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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
1
Kingsport officials and business leaders praise 1919 as the best year yet with forecasts of bigger 1920 gains. Industries report rising output and deposits while mass construction expands streets, schools, housing, and new commercial buildings. Infrastructure and real estate expansion includes garages, shops, and planned hotels along Broad Street, with Y M C A work underway and a new golf course project progressing.
Banks in Kingsport report deposits up more than last year with increases across all three institutions. First National notes over 25 percent growth and 455 new accounts. Bank of Kingsport and Kingsport Bank and Trust Co also show substantial gains. 1920 expected to be best year, with new industrial plants and housing to follow.
Kingsport merchants describe 1919 as a prosperous year with record turnover and growing customer counts. W W Huf ford of Kingsport Stores predicts a bigger 1920 in a new Broad street building while Gray McChesney of Smith Blakley plans 50 percent more floor space. J W Huffaker notes sales exceed expectations and R L Bullin plans a Broad street expansion. Kingsport Hardware cites its best year and Citizen's Supply plans a larger office to handle building-material demand.
Industrial firms in Kingsport report record 1919 results and plan expansion. R Y Grant of Kingsport Tanneries cites tripled tanning capacity and new finishing department to meet orders. J H Thickens of Kingsport Pub Corp says capacity rise and forthcoming hiring. Harry Angle of Clinchfield Portland Cement notes strong business outlook. Walter J Hunter of Kingsport Brick Co reports more orders than ever. C D Gott of Kingsport Hosiery Mills touts best year but seeks more workers to meet demand.
Washington officials say the fourteenth decennial census will take about two weeks to begin with nationwide fieldwork. Sam L. Rogers, chief, notes total population may near 112 million in 1916 estimates, with 372 supervisors and 4,000 clerks handling data and tabulation.
Supervisor Guy S. Chase of Johnson appoints twenty eight enumerators to conduct the census in Sullivan County. Names include Roy K. Barger C Alvin Dickson Jay C Pickens Thomas J. Duncan Eugene A. Blevins and others in Kingsport and adjacent districts. The appointees were vouched for for good character and reliability and will ask confidential questions on schedules to ensure an accurate count. Additional enumerators listed cover Bristol Bluff City Blountville Piney Flats Fort town Fishdam and surrounding areas.
Citizens and officials in Sullivan County denounce the Horse Creek road construction as wasteful and faulty. W. D. Lyon defends the project, while supporters urge scrutiny by the State Highway Commission ahead of the County Court quarterly session.
Estonia and Soviet Russia agreed to a preliminary armistice for one week. The accord addresses immediate questions linked to independence and military needs along the frontiers, aligning with Soviet proclamations on national self-determination.
Tuskegee Alabama December 31 The Department of Records and Research of Tuskegee University today issued its annual report on lynching in 1919. It records 82 lynchings with 75 black victims and seven white. 77 in the south and five in the north and west. causes listed include assault murder and killing sheriffs with 43 life sentences and one death sentence among those charged or implicated.
Kingsport officials and patrolmen report non alcoholic cider shipments may cause drunkenness and paralysis. Chief Cam King says bottlers ship the cider into the city and authorities will analyze it to halt sales. The force cites several cases misreported as drunkenness but traced to illness from the cider.
President Wilton has signed the McNary sugar control bill giving the President discretion to purchase sugar from Cuba. Officials say its practicality and impact on consumer prices are uncertain as Cuba’s supply and distributor licensing powers come into play. Prices are near a peak with expectations of a possible fall in the coming weeks.
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