Man Gives $50 For Each Baby Born In His Houses
New York reports Max Dick a retired tailor who built a tenement nicknamed The House of Babies at 67 Rivington Street He pays $50 to parents for every newborn in the building and often collects three months rent He recalls his own years of poverty and his aim to give joy not wealth with his generosity to families in the home of babies
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New York
Max Dick
Auatric
Rivingon Street
Jake Berger
Millionaire Negro Heiress Weds Chicago Doctor in Grand Harlem Ceremony
May Walker Robinson, daughter of C. J. Walker, marries Dr. Henry Gordon Jackson at St Philip's Episcopal Church Harlem. Invitations numbered nine thousand as a crowd of affluent guests filled the church and sidewalk scenes showed lavish gowns furs and jewelry. The wedding reportedly cost about twenty thousand dollars with music by noted artists and a boy choir assisting the ceremony.
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New York
May Walker Robinson
Henry Gordon Jackson
Chicago
St. Philip's Episcopal Church
Harlem
America
Hutchens Bishop
Shelton Bishop
C. J. Walker
Baptist Face 1 750 000 Deficit as Campaign Sinks
Raleigh reports a looming deficit of about 1.75 million dollars for the North Carolina Baptist Seventy Five Million Campaign. Pledges total 7,052,499.19 with payments due through 1928. receipts to Nov 10 were 3,805,320.61, leaving a shortfall of 1,836,638.78. Churches urged to act decisively by December 1 to reduce the deficit.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Baptist State Convention
States Baptist
Gastonia
North Carolina Baptists
Beiley Proposes Fair Tax System for North Carolina Governorship
Beiley argues for a tax fairness standard based on Adam Smith with a focus on earning power over value. He criticizes ad valorem land taxes and segregated state funding, outlines steps to shift burden to income and inheritance taxes for free schools, and calls for forest protection, audit reforms, and limits on political money.
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North Carolina
Adam Smith
Carolina
Nike
Perai
Commonwealth
Highway Commission
Theone
State highway bids total nearly 2.5 million in 18 projects
Raleigh reports the North Carolina Highway Commission announced low bids totaling just under two and a half million dollars for 18 road and bridge projects across nine districts. The package includes substantial concrete work, notable bridge contracts, and bids from out-of-state bidders attracted by favorable weather. Specific local projects in Stokes and Yadkin counties are listed with bidder and price details.
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Carolina
Surry County
Yadkin and
Stokes
Danbury
Francisco
J. P
Mulligan
Piedmont Construction Company
Yadkin
Yadkinville
Forsyth Line
W. D. Graham
Mt. Ulla
Luoten Bridge Company
Charlotte
Fishing Fleet Taking Large Catch of Menhaden
Southport reports a strong menhaden season with 11 steamers operating from Fisheries Products plants nine miles up river and riverfront motor boats aiding near beaches. Fishermen sell roe and ship oil to northern buyers, with fifty to sixty thousand gallons currently moving to process plants for soap perfumes and foods.
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Southport
North Carolina
Fisheries Products Company
Elizabeth River
One Divorce in N C For 16 Marriages Records Show
North Carolina averages one divorce for every 168 marriages, with 688 divorces granted in 1916 and 1,317 total marriages, up 3.5 percent. The rise in divorces is noted as a growing menace, though NC leads among states except South Carolina which grants no divorces.
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North Carolina
Department of Rural Social Economics
University of North Carolina
South Carolina
Record Rhode Island Red hens lay 258 and 236 eggs in ten months
A Rhode Island Red hen at Mountain Branch near Swannanoa station, NC Experiment Station, reportedly laid 258 eggs in ten months from January 1 to Navy. Another Rhode Island Red laid 236 eggs in the same period, with both birds still laying. Egg counts kept via trap nests.
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Navy
Rhode Island
Mountain Branch
Swannanoa Station
North Carolina Experiment Station
Raleigh
Wake Forest Attorney Sues Over 200000 Award
New York attorney Frank Earle Parham rejects a 12000 arbitration payoff for Wake Forest college work on the Jabez A. Bostwick bequest case and sues in New York Supreme Court for 200000. He contends he devoted 720 days to the matter and incurred expenses far exceeding the awarded sum.
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Raleigh
Frank Earle Parham
New York
Wake Forest College
Jabez A. Bostwick
Supreme Court of New York
Raleigh News and Courier
Parham
Charles E. Taylor
Fur thieves plunder Fifth Avenue firms in New York
Robbers smashed a rear window at Leopold Haas Inc on 48th Street and stole furs valued at 60000. It follows prior heists at the same firm and other Fifth Avenue shops with substantial fur losses.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Leopold Haas, Inc
48Th Street
William Jackman and Sons
Hickson
Holstein Cow Sets World Milk Production Record
Rolrain Finderne Bess a seven year old Holstein cow achieved 350,854 pounds of milk with 1117.16 pounds butterfat under official rules, surpassing all prior records. Owned by Fred F. Field Dutch Holstein Farms Brockton Massachusetts the test included supervised weighing and sampling by Massachusetts Agricultural College.
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Chicago
Rolrain Finderne Bess
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Fred F. Field Dutch Holstein Farms
Brockton
Mass
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Mysterious Axe Slayer Strikes Down Another
In Birmingham on November 24 the unidentified assailant who has terrorized the city for two years struck again. John Juiliano, an Italian miner, was attacked on Eighth Avenue between 25th and 26th Streets, slugged with a blunt weapon, and left in a pool of blood. His pockets held £100 and a watch vanished, with the culprit escaping once more.
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Birmingham
Ala
John Juiliano
General Hospital
Juiliano
Eighth Avenue
Drunken Negroes Throw Con ductor Off Train
New Bern November 24 Captain Sam Moore conductor on the Norfolk Southern passenger line from Beaufort to Goldsboro escaped serious injury after being thrown from his train near the Trent River trestle by three drunken men who boarded at Havelock. Moore tried to restrain them and wired for an officer but they attempted to flee as the train neared New Bern. The porter recovered the conductor’s cap and halted the train after it had moved a block.
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New Bern
Sam Moore
Norfolk Southern
Beaufort
Goldsboro
Trent River
Moore
Santa Barbara Unearths 25 000 Year Skeleton Pair
Santa Barbara scientists reveal the discovery of the Santa Barbara Man and his mate near a hotel courtyard. The skulls show heavy crests and ape-like features, suggesting a sub-man lineage between ancient European humans and American Indians.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Europe
Mr. Barbarensis
Freeopoe
Harrington
Hirrington
Mrs. Barbarensis
la Blae
Los Angeles
California
A. G. Wells
America
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Beiley
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N.C
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Fornia
John P. Harrington
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