Opposition to anti sedition bill fuels House hearing
Washington January 22 protests against anti sedition measures were led before the House Rules Committee by Samuel Gompers AFL president S P Weston of Seattle Harvard's Zachariah Chafee and others. The hearing included a letter from Attorney General Palmer who urged a different drafted bill with penalties up to 10000 dollars and 20 years in prison.
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Washington
Janu
Palmer
Eral
Dovey
Ohio
Gompers
United States
Department of Justice
Democrat
North Carolina
Congress
Campbell
James Weldon Johnson
Nicaragua
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
Zachariah Chafee
Harvard University
Harvard Crimson
Harvard
Chafee
Snell
New York
Russia
Hardee Davis
Boston
Harvard Liberal Club
Cummings Defends Edwards Dinner Move Amid Bryan Complaints
Washington reports Homer S. Cummings chair of the Democratic National Committee says Bryan's Norfolk and Richmond remarks misuse his attendance at Governor Edwards New Jersey inaugural dinner. Cummings insists the event shows only impartial neutrality toward presidential candidates and does not bind him to Edwards or any movement.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
W. J. Bryan
Norfolk
Richmond
Edward I. Edwards
New Jersey
Newark
Cummings
Bryan
Edwards
Mryan
Bryan Attacks Cummings Over Edwards Banquet
William J. Bryan denounced Homer S. Cummings for attending the Edwards New Jersey banquet, calling his presence excusable and urging retirement from party management. He argued the Edwards event signaled a presidential boom and condemned the Edwards candidacy as an insult to the Democratic party amid sweeping prohibition support.
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Greenville
S. C
William J. Bryan
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Cummings
Edward S. Edwards
New Jersey
Bryan
Edwards
Railroad workers press for immediate wage increases
Secretary Scout of the Railway Department of the AFL says all railroad brotherhoods are ready to demand wage hikes totaling one billion dollars a year because government efforts to curb living costs have failed. He says he represents about 2,000,000 workers nationwide. The increases were paused in August at President Wilsons request to curb living costs.
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Washington
United Press
Scout
Railway Department
American Federation of Labor
Scott
Wilson
Trainmen to seek rail wage rise decision Tuesday
Cleveland officials of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen say they will press the Railroad Administration for a definite answer to wage increase demands next Tuesday. President William G. Lee announced the plan today.
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Cleveland, O
United Press
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Railroad Administration
William G. Lee
The Muscle Shoals War Plant Expenditure Inquiry
Florence Feb 21 three colonels a young lawyer an investigator and a cabinet maker told how the Muscle Shoals war plant was built at a cost of about thirteen million dollars. McCary charged brick theft and removal of bungalow houses to Florence for workers. The committee eyed converting plant number one into a fertilizer factory at two million dollars start with 2500 workers.
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Florence
Ala
House War Expenditures Committee
Muscle Shoals
W. H. McCary
Ofirmingham
Jin
Department of Justice
McCary
Youn Witnes
Sheffield
Gsrreww
Democrat
Tennessee
Washington
John K. Clement
Graham
War Department
Hardwee Chambliss
Chambliss
Jeffries
Republican
Nebraska
R L Bullen Buys Nall Home on Sevier Terrace
R L Bullen a recent Kingsport arrival from Greeneville buys the J B Nall residence on Sevier Terrace. The two story brick home is described as one of the area’s finest. Purchase price announced at 8000 dollars.
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R. L. Bullen
Nall
Sevier Terrace
Kingsport
Greeneville
J. B. Nall
Banner Publishes Today After $300000 Fire Inferno
Nashville Tennessee United Press reports the Banner published today despite a fire that gutted its building causing about 300000 in property loss. The blaze began in the basement and rapidly reached the fourth floor composing room.
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Nashville, Tenn
United Press
Nashville “Banner
Nashville “Tennessean
Whetzel Murder Trial Set for Next Week in Blountville
James C. Whetzel, charged with first degree murder in the death of his wife Lillie during a Kingsport laundry incident, will be tried next week before Judge D A Vines in Blountville Circuit Court. The case details include a deadly confrontation at the Kingsport Laundry with multiple witnesses and a police arrest scene involving Patrolman Parrott and Chief Carmack.
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James C. Whetzel
Lillie
Kingsport
Blountville
Whetzel
Alvin Roller
Parrott
Carmack
Dutch Refuse Allies Demand to Extradite Former Kaiser
The Dutch government replied to the Allied note demanding extradition of the former Kaiser with a courteous but flat refusal. The Hague dispatch, dated January 23, notes the stance was learned in the city today.
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the Hague
United Press
Child badly cut by collision of autos
Genevieve Kesner six is daughter of Mr and Mrs C J Kesner was cut about the face and neck when an automobile driven by her 17 year old brother Harold collided with a Johnson car driven by Sam Green at Broad and Main street. Genevieve received 12 stitches at Community Hospital.
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Genevieve Kesner
C. J. Kesner
Harold
Broad and
Main Street
J. Fred Johnson
Sam Green
Johnson
Kesner
Cement for City Streets Bought in Kingsport This Year
Kingsport city offices announced the purchase of 10 000 barrels of cement for expanded paving and sidewalk work. City Recorder Bradley cautioned that more cement will be needed if plans to issue improvement bonds proceed and growth continues. Existing projects include Sullivan Boulevard and extensions of Sullivan and Sevier streets with Tennessee street and the Bristol highway awaiting owner petitions between Oak and Sullivan.
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Kingsport
Recorder Bradley
Sullivan Boulevard
Sullivan Street
Sevier Street
Tennessee Street
Bristol Highway
Oak and
Sullivan Streets
Progress toward compromise on Article Ten at League pact talks
Washington reports continued progress toward a compromise on reservations to the League of Nations covenant. The Lodge reservation to Article Ten dominated discussions by a bipartisan Senate leadership group, with hopes of decisive action possible tomorrow, while other reservations would likely be addressed next week.
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Washington
Senate
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Worley May Seek Tennessee Governor Nomination
Sullivan County Democrats plan to nominate county and state officers at Blountville meeting Monday noon. Senator J Parks Worley, endorsed Jan 5 for governor, may seek the gubernatorial nomination and break with the State Senate seat. Worley’s backers cite opposition to the new assessment law, favoring equalized taxation for utilities and manufacturers, and see a statewide chance for his push.
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Sullivan County
Tennessee
Democratic Executive Committee
Blountville
J. Parks Worley
O. L. Hauk
Kingsport
O. L. Jones
Bristol
Hauk
Worley
Senate
Dr. Hauk
Friends
Kingsport postpones school house talks until mayor returns
Aldermen postpone discussion of three proposed high and grammar schools due to Mayor Dobyns absence. Recorder Bradley said a meeting will occur within two weeks. Estimates put two grammar schools at 12 rooms each costing 50 000 to 60 000, and a six room colored school at about 30 000. Construction aimed to start immediately, with all buildings to be ready by September. Site planned between Watree and Oak streets and the Bristol Highway near White City.
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Kingsport
Dobyns
Recorder Bradley
Bradley
Watree and
Oak Streets
Bristol Highway
White City
Help A Sick Woman By Donating A Cot
The Home Auxiliary Service of the Welfare Federation of Kingsport seeks a cot or unused couch. Mrs. J. H. Clifford, chairwoman, asks for a bed for a very sick woman with a poorly furnished home. Call 82 to arrange pickup.
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Home Auxiliary Service
Welfare Federation of
Kingsport
J. H. Clifford
Mrs. Clifford
Kingsport High Quint Meets Bristol High Tonight
Kingsport High, 6-0 this season, meets Bristol Va High on Bristol’s court in a highly anticipated matchup. Coach H R Groat will field Gustwick Leeper Keegan Flora Barger Smallwood Cox and Hale as probable starters as more than twenty High pupils travel to Bristol to root for the team.
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Kingsport High Quint
Bristol
Kingsport High
H.R. Groat
Quint
Gustwick
Leeper
Keegan
Flora
Barger
Smallwood
Cox
Hale
Kingsport to Build Forty New Dwellings Soon
Kingsport Improvement Corporation announces a new housing group near the Atterbury and White City areas. Maj. Evarts Tracy of Tracy and Swartout will design five to seven room homes with modern amenities to be sold at cost with long-term payments to help house the expected influx from leather and glass plants.
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Kingsport
J. Fred Johnson
Kingsport Improvement Corporation
Mr. Johnson
Atterbury Group
White City
Maj. Evarts Tracy
Tracy and Swartout
New York
Mackenzie Group
Maj. Tracy
Tracy Group
Improvement Company
Mackenzie and
Atterbury
Camouflage Division
United States Army
Missouri
Tennessee's Busy Market for Mules
Tennessee rivals Missouri as a male mule producer with Columbia as a key market. On the first Monday of the year the town’s stock yards overflowed as about two thousand mules changed hands privately and by rail, valued around $500,000, with forty five car loads shipped the next day.
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Tennessee
Missouri
Columbia
Ed Geers
President Polk
Maury County
New York “Herald
Times Buys Pinquard Building For Future Home
The Times of Kingsport has purchased the two story Pinquard building on Market Street for 14 000 dollars. The structure with a 50 foot frontage is expected to become The Times new home in the future.
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Kingsport Publishing Comepany
the Times
Joseph L. Pinquard
Market Street
Pinquard
The
Times
Senate Resolution to Oppose Susan B Anthony Equal Suffrage
In Richmond Virginia on January 2 a Senate resolution was offered to reject the Susan B Anthony amendment to the constitution and grant equal suffrage to women. The measure was referred to a committee.
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Richmond
State Senate
Susan B. Anthony
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