Citizens organize for welfare work in Carroll County
Nashville dispatch reports Carroll County residents form the Carroll County Relief Association in Huntingdon to aid underprivileged children. The welfare division aims to establish county welfare committees statewide, coordinating with city agencies and state institutions to expand welfare services and keep families intact.
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Nashville
Tenn
Carroll County
Wm. C. Headrick
State Department of Institutions
Shelby County
Davidson County
Carroll
E. H. Edwards
Huntingdon
M. H. McClain
McKenzie
Allen S. Eason
Tennessee
Carroll County Relief Association
Headrick
Marion
Funeral Services for Grubb in Bristol Friday Afternoon
Funeral services for O. B. Grubb will be held Friday afternoon at St. Ann's Catholic church in Bristol. Grubb, 30, died from gunshot wounds inflicted after a dispute at Consumer's Grocery in Rogersville. Calvin Woods, 29, is jailed in Hawkins county pending a preliminary hearing Monday. Grubb’s remains will be taken to his brother’s home in Bristol, with interment at Mountain View cemetery. Pallbearers to be chosen from the Rogersville Modern Woodmen camp. flower bearers from Bristol friends and relatives.
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Times
Rogersville
Tenn
O. B. Grubb
Fox
Greeneville
St. Ann’s Catholic
Bristol
Grubb
Calvin Woods
Woods
Hawkins County
R. E. Grubb
C. W. Grubb
Bulls Gap
T. W. Grubb
Woodrow
James Lyons
New York Oil Company Declares 25 Percent Stock Dividend
New York December 24 The Standard Oil Company of New York declared a 25 percent stock dividend for its stockholders as a Christmas present. The announcement adds to investor optimism as markets reflect holiday trading.
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New York
Standard Oil Company of
Mild Weather Slated In South for Christmas Day
Washington reports a mild Christmas forecast for the South with clear skies and warm sunshine in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. At the same time, Northwest Florida, North Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi may see cloudy and warmer conditions, while Kentucky and Tennessee are set for colder, overcast weather and Virginia, Maryland and the District could have rain or snow.
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Washington
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Weather Bureau
North Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Mitchell Asked To Be Director Aerial League
Washington December 24 William Mitchell, jailed by court martial for five years suspension from the army, is asked by the Aerial League of America with offices in New York to become its general director and to supervise the organization plans for airways development Colonel Mitchell is expected to decline the offer.
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Washington
William Mitchell
Army
Aerial League of America
New York
Mitchell
Railroad seeks approval for Florence to Paducah line
A Florence Alabama to Paducah Kentucky railroad plan seeks endorsement from the railroad and public utilities commission to develop Middle Tennessee counties. The proposed route would run north and south through Lauderdale Colbert Decatur Benton Henry Graves McCracken and include a Savannah branch. The commission indicated support while an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing was postponed.
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Nashville, Tenn
Railroad and Public Utilities Commisson
Florence, Clifton
Nashville
Tennessee
G. R. Johnson
Waynesbor, Tenn
Rairoad
Florence
Sheffield
Ala
Paducah
Lauderdale
Colbert
Alabama
Wayne, Decatur, Benton and Henry
Graves and McCracken
Kentucky
Savannah
Tenn
Hardin County
Wayne County
Acreage of Wheat Sown This Fall Is Less Than In 1924
The department of agriculture reports winter wheat sown this fall at 39,540,000 acres, 1 percent below last fall's revised estimate. Fall sowings 1923 and 1922 were 38,664,600 and 46,102,000 acres respectively, with ten year average abandonment of 10.9 percent due to winter damage. December 1 condition stands at 82.7 percent of normal, compared with 81.0 a year ago.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Restore Rivers to Aid Education in China
Hong Kong millionaire Kuo Chuen yen donates 200000 to restore the Chu and Sze rivers to their original beds at Ni Shan Shantung, birthplace of Confucius, citing superstition as cause of declining classical learning. The dredging aims to revive education by returning streams to their historic channels.
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Peking
Kuo Chuen-yen
Hongkong
Ni-Shan
Shantung Province
Confucius
China
Kuo
Window Washer Falls Three Stories In Portsmouth
Portsmouth reports Hebe Harrison a 56 year old Black woman fell three stories while cleaning windows at the City Clinic on Middle Street. She suffered a broken leg collarbone shoulder and internal injuries. Her condition is critical and she is not expected to live.
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Portsmouth
Hebe Harrison
City Clinic
Middle Street
Students warned to watch conduct during holidays
Six hundred students of the state Teacher's College in Harrisonburg depart for Christmas vacation. President S. P. Duke urged them to consider the niceties of life at home and to show finer sensibilities and better daily conduct. He noted parents would observe habits and character in their daughters and discuss what they see.
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Harrisonburg
State Teacher’s College
S. P. Duke
Duke
Foreign exchange notes irregular quotations in cents
Foreign exchanges in New York on December 24 show irregular quotations in cents with Great Britain at 484 5 8 demand and 485 cables, 60 day bills on banks at 480 1 4, France 367 demand and 367 1 2 cables, Italy 403 1 1 demand and 404 3 4 cables, Belgium in incomplete listing.
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Foreign Exchange
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Porter Endorses Ton Litter Method In Hog Plan
Nashville dates report J Frank Porter president of the Tennessee State Farm Bureau endorsing the ton litter method for hog production. He praises extension work and urges farmers to keep one or two brood sows with purebred sires and pig fed by the ton litter method. He notes bankers support wider adoption and stresses safe, sane scale. Also notes Confederate veteran’s daughter Jimmie Ellen Barr misstates eligibility and age in Kentucky.
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Nashville
Tenn
J. Frank Porter
Tennessee State Farm Bureau
Tennessee
South
Carlisle
Jimmie Ellen Barr
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Jimmie
A. J. Barr
Kentucky
United St
Daughter of Aged Veteran Is Too Young for U D C
A local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy refuses a young applicant claiming she is under the required age. The decision draws debate over eligibility standards and inclusion within the organization. Members defend the rule as traditional while opponents urge reform.
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U. D. OF C
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Johnson
Wayne
Tennessee River
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Clifton
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