City Paving Plans Move Forward On Main Street Widening
City progress on street paving resumes after holidays. West Commerce Street near the railway yard likely to be first paved while South Main Street sees early track removal. Council will decide North Main to city limits after engineers discuss curb resetting desired by City Manager Arthur Lyon. Four assessment districts formed to cover paving costs amid pro rata disputes. petitions circulate for further streets to be paved.
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North Main
English Street
Georgers
Arthur Lyon
Oakland to Welcome New Year With Celebration
Oakland readers will witness a New Year's Eve program headlined by the Alameda County Chorus performing The Messiah in the Municipal Auditorium. A 13th century Spanish bell dated 1247 will mark the year’s end as a Mt. Diablo pilgrimage and a sunset farewell precede a birth of the new year dance.
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Oakland
Gaysland
Cal
Alemeda County
Million Doar
Mt. Diablo
Diversification in Crops Sees Gains Across the South
President Harrison notes USDA figures on winter wheat acreage show growth in almost every southern state. Only Kentucky declines and Tennessee remains level. Georgia Alabama and Mississippi lead large increases as boll weevil spread prompts shifts toward diversified farming.
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United States Agricultural Department
Harrison
Southern Railway Company
Southern Railway
Kentucky
Tennessee
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
South
Finnish Steamer Oihonna Sinks After Mine Strike
The Finnish steamer Oihonna of 1 070 tons with a Russian artillery detachment aboard struck a mine and sank within minutes off Helsingfors. All but about 50 aboard are reported drowned, including 1 000 horses. A second liner between Abo and Marihaam also struck a mine with many missing. The incidents are blamed on poorly anchored Russian mines in the Finnish bay mine fields.
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Sayville
Oihonna
Aland Islands
Frankfurter Zeitung
Copenhagen
Helsingfors
Abo
Russia
Marihaam
Liquor Seized in Phoenix Parade Under New Prohibition
Phoenix Arizona December 30 five hundred gallons of whisky wines and beer were poured into a city water wagon and the business district streets were sprinkled with liquor. A parade of two hundred autos and several floats followed the water wagon as a band played a dirge. The liquor was confiscated in raids by the sheriff under the new prohibition law and its disposition was ordered by Superior Judge Stanford.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Arizona
Stanford
San Diego Naval Radio to Send New Year Greetings Worldwide
The 150 kilowatt naval radio station at Chollas Heights near San Diego will flash New Year greetings to London Berlin Paris Vienna Budapest Tokio and South American capitals at midnight tomorrow night. Officers say the station is more powerful than Arlington and should transmit messages to nearly all parts of the world with no difficulty.
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London
Berlin
Paris
Vienna
Budapest
Tokio
Chollas Heights
Arlington
First Jewish Governors Set to Lead Idaho and Utah
Denver reports two states will inaugurate Jewish governors on New Year’s Day. Moses Alexander begins a second term in Idaho, while Simon Bamberger becomes Utah’s governor and the first Democrat in that office.
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Col
Idaho
Moses Alexander
Simon Bamberger
Utah
Bamberger
Telena Libeled in Chesapeake Bay Collision Case
In Norfolk on December 30 the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Co. libeled the British steamer Telena for 450000 dollars, seeking damages from the Telena’s master and crew for negligence in navigation after the December 13 collision with the Powhatan in Chesapeake Bay. The libel claims improper signals by Telena contributed to the wreck.
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Federal District Court
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company
Telena
Powhatan
Chesapeake Bay
Longest English lawsuit ends over Rhodesia gold dispute
London December 29 The lengthy case over 2.5 million dollars in Rhodesian gold ends with Justice Eve dismissing Amalgamated Properties of Rhodesia claim that Globe and Phoenix mined gold from its adjacent property. The trial spanned 144 days with 50 000 questions and costly proceedings.
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Associated Press
London
Amalgamated Properties of Rhodesia, Ltd
Rhodesia
Globe and Phoenix Gold Mining Company
Eve
Amalgamated
Globe and Phoenix
Mexican Charge G Bulle Dies in Brussels
London dispatch reports the death in Brussels of G. Bulle Mexican charge d affaires in Belgium. He had long served as a chief secretary of the relief commission for Belgium since relief work began. He said his role reflected his country’s lack of government and his government’s lack of country.
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London
Brussels
G. Bulle
Belgium
Commission For Relief In
Colorado Satisfied With Prohibition Year in Denver
Colorado ends its first year as a dry state with merchants reporting unusually good business. Denver, once home to more than 500 saloons, adapted with little trouble and other signs show economic stability including higher bank deposits, fewer foreclosures, and fewer prison admissions in the county jail than in two decades.
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Denver
Col
Hall's Catarrh Cure Internal Remedy Sold Nationwide
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications. it is a constitutional condition. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acts through the blood on mucous surfaces, and was prescribed by leading physicians. Formulated with tonics and blood purifiers, it promises strong results. Written testimonials available. price 75c. Wall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
Wall
Valmlee Real Estate for Sale by Trustee in High Point NC
Public notice that John DeBell and Elizabeth DeBell conveyed land in Guilford County to Greensboro Loan & Trust Co. as trustee. Foreclosure sale scheduled January 15, 1917 at the county courthouse in Greensboro, offering four lots in Johyn Place, with dwelling homes and adjacent alleys, first as a combined parcel then separately, to satisfy a debt of ten thousand five hundred dollars. Trustee J. W. Fry will conduct the sale at noon for cash to the highest bidder.
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Elizabeth DeBell
Register of Deeds
County
N. C
Greensboro d Trust Company
W. M. Knight
Young
Greenoro
Johym Place
Register Deeds
Guilford County
Louise Avenue
Barnes Street
Barnes
Venue
Ves Street
Nxt
High Point
Greinsboro Loan & Trust CQ
J. W. Fry
Louise
Annual Meeting of Commercial National Bank Stockholders
The annual meeting of the stockholders of Commercial National Bank of High Point North Carolina will be held in the Director's Room of the bank on Tuesday January 9 1917 at 10 o'clock a m V A J Idol Cashier. Dec 14 1916 12 12 30t
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Commercial National Bank of
High Pont
N. C
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