Cauble Fined for Meter Tampering in High Point Store
I P Cauble a well known jeweler in High Point was found guilty in municipal court of tampering with an electric meter and fined 50 plus costs by Judge Q M A Kirkman. Witnesses testified a hole and hack saw were used to slow the meter and reduce electricity costs. Cauble denied the charges and claimed he never obstructed the meter.
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Cauble
Welch
W. C. York
High Point
York
Canble
Canhble
Dr. Garfield
Wilson
National coal crisis prompts drastic consumption curbs
Washington officials say the national coal situation has reached a crisis and drastic steps to curtail consumption are under consideration. An order prohibiting coke manufacture has been proposed, with a definite statement expected soon.
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National Coal
Washington
The
Fuel Administration
Central Coal Committee
General Felipe Angeles Executed at Chihuahua City
General Felipe Angeles revolutionary leader was executed by a Carranza firing squad at Chihuahua City at dawn after being convicted of rebellion. He stood composed as spectators watched, while reports note the sentence was imposed last night by four Carranza generals.
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Felipe Angeles
Carranza
Chihuahua City
Angeles
Amateur buys Rembrandt at Brussels sale for eight dollars
In Brussels an amateur collector purchased a painting for about 80 dollars at an art sale. Experts confirmed it as a genuine Rembrandt and a Dutch museum has offered 120000 dollars for the work.
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Brussels
Thanksgiving Observed with Services and Events in High Point
Thanksgiving will be widely observed in High Point with a near-nationwide pause in business. A labor group hosts a soldiers and sailors event featuring Judge W. P. Bynum and James F. Barrett with sermons, baskets, and a 2 PM address in the Junior Order hall.
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Greensboro
James F. Barrett
Asheville
Roy E. Leinbach
First Reformed Church
St. Mary's Episcopal
Thompson
Luthergan
High Point
Masonic Hall
First Baptist Church
James A. Clarke
Peace Delegates 10 Come Home
Paris dispatch reports the American peace delegation will not delay plans to ratify the peace treaty. Under Secretary of State Polk and other delegates will depart December 5 despite any potential hold in ratification exchanges.
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Paris
Polk
Women Prisoners Jump From Moving Train in Escape Attempt
Vera Killaher twenty two and Mary Shevier twenty nine from Youngstown Ohio leaped from a fast Pennsylvania train forty miles from Oil City while in custody of Constable C E Stevenson. Killaher suffered severe head lacerations and other minor injuries and was returned to the train to be taken to Kittaning General Hospital. Shevier was captured at Red Bank near the scene.
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Oil City
Vera Killaher
Mary Shevier
Youngstown
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kittaning
C. E. Stevenson
Kaylor
Kittaning General Hospital
Red Bank
Here
St. Mary's Episcopal Church Calls Members to Evening Meeting
St. Mary's Episcopal Church invites all members to gather tonight at 7 30 for a church meeting to decide on church matters and plan activities.
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St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Alll
War End Ties To Congress Adjournment Says Judge
Judge Rufus Foster in New Orleans federal court grants Henry Liser Co injunction against government interference with bonded liquor sale. He states war time prohibition unconstitutional as war ends with Congress adjournment, while in Washington the shipping board weighs dry status of liners Leviathan and future German ships for South American service with a year to readiness.
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Henry Liser Company
Foster
Congress
Washington
Legal Department of the Shipping Board
Shipping Board
South urges drastic fuel cuts to save trains
Atlanta reports coal shortages threaten passenger service as regionwide orders urge households and businesses to close early through the weekend. Railroads in the South compile nonessential trains for potential suspension. officials warn coal output remains insufficient for priority needs including health and safety.
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South
Trainmen Reject Hines Over Time Pay Proposal
In Cleveland on November 26 the four railroad brotherhoods debated Director General Hines proposal of time and a half for overtime in slow freight service. Indications suggested rejection, though this would not affect the larger demand for a 20 percent wage increase. About 500 general chairmen voted on the offer before adjournment for lunch.
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Ion
Hines
Ence
Government urged to shield miners from exploitation
New York November 2. The Commission on the Church and Social Service of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ issued a statement urging the government to protect coal miners from exploitation by operators, noting that an injunction has barred their right to strike.
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New York
Commission On the Church and Social Service
The
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
Jugoslav Plenipotentiaries to Sign Austrian Peace Treaty
In Paris on November 26 plural Yugoslav plenipotentiaries will sign the Austrian peace treaty. They will attach their signatures to the treaty for racial minorities protection, reparations relating to Italy, and the sharing of expenses for liberating the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
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Paris
Jugoslavia
Italy
Unrest of Nonstrikers Blamed for Shortage
New York November 26 The Merchants Association cites an extensive inquiry showing manufacturers cannot maintain normal output due to worker unrest and shorter hours. Clocks lumber ink colors shoes silk lithographic goods and other items face production challenges.
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New York
Merchants’ Association
Cotton Market Slips as Holidays Prompt Realizing
New York traders moved the cotton market lower in early trading as a 3 1 2 cent rise earlier in the session gave way to profit taking. Nervousness over the coal situation and fuel shortages in the south helped prompt selling with January futures down to 35.60 and nearby positions easing across the board.
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New York
Coal Committee
Hackberry seed sprouts in boy’s ear in Klondike Texas
In Klondike Texas on November 26 a nine year old boy, son of farmer J R Moore, suffered ear injury after a hackberry seed sprouted in his ear. A specialist removed the decayed seed and sprout, revealing damaged hearing in the affected ear.
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Klondike
Texas
J. R. Moore
Moore
Vanderbilt Medical School to Undergo Major Reorganization
New York November 26 Vanderbilt University in Nashville Tennessee has been awarded 4 million dollars by the General Education Board to restructure its medical school. The grant from general funds is the largest the board has ever given for this purpose and is intended to showcase to Nashville and the South the importance of creating a highly advanced medical school.
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New. York
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
General Education Board
South
Unusual Electric Light Assisted Operation Reaches Adams
In Adams Massachusetts during a Plunkett Memorial Hospital procedure on Miss Urba Cyr doctors M M Brown and C H Choquette began surgery by flashlight after a power outage struck the town. Flashlights from a hardware store were quickly lit and the operation proceeded. Miss Cyr's condition is described as satisfactory.
Olathe Rancher Sets Onion Yield Record
Delta county will not face an onion famine this winter as C. S. Clay, a rancher near Olathe Col, broke production records with three acres yielding 1 200 sacks of tear makers.
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Olathe
Col
Delta County
C. S. Clay
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