Federal Farm Loan Board to Hear NC Farmers in Raleigh
Washington D C Oct 14 A Raleigh hearing October 24 will guide the Federal Farm Loan boards division of 12 land bank districts for the new rural credits act. Officials include William G McAdoo George Norris Herbert Quick W S A Smith and C E Lobdell. Farmers urged to attend and report loan needs interest rates extensions farm tenancy and other impacts of the act.
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Washington, D. C
North Carolina
Raleigh
Federal Farm Loan Board
Federal Land Bank
Federal
William G. McAdoo
Ecretary of
the Treasury
George W. Norris
Herbert Quick
Treasury Department
McAdoo
Humane Society Meet Focuses on Cruelty Education
Cincinnati hosts the fortieth annual meeting of the American Humane association through Thursday. Today centers on humane education and child protection, with animal protection on the agenda for remaining sessions. The federation, based in Albany, includes 562 anti cruelty societies and logged 212 915 child cases and 2 394 721 animal cases last year.
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Cincinnati
Henry Bergh
America
American Humane Association
Albany
N. Y
Federated Societies
Bad Season for Cats in Minnesota Fur Trade
The Minnesota state agricultural bureau reports a poor season for cats as eastern fur houses seek cat fur for dress and cloak trimmings. Gopher farm boys rush to convert cats into imported calarettes while fur dealers pay about 2 dollars per fur.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
State Agricultural Bureau
Gopher Farm Boys
Lack of Birth Control Law Spurs Compassion for Schnur Case
Judge William H. Wadhams suspended Mrs. Schnur’s burglary sentence, citing no birth regulation law to curb family growth amid poverty and tuberculosis. He noted social causes of crime and questioned U.S. birth control legislation while leaders praised the ruling for advancing public discussion.
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Samuel Schnur
Rebecca Schnur
William H. Wadhams
Court of General Sessions
Morris Moskovitz
East Seventh Street
Bar of Justice
Holland
Charities Society
Wadhams
Judge Wadhams
John Haynes Holmes
Unitarian Church of the Messiah
Park Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
Schnur
Holmes
Blind man finds friend’s body hanging in washroom
New York man Jola Smith, who relies on his ears for sight, greeted his friend Henry Burch at 212 East Forty fourth street. Burch later returned, locked the washroom, then died by hanging above the door, leaving Smith to uncover the scene.
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New York
Jola Smith
Henry Burch
Littl
East Forty, Fourth Street
Bureh T
Smith
Burch
Notable Winter Remedy Praise from Mrs Pickard
Mrs Myron J Pickard of Memphis New York describes her two children enduring severe colds last winter and credits a medicine as the essential treatment. It notes the medicine was widely obtainable.
Dr A W Claxon Moves to Hamilton New York
Rev Dr A W Claxon and his wife have relocated to Hamilton New York a town of about 2000 residents. He formerly led the First Baptist church here and since resigning last July has pursued evangelical work.
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A. W. Claxon
Hamilton
N. Y
Claxon
First Baptist Church
Local tablet relief praised for bilious attacks
Mrs. Thomas Campbell of Kirkville New York reports her nineteen year old son suffered frequent bilious attacks. After her husband bought Chamberlain's Tablets and started giving them to him he ate heartily and began to improve quickly. Obtainable everywhere.
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Chamberlain
Thomas Campbell
Kirkville
N.Y
Many Candidates for Vacant Seats in the French Academy
Paris October 16 There are thirteen avowed candidates for seven vacancies in the French Academy to be filled after hostilities end. Named are Louis Barthou Paul Adam Abel Hermant George de Porto Riche Henri Bordeaux and others with several cabinet figures and literary names noted as possible hopefuls.
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Paris
Louis Barthou
Department
The
Basses- Pyrenees
Paul Adam
Abel Hermant
George de Porto-Riche
Henri Bordeaux
Monsieur Pathe
Cinematograph Fame
Frederic du Plessis
Sorbonne
Andre Maurel
Academy
Camille le Senne
Dramatic Critics Association
Vigne dOecon
Pierre de Naurrois
Ad Poizat
Adrien Bertrand
Appeals to Union Labor for 1918 Constitutional Convention
Edward A Bates secretary of the state Federation of Labor urged trades unions to vote in the upcoming referendum for a constitutional convention in 1918. He argued the current constitution is worn, and the prior proposed revision failed as not progressive enough.
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New York
Edward A. Bates
State Federation of Labor
Federation of Labor
75 000 Tailors May Strike
New York reports mass meetings of men’s and children’s clothing workers ratifying demands for an eight hour day and wage increases. At Cooper Union and other halls A L Shiplikoff of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America warned that manufacturers will likely refuse and that a strike may be necessary if demands are not met.
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New York
Cooper Union
Manhattan
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