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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1925
Page
9
Merchants report sales totaling ten thousand dollars during the pre Christmas rush in Kingsport. Stores opened late and inventories are being prepared for new stock as buying power and population growth point to an even larger season next year.
Christmas season brought fewer drunks and lower fines as liquor and sake were scarce. The shortage is linked to wiped out illicit stills and operators working undercover. County officers have disrupted stills and many operators face criminal trials in Blountville with several convictions already recorded.
E L Rawlings of Sevierville Tennessee reports finishing 28 spring pigs by the Ton Litter method. He details costs for feed and pasture and two sale dates yielding a total return of 713 dollars and a net profit of 284.57 dollars. He notes lack of county agent supervision but confirms profitability and invites inquiries through the Agricultural Extension Service Knoxville.
The St Pauls Episcopal church community Y hosted a December 22 Christmas pageant titled Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph led a cast including Angels Shepherds and Three Wise Men with a band of Herald Angels and a Spirit of Christmas. Songs performed included O Little Town of Bethlehem While Shepherds Watch Their Flocks Rest Rest for the Weary Silent Night Joy to The World Go Rest You Merry Gentlemen and Onward Christian Soldiers.
In Lynchburg Virginia the temperature fell to 7.8 degrees last night after a 9.2 degree low on Sunday. Sunday's high of 18 degrees marked December 27 as the coldest on record. Winds reached about 25 miles per hour and hundreds of unheated pipes froze, prompting emergency calls to plumbers.
Norfolk reports show about 1000 homes hit by burst pipes during the coldest weather of the winter as temperatures fell to 11 degrees. Several small fires were caused by overheated stoves and blazing chimneys in the city.
Three people were injured in two separate crashes where street cars were struck by motor vehicles in Norfolk today. Forty other passengers were shaken up. all but one of the injured were able to go home after treatment in hospitals.
Early Sunday morning to nearly noon the upper East Tennessee area, led by Sullivan County, shivered as a cold spell drove temperatures to one below zero and possibly four below as roads, radiators, and water mains froze. Auto and plumbing shops report a busy period with burst radiators and mains, while forecasters warn of continued cold but some thaw by afternoon.
The circuit court re convened in Blountville this morning for the murder trial of Albert Peters. The entire morning and early afternoon were devoted to the Peters case and it is unlikely to be completed today. A heavy docket remains, and many cases may not be reached this session.
Silo Simpkins urges farmers to rely on brain work and precise methods rather than guesswork during winter. He argues that better farming and living in Tennessee depend on building a home or orchard, noting that winter is the prime time to start one for the benefit of families.
The piece argues that to reduce production costs a business must first identify and log all cost components. It emphasizes systematic record keeping as the essential method to reveal actionable savings opportunities and improve efficiency.
A nitrate of soda test on cotton by D A Mathis of Palmersville used on one tent of an acre increased yield from 60 to 75 pounds. The test notes a 500 pounds per acre gain for a 200 pound application, per County Agent R E Ellis.
A. Benson of the Holman school community received 10 bushels of Cook's 10-10 cotton seed from P. Barrett, agent in Lincoln County, to test the new variety. Benson reports the tenant gained $300 more cotton with the seed compared to what they would have produced with prior seed.
Paris, Dec 26. Picture bracelets framed with diamonds emeralds and sapphires were the finest and most expensive fashion for the 1925 gift season. Braclets from an inch and a half to two inches wide feature platinum settings with ruby emerald and sapphire designs. Narrower styles lean Greek figures while broader pieces show Egyptian scenes sometimes with two or three figures. Elaborate pieces tell a story through a sequence of small pictures separated by platinum bars.
The Paris bootmakers prepare women’s footwear expected to set the fashion pace for winter and influence spring and summer. Enamelled, hand painted, or mother of pearl shoes appear among the sensations with gold and white enameled designs and black patent leather straps. Silk and suede models follow, with reptile skins for trims in a palette of blonde to pearl gray.
A dubious claim credits Christopher Columbus with discovering America and haricot beans. The tale, sourced to Henri Leclerc and the Pree Medicale, asserts pre‑1490s travelers knew only broad beans and peas, while Columbus allegedly found haricot beans near Nuevitas in Cuba and linked Boston to a famed bean diet.
Aristide Briand, premier of France for the eighth time, likens international diplomacy to fishing with hook and line. He cites a kinship with President Harrison and the Izaak Walton code as aiding his patience in deals. He recalls playing golf with Lloyd George at Cannes, an outing that cost him his seventh premiership.
The season transformed hire Paris department stores into impromptu stages for kids. Women and children toured wooden rope-built sidelights presenting miniature travel films, mechanical dolls in 18th century costumes, elaborate electric trains, teddy bears, lead soldiers, and dazzling lights. Stores staged playful dramas like Little Red Riding Hood to entertain shoppers.
Devoted seven or eight successive windows to different scenes of the little dramas. Sunday crowds were so large that squads of policemen had to be called out to supervise the children.
General John J. Pershing, in Chile for the Tacna Arica arbitration, is expected to sail home within a month due to failing health. His doctor urges departure by January 15, and Washington notes his move will not withdraw from international duties. He remains 66, with rising blood pressure and dental infections complicating illness, while efforts to continue the Chilean Peruvian mediation proceed.
The first four airplanes built by Ford’s Stout All Metal Airplane division and sold for commercial use took off from Ford Airport in Dearborn for Miami. They will operate between Miami and Tampa for the Florida Airways Corporation, marking a milestone in metal aircraft production.
Coast Guard headquarters in Washington had no new word today on the schooner Minnie and Emma aground in Chesapeake Bay after dispatching the cutter Apache yesterday. The Apache reported the vessel on an even keel in three feet of water and planned to send a small boat to rescue the crew, but no further details were provided.
In heavy fog thirty miles north of Vancouver, the Lady Synthia, a passenger liner, rammed and sank the Cowichan, a freighter. The Cowichan sank within eleven minutes of the collision. The Lady Synthia picked up fourteen passengers and thirty five crew members.
Sir Oliver Lodge, noted scientist, argued that the brain itself does not see hear or feel nor plan or love. He said these experiences belong to a different region linking mind and matter, a concept not yet fully formulated.
Washington reports describe a commerce department note from Marseille describing a process to make alcohol from peanut hulls once considered refuse. The plant has begun operation to implement the new method.
Federal Judge Runyon in Newark New Jersey today approved a formal decree for the sale under foreclosure proceedings of the property of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company.
Berlin authorities allow restaurants saloons dance halls and cafes to stay open all night on New Year's Eve for the first time in a decade. Tables are booked at leading liberal emporiums and bakeries have orders for Berliner pfannkuchen. Provisions of ham and eggs are stocked for late hours. In the provinces families celebrate at home but Berliners seek public revelry.
The break up of the Stinnes fortune ends the plan by Hugo Stinnes and his sons to build a family mausoleum in the Ruhr Valley. Designed by Franz Bratskay the structure would imitate the Hotel des Invalides and cost about 500000 dollars with a three tier cascade and 27 pillars symbolizing coal and waterpower.
Letters from Maldwida von Meysenburg describe Richard Wagner's life at Villa Wahnfried with pets and gods in mind. She notes his fondness for pedigreed cocks, a bid to compose a cock symphony, and inspiration from poultry yard scenes. The memoir also portrays him as a poor whist player whose quips mocked even Franz Liszt, ending games in merriment.
Russian cellist Raja Garbusova, 16, from Tiflis, praised by critics as a medical prodigy of music, joins Pablo Casals in the same league. Discovered by American engineer S Mayrovitch, she has appeared before German and French audiences since age eight, playing cello with uncanny mastery and vitality.
Critics hear Ernest Roters, conductor of Hamburgs Kammerspiele, present his own works with the Berlin Philharmonic. Roters admires Richard Strauss, rejects Stravinsky and Schoenberg, favors melody and beauty of sound, and plans a U.S. visit next year.
A Berlin based breakfast preparation company has organized to deliver luncheon sandwiches to homes and offices between 8 30 a m and 1 a m in time for Germanys second meal of the day. Posters announce a weekly package of two crust sandwiches mornings five days for 86 cents payable weekly in advance.
Readers may choose cheese egg salad han cold roasts or sausage as part of a daily deli subscription plan with optional variations each day. The notice outlines simple ordering options and ongoing service availability for subscribers.
Washington official court room details the VanSweringens plan to unite five railroads under a 999 year lease and stock exchange subject to Interstate Commerce Commission approval. W A Colston defends the vast consolidation while ICC weighs authority public interest and fairness to separate railroad owners.
Richmond Virginia records a noon temperature of 24 above with a low of 8 above overnight. Ice skating begins as two inches of wintry ice form on Park Lae. Cold persists, plumbing and auto repairs surge as engines risk freezing. Ice on the James River reduces water turbine output by about a third. Agriculture predicts little crop damage due to dry ground before the freeze.
Harvey Twining, longtime Atlantic Coast Line conductor, died suddenly in Wilmington as he boarded a train for Norfolk, Virginia. He served between Wilmington and Norfolk for many years.
A promotional note from Hoston Drug Company touts Melloglo cold cream powder that stays on until removed. It resists perspiration, hides shine, and blends with skin to tone complexion while making pores appear invisible.
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