Busy pre Christmas shopping rush ends Kingsport
Kingsport merchants report heavier business than ever as last minute shoppers flood Main Broad Shelby Market Cherokee and Five Points. Crowds gather for Christmas Eve Eve festivities while charity groups plan to fill every stocking and Santa visits. Warm forecast promises a pleasant day though expected snow unlikely.
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Kingsport
Main
Broad
Shelby
Market
Cherokee
Five Points
Santa Caus
Offices of City Hall Undergoing Extensive Repair
Remodeling of the city hall is in progress to provide larger quarters for the waterworks office, which will be taken over by the city at year’s start. The city judge and police headquarters will move to the building’s west side, with further changes planned but not yet announced until remodeling finishes.
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Recorder
Rumors of Sullivan Accident Proved Untrue
The Times reports rumors of an accident on the Bristol highway involving Mrs E Neal Sullivan were false. Sullivan and husband E Neal Sullivan were in Bristol when the alleged wreck occurred, and no injury or car damage happened.
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Neal Sullivan
Cleveland
the Times
Bristol
E. Neal Sullivan
Stock Activities on Wall Street
New York on December 24 marked a strong Christmas trading day led by high grade rails and industrials. American Can surged to a new all time high near 296 as rail shares climbed on favorable November earnings, with Atchison up to 137 and New York Central and Atlantic Coast Line hitting new yearlong highs. Railway steel gained about 10 points while General Electric, Postum Cereal and Remington Typewriter rose 5 to 6 points. Call money fell to 5.5 percent in early afternoon.
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New York
Atchison
New York Central
Atlantic Coast Line
Geneaal Electric
Postum Cereal
Remington
Oil Shares Rise On Merger Rumors In Busy Market
New York December 24 AP coverage notes strength in oil shares driven by published trade statistics and merger rumors touching California and Mid-Continent properties. Metal stocks led by American Smelting advanced to an eight year high. General Electric gained about three points. Volume neared 1,600,000 shares.
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New York
California
Mid-Continent
American Smelting
Whch
General Electric
Woman Legislator Minnie Grinstead Dies in Liberal
Mrs Minnie J Grinstead who seconded Cavin Coolidge’s nomination at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland died in Liberal Kansas today after a brief illness She was the first woman ever elected to the Kansas legislature.
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Kans
Minnie J. Grinstead
Cavin Coolidge
Cleveland
Kansas
City Lowers Tax Rate to 2.40 Per Hundred
The 1925 Kingsport tax rate was fixed at 2.40 per hundred by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen at an adjourned meeting. The previous year’s rate was 2.75. Total assessed property value is 7,815,659. Waterworks ordinance passed on second reading. final action set for January 5. City offices to declare a full holiday tomorrow.
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Kingsport
Armistice Reported Signed By Tribesmen
Cairo reports an armistice signed between Druse tribesmen and the French high commissioner in Syria. All prisoners held by French authorities in Syria and political charges are to be liberated. Paris reports DeJouvenal concluded the armistice with the Druse tribesmen in Syria.
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Cairo
Egypt
Syria
Henry D. Jouvenal
Paris
DeJouvenal
Geneva reacts to Soviet no show at disarmament talks
Geneva's state council seeks to reassess Swiss ties with Russia after Moscow declines to join a disarmament conference on Swiss soil. The dispute stems from the May 1923 assassination of Vaslav Vorovsky, Soviet envoy, by Swiss engineer Maurice Conradi and his subsequent trial and acquittal.
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Russia
Switzerland
Maurice Conradi
Vaslav Vorovsky
Conradi
Cash grain prices from St Louis market dec 24
Cash grain figures show Wheat No 2 at 187 and No 3 hard around 177 1 2 to 178 with various corn and oats quotes. Futures list wheat December 178 May 174 1 2 with July 149 bid and corn December 75 1 8 nominal May 83 bid July 84 3 4 bid.
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St. Louis
Colonial Virginia Population and Immigrant Roles
The piece argues that Virginian origin stories exaggerate elite lineage while most settlers were economically pressed or persecuted. It notes few independent immigrants arrived, and that Virginia along with North Carolina and Maryland drew many indentured or runaway servants and criminals seeking land on the frontier.
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America
Virginia
North Carolina
Maryland
Three Die in Okmulgee Hotel Fire
A three story frame hotel in Okmulgee burned down killing two children and a 19 year old girl. The mother of the children suffered serious burns, three others were injured and 13 escaped. Dead are Clem Wall 14 Lorena Wall 19 and Beatrice Mulberry 19 of Arkansas.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Okmulagee
Clem Wall
Lorena Wall
Beatrice Mulberry
Arkansas
Trial With Revolver Is Fatal to Father
Bryan Coleman a 27 year old World War veteran shot himself at his Roosevelt Long Island home after placing a Christmas gift for his young daughter. He died two hours later. He muttered I wonder if this blame thing works as he pulled the trigger.
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New York
Bryan Coleman
Roosevelt
L. I
Oleman
Barn School Ravaged by Fire in Indiana
A fire destroyed an old barn used as a temporary school near Huntington, Indiana, endangering 85 children who barely escaped. Eldon Fleuger, 14, suffered severe burns while attempting to save his books as the roof fire spread quickly from the roof to the main structure near the nearby new school building. Classes in the barn were to end today.
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Huntington
Ind
Clear Creek Center
Here
Eldon Fleuger
Fire Department Responds to False Alarm on Oak Street
The local fire department responded to a residence on Oak Street around 12 30 today but arrived to find no fire. A report from the fire station this afternoon confirms the alarm was false.
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Oak Street
Colonial Virginia aristocracy built by colonists not nobles
The column quotes Harold Faulkner noting that Virginia’s ruling class grew from the colony itself, largely drawing from lower middle and poorer English merchants rather than English nobility. The piece, clipped from The New York Herald Tribune and shared in the Times, discusses misconceptions about early Virginian wealth and social origin.
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Viginia
New York Herald- Tribune
Harold Faulkner
Smith College
Profesor Faulker
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Old Dominion
England
Virginia
Charles I
Four Indictments in Lynchings Near Clarksdale
Four indictments were returned by the Coahoma county grand jury in a special session to probe the lynching Saturday night of Lindsey Coleman, a Black man. The indictments names and charges were not released pending warrants and arrests, with one count including four men and another three.
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Mass
Coahoma County
Lindsey Coleman
Bond closing prices report from New York
U S Government bonds closed with Liberty 3 1-2s at 99.22 firsts 4s at 100.4 first 4 1-4s at 101.24 second 4 1-4s at 100.20 third 4 1-4s at 100.26 fourth 4 1-4s at 102 and treasury 4s at 102.30 on December 24.
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U. S
Liberty
Treasury
Cotton Futures Close Steady on Year-End Slight Gains
New York December 24 AP cotton futures closed steady with firmer early gains of 9 to 24 points. Key contracts moved January to 19.20 04, March 19.07 10, May 18.69 70, July 18.36 38, October 17.97 18.00.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Futures Close Steady Higher
New Orleans December 24 reports cotton futures closing steady with a net advance from 10 to 24 points. January near 19.00 to 19.02, March 18.51 to 18.54, May 18.23, July 18.02 to 18.03, October 17.49 to 17.50. Buffalo News notes thieves increasingly stealing ukuleles as part of a growing crime wave.
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New Orleans
Buffalo News
Flour Prices Jump Sharply on Barrel Market
Minneapolis dispatch reports flour prices surged 40 to 45 cents per barrel amid yesterday's wheat rally. Quotations at local mills rose from 9.05 to 9.45 a barrel, with family patent flour listed at 9.60 for car lot sales.
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Minneapolis
Caldwell bank placed under state finance official
The Wester Commercial Bank of Caldwell Idaho was placed in the hands of the state commissioner of finance by its directors today. Stockholders failed to meet a 100 percent assessment due to heavy losses on real estate loans and frozen paper.
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Boise, Ida
Wester Commercial Bank
Caldwell
State Commissioner of Finance
Holdup Men Do Their Xmas Robbing Early
Chicago notes a spree of more than fifty Christmas robberies in the 24 hours ending early today. All suspects escaped and only one believed wounded in a shooting incident.
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Chicago
Kresge to Split Stock Ten for One in New Plan
New York Dec 24 AP Coinciding with a proposal to raise its authorized common stock from 50 million to 100 million dollars the S S Kresge Company said it will split its present shares on a ten for one basis.
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New York
S. S. Kresge Company
Sutherland Appointed Alien Property Custodian
Washington December 24 AP Howard Sutherland former senator from West Virginia was appointed today to be alien property custodian.
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Sutherland
Washington
Howard Sutherland
West Virginna
Ling Defeated at Tientsin Flees to Japanese Front
December 24 AP reports General Li Ching Ling defeated by Marshal Feng Yo-Hsiang at Tientsin has taken refuge in the Japanese confession with his staff.
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Shanghai
Li Ching Ling
Feng Yo-Hsiang
Tientsin
Chicago Wheat and feedstuff prices from market report
Chicago Chicago December grain prices report lists wheat No 1 hard 180 No 2 hard 176 1 2 corn No 4 mixed 71 3 4 to 72 1 4 No 3 yellow 75 oats No 2 white 41 1 4 to 42 No 3 white 41 to 41 1 2 rye No 2 108 1 2 barley 60 to 71 timothy seed 700 to 735 clover seed 2400 to 3050 lark 1475 ribs 1450 bellies 1475
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Chicago
Call Money Rates Mixed as New York Open Dec 24
Call money easier with high 6 and low 5 1 2. Ruling rate 6. Closing bid 5 1 2, offered to 3 4. Last loan 5 1 2. Call loans against acceptances 4 1 2. Time loans steady with mixed collateral for 60-90 days 4 7 8 to 5 and 4 7 months 4 7 8 5. Prime mercantile paper 4 1 4.
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New York
Prime Mercantile
Youths Arrested on Charge of Robbery
Milwaukee December 24 AP Two youths age 21 and 19 were taken into custody after confessing to robbing Peter Gill’s saloon of about $4000. They admitted holding a dozen patrons at bay to gather money intended to cash customer checks following a fatal attempt to halt their flight.
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Milwaukee
Peter Gill
John Zembroski
Frank Holosz
Gill
President Faces Tougher Duties Without Gloves
In the Boston Transcript Swampscott note, the writer observes the president wears gloves, but emphasizes that certain duties remain to be addressed without gloves. The remark frames the president’s formal facade against the realities of required decisive action.
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Boston Transcript
Swampscott
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