Smith and Roosevelt Clash Looms at Democratic Convention
Former New York Governor Alfred E. Smith says he will attend the Chicago Democratic National Convention in June to lead forces aimed at preventing Franklin D. Roosevelt's nomination. Friends say Smith considers Roosevelt an unwise choice, and Smith may back either Baker or Garner if he does not seek the nomination himself.
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Alfred E. Smith
United Press Today
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Smith
New York State
National Democratic Club
Empire State Building
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Houston
Prohibition
Smith-Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Happy Warrior
Newton D. Ba
Ker
Ohio
John N. Garner
Texas
Garner
Baker
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Taft
Brooklyn Bridge
Blowing Rock Bank Reopens After Novel Reorganization
Bank of Blowing Rock with 16000 capital stock reopened after three months. Prof. B. B. Dougherty of Boone devised a plan canceling all stock and deposits, issuing 3 percent in new stock while leaving 50000 as surplus. Total recapitalization neared 75000 dollars. State Bank Examiner John G. Allen supervised. A mass meeting honored the reopening.
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Blowing Rock
Bank of
B. B. Dougherty
Boone
John G. Allen
Dougherty
Marrow Joins Tigers for Spring Training
Tarboro player Charles Buck Marrow, 22, headed to Palo Alto California to join the Detroit Tigers for spring training. The 6'4" right-hander, 210 pounds, is entering his third year in the major leagues and is a Davidson College graduate.
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Tarboro
Charles “Buck” Marrow
Palo Alto
Call
Detroit Tigers
Marrow
Davidson College
Honeymoon Couple Seeks Quick Marriage in Illinois Court
Nolan James 22 and bride Hattie Pearl 19 rushed into Madison city court to wed urgently as James awaited an appendicitis operation. Police Magistrate Sowell questioned the haste and James cited his overdue surgery as the reason.
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Madison, Ill
Nolan James
James
Mies Hattie Pearl
Granite City
Sowell
Leap Year Proposal Secures Free License for 19 Year Old
In Cadillac Michigan Marcella Fles aged 19 won both a bride and a free marriage license after admitting she proposed to Sidney Hodgson a farmer who accepted. County Clerk Guy W Slack issued the license.
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Cadillac
Mich
Marcella Fles
Guy W. Slack
Sidney Hodgson
Indiana Justice of the Peace reports stolen wedding ring boxes
Crown Point, Ind. Justice of the Peace Howard Kemp says the boxes that held wedding rings from thousands of marriages at his Gretna Green in northern Indiana have been stolen. The boxes included prizes from his marriages to Rudolph Valentino and Natache Rambova.
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Crown Point
Ind
Justice of the Peace
Howard Kemp
Gretna Green
Indiana
Rudolph Valentine
Natache Rambova
Artillery Action and War News From February 24 1918
American artillery silenced a German battery in the Toul sector amid heavy duels. The Wolf raider returned to Kiel after sinking 11 Allied vessels in a 15 month cruise. Igotz Mendi interned in Denmark with a German prize crew aboard two Americans among 22 prisoners. Trotsky warned over peace terms as Russia accepted them. Fighting on Italian and western fronts centered on artillery and trench raids.
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Toul
Wolf
Kiel
Atlantic
Pacific
Indian Oceans
Igotz-Mendi
Denmark
Leon Trotsky
Man Returns for Belated High School Entrance at 39
In Portland Maine Harry Popkin, a lifelong wanderer since 1914, declares it is not too late to learn new tricks as he plans a belated high school entrance at age 39.
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Portland
Harry Popkin
United States
Grateful Dead Mau Attica Man Visits Friends
Nathan Harkesty of Tipton paid a visit to old friends in Attica Indiana to thank them personally for flowers sent, which people had thought were for his funeral last summer.
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Mau Attica
Ind
Nathan Harkesty
Tipton
Southern Conference boxing tournament pairings set at UVA
Pairings for the sixth Southern Conference boxing tournament to be announced this afternoon at the University of Virginia. Eighteen of twenty eight members entered ninety one boxers as action begins tomorrow and runs through Saturday with defending champions and numerous contenders named by school.
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R. A. Fetzer
North Carolina
R. A. Smith
Washington and Lee
John Minardi
Florida
Lide
Clemson
Lloyd
Duke
Scott
South Carolina
Welling
N. C. State
Williams
Bobby Goldstein
Virginia
Lincoln depot bag of liquor can be claimed by owner
Lincoln Nebraska city prohibition officer Weggint reports a man who left a traveling bag filled with liquor at the depot may recover it by proper identification and claiming the contents.
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Lincoln, Neb
City
Weggint
Virginia Governor Pollard’s Sons Betrothed to Charlotte Girls
Engagements of John Garland Pollard Jr and Charles Phillips Pollard to Margaret Clarkson and Elizabeth Alexander were announced in February. The couples will wed in the near future, linking the Pollard family to prominent Virginians as Governor Pollard’s term continues.
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Charlotte
Virginia
John Garland Pollard
Suzanne
John Garland Jr
Charles Phillips
John Garland, Jr
WN. C
John
Margaret Fullerton Clarkson
Justice
Nene
Charles
Washington
Alexandria
Alexander
Herbert Lee Boatwright, Jr
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