar Probes Mattress Bump During Raid
The inquiry led by County Attorney Kellar investigated alleged bumps in the mattress amid a liquor raid. Officials sought to determine if physical evidence or concealment occurred during the operation. No further details were provided in the fragment.
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Kellar
Barber shops to stay open Wednesday night then close Christmas Day
Proprietors of barber shops announce extended hours until 10 p m on Wednesday followed by closure on Thursday Christmas Day. They wish customers a merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Signatures include BE Be Plummer T J Moser C B Baxter D L Hayes E H Fletcher T Be McCarter dated 12 23 31.
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J. H. Thomas
National Union of Railway Men
Industrial survey begins at Sing Sing Prison
Four men under Adolph Lewisohn, member of the Prison Survey committee, arrived at Sing Sing Prison to study the industrial system and suggest improvements to the state prison industrial life.
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Sing Sing
Ossing, N. Y
Adolph@ Lewisohn
Smith
Sing Sing Prison
Nowria
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Joseph J. Dowling
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Minneapolis
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Albany
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Yadkinville
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Winston-Salem
Wake County
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Jobeson County
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T. J. Moser
C. B. Baxter
D. L. Hayes
E. H. Fletcher
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