Means Trial 18 to Begin Monday in Newark Murder Case
Winston B. Means faces trial in Concord on Monday for the murder of Mrs. Maryle A. King of Newark. The case centers on a pistol shot at Blackwelder spring during a target practice outing. A Chicago autopsy ruled the wound not self inflicted. Prosecution links include a plan to obtain 2 million via a second will. Trial follows indictments and earlier hearings in North Carolina.
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Maryle A. King
Newark
Means
Mrs. King
Blackwelder Spring
Killed Chinaman and Alleged Insanity as Excuse for the Crime
The Georgia court sets a hearing date for James H. Mc Donald’s motion for a new trial after his 20 year sentence for killing Joe Jung at the Atlanta fair grounds. Mc Donald, a concession head, fought Jung over a booth, struck him with a billy, and claimed insanity at the time. Governor Bilbo and Mississippi backers supported his case.
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Atlanta
James H. McDonald
Joe Jung
McDonald
Bilbo
Mississippi
Jung
Atlanta Fair Grounds
Chinaman
Billy
High Point Morris Plan stockholders meeting notice
The annual stockholders meeting of the High Point Morris Plan company will be held in the directors room of the bank of Commerce November 28, at 16 o'clock a. m. for the transaction of any business that may come before the stockholders. A full attendance is desired. Ww. kk. MORROW.
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High Point Morris Plan Company
Bank of Commerce
Kk. Morrow
German Press Urges Gift Funds for Soldiers
Copenhagen reports the German press calls for subscriptions to funds buying Christmas presents for trenches soldiers. Large papers run special funds and many towns collect for their troops, with appeals from army corps. The small boxes offer comfort and amusement, an essential morale boost, shipped as a priority before Christmas.
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Copenhagen
Government Pooling of All Coal Considered
Washington reports the fuel administration reviewing a Cleveland formed producers pool for mines in Ohio West Virginia parts of Pennsylvania and possibly Tennessee and Kentucky The government could requisition total mine output for sale without profit next spring replacing shipper pools The idea echoes a Federal Trade Commission suggestion for government sale under a pool with cost plus profit payments to producers.
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Washington
United States
Fuel Administration
Cleveland
Ohio
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Kentucky
Federal Trade Commission
Confession Services on American Destroyers
Reports from New York state that Catholic sailors in the American flotilla hear confessions on destroyer decks. Priest from the British navy conducts services since no U.S. chaplain is assigned, marking a first in naval history.
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New York
United States Navy
Notice of Annual Meeting for Regional Railroad
Form of notice declares the High Point Randleman Ashboro and Southern Railroad Company stockholders will meet in High Point NC on Tuesday November 27 1917. Stock transfer books close November 17 and reopen November 28 1917.
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High Point, Randleman, Ashboro and Southern Railroad Company
High Point
N. C
Exemption rulings by Guilford county draft board reported
Statesville November 24 The district exemption board met and granted exemptions to many Guilford county claimants on board No 1 and to a large group on board No 2. A list records dozens of Greensboro High Point Jamestown Guilford College and other locales with recipients in Ber County, plus denials for a smaller set.
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DO Maxwell Cobb
Greensboro
Henry J. Heath
Harry H. Haithcock
Lack T. Wagoner
Brown Simmit
Arthur Cobb
McLeansville
Porter Paisley
Gibsonville
Chas
W. Garrett
Liberty
Charles B. Massey
Albert S. McAdoo
Arthur Highfield
Summerfield
Cleo Burgess
Battleground
Seton Thomas Cruthrie
High Point
Albert Lomax
Jamestown
James Joiner
James [. Robertson
Julian
Ray W. Coble
Climax
James W. Noah
John W. Huff
Charlie J. Calhoun
Roc. Wagoner
James P. Clapp
Lester L. May
Burlington
Herbert BE. Wyrick
Willam A. Lee
Brown Summit
Alfred Martin
Gilbert R. Doggett
Clifton R. Pryer
Ervin’ E. Pitts
Guilford College
Victor Marshall Johnson
Wim C. Oakes
Earl V. Russell
Addison B. Robinson
Maurice Poole
George Murphy
Belews Creek
Charles B. Frazier
John C. Gray
Colfax
James T. Powell
Stokesdale
A. R. Satterfield
Denny M. Ineold
Clifton R. Loman
C.J. Kasey
Cleo M. Faucette
J. Percy Burnsides
Guilford Board No. 2
Adlai S. Oliver
Philadelphia
Charles Lee
Thomas R. Ward
Donald Haywood Muse
Walter Rees
James F. Powers
John E Hodgin
Council
B. Wyrick
Fred C. Womble
Joseph M. Johnson
Glenn BR. Jordan
Gaston Manuel
Thomas S. Moore
Thomas Page
Arnold B. Thutt
William N. Hobbs
John W. Hunt
Charles L. Heath
John &. Gordon
Oran
Jasper Elkins
William H. Deaver
Numa L. Newby
Troy Darnell
J. C. Davis
Charles R. Callicott
Frank Coltrane
Grover C. Apple
William Boyd
Richard M. Browning
William Ellis Speer
Claude Stainback
James B. Thomas
Edward Smith
Percy P. Turner
James S. Trogdon
Ed. D. Williams
John T. Barnette
Samuel David McLellan
Charles Watson Irwin
James H. McAuley
Casper W. Jennings
Crawford Anderson Self
Walter Rouse
Junius Henry Reitzel
Albert Alonzo Coble
William Wilson Dick
Robert L. Duncan
Dan Benning Fields
Louis Lee Hood
Rabah Harold Penry
Arnold C. Davis
Henry Comer
George Henry Martin
Ramson L. Purkey
Emmett W. Ricardson
George B. Jennings
Herbert Bridges
Walter H
Teach Them War Rotterdam Dispatch Reports German War Tour Plan
Rotterdam reports the German government intends to have Reichstag members see real war by visiting the front in eight man parties. The plan aims to expose nearly all members to frontline conditions within three months. Joe Thomas, former middleweight standout, opens a boxing school in Boston.
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Rotterdam
Netherlands
Germany
Joe Thomas
Boston
Triumph Pills advertise relief and dependability
An old advertisement urges women to rely on Triumph Pills for irregular or delayed use. It claims safety and reliability and states the product is not sold at drug stores. The ad invites readers to write to the National Medical Institute in Milwaukee for more information.
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Addrses National Medical Institute
Milwaukee
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Maude King
Concord
Winston B. Means
Eat Means
North Carolina
Azures County
Stockholders Meeting
H. A. Millis
C. E. Kearns
J. H. Adams
A. M Rankin
G. A. Pollock
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Baltimore
Washington, D.C
Norfolk, Va
Richmond, Va
Charlotte, N.C, Charleston, W.va
Charleston, S. C
Guilford County
Statesville
Guilford
Board No. 1
Pirae
Lede MF
Fetetee
Messrs
Cohan and Harris
Sydney Ainsworth
Little Mary McAl
Ister, Barbara Castleton
James Young
the “Rose
Chandler
Intelligent Automobile
All Prices
Cleveland, Ohio
W. D. Simmons
Agent High Point
Chandler Motor Car Company
Cleveland, O
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