Winchester head inspects Grant Leather plants in Kingsport
J. E. Otterson president of Winchester Repeating Arms and new Winchester Simmons head visited Kingsport Saturday to inspect Grant Leather Corp facilities slated for under the new merger. He praised the development here and said further plant evaluation will determine potential changes under the merged company. Anderson, treasurer, accompanied him and the party traveled on C C O lines.
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J. E. Otterson
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
Winchester-Simmons Company
Associated Simmons Hardware Companies
Winchester Company
Kingsport
Grant Leather Corporation
Otterson
Ottersen
Anderson
Company
City
Coal Operators Open Mines After White House Call
President Harding urged bituminous coal mine operators to return to work and resume operations. Alfred M. Ogle led the group framing a delegation to the White House after a day of talks. The miners’ union refused arbitration, while some operators south of the Ohio River reported transport disruptions from the railroad strike. The government signaled possible troop protection in districts with willing workers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harding
White House
Alfred M. Ogle
Likemise
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Ohio River
Taylor Shot in Street Fray Over Revolver
Former Mead Fibre employee Tom Taylor was shot in the neck during a scuffle with West View Park merchant W Green on Main Street near the 99 Taxi station. The weapon discharged during a struggle as witnesses offered varying accounts. Taylor is hospitalized in stable condition. Green was arrested on $2,000 bond. witnesses described conflicting versions of the event.
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Tom Taylor
Mead Fibre Company
W. F. Green
West View Park
Main Street
Green
John Parrott
W. D. Neil
O. S. Hauk
Taylor
Riverview Hospital
Jack Dean
Dean
E. B. Love
Frank Richmond
Richmond
British inventor devises practical low cost motor
Liverpool reports a British inventor claims a combination of the Diesel and turbine forms a rotary oil engine. The design sparks strong interest in shipping circles and, if proven, could cut steamer running costs and transform much of the mercantile marine.
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Liverpool
Mercantile Marine
Kyushu Imperial University Opens Engineering and Medicine to Women
In Fukuoka Japan the department of engineering and medicine at Kyushu Imperial University has opened to women and a proposal to open the entire school is under consideration. Dr Yoshida president of the school said co education will soon be arranged for in all schools of Japan.
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Associated Press
Fukuoka
Japan
Kyushu Imperial University
Yoshida
Delegation DelayedTrip To Nashville For Highway Talks
Sullivan county delegation to Nashville for Kingsport to Bristol road will be postponed to next week. Kingsport Business Men's Club pushed the visit, with W. D. Lyon and John H. Caldwell likely along. Federal funds authorized June 16 raise optimism for early construction of the highway link.
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Sullivan County
Nashville
State Highway Commission
Kingsport-to
Bristol
Kingsport
W. D. Lyon
Sullivan County Road Commission
John H. Caldwell
Ohio Primaries Heat Up As Gubernatorial Race Shapes
Ohio voters face a crowded field for governor with nine Republican candidates and a contested U S senate race. Carmi A Thompson leads GOP hopes endorsed by city machines and seen as Harding’s choice, while Charles Knight and Harvey Smith challenge. Democratic senatorial race features Atlee Pomerene opposing John J. Lentz as campaign tensions rise.
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Columbus
Ohio
United States
Atlee Pomerene
John J. Lentz
Carmi A. Thompson
Cleveland
Harding
Charles L. Knight
Akron
Harvey €. Smith
Zanesville
Harry L. Davis
Knight
Theodore Roosevelt
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Iowa
Institute for Sullivan County teachers at Blountville
The Sullivan county teachers’ institute meets at Blountville starting Monday July 24 and runs for most of the next week. Prof. J. C. Akard, county school superintendent, leads with assistance from Prof. W. S. Gentry, Kingsport city schools superintendent. County teachers are required to attend.
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Teachers’ Institute
Sullivan County
Blountville
J. C. Akard
Akard
W.S. Gentry
Kingsport
Hero buried with military honors
Funeral services for Private Connie Lambert killed in action October 20 1918 in France were held at Morrison's Chapel Kingsport with military honors. The American Legion Hammond Post No 3 detail oversaw the ceremony conducted by Rev Robert King. Lambert, 23, survived by his wife and child, served in Company B Seventh Machine Gun Battalion.
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Connie Lambert
Franee
Kingsport
Morrison’s Chapel
First Presbyterian Church of
Lambert
Machine Gun Battalion
Crisis over Paris jewel trade signals end of four year slump
Paris Europe faces a crest in a four year jewel crisis as about a billion francs worth of stolen confiscated and smuggled stones flood the market. Leonard Rosenthal warns the collapse was averted only by wartime profiteers absorbing oversupply. The three waves include fleeing Russian aristocrats jewel swindles and embezzled gems, Soviet confiscations, and dispersals from royal and noble houses.
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Paris
Europe
Leonard Rosenthal
Hapsburg
Ithe Colapse
Rosenthal
Petrograd
Germany
Austro - Hungary
Charles
Sullivan County to Hold Regular Biennial Election
Election commissioners named officers, judges, and clerks to conduct the general election on Thursday August 3 across county civil districts. Primary races will run the same day for Republican and Democratic parties. A special election will fill unexpired terms for justices of the peace in districts two six and eleven. In the Eleventh district Kingsport area, officers include W. W. Hufford officer, Nat Slaughter, T. J. Stephenson and George Burbage judges, H. R. Lady and Wallace McDannell clerks.
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Sullivan County
James Shell
J. J. Holt
J. M. Morton
Kingsport
W. W. Hufford
Nat Slaughter
T. J. Stephenson
George Burbage
H. R. Lady
Wallace McDannel
Polish Students to Attend Rockefeller Institute
Six medical students from Polish universities were selected to study in America at the Rockefeller Foundation's newly established Institute of Hygiene. Professor Selskar Gunn announced the final selections after a competitive Polish health ministry exam. The Rockefeller Foundation endowed $250,000 for the institute.
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Warsaw
America
Institute of Hygiene
Rockefeller Foundation
Selskar Gunn
Rockefeller
Ministry of Health
London Court Rebukes Officer Over Head Clubbing
A London police court judge rebuked a constable for striking a prisoner over the head with a club during an arrest. The judge noted the proper target was elsewhere and contrasted British limits with American use of force. The incident arose after a drunken woman was being taken to a station amid a 200-strong crowd. Whitehead, the man clubbed, assaulted the officer and was later involved in a fight.
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Associated Press
London
America
Whitehead
United States
Belgrade Under Rapid Serb Beautification Efforts
Belgrade is undergoing swift modernization with new asphalt streets and public buildings. A recent city plan prize of 75 000 dollars spurs growth as 1 400 homes rose in 1921 and 4 000 more planned. rents soar and land nearby commands high prices amid grand projects including two royal palaces and a partly built parliament.
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Associated Press
Belgrade
Jugoslavia
Alexander
Constantinople
Moscow
Bolshevik Premier Lenine Reported Murdered
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Stockholm cites a Riga correspondent stating Lenine of Soviet Russia was murdered and believed poisoned on a train while en route to a Caucasian bathing resort. Suspect blamed are radical communists in Moscow.
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London
Exchange
Stockholm
Riga
Lenine
Russia
Moscow
German American conference backs Beveridge Brookhart Frazier La Follette Reed
The third German American national conference in Chicago ends with resolutions backing Beveridge of Indiana Brookhart of Iowa Frazier of North Dakota La Follette of Wisconsin and Reed of Missouri for U S Senate. It calls for war treaty revision troop withdrawal from Germany an alien property inquiry and a referendum on war except in invasion cases. Heine of Chicago leads as president with Vierick chairing the resolutions committee.
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Chicago
Third
Heinrich Heine
Sylvester Vierick
Pennsylvania Railroad Reaches Wage Deal With Shopmen
Philadelphia report says the Pennsylvania railroad and 40,000 employed shopmen have agreed on a wage settlement. The announcement confirms ongoing labor talks concluded with a new pay scale affecting the workforce.
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Philadelphia
The
Pennsylvania Railroad Today
Oil price cut widens in Kansas and Oklahoma
The Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company reduced crude oil price by 25 cents a barrel in Kansas and Oklahoma territory, setting new price at $1.50 a barrel. Reports indicate other firms quickly matched the cut.
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New York
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Kansas
Oklahoma Territory
President Harding Sets Policy To End Coal Strike
President Harding will send a telegram style communique to state governors outlining federal policy in coal and rail strike crises. It urges immediate resumption of bituminous mines and requests governors to provide military protection if needed, with federal troops ready if state forces fail.
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Washington
Harding
Strikebreakers Roughly Treated Near Fort Worth
Four young men employed as non union workers at the Frisco shops were seized by about a hundred men at a local dance hall, taken six miles into the country, and flogged according to a police report filed today.
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Texas Fort Worth
Texas
Two Dead and Thirty Injured in Village Warehouse Fire
A Greenwich Village warehouse blaze left two dead and about thirty injured with several workers unaccounted for. Fire officials report a roof collapse trapped many. estimates show six to fifteen firefighters missing five hours after the fire began.
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New York
Greenwich Village
Peace Efforts With Shopmen Suspended
Chicago highlights show maintenance of way union leaders proposing to reopen wage hearings under a non strike pledge if the wage cut is reconsidered. State troops deployed to Waycross Georgia as labor disturbances are reported. Peace talks with the striking shopmen appear suspended while the union executive council met to plan next steps.
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Chicago
Maintenance of Way
Railroad Labor Board
Waycross
Marine Commandant to Be Legion's Guest in New Orleans
President Harding General Pershing and Major General John Lejeune commandant of the U S Marine Corps are expected as distinguished guests at the American Legion national convention in New Orleans next October. Definite acceptance of an invita.
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New Orleans
Harding
Pershing
John Lejeune
United States Marine Corps
American Legion
General Lejeune Expected at Legion Convention
General Lejeune has sent in his intention to attend the upcoming Legion gathering. President Harding and General Pershing hope official duties will not keep them away. Lejeune’s career spans the Spanish American War World War I and the Philippine Insurrection. He led the Fourth Brigade of Marines in notable battles including St Mihiel Blanc Mont and Meuse Argonne.
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Meuse-Argonne
Rhine
Coblenz
Want Ads in The Times Gather Sellers and Bargain Seekers
Classified notices from The Times connect sellers with buyers seeking bargains. Short listings span goods services and opportunities, highlighting immediacy and local availability through concise item details and contact hints.
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