30 Mar 1923
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1923
Page
1
Kingsport retail stores report their spring and summer stocks the heaviest and most complete ever. Shoppers find a wider range of prices styles and materials with latest Parisian modes reflected across clothing and dry goods. Merchants exercised careful buying and display windows now attractively presented.
The American Legion Red Cross and U S Veterans Bureau plan a campaign to reinstate government insurance. A four man squad will travel to 29 Tennessee towns to assist ex service members with reinstatement and examinations. Readiness includes waivers for health current policies and options to convert without exam."}
Kingsport Wholesale Market Inc announces farmers from surrounding rural areas now come to sell farm products and buy fertilizers. Fertilizer sales begin in the city for the first time, cow peas and soy beans become available, and the market will buy and ship cream every Monday and Thursday. A cannery will process vegetables in connection with the market.
Kingsport citizens have but two days left to pay their 1922 poll tax, tomorrow and Monday, before deadline. The notice urges prompt payment to avoid penalties and preserve voting rights in upcoming elections.
Kingsport plans to reorganize the concert band and offer two free open air concerts weekly in summer. H C McDaniel says meeting at city hall tonight at 7 30 to decide if the city will have a band this season. Strong interest from former and new musicians boosts prospects for lively performances.
J Reese Fox charged with complicity in the Leon Renaker murder will seek a jury trial and acquittal in Winchester circuit court next Tuesday to avoid reindictment on the same charge. In Madisonville five thousand miners threaten a strike over a two year versus one year contract, with operators and miners firm on terms.
Stockholm dispatch reports Premier Lenine dying from paralysis and quotes a confidential Moscow message to the Soviet legation in Helsingfors. It says a military dictatorship would be set up in Russia led by War Minister Trotzky.
A fast Big Four passenger train en route from Boston to Cincinnati struck a car at a grade crossing in Columbus, Ohio. The engine derailed and toppled four Pullman cars. The train, traveling seventy miles per hour, left the tracks with multiple injuries reported. The dead include Earl Williams and J W Klee, both firemen, Columbus and Cleveland respectively, Mrs Frank Hemminger, who was driving, and her five year old son Robert Hemminger.
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