Co op plan aims 65 percent sign up of landowners
Danville Virginia November meeting of more than 600 tobacco growers from 43 counties of North Carolina and Virginia adopts a five year contract for cooperative marketing. It requires 65 percent sign up, with withdrawal and possible dissolution if quota not met. aims to control all tobacco grown by signers and prevent outsiders from profiting under open market prices.
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Danville
Old Bright Belt
Virginia
North Carolina
Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association
Masonic Temple
Old Belt
Dark Tobacco Growers
Bright Tobacco Growers
South Carolina
Charles R. Warren
Pittsylvania County
Carolina
Tobacco Association
Wilson
Old Tobacco Belt
Richard R. Patterson
First Women Bank Robbers in South Dakota
Catherine Rogers and her 19 year old daughter Zera robbed the Renner State Bank for 390 dollars on Thanksgiving Day. They confessed after being captured at their home east of Sioux Falls. Bond set at 5000 dollars each, case continued. Their husband, a shell shocked veteran, was planned relief through the veterans bureau and American Legion.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
South Dakota
Catherine Rogers
Zera
Renner State Bank
R. E. Rogers
Rogers
Veterans Bureau
Battle of the Argonne
American Legion
Renner Bank
H. S. Wilkenson
Mrs. Rogers
Hanging and Electrocution Remain Kentucky Punishments
Kentucky maintains two death methods with hanging used for crimes against women and electrocution for murder. The 1920 legislature authorized hanging, with Leington's recent execution as the first under the act. Clerk Goodman of the Kentucky Court of Appeals noted the gallows deter crime.
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Kentucky
Frankfort
Leington
Goodman
Kentucky Court of Appeals
North Carolina highway contracts and Europe storm tolls
Two million dollars in highway contracts set for December 8 will lift North Carolina 1925 construction to about 20 million, adding 80 miles of road and a Chowan river bridge project worth half a million funded by toll refunds. A severe European storm season, with gales, snow and flooding, disrupts shipping and port cities from France to Britain and Italy.
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Pace
Italy
France
Lars Worth
State Highway Commission
Chowan River
Bertie
Chowan
North Carolina
Virginia
Frank Page
McLean
Cumberland
Wake
Davidson
Rockingham
Richmond
Alexander
Stokes
Jackson
Swain
New York
Calabria
Sicily
Britain
Death Penalty Upheld for 15 Year Old in Grandmother Murder
The Pennsylvania State Supreme Court affirmed the first degree murder conviction of William Cavalier, a 15 year old boy from Schuylkill County. He was sentenced to death for killing his grandmother Mrs. Catherine Cavalier during a robbery in 1924. Police found more than $100 in cash on him. His last hope lies with the State Board of Pardons.
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Philadelphia
State Supreme Court
William Cavalier
Schuylkill
Pottsville
Cavalier
Pennsylvania
Catherine Cavalier
Mechanicsville
Florida
Koch
State Board of Pardons
Tidal Wave Fatally Strikes Calabrian Towns in Storm
A massive tidal wave during a fierce storm devastates Bagnara and Monteleone Calabro near Messina. Homes torn from foundations, ports damaged, rail and telegraph lines down. Unknown casualties, several injured, ships damaged, and coastal towns hit hard.
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Naples
Italy
Bagnara
Calabria
Strait of Messina
Monteleone
Sicily
Salerno
Messina
Trapani
Catania
Milazzo
Twenty Year Monopoly Granted in Peru Match Trade
After over a year of negotiation the International Match Corporation and the Swedish Match Company announced a 20 year monopoly contract with the Peruvian government. A new company, led by the Swedish American group, will oversee exclusive manufacture import and sale of matches with about 1 million dollars paid annually for the concession.
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New York
International Match Corporation
Swedish Match Company
Ankle Lamps Glam Paris Women
Ankle lamps emerge as a new fashion for Parisian women. A nearly invisible wire runs up the leg and ends in the handbag enabling the light to flash on and off at will.
Mrs. Johnson backs ban on blunderbuss and bloodhounds
Raleigh reports Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson promotes humane treatment of prisoners. She favors using bloodhounds to track escapees and bans on the blunderbuss and rifle amid contention over the Stanly road force killing. Solicitor Don Phillips directs welfare testimony for the grand jury.
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Raleigh
Kate Burr Johnson
Phillips
Johnson
Wake County
Prohibition Agents Warned By Meekins
Judge Isaac M Meekins warned federal officers in Raleigh that shooting at supposed violators or into the air to frighten them is unlawful and dangerous He cautioned against treating prohibition violations as capital crimes and criticized methods used to obtain evidence He noted he may dismiss cases if officers used coercive tactics Mrs Fannie Brem testified about Ben Faulkner who faked sickness to obtain liquor from her and drank most of it
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Greensboro
Otto Wood
A. W. Kaplan
Raleigh
Wood
Winston-Salem
Caswell County
Pelham
Reidsville
Guilford Superior Court
Kaplan
Mercer County
W. Va
Roanoke
Ronda
Wilkes County
Boone Trail
Isaac M. Meekins
Peyton Edwards
Halifax
Meekins
Fannie Brem
Ben Faulkner
Faulkner
Mystery surrounds the Greensboro railroad death
In Greensboro Charles Snyder aged 28 died after being cut in two by a freight train early today. Initial reports said an automobile forced him onto the tracks and a locomotive struck him. The coroner's jury later ruled he was struck and dragged under the train by an unknown assailant. Two witnesses named C. C. Parrish and W. M. Butler were released.
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Greensboro
Charles Snyder
Southern Railroad
Snyder
C. C. Parrish
W. M. Butler
Legend Haunts Cologne Cathedral Completion Story
The Cologne Cathedral began in 1248 and finished in 1880 with a legend that the original architect sold his soul to the Devil and stalked the church until its completion.
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Cologne
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Danville Meeting
Complete Harmony
Otto Wood LA Follette
Europe
Chowan Bridge
Spain
Madrid
British Isles
London
Manchester
Portugal
Lisbon
Senate
Washington
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
United States
Capitol
la Follette
Henry Clay
Clay
Armistead Thomson Mason
Flias Kent Kane
Illinois
Stephen Wallace Dorsey
Arkansas
Peru
Mrs. Johnson
Prohibition
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