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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1925
Page
8
The Times Society Editor requests postal cards with visiting friends travel or social news signed with name and contact details. Submissions accepted weekdays from 8:30 to 12 and 2:30 to 5 PM excluding Sundays. Phone 1386 for details.
Local brief lists numerous visitors and guests in Bristol and surrounding areas over the weekend and Fourth of July. Names include Zoe Weaver, Norah Kestner, Wirt Davis, Rhea Bishop, George Richmond, John Gilliam, Honinita Wolfe, Evelyn Baylor, C. E. Howard and family, and many others from Johnson City, Big Stone Gap, Gate City, Rogersville, Knoxville, Galax, and Radford.
The Young People's Missionary Society of the Broad Street Methodist church will gather tonight at 7:30 at Mrs. J. W. Dobyns home on Watauga Street. Members will meet at the church and travel by car to the Dobyns residence.
Dr Neal plans to defend John Thom as Scopes in the Tennessee law case on teaching evolution. Officials note secrecy in his moves to obtain an injunction. Cookeville buzzes at the prospect of a possible Dayton influx as the famed trial nears.
News of two men missing from a mountain search spurred Chief Deputy Nick Bush to mobilize a rescue. A crowd swarmed hospitals and the sanitarium as word of the discovery spread, with officers investigating the captors and the scene devolving into a tense, chaotic vigil.
Deputy sheriff says the missing Dr W D Mason and Lawrence Bowman were framed to discredit them after ten days vanished from Signal Mountain. The veterinary surgeon and feudist aide of federal prohibition officers were found tied to a tree this morning with Bowman and Mason alleged to be the targets of the setup.
C N Brown arrives in Kingsport to demonstrate the Aud Life-Saving suit at Rotherwood swimming pool tomorrow at 4 PM. The device, designed to prevent drowning and exposure, aims to support a Congressional bill for maritime safety with endorsements from lawmakers and agency supporters.
Authorities investigated a mountain crime after Mason and Bowman were found handcuffed to a tree in weakened condition. A fake call lured them to a hillside. Sheriff Selman dismissed kidnap claims as implausible while Godsey warning officers to curb liquor activities blamed Tom Grubb for selling.
English educators complain about the lack of philanthropy for education, noting Oxford women’s colleges face slow starvation without larger funding. The piece cites a recent ten year government grant of twenty thousand dollars yearly as insufficient for expansion and long waiting lists prevent many women from entering university.
Markets report from Louisville shows cattle steady to 0.25 lower at 2000 head. Hogs about 1500 head up 0.25 to 0.75. Sheep 2600 head 0.25 lower at 14.25 with ewes and wethers at 7.25.
Dr. Henry Louis Smith of Washington and Lee lauds General Lee as a Christian educator and peacemaker. He credits Lee with rebuilding the South through education, founding schools and professional programs to train leaders after the Civil War and reconstruct the deprived region.
Firemen believe the calamity was started and will be pushed tomorrow. Officials say overcrowding in the building weakened by a previous fire ten weeks ago and adjacent cleared lot caused the disaster. All other night clubs and resorts remain closed pending inspection.
In St. Bernard Switzerland on July 4 the monks of the convent announce they will run a hotel near the monastery. Previously overcrowded by guests they planned a restaurant concession but now will operate the inn themselves to gain revenue for their order.
Caliary Alberta July 4 Antelope saved from extinction in Nemiskam National Park grew from 45 at the 1915 preserve start to 235. The herd increased by 55 in 1924 showing strong breeding in captivity. Initial discovery in Southern Alberta led to fencing and careful protection without disturbing the animals.
Edmondton Alberta July 4 Delayed word from Jack Hornby Malcolm and Allan Stewart and Captain Critchell Bullock reveal last year’s expedition to Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories faced a harsh winter. They lived in a dugout with a gun in the ground as high winds prevented tents. They relied on fish under the ice and caribou from the Barrens. fuel had to be hauled 30 miles to their dugout.
Norman Baily Woolworth son of the late F M Woolworth of New York will wed Miss Pauline Elizabeth Stanbury of London at St Margaret s Westminster on Tuesday. The ceremony features a fan shaped procession and pastel bridesmaid dresses with a silver dress for the bride. Ushers and best man are from Yale. After a reception the couple plan a continental honeymoon then New York.
A Sullivan county farmer notes lime pays for itself multiple times as liming improves soil fertility, reduces clover sickness, and increases legume and crop yields. Developments and demonstrations show lime’s value in soil fertility and farm profitability.
Barney Gibney a 69 year old Dawson Yukon river pioneer known as a benevolent Northland figure will be buried in a coffin fashioned from the mahogany bar of the Gold Saloon in Dawson. Gibney died Saturday after a three year illness in Nome Alaska amid a coffin shortage caused by diphtheria deaths last winter. He preserved the bar during Prohibition and wished it used as his coffin.
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