Building Graft Is Attacked
New York reports a national cleanup plan from the Calder housing committee and the Lockwood committee to reduce building costs and ease housing shortages. Indictments total 123 for extortion and other crimes. 27 contractors fined. disbandment of several land and steel firms. 20 of 42 basic building items show price drops. witnesses include Louis Horowitz and Eugene Grace. Samuel Gompers cites shop closed against unions.
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New York
Calder Housing Committee
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Lockwood Committee
Untermyer
Caldwell
Samuel Untermyer
About
Cut Stone Contractors’ Association
Robert P. Brindell
Building Trades Council
Lockwood
Louis Horowitz
Thompson-Starrett Construction Co
Eugene C. Grace
Bethelehem Steel Co
Horowitz
Grace
Philadelphia
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Hindus Fear Moon Eclipse Across Calcutta
In Calcutta on January 4 crowds watched the moon emerge from Rahu’s hold during a lunar eclipse. People on Howrah Bridge cried for the eclipse to end as the Hooghly riverfront filled with bathers and beggars seeking charity in a coin rich ritual.
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Calcutta
India
Rahu
Howrah
Hooghly River
Chhordo
French General Salutes as Band Plays Die Wacht am Rhine
Prague reports a French general stood at attention while a band played Die Wacht am Rhine. He reportedly thought the melody was the Czecho Slovakian national air, according to German papers.
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Berlin
Prague
Former Empress Eugenie Will and Tax Ordinance Text
The notes recount Eugenie of France bequeathing a Greuze portrait to Sir John Burgoyne and share details of a tax ordinance in High Point dated December 1920. It lists age based taxes, real and personal property levies, and school bond charges, with the city manager’s formal passage statement.
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London
Eugenie
France
John Burgoyne
England
Dr. Evans
Deauville
Enrone
Madrid
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High Point
General Assembly Ad Valorem
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Rich Prize For New Play
Paris January 4 Miss Alice Masaryk daughter of President Masaryk of the Czecho-Slovak republic and Red Cross president sent 10000 francs to the French government from the first performance of the play The Victors. The funds will aid restoration of Terron on the Aisne where Czech Slovak brigade fought in the Vouziers battles October 18 to 23, 1918. The open air Prague Charka Valley production recalled the Czecho-Slovak legions and Allied campaigns.
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Paris
Alice Masaryk
Marasyk
Red Cross
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Aisne
France
Vouziers
Charka Valley
Prague
Florida becomes golf hub as northern businessmen descend
Tampa report notes Florida evolving from wilderness to a dense golf network with an influx of northern businessmen golfers. The state boasts many courses but already lacks enough links to accommodate them.
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Grolfers
Tampa
Fla
Florida
Tax Levy for High Point City expenses and schooling
Section 1 states that taxes shall be assessed and collected to fund general city expenses, bond interest, and graded school costs in High Point. The levy is approved to support city government operations and education.
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High Point
Bond Election for High Point Township High School
Notice to Guilford County voters sets January 18 1921 as the election date to decide issuing bonds up to 600 000 dollars to build and equip a High Point Township Central High School. Registrations run 9 am to sunset for twenty days prior. ballots read For High School Bonds or Against High School Bonds.
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High Point Township
Guilford County
North Carolina
Board of County Commissioners
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Builford County
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Roy E. Jones
P. O
Anderson St
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Crystal Washing Machine
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Summerville
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