Influenza Cases Steadily Rise In City And Nation
In Raleigh and Wake County influenza cases rise with about 350 reported including 105 children at a Methodist orphanage. Disease is mild with no deaths. volunteers are urged to join Red Cross for potential epidemic response. Nationwide reports show 27,241 cases week ending Jan 24 across 25 states and DC, with 467 influenza deaths and 945 pneumonia deaths.
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Raleigh
Wake County
Methodist
The
Red Cross
Washington
Public Health Service
District of Columbia
Influenza cases rise in High Point as physicians fear spread
Local doctors estimate 100 to 500 influenza cases in High Point today with new cases increasing. A statewide rise is noted with Salisbury reporting about 100 cases in recent days as hospitals urge limited visiting to curb transmission.
Dora the Terrible Executioner of Odessa
Dora Ivinsky, known as the Terrible Executioner, is described as a 17 year old woman who has allegedly harmed 490 officers with her own hands as part of the Odessa Extraordinary Commission.
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Odessa
Dora Ivlinsky
Odessa Extraordinary Commission
Execu
Senator Reed Attacks Pork Barrel Rivers Bill
Senator Reed of Missouri denounces the rivers and harbors appropriation bill as peanut politics. He warns the Senate may need cloture to pass it and calls for a billion dollar bond issue for internal improvements, saying the country loses a thousand dollars for each dollar saved by cuts.
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Washington
House
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Berlin fears treaty changes after Erzberger attack
Berlin reports growing government concern over extradition of Germans charged with atrocities. A note seeks revisal of Versailles treaty clauses. The Erzberger assassination attempt is seen as a warning of wider action if Germany yields to allies on arresting those on the entente list. Officials doubt any German official would cooperate with foreign warrants.
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Entente
Foreign Office
Germany
Red Cross funds travel exhibit on social hygiene
Washington January 29 The Red Cross donated 10000 dollars to the American Social Hygiene association to support a traveling exhibit on social hygiene. The exhibit will show constructive methods for controlling social diseases. The first demonstration will take place in North Carolina.
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Red Cross
The
American Social Hygiene Association
North Carolina
Distilling outfit captured in Wilkes county
The so called daddy of all distilling outfits is captured in Wilkes county. The 250 gallon copper still with old time accessories was seized and three thousand gallons of beer were destroyed. In Washington, Rep. Samuel M Brinson announces bid for reelection in NC third district with Charles L Abernethy opposing.
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Winston-Salem
Wilkes County
Washington
Samuel M. Brinson
North Carolina
Charles L. Abernethy
New Bern
Haircut Price Jump Ahead In Asheville
Haircuts in Asheville will cost 50 cents after February 1 and shaves will rise to 25 cents as local barber prices go up.
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Asheville
Nebraska man has case leprosy in Tilden patient
Charles Young, 49, of Tilden Nebr., who sought treatment at Creighton Medical College for a blood disease, has a well developed leprosy case. A Spanish War veteran, he believes exposure occurred during that war.
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Omaha
Charles Young
Tilden
Nebr
Creighton. Medical College
Influenza Death Toll in Chicago Rises
Chicago health officials report deaths from influenza averaging near seven per hour, illustrating a sharp surge as the city grapples with the outbreak.
Spingarn Urges Federal Lynching Offense Bill
Arthur B. Spingarn of New York told the house judiciary committee that if the Hyer bill making lynching a federal offense is ruled unconstitutional a constitutional amendment should follow. He represents the national association for the advancement of colored people. The statement was made in Washington on January 29.
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Washington
Arthur B. Spingarn
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
House Judiciary Committee
Hickory Legion to Erect Building in City
The Hickory Post of the American Legion announced plans to erect a new building in Hickory. The project aims to provide a meeting place and veterans’ services space for the community.
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Hickory
the American Legion
Doctor G W Locklear Ordered to Leave State After Fornication Plea
Dr G W Locklear an Indian who married a white woman Auianta must depart North Carolina after pleading guilty to fornication and adultery with suspended judgment on costs. The court ruled North Carolina laws ban inter racial marriage.
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Lumberton
G. W. Locklear
Auianta
North Carolina
Americans Not Held Prisoners in Mexico
Brow nsville Texas January 29 Lieutenants FE F Davis and G E Grimes American army aviators who yesterday made a forced landing in Mexico are not held prisoners by the Mexicans and probably will fly back today it was announced at Fort Brown shortly before noon.
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Brownsville
Texas
FE. F. Davis
G. E. Grimes
Mexico
Fort Brown
Houser Family Escapes House Fire Destruction
Shelby reports Dr. E. A. Houser and his family barely escaped with their lives when their home was consumed by a blaze. The fire destroyed the residence, leaving no word on causes or damages at this time.
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Shelby
Dr. £. A. Houser
Prince Yoshihito Stricken as Influenza Epidemic Rises
Tokio report declares Prince Yoshihito, seventeen, gravely ill with influenza as Japan battles a widespread outbreak. Army and Tokyo cases rising. commerce limited amid the epidemic.
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Tokio
Yoshhito
Japan
Banquet Tendered to Mr Cox by Directors of His Bank
The Commercial National Bank honored its president J Elwood Cox at a banquet in the Elwood hotel for his years of service. Toastmaster C F Tomlinson opened the meeting and speakers praised Cox's leadership, financial insight, and national reputation.
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MR. Cox
C. F. Tomlinson
Cox
J. J. Farriss
Tomlinson
Farriss
Commercial National Bank
J. E. Latham
Greensboro
Commercial National
High Point
North Carolina
Latham
Wilkerson
The
Merchants’ and Farmers’ Bank
Charlotte
Pastors Plan Major Financial Drive at First Christian Church
More than 100 pastors from the First Christian Church of the South gather in Greensboro to map a large financial campaign. The conference starts tonight to organize fundraising efforts and mobilize church members.
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Greensboro
First Christian Church of the South
Launch Ship At Wilmington Today
Wilmington expects the fourth locally built ship to be launched this afternoon at 4 30. The 500 ton steel freighter toilet will be launched in the event. Local shipyard officials say the ceremony will proceed as scheduled despite conditions.
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Wilmington
Carpenter Wage Wars Hit Chicago Market Raids
Chicago reports current carpenters earn 1.25 dollars an hour under union scales. A 44 hour week yields 1 dollar hourly, with potential 103 dollars weekly for ten hours daily seven days. Detroit recruiters lure 1.25 to 1.50 an hour plus overtime bonuses, triggering complaints of worker kidnapping by employers.
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Chicago
Detroit
Five Socialist Assemblymen Refuse Governor’s Reception
Albany January 29 five suspended socialist assemblymen on trial for disloyalty said they would not attend the governor's private reception at the executive luncheon tonight though invited. Governor Smith, speaking as a private citizen, condemned their suspension without trial.
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Albany
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Smith
Italian strike settled as workers to return
London report says an agreement on all principal points between the Italian cabinet and railway strikers has been reached, with strikers expected to resume work at once. New York cotton futures opened steady with March at 36.59 and December at 29.59, despite bullish Liverpool rumbles.
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London
Rome
New York
Bipartisan treaty talks postponed delaying Senate vote
Negotiations between Democratic and Republican senators on the treaty compromise are postponed until tomorrow due to Senator Lenroot's absence. Senator Hitchcock warned he would move to take up the treaty only after a clear loss of compromise prospects. Some Democrats fear resuming in the near future would yield little gain.
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Washington
Senate
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Hitchcock
Doomed to Die in Sing Sing Tonight
Ossining news reports Gordon Fawcett Hamby a 26 year old confessed murderer bank robber and train bandit will face execution at Sing Sing prison tonight without clergy if the warden agrees Hamby started his final day with calm indifference eating breakfast and smoking many cigarettes He said he planned to die by his own hand in his cell but changed his mind saying Major Lawes treated him squarely and was a good fellow
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Sing Sing
Lawes
Hamby
Major Lawes
Influenza Strikes Cunard Liner Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
The Cunard steamer Kaiserin Augusta Victoria arriving Plymouth from New York on January 29 reported 60 influenza cases among passengers and crew. Three developed pneumonia, and one death occurred last evening amid concerns the ship’s dry status hindered medical care.
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Plymouth
Cunard Line
Kaiserin Augusta Victoria
New York
Johnson plans return to face Chicago charges in boxing bid
Mexico City reports former world heavyweight champion Jack Johnson intends to return to the United States to answer pending Chicago charges. He hopes to arrange fights with Jack Dempsey before Dempsey battles Georges Carpentier, coordinating with U S officials via Havana and New York.
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Chicago
Jack Dempsey
Mexico City
Jack Johnson
United States
Johnson
Georges Carpentier
Dempsey
Charles F. Cline
New York
Havana
Plans for three industrial schools for negroes in Africa
Boston, Jan. 29. The Methodist Episcopal church announced plans to establish three large industrial training schools for negroes in Africa. The $225,000 appropriation will fund schools modeled after Tuskegee Institute with courses stressing agriculture.
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Boston
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Tuskegee Institute
Wild dog pack terrorizes farms near Collins New York
In Zoar Hills south west of Collins a pack of more than seventy dogs roams fields and ranches. Led by a large Great Dane once owned by John B. Taft the animals frighten farmers, kill livestock, and even enter the Collins state hospital grounds. Two trappers pursued them but withdrew after a brief stand by the pack.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Zoar Hills
Collins
John B. Taft
State Hospital
Zoar
Great Dane
John son Fled to Europe After White Slave Conviction
Jack Johnson fled to Europe in 1914 after being sentenced to one year in federal prison and fined $1000 for violating the white slave law.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Europe
Kolchak Surrenders to Siberian Revolutionists
London January 29. Admiral Kolchak’s surrender to Siberian revolutionists was authorized by General Janin of the Czecho-Slovak army. Janin was placed in command of all allied troops west of Irkutusk by Kolchak’s order on January 19, per a Harbin dispatch to the Daily Mail.
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London
Kolchak
Janin
tIrkutusk
Harbin
Daily Mail
Cooperative banking plan to unite farmer and labor groups
Warren S. Stone announces All-American Farmer-Labor Co operative Commission aims to form co op banks and a central bank network. A Chicago congress February 12 to 15 will draft a comprehensive plan with about 400 delegates representing 4 000 co op stores 37 co op wholesale houses and around 100 000 farmers. The movement seeks to support new co op factories and bolster the cooperative system nationwide.
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Cleveland
All-American
Farmer-Labor Co-operative Commission
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Chicago
Debs Last Speech Read In Trial Of Socialists Today
Eugene V. Debs last speech, read at the trial of five suspended socialist assemblymen in Albany, condemns U S law and the Supreme Court. Debs praised Lenin and Trotzky as great statesmen and proclaimed himself socialist and bolshevist. Prosecutors note pamphlet distribution by the Greater New York Socialist Committee. The committee chair argues the issue is whether Soviet Russia would be forced on the United States.
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Debs
Trial OF Socialists
Ing
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Cleveland
Marek Debs
Lenine and
Trotzky
Supreme Court
Socialist Party of
Greater New York
Stanthftield
Russia
Lewis M. Morris
Robbers Hit German Bank For Stolen War Damages
In Aachen a man in Belgian captain uniform with guards and soldiers looted the Probst and Company bank claiming Belgian stamps and wartime losses. He forced vault access, fled with 376000 marks and 75500 Belgian francs, then a search recovered the funds and the robber was arrested.
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Bank of Probst and Company
Aachen
Belgium
Probst
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