Day of Mourning Observed in Kingsport for President Harding
Kingsport joins national grief with one hour plant shutdowns and partial store closings from 2:30 to 3:30. A union memorial service at the Baptist church features ministers M A Stevenson and others. Banks close. Standard Oil agents told to halt nonessential work and drape offices. Kingsport Morristown teams will bow heads after the fifth inning.
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Kingsport
Warren G. Harding
Union
Baptist Church
S. B. Ogie
M. A. Stevenson
Robert King
J. A. Huffard
W. P. Walker
E. O. Woodyard
E. M. Gieger
Standard Oil Company
Memphis
Grover C. Davis
Morristown
Four Circuses at Cincys Festival Opens August Twenty
Four circuses with clowns aerialists and elephants will entertain visitors at the Cincinnati Fall Festival and Industrial Exposition starting August 25 for fifteen days. John Robinson oversees special entertainment and says Frolic Avenue will provide the amusements for the expected half million guests. President Harding is to open the event by radio on August 20, with rides special shows and possibly a dance floor planned.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Ohio
John Robinson
Robinson
Board of
Harding
Diplomats Abroad Entertain Kings
American ambassadors face high costs hosting European royalty with state dinners. George Harvey hosted the British royal family at the U. S. Embassy in London, totaling over 8000 dollars, including 750 dollars for palms and ferns. Lord Chamberlain approval governs caterers and decorators, and diplomats lack an entertainment fund to cover these duties.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
George Harvey
Court of St. James
Royal
Alabama May Step to Top of List In Reform of Prisons
Dr. R. Stagg Whitin, head of the national committee on prisons, says Alabama can rise in prison reform. He praises Kilby prison as a model and notes Alabama should end convict leasing, calling it a matter of time and criticizing low prices for Kilby products. He urges nationwide publicity to promote Alabama resources.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
R. Stagg Whitin
Nationa Committee On
Kilby
New York
O’neal
Ala‘biGaa
Dr. Whitin
Lutherans to Meet in Wartburg Germany World Congress
Forty American delegates join ninety German delegates and representatives from Sweden Norway Russia England Denmark Estonia Far East and Czecho Slovakia for the Evangelical Lutheran Church world congress August 19 to 25 in Eisenach Thuringia. The sittings overlook Wartburg Castle where Luther translated the Bible.
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Eisenach
Thuringia
Evangelical Lutheran Church
Wartburg
Martin Luther
Sweden
Norway
Russia
England
Denmark
Esthenia
Far East
Czecho-Slovakia
James C. White Appointed to Succeed Hughes at Eastman
James C. White, in charge of timber operations and wood supply for Tennessee Eastman, is named to succeed G. W. Hughes as superintendent of production departments. Hughes resigns to join a Chicago chemical concern and plans to move tomorrow.
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James C. White
Hughes
Eastman
Tennessee Eastman Corporation
G. W. Hughes
Mr. White
Chicago
Kingsport
City
Badger and Sons
White
Tennessee Eastman Company
American Wood Reduction ‘Company
Michigan
Adirondack Mountains
New York State
Forest Service
France
Ivan N. Hultman
Eastman Kodak Company
H. W. Baker
Corporation
New York City
London Nightlife Hopes for New Opening Law
London hotel and dance hall owners unite to seek a looser closing hour rule. They back a reform aiming to replace the 1751 midnight closing law with a modern framework, backed by Brighter London to make the capital rival Paris.
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Associated Press
London
England
London County Council
Brighter London Movement
Paris
Funeral in Isle of Wight Notables Include Pony
Mourners at the Isle of Wight funeral include a unexpected attendee, the deceased's pony, keeping company with grieving family and friends as honors are paid.
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Isle of Wight
Famished sisters found with dead woman in Carthage home
In Carthage Missouri Hilda Coe forty was found dead of starvation and her sister Mona Coe thirty seven lay weakly nearby. Neighbors say the elder had been dead over a day and the sisters had no food for weeks. They had become recluses as poverty grew and sold their inherited estate to cover needs.
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Carthage
Hilda Coe
Mona Coe
H. A. Laforie
American Promotes Air Service Network in China
James Slevin, American airplane expert, promotes Setah and Great China Airways to link major Chinese centers. First route to open this summer runs Tientsin to Urga with passenger mail and express package service under agreement with China's commercial aeronautical department.
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Shanghai
Setah
Great China Airways Company
James Slevin
China
Slevin
Tientsin
Urga
Commercial Aeronautical Department
Buyer Acquires Bernhardt's House on Belle-Isle
Paris reports that a buyer paid 350000 francs about $20000 for Sarah Bernhardt's Belle-Isle country house with farm fort and rocky shore. He plans a summer hotel with a jazz band and dancing on the first floor this season. Palais mayor had hoped for a Bernhardt museum but the sale proceeded.
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Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Belle-Isle
Brittany
Palais
Little Island
Thousands Flock To Marion For Harding Funeral View
Thousands pour into Marion Ohio for the funeral of Warren G. Harding with special trains and cars delivering mourners to view the late president. Crowds fill streets and sidewalks as guards manage the long bier procession and families gather at the Harding home to pay final respects.
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Marion
Warren G. Harding
United States
Harding
Sands
Ohio
Ce Iter Street
Ratien
Peain
Revivalist Arnold Faces Federal Charge in Wisconsin
Madison banker and revivalist Victory Arnold will be arraigned in Superior Wisconsin federal court on an indictment alleging bond fraud schemes. The case cites nearly 6000000 investors harmed and accuses misrepresentation of security values, unsecured note offers, and false arrests of company officials amid his Madison and New York revival campaigns.
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Associated Press
Madison
Wis
Victory H. Arnold
Superior
Arnold
Madison Bond Company
New York City
United States
Wiscnsin
Federal Grand Jury
Wisconsin
New York
Ancient Romans Used Modern Heating Methods
A central heating apparatus from a Roman villa about seventeen centuries old was unearthed at Kenysham cemetery in Somersetshire. The villa, roughly 120 feet long, used a hypocaust heating chamber with heat traveling under floor passages to several rooms and some spaces reached by floorless flues.
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London
Kenysham
Somersetshire
World Tour Start For Japanese Vice Admiral Ide
Vice Admiral Kenji Ide begins a world tour visiting Europe before returning home via the United States. The Times features want ads linking sellers and bargain seekers.
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Tokio
Kenji Ide
Europe
United States
England Won't Keep Her Art
London reports financial secretary Sir W Joynson Hicks told the House of Commons that no legislative move will be made to retain works of art and famous books in Britain. He said trustees of the National Gallery advised against such legislation after considering the proposal to keep treasures from sale to America.
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London
W. Joynson Hicks
The
Treasury
House of Commons
America
National Gallery
British Empire A Babel
London reports that Professor Daniel Jones says the British Empire contains 800 to 1,000 distinct languages with India alone having a large number. The estimate reflects the empire's linguistic diversity and is cited as evidence of widespread language variation across colonies and dominions.
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London
British Empire
Tower of Babel
Daniel Jones
India
Prohibition Agent Surrounded in Kentucky Moonshine Outbreak
Report from Hazard Kentucky states that prohibition officer R L Stewart and four men with J D Carpenter and Alexander Gayhart were surrounded by moonshiners near Cockerill Fork of Lost Creek fifteen miles from Hazard. A large posse fired upon the moonshiners with over a hundred shots exchanged before midnight departure for the scene.
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Hazard
R. L. Stewart
Prohibition Enforcement
J. D. Carpenter
Jackson
Alexander Gayhart
Cockerill
Sheriff Holiday
Berry County
Lost Creek
Official Kentucky primary results narrow Marshe Cromwell lead
Official returns from 84 of 120 Kentucky counties show Ben Marshe ahead of Emma Cromwell for secretary of state by 3,000 to 1,258 in Saturday's primary.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Ben Marshe i
Emma Cromwell
German Bank Well Housed
Deutsche Bank now occupies one of Berlin’s finest palaces with branches in grand mansions. The Daily Mail Berlin correspondent notes bank assets for the first half of 1923 value at about 40 million marks, roughly 200 dollars per the report.
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London
Deutsche Bank
Berlin
Daily Mail
Millions Spent For Gum
The United States spends more than a million dollars weekly on chewing gum according to figures from National City Bank. Output has doubled since 1904, with export sales large and growing, sending gum to nearly every country.
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New York
United States
E National City Bank
Albania is Quiet, Official Says After Tour
Tirena Albania reports from W. F. Stirling official adviser to the Albanian government that insurrection and fighting reports are inventions. He says Albania is tranquil with good public security and orderly governance. He notes Albanians are enterprising and seek foreign capital to develop the country.
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Tirena
Albania
W. F. Stirling
Tea replaces beer as British drink due to price rise
London experts from Mincing Lane say tea consumption has surged worldwide. Britons now drink about 81.2 pounds per person, up from 61.2 pounds years ago, with beer prices pushing women to steam off with tea.
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London
Mincing Lane
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