Speculation Epidemic Hits High Point Officials Elect
The article details a speculative craze in Wheat Coffee and Cotton that infected two High Point men who made about ten thousand dollars after ignoring market basics. It highlights rural credit optimism and a North Carolina Farmers Convention focus on life training and consolidated rural schools led by J P Lucas A K Moye and Kate Vaughan.
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New York
Chicago
North Carolina
High Point
Philo Gubb
Saskatchewan
Chicago Board of Trade
Entinant
Daily Market
Kate Brew Vaughan
Jane McKimmon
A. and M. College
General Assembly
A. and
M. College
Department of Agriculture
County Board of Agriculture
Greene County
Board of County Commissioners
Farmers’ Union
Deed Recorded for 524 Acre Property in High Point
C P Frazier as administrator sold 524 acres in High Point to J Miller for 500 dollars. Transaction details indicate a single deed recorded yesterday.
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High Point
C. P. Frazier
J. Miller
Curious exchange arrangement along Dutch Belgian frontier
The Hague Sept 1 Dutch and Belgian farmers reached arrangements to harvest each others crops across the border. German frontier measures blocked passage, with an electric barrier seven feet high along the Belgian frontier and along the Meuse, ensuring crops can be tended only in each country. Letters and documents are prevented from crossing the border by closely placed gates in streams and watercourses.
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Hague
Netherlands
Limburg
Entir
Meuse
Holland
Students Not Discharged From Guard Units
Camp Glenn Sept 1 Soldiers will not be discharged from the guard due to dependent relatives or as students until further notice from North Carolina brigade headquarters. A War Department telegram directs no discharge on this basis for cases after August 31 and states that bona fide students or teachers in colleges or schools will not be discharged. The orders revoke earlier provisions and reflect tensions amid a threatened railroad strike.
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Camp Glenn
North Carolina
War Department
Food in diplomatic mail pouch aids Berlin diplomats
Paris papers report diplomats in Berlin receive food via the diplomatic mail pouch due to ration shortages. Rich foreign attaches obtain groceries from London, while ambassadors and consuls in Berlin get supplies twice weekly through their consuls in Stockholm. Washing previously sent to London now impossible.
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Paris
Germany
Paris-Midi
Berlin
England
America
London
Stockholm
Noted Philadelphia Lumberman Visits High Point During War Debate
Mr. Reichenburg, a German by birth with a French wife, is a longtime U.S. lumber representative who has seen war’s horrors in France. He predicts the current conflict may end this year with a draw and believes a strike is inevitable, planning to return to France after the war.
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Reichenburg
France
United States
Philadelphia
Smith Family Members Seized by Revenue Officers at Stuart
Revenue officers chasing the Smith family arrested Jim Smith and Peter Tuggle in Stuart after tracking them to a tobacco barn about a mile and a half from the Smithtown shooting. Tuggle faces harboring charges as officers vow to continue the roundup. Fletcher Smith remains at large as part of the pursuit.
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Danville
Unite States Revenue Officers
Patrick
Stokes County
Smith
B. H. Mays
Jim Smith
Peter Tuggle
Stuart
Smithtown
Tuggle
Revenue Men
Fletcher Smith
Billposters Trust Dissolved In Landmark Ruling
Federal Judge Landis dissolves the Billposters and Distributors of the United States and Canada known as the billposters trust. The ruling frees individuals with posters from monopoly claims and ends control over most billboards nationwide.
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Billposters Trust
Chicago
Landis
Associated Billposters and Distributors
United States
Canada
Billposters’ Trust
Trust
Lumber car sale notice by Carollina and Yadkih River RR Co
Public auction set for September 2 at 10 o clock to sell freight charges and a carload of lumber from Alcoly S A C L car number 37670 consigned to Furniture Company. Shipment dated December 15 1915. Seller is Carollina and Yadkih River RR Co with bidder at station.
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Carollina
Yadkih
River R. R. Co
Alcoly
fin A/C. L
Consiign Point Furniture Company
Consignee
Notice of Sale of Real Estate by Receiver in Guilford County
Walter Royal as receiver of Southern Buggy Co. will sell at public auction in West High Point on August 31, 1916 at 10 o clock a m for cash, Lot 1K in Block A of the N E Welborn plat, to be confirmed by the court. A 10 percent deposit is required on bid, applied to purchase price if confirmed.
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Walter Royal
Southern Buggy Company
G. S. Ferguson
Twelfth Judicial District
West High Point
Waller Royal
Southern Buggy Co
N. E. Welborn
Guilford County
Sale of Valuable Land in High Point Guilford County NC
By order of sale in Minnie Worth et al. against Mrs Lou Kaney Anderson guardian et al the commissioner Wilson will sell at public auction on September 18 1916 at clock P to the highest bidder cash the parcels described adjoining T F Wrenn E A Snow and others on Green Street at J A Barker corner High Point N C beginning on Green street south 200 feet and so forth.
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Mason W. Gant
Guilford County
North Carolina
Minnie Worth
Green State
Green Street
Aining
People’s Realty
Register of Deeds County
N. C
Kettdall
D. J
J. K.cox
Seborny
S. Peli
Ieborne
Kanoy
Descriptions of Two High Point Guilford Lots in 1916 Deed
Tract six specifies Lot No 12 in Block A of the McLewallen plot in Greensboro North Carolina with 50 feet by 150 feet, fronting Blair street in High Point. Tract seven describes Lot No 21 in Block A of the E A Bencini plot as recorded by Guilford County registers of deeds, facing James Street with 50 by 150 feet dimensions. August 17 1916. ED L Ragan Co A W P Ragan Attorney 927.48
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McLewallen
Register of Deeds
Greensboro
N. C
Blair Street
City of
High Point
E. A. Bencini
Guilford County
James Street
L. Ragan
W. P. Ragan
Sale of Personal Property by Administrator
By virtue of his authority as Administrator of John Kaney deceased the administrator will sell to the highest bidder at public auction for cash on the late residence date 18th 1916 at 2 o clock. The sale includes a soda fountain and related items.
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John Kaney
Lowing
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