Shopmen to Debate Wage Increase at Chicago Convention
The Federated Railway Shopmen executive council in Chicago calls a national convention for September 25 to act on President Wilsons new wage scale. They plan to oust Washington grand lodge officials and warn that only a substantial wage increase can avert a national strike by about 200000 workers.
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Chicago
Federated Railway
Wilson
Grand Lodge
Washington
Hines
French notables join in commemorating U S entry into war
A French honor guard and American officials gathered at Pointe de Grave to lay the cornerstone of a monument honoring the United States entry into World War I. President Poincare Premier Clemenceau Marshal Foch and Ambassador Wallace attended, marking Lafayette’s birthday and the landing of American troops in France in 1917.
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U.S
Bordeaux
France
The
Republic
Pointe de Grave
Dinonde River
America
Premier Clemenceau
Marshal Foeh
Hugh C.wallace
Finger Prints May Solve Mysterious Cooner Slaying
A fingerprint expert arrived to aid Nashville police in the Robin J. Cooper case. Cooper's body was found a week ago in Richland Creek and fingerprints on Cooper's car prompted the request. The latest development is the missing Cooper watch.
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Nashville
Tom ‘ Scoypt, G
Minserer
Robin J. Cooper
Richland Creek
Cooper
Wilson urges crowd to back world peace charter plan
President Wilson spoke to a Kansas City audience in Convention Hall about supporting the peace treaty as a charter for a new world order. The third Missouri address drew a capacity crowd said to number 15 009.
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Kansas City
Wilson
Missouri
Convention Hall
Confederate Commander Dead in Selma Alabama
Gerers G. W. Hooper, state commander of the United Confederate Veterans of Alabama, died in Selma after an eleven day illness at age 75. The report covers his death and brief biographical note.
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Selma
Ala
G. W. Hooper
United Confederate Veterans of Alabama
Old Jarrell hotel portion catches fire this morning
Fire units were called to a blaze at the Old Jarrell hotel area used by Reuben Vail for a cafe. The fire was found in an incipient stage and was quickly extinguished with no stated cause of origin.
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Jarrell Hotel
Reuben Vail
Man Ends Life After Telegram To Wife Causes Distress
Sacramento, Sept 6. Earl Gruberg, a Sacramento Northern railroad motorman, died today from a pistol wound after his wife found a telegram addressed to him from Miss Mariam Ellis of Colusa. He summoned the two women to explain, then went to his hotel room and shot himself rather than face them.
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Sacramento
Mariam Ellis
Colusa
Earl Gruberg
Gruberg
Sacramento Northern Railroad
Death by Suicide in Chicago Rooming House
Mrs. Tuttle Sweeney wife of Burr School assistant engineer killed herself in a rooming house at 4447 West Ravenswood Avenue. She had left her husband and two children to room and work at a factory she had joined before marriage. Her reason was that Mr. Sweeney said the couple could not afford their flat and would have to move in with his mother.
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Chicago
Teen Confesses Poisoning of West Virginia Farmer
Point Pleasant report states 16 year old Edward Dunlap confessed to poisoning Henry Terry, a wealthy Five Forks farmer, by lacing his food. He planned to poison Mrs. Terry and himself but abandoned the act.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Edward Dunlap
Henry Terry
Five Forks
Woman Prays in Park Believing World End Near
New York Sept 6 Patrolman John Dugan of the Brooklyn station found a middle aged woman praying in Fort Green Park. She claimed the world was ending and was taken to Kings County Hospital observation ward. She is about 45, 140 pounds, 5 feet 5 inches, well dressed.
Too Hot In Kentucky He Enlists for Alaska
Clarence Rigsby complained of heat in Kentucky and enlisted for three years of Alaskan service after being told at the Louisville army recruiting station that he could be sent to Alaska. Sergeant Alger Hanks confirmed the offer. Rigsby agreed to enlist.
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Kentucky
Alaska
Lexington
Clarence Rigsby
Louisville
Sergt
Alger Hanks
Togo
Righsby
Armed minors march on fields in Logan County West Virginia
Five hundred miners from Oak Grove marching toward Coal River to enforce unionization joined by 000 more at Kiacine. Report says all armed, with machine guns unloaded along Guyan and Logan fields to meet Kana whee river march. District 17 official cites 4000 armed miners en route and warns of trouble unless demands are granted.
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Hghiing
West Virginia
Jury in Virginia slaying case cannot reach verdict
Manassas Va Sept 6 The jury trying W C Hall a state prohibition inspector charged with the murder of L E Hudson a whiskey runner near Winchester last March 26 remained unable to agree today Hall pleaded self defense in the trial and three other prohibition officers await trial related to the shooting involving R C Shackleford Hudsons companion also killed Indications pointed to no verdict being rendered tonight
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Virginia
Prohibition
Connec
Mob kills alleged assailant in Louisiana
In Monroe Louisiana a mob of about 40 men seized a black man accused of attacking a white woman from the sheriff of Merehouse parish and shot him dead. The incident occurred early today and left no immediate arrests.
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Monroe
Merehouse Parish
North Carolina business leaders sail to Europe for study
Nineteen members of the Southern Commercial Congress embarked today aboard the Steamship Columbia bound for Glasgow to study European commerce and banking conditions. The party includes Ward Wood, Wade Harriss, Charles Lambeth and Otis Alexander from Charlotte and E A Tate of High Point, with more delegates to join in Paris and later in Savannah for the December congress session.
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New York
Southern Commercial Congress
Columbia
Glasgow
Europe
Ward Wood
Charlotte
Wade H. Harriss
Charlotte Observer
Charles B. Lambeth
W. F. Dowd
Otis Alexander
F. S. Lambeth
Thomasville
N. C
E. A. Tate
High Point
Paris
Savannah
President Wilson to Spend Sunday in Des Moines
President Wilson continues his peace treaty speaking tour with a whirlwind swing from Kansas City to Des Moines. He arrived in the region after talks in St. Louis and planned a mass meeting before departing for Des Moines to spend Sunday.
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Des Moines
Kansas
CIPY
Shansas City
St. Louis
Pes Moines
Newspaper Staff Exodus Shakes High Point Newsrooms
A mass transfer reshapes High Point papers as at least six editorial and business staffers change roles tonight and tomorrow. Charlies M. Brown leaves The Greensboro Daily News bureau, Carl Farriss moves to Durham then Greensboro, Edwin Drietz shifts to Charlotte, O A Kirkman Jr resigns, George Holloway becomes editor of the Bulletin in Asheboro, with new arrivals Asa Biggs and A M Dearing joining The Enterprise and Pat Derrick taking circulation duties.
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Busi
Enterprise
Greensboro
The
Daily News
Edwin Drietz
Charlotte
Observer
O. A. Kirkman, Jr
Million Dollar Blue Point Mine Sells for $20,000
In Grass Valley on September 6, suit filed by E. P. Fitzsimmons seeks a receiver and accounting for the Paddy Campbell mine near Smartsville known as the Blue Point. Fitzsimmons says $1,000 due since 1892 and that the property may transfer to Sidney B. Wood without settling the debt. The mine, once valued over a million, was a large hydraulic property damaged by anti debris laws decades ago.
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Grass Valley
Smartsville
Blue Point
E. P. Fitzsimmons
Fitzsimmons
Sidney B. Wood
Wood
Wife of 6, Mother of 25, Cares For 50
A London correspondent extols Mrs Van Wyk in the Transvaal who has just buried her sixth husband. At 63 she cares for 50 children up to 25 stepchildren and 270 grandchildren, with all treated equally in her devoted home despite half being her own offspring.
Woman Dies Saving Dog on trolley Tracks
Edith J. Johnson a 34 year old South Orange New Jersey teacher died after being struck on the Montrose avenue line while trying to rescue her spaniel. Motorman Patrick Reilly was arraigned in South Orange and held for grand jury action on a technical manslaughter charge. Johnson born in Norwalk and Smith College graduate who taught in South Orange and Essex County.
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New York
Edith J. Johnson
Vose Avenue
South Orange
N. J
Washington
D. C
Montrose Avenue
Patrick Reilly
Liberty Street
Orange
Waro
Johnson
Norwalk
Conn
Smith College
Columbia High School
Essex County
Mion Lives After He Breaks Neck In Fall
Philadelphia report says Jeme O'Brien aged 22 of 2152 Pierce street survives a neck injury after a fall from the Reading railway freight station at Randolph and Willow streets. The truck driver is hospitalized at Roosevelt.
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Mion
Jeme O'Brien
Pierce Street
Roosevelt
O’brien
Reading
Randolph and
Willow Streets
Thomasville to Host Labor Union Rise Tonight
The labor movement shifts to Thomasville this evening with High Point organizers set to form a local of woodworkers affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The charter will go to the neighboring town and enrollment books opened. Local talks indicate bright prospects for a strong Thomasville union presence.
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Thomasville
High Point
International Brotherhood of Carpentiers and Joiners
Caldwell linked to first degree murder plot and delivery
In Mericus Georgia on September Caldwell colored man described a wholesale sale delivery plot to Sheriff Harvey. He stated the details of the plan and handed over two saws believed to be used in the crime as part of the first degree murder charge proceedings.
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Furderee
Mericus
Sepm Caldwell
Harvey
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