Yale Yale Harvard game set at Yale Bowl tomorrow
Harvard aims for unbeaten run as it travels to New Haven to face Yale in the historic annual clash at the Yale Bowl. The Elis, boasting a mixed recent record, hope to stun the Crimson while crowd capacity is expanded to seat an extra 13 000, or about 100 000 fans total potential.
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New Haven
Conn
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Joe Crimson
Princeton
John Harvard
Eli
Yale
Crimsons
Cambridge
Tigers
Braden
Prominent Democrats Endorse Butler for Cabinet in Raleigh
North Carolina Democratic leaders including Walter Clark and J. Bryan Grimes have signed a Butler endorsement for Harding's proposed cabinet post as agriculture secretary. The move sparks intra party friction with Governor Bickett and Morrison among those opposing Butler. The state faces a separate rail fare dispute as the Interstate Commerce Commission weighs changes to intrastate three cent rates. A Pittsburgh landslide on Wigelow Boulevard continues to disrupt train service with one to two million tons of earth expected to be moved.
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Thos. D. Warren
New Bern
Marion Butler
Butler
George P. Pell
Coitmusoidu
Req
Senate
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State Corporation Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Commission
General Assembly
State Commission
United States Supreme Court
Kiwanis Club Delegates Headed to Charlotte Convention
J. E B. Kirkman A. T. Wishart and Charles M. Brown travel to Charlotte to represent High Point Kiwanians at the Carolina district Kiwanis convention opening today in the Queen City. Delegates from North and South Carolina attend. The meeting closes tonight.
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A. T. Wishart
Charles M. Brown
Charlotte
Kiwanis Clubs
Carolinas
Queen City
Igh Point
Strikes Cripple Lisbon Port and City Services
Longshoremen and stevedores strike halts port traffic in Lisbon while railway workers and cleaners join in protests. Foreign ships leave unloaded as provisions shortage looms. crews abandon merchant vessels and some boilers are tampered with. Government warns of potential general strike, citing bolshevist plots.
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Lisbon
Navy
Tagus
Moscow
Prisoner attacked in federal jail in Springfield
Graham Young of St. Louis was beaten by federal prisoners in the county jail here while awaiting release on an indictment for murder. Officers moved him to a bull pen as officials intervened after the assault and water was thrown during the attack.
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Springfield
Graham Young
St. Louis
Young
Fortune Coming for Des Moines Boy Heir
In Des Moines November 19 Wilbur Clark will inherit 35000 when he turns 21. He currently lacks winter clothes. Guardian George H Botsford seeks permission to spend part of the estate held by W J Clark 82 and said to be of unsound mind to send the lad to school.
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Des Moines
Wilbur Clark
Clark
George H. Botsford
W. J. Clark
May Claybaugh Bids Republican Plea in Court
In Terre Haute Indiana May Claybaugh, a longtime offender, told Judge Shafer he was drunk but voted a straight Republican ticket. The judge replied it would cost him 10 dollars this time as a lenient sentence.
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Tere Haute
Ind
May Claybaugh
Shafer
May
Oklahoma City Fatality Hushed Up in Naval Shootout
In Oklahoma City a 19 year old named Othar Ordain reportedly did not know the pistol was loaded when Charlie Robison was killed. The coroner is conducting an inquiry into the incident.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Noy
Othar Ordain
Charlie Robison
No Special Term Criminal Court For Guilford County
The Guilford superior court December term for civil and criminal cases will shift to a criminal term starting December 6. Governor Bickett was advised by Attorney General Manning that the governor cannot call a special term while a regular term is set by the general assembly. The civil term will begin December 13 to clear the criminal docket before Christmas.
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Guilford Superior
Horn of Pope Gregory XIV donated to American Museum
The horn of an Indian rhinoceros presented to Pope Gregory XIV in 1590 to protect him from poisoning has been donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The horn, given by the monks of St Mary of Guadalupe in Spain, was said to sweat in poison’s presence and act as an antidote when powdered and ingested. The tip is missing and it was cut off in 1591 during the pope’s final illness.
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New York
Gregory XIV
American Museum of Natural History
St. Mary of Guadalupe
Spain
Madrid Housing Rush Unveils Ten-Story Flats
A private firm acquires vast land north of Madrid near Cuatro Caminos and begins building a modern suburb with skyscrapers of ten stories. Each building will hold 400 flats and 40 stores as engineers lay out a half mile boulevard with dual carriageways and a tree lined central promenade.
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Madrid
Cuatro Cambinos
Graves to be tried in Raleigh federal court
Henderson November 19 L Z Graves former Henderson post office dispatching clerk faces federal court trial in Raleigh next week after arrest Monday night Graves confessed to rifling registered mail totaling about $22 000 authorities say
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L. Z. Graves
Federal
Raleigh
Graves
Eight Prisoners Caught in Norfolk Raids
Eight prisoners were captured by police in a series of raids in Norfolk Virginia aimed at bootleggers and undesirables. They were brought before the court today and most were remanded.
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Norfolk
Transportation Problems Top Topic at ME Engineers Meeting
Transportation experts led by Daniel Willard will address 2500 members at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers annual meeting in New York December 7 to 10. The group considers transportation the country’s most pressing issue as facilities lag behind rising traffic and future growth. A report will cover waterways and increased use of motor freight, with a special focus on the St. Lawrence waterway project for Great Lakes ocean traffic.
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New York
American Society of Mechannical Engineers
Daniel Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
St. Lawrence Waterways
Great Lakes
Food prices fall across US in October
United States statistics from the Department of Labor show a three percent drop in retail prices for 22 food items in October. Sugar and potatoes fell sharply while eggs rose. Expenditures decreased in 50 of 51 cities, with Omaha and St Paul posting the largest declines. Houston bucked the trend with a small rise.
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Washington
United States
Department of Labor
Houston
Texas
Omaha
St. Paul
French family wins 15000 franc prize for self built home
The Duborepere family of Meteren, France, won 15000 francs from Norman Davis for rebuilding their destroyed house without carpenters or masons. The Davis fund through Secours d Urgence provided materials. the home was completed in three months and valued over 50000 francs with 15000 francs material cost.
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France
Duborepere
Meteren
Norman Davis
Washington
Madame Jusserand
Davis
Secours d’Urgence
Boy Confesses to Burlington Mail Car Robbery
Orville Phillips 17 surrendered to postal authorities and confessed a role in the Burlington mail car robbery last Saturday night. Officials say loot may reach 3.5 million dollars. Inspectors report he said he could not stand to see his brother perjure himself to save him.
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Council Bluff
Orville Phillips
Burlington
Last Prestige as Result Shipment to France
In Coulogne, Aisne, France the town’s single chair is replaced by a motor truck load of chairs and tables made by American junior Red Cross students. Colonels Todd and Bicknell of the Red Cross help settle delays to the Quentin Roosevelt memorial fountain project and ensure furnishings arrive to seat townspeople during visits.
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Coulogne
Aisne
France
Red Cross of America
Boys of
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H. S. Todd and
Bicknell
Red Cross
Chamery
Quentin Roosevelt
American Red Cross
Roosevelt
Town Hall
Wemsiial
Paris
Todd
New York Average Wages Far Higher in 1920
A Merchants' association Industrial Bureau report shows September 1920 average earnings in New York city representative trades nearly doubled from six years earlier and about two dollars a week higher than 1919. Charted figures for 1914 1919 1920 cover industries from stone and metals to textiles and food. General three year average stands at 19.06 26.17 and 28.44 dollars.
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New York
Industrial Bureau
The
Merchants’ Association
Henderson Man Is Out on Bond
Henderson Nov 19 N W Thomas held for 19 days in the murder of D L Abbott a prominent merchant found dead beside the road two miles north of Henderson on November 5. He is free today on a 1000 bond and will face a hearing at the next term of court. Authorities have no other clue to the murder.
Millions but No Good Shoes
A Swiss letter from Berne reports barefooted millionaires in the Crimea amid depreciated rubles. Peasants earn well due to productive land, with wheat around 1,000 rubles a pound. shoes 50,000 rubles and a suit 200,000. farm laborers receive about 10,000 rubles per day.
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Berne
Crimea
South Carolina Merchant-Chairman Dies by Own Action
Chancy Littlefield prominent Greer merchant and Bank of Greer president died this morning from self inflicted gunshot to the temple. Health problems were cited as the presumed cause.
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Greer
S. C
Navy
Chancy Littlefield
Bank of Greer
Typhoid Epidemic Sweeps Salem Ohio
Hundreds of residents in Salem Ohio a town under 10 000 people are stricken with typhoid fever four emergency hospitals are filled and officials say the peak has not yet been reached Chairman Lamont of the relief committee reports the serious situation.
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Salem
Ohio
Lamont
Citizens Relief Committee
Johnson seeks release for former boxing champ Johnson
Bel Sha Scott a Topeka attorney travels to Washington to petition the federal pardon board for Jack Johnson’s release from Leavenworth. Johnson has served two months of a one year sentence for Mann Act violation.
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Topeka
Kans
Belsha Scott
Washington
Federal Pardon Board
Jack Johnson
Leavenworth
Johnson
Assembly Replies to Wilson Read at League Session
Geneva November 19 At the opening of today's session Paul Hymans president read a reply to President Wilson's message to be sent to Washington by the assembly The act signals formal communication between the League of Nations assembly and the U.S. president with Hymans presiding over the delivery.
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Geneva
Sesson
Assembly of the League of Nations
Paul Hymans
Wilson
Washington
Assembly
Jackson County Board Abandons Effort to Count Sylva
Fears of further outbreaks lead the Jackson County board of elections to abandon efforts to complete Sylva. The body adjourned yesterday and will reconvene today in Asheville.
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Asheville
Board of Elections
Jackson County
Sylva
Southern elevens face tough tests as Yale Harvard clash looms
Southern college games line up Saturday with Furman Clemson in Greenville and Georgia Alabama in Atlanta. North Carolina State Wofford, South Carolina Newberry in Columbia, and Wake Forest Sewanee loom among notable matchups. Yale Harvard rivalry dominates eyes. Princeton Harvard rumor hints at Bulldog setback.
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Washington, D. C
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Washington D. C
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Washington and Lee, University
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N. C
North Carolina State College
Richmond
Randolph-Macon College
William and Mary College
Paris Sets November 25 as Loan Day
Paris officials declare November 25 as Loan Day. All receipts from Parisian businesses that day must be invested in a new six percent loan. Citizens must exchange every penny spent that day for loan certificates, covering nourishment apparel lodging and goods bought in stores.
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Chambers of Commerce of
Chamber of Commerce
Decline in the Cotton Market Amid Weak Liverpool Cables
New York reports a continued drop in the cotton market as Liverpool cables weaken. First prices were easy with the market 342 points lower, December futures at 16.90, January 16.20, and July 16.90.
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New York
Liverpool
Fire destroys warehouse in Fort Worth area loss seen
It is estimated that about 400000 dollars were lost when a warehouse at Marlin Texas burned last night, destroying a compress facility and 2260 bales of cotton. Fire crews worked to control the blaze as investigators began assessing damages and the cause.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Marlin
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