Peking Eyes Electric Street Cars As New Franchise Talk
Peking with about a million people may finally get street cars. An American company is said to seek the franchise while an English French bid previously surfaced. Officials plan meetings to discuss an electric line linking two rail stations and key sights near the capital.
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Peking
Interior
Chw Chi-chien
Summer Palace
Legation
Tsing Hua College
Ming Tombs
Xankow
Great Wall
Tien-tsin
Postponement of Chinese minister's visit to Japan
Peking reports Japan requested delaying Chow Tzu-chi's mission to present the Chinese emperor with the highest decoration. Tokyo had prepared entertainments. the delay sparked criticism in Chinese papers viewing it as an insult to Yuan Shikai.
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Associated Press
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Japan
Chow Tzu-chi
Hioki
Chow
Tokio
Yuan Shikai
Tokyo
Yuen Shikai
China
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Grand Duke
George of
Russia
Peking Gazette
Peking Daily News
Wage Raise Reached for 200000 Coal Miners in Four States
A wage contract agreed by a sub committee of bituminous operators and miners from New York to Illinois would affect about 200000 workers and at least 8 million dollars annually. The pact includes a three cent per ton general rise plus a mine run pay system adding 2.29 cents per ton and boosting yearly wages to about 1.25 million dollars, after a 30 year push by miners and union officers.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Pittsburch
Miners Union
Provence Torpedoed in Mediterranean Survivor Report
A survivor confirms the French auxiliary cruiser Provence was sunk in the Mediterranean on February 26 by a torpedo. The report reaches Paris via wartime dispatches detailing the survivor's account of the sinking.
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Paris
Provence
Mediterranean
Seven Family Killed in Lawton Murder Suicide
Coroner's jury testimony links Daniel O Kane farmer to killing seven family members at the Yiane farm near Lawton Oklahoma and then taking his own life. Witnesses cite long quarrels with father James O Kane as a possible trigger for the tragedy. Victims include Mrs Daniel O Kane. five O Kane children Lewis 13 Daniel 8 Margaret 7 Lilian 5 a baby. Rob ert and James O Kane 75. Daniel Yane about 48. Evidence found includes a bloody hammer a razor and a revolver.
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Lawton
Okla
Daniel O'Kane
Here
Dixane
O'Kane
James O'Kane
Daniel
Lewis
Margaret
Lilian
Robert
Daniel Yiane
Tour Eller
Soya Beans of Manchuria Draw Global War Interest
Report from Changchun dated February 5 details British fears over soya beans used by Germany and the bean trade's wartime significance. Manchuria supplies about 25 percent of northern China's beans, with rail routes controlled by Russia to Harbin and by Japan toward Dairen. Beans yield oil for food and industrial uses, including lard substitutes, oleomargarine, paints, and fertilizer. beancake feeds dairy stock. The article notes European warehouses and German dominance in the trade, and describes three Manchurian bean classes yellow screen and black.
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Harbin
Vladivostok
Mukden
Dairen
Jfilans
Manchuria
Russia
Europe
Vladivestoak
Portland
Oregon
Washington
Columbia River
Japan
Denmark
Copenhagen
Sale of Valuable Land in Guilford County Auction
An order of sale directs W H Davis as commissioner to auction four parcels in High Point township Guilford County on March 20 1916 at 2 p m for cash on the premises The tracts include two smaller plots on Main Street and several subdivided blocks reference deeds books and plots The notice lists boundaries and areas 27 600 square feet 16 000 square feet and 3 000 square feet plus additional blocks and lots with details from Guilford County Register of Deeds The sale is part of special proceedings of W H Davis administrator of McLewallen deceased against Claudie Ridge et al. and is dated February 19 1916.
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Will
High Point Township
Guilford County
North Carolina
McLewallen
Main Street
Register of Deeds’ Office
N.C
Lewellen
E. A. Bencini
W. H. Snow
Register of Deeds
N. C
Paok
Guilford
W. HH. Davis
Ww. P. Ragan
Webb says he stands by the President in crisis
Congressman Webb writes Hickory residents that he intends to stand by the President in the present crisis before Congress. He signals he will vote to table the McLemore warning resolution on Tuesday and expresses support for President Wilson’s peace efforts and actions to maintain honor.
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Hickory
FE. Y. Webb
Congress
McLemore
American Consulate Struck in Trebizond Bombardment
The American consulate at Trebizond on the Black Sea was hit by a shell during a bombardment by two Russian torpedo boats on March 1. A Persian subject was killed within 20 feet of Consul Oscar S. Heizer. Another shell struck the consul’s residence nearby.
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Washington
Trebizond
Black Sea
Oscar S. Heizer
View Consul
Championship Basketball Championship to Be Held Friday
The second annual state high school basketball contest final will take place in Chapel Hill on Friday March 10 between Winston Salem and Durham. The West champion Winston-Salem team scored 665 points with 143 by opponents while Durham led the East with 400 to 141. Large contingents of rooters are expected and a cup will go to the winner. Sixteen schools qualified: in the East Durham Wilmington Kinston Kenly Enfield Cary Stedman Dover and in the West Winston-Salem Asheville Lexington Cherryville Hickory North Wilkesboro Belmont Jamestown.
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Winston-Satem
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Durham
Wilmington
Kinston
Kenly
Enfield
Cary
Stedman
Dover
Winston-Salem
Asheville
Lexington
Cherryville
Hickory
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Belmont
Jamestown
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