No Obstacle Seen for U S Business Progress in 1922
Commerce Department reports a year of progress with a 50 percent rise in manufactured goods output and about 17 percent higher prices to farmers. Trade figures show exports up since mid year, while foreign markets remain unsettled causing some price pressure. A second item covers W B Cray's arrest in Statesville for swindling Kentucky families over a military school tuition.
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Washington
Department of Commercce
Europe
Eee
Arrest of two convict escapers linked to Newberry case
Police Friddie and Stamey captured two men believed to be James Douglas and Odell Suber, escaped convicts from a Newberry South Carolina camp, after a tip from a jailed arrestee. They were working on a local sanitation project near Jamestown and Aldrich Street with the Perry Construction Company when identified.
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Friddie and Stamey
James Douglas
Odell Suber
Newberry
S. C
Hoover
South Carolina
Friddle
Stamey
Douglas
Suber
New County
Jamestown
Aldrich Street
Perry Condruction Company
Lubor
Eygro
Beloved Woman Dies Near City in North Carolina
Mrs. Sarah Eliza Charles widow of David Charles died last night at 11 o clock at her daughter’s home four miles west of High Point. She was 87 and died of old age. Survived by two daughters, two nephews, a niece, seven grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Funeral tomorrow at 12 at Friendship church three miles south of Winston Salem with Rev. V M Schawa and Rev. John McChristian officiating. Interment in church cemetery.
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Sarah Eliza Charles
David Charles
Jacob Burton
High Point
Charles
Burton
Alma B. Whirlow
Winston- Salem
Friendship Church
Winson-Salem
V. M. Schawa
Will This Boy Be President Future Mayor of High Point
A ten year old boy chats with a reporter about plans for a new municipal building at Wrenn and Commerce. He expresses astonishment at the grand, "gorgeous" plans and envisions a future civic role.
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Nick
Wrenn and Commerce
High Point
Extradition Hearing Set for W B Gray in Raleigh
Governor Morrison orders Statesville officers to bring W B Gray of Mebane to Raleigh for a hearing after a Kentucky request. Col Lewis Preston Gray appealed for his son to face extradition in Munfordsville Ky over about $3000 paid for tuition to his father’s school. The case centers on alleged false representations regarding the school’s adequacy.
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Statesville
W. B. Cray
Mebane
Hart County
Kentucky
Morrison
Gray
Raleigh
Bingham Military School
Bingham
North Carolina
Gra
J. B. Hubbard
Felow
Munfordsville
Hubbard
W.B. Gray
Kiy
Russell Wood Held for Court in B and E Case
Probable cause found in municipal court for Russell Wood charged with breaking and entering. He was ordered held for the next term of superior court under $500 bond. Wood, an escaped Guilford county convict, was arrested by Sergeant Hoover and Officer Friddle after fleeing a convict camp. He allegedly broke into a box car in the Southern Railway Co freight yards and stole shoes around December 18.
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Russell Wood
Superior Court
Wood
Guilford County
Hoover
Friddle
Southern Railway Co
Bank Declares Six Percent Dividend and Bonus
The Commercial National bank board approved a six per cent semi annual dividend payable January 1. Directors also voted a bonus for the bank's employer as the bank reported its best year in its history, according to President J Elwood Cox.
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Commercial National Bank
J. Elwood Cox
Commercial National
Steamer Manmotor Reported Sinking Off Cape May
A wireless message picked up at Hampton Roads reports the steamship Manmotor sinking off Cape May New Jersey. The vessel is listing badly to starboard and running before a heavy gale.
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Norfolk
Hampton Roads Naval Base
Cape May
New Jersey
Grissom Ready to Collect Taxes in North Carolina
Raleigh NC December 29. Gilliam Grissom internal revenue collector announces first batch of tax return blanks will be mailed January 2 1923 to workers earning under 5000 dollars yearly about 50000 forms. Higher incomes and corporate blanks follow. First quarterly payments due March 15. Returns may be filed at Raleigh or branch offices in Asheville Winston Salem Charlotte Washington and Wilmington.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Gilliam Grisom
Internal Revenue
Asheville
Winston- Salem
Charlotte
Washington
Wilmington
Grissom
Injured carpenter recovering after 18 foot fall
W Hagaiety a carpenter for J A Jones Construction Co. suffered a serious head wound and facial cut when bricks fell from an elevator shaft at the new municipal building yesterday. He is reported resting well at Burrus McCain hospital after the fall.
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W. Hagaiety
Burrus-McCain Hospital
Hagaiety
J. A. Jones Construction Co
Guilford Alumni Meeting Held in Greensboro This Afternoon
The Guilford Alumni association schedules a Greensboro meeting this afternoon with attendees expected from High Point including J. Elwood Cox.
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Guilford Alumni Association
Greensboro
High Point
J. Elwood Cox
Ferguson's New Ford Stolen From North Main Street
The Ford touring car of L C Jack Ferguson editor of the High Pointer weekly was stolen last night from in front of the North Main street office. The brand new car had two quarts of gas when taken and license tag No 158962. A $50 reward is offered for its return.
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L. C
Jack) Ferguson
High Pointer
North Main Street
Ford
Jack
Body of Clarence Owen Taken Home
The 12 year old Clarence Owen died after a hunting accident when a gun discharged after a hog trampled it. He was taken to his home in Lexington by his parents Mr and Mrs Sam Owen. Funeral arrangements could not be learned. The incident occurred yesterday morning during a hunting trip.
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Savannah
United States
New Bern
Coleman
Funcionary
Bryan Grimes
Department of State
Ben D
Salisbury Bar
the _ canan
EB. B
Clarence Owen
Sam Owen
Lexington
Salisbury
Killing Cited as Bad Business In Lincolnton Shooting
Morgan ton NC December 29 Solicitor R L Huffman says the death of Fred Allison near Lincolnton last Sunday night stems from a bad piece of business and demands thorough investigation. Deputy Baxter and Deputy Miller were present when Allison was fatally wounded during an exchange with liquor runners. Baxter faces pending indictment on charges of immorality and liquor offenses. Huffman plans to travel to Lincolnton next week to open the shooting probe.
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Morganton
R. L. Huffman
16Th Judicial District
Fred Allison
Lincolnton
Baxter
Miller
Allison
Huffman
Sheriffs Office
Lincalton
Child Labor Law Test Case Opens in Charlotte
Frank Matthews manager of Belk Brothers in Charlotte pleaded guilty in recorder s court to child labor law violations. Judgment withheld pending outcome of a similar Postal Telegraph and Cable Co charge set for January 8. F A Fisherup local S H Kress manager also to be ruled on after Postal case.
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Chrlotte
Frank Matthews
Belk Brothers
Recorders Court
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
F. A. Fisherup
S. H. Kress Company
Matthews
Mr. Fisherup
Return of British Fleet Sparks Constantinople Concern
The hasty return of the British fleet from Malta to Constantinople draws wide attention. No official explanation is given, but the move is seen as connected to Turkish intransigence at Lausanne. Foreigners remain in Constantinople as the ships are viewed as a precaution against possible Lausanne talks breakdown.
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London
Associated Press
Constantinople
Malta
Lausanne
Gotham Gripped by Heavy Snows
New York faces a major blizzard with snow and sleet turning to icy gale. Thousands of volunteers shovel streets while hospital ambulances rush in pedestrians with broken arms skull fractures and other injuries. At least two deaths are reported on the city’s thoroughfares.
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New York
New York City
Fas
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