Settles For Two Crops of Tobacco This Month
R R Patterson notes final settlements on the 1922 Old Belt crop and the 1923 crop of tobacco with overpayments and underpayments explained. He details plan changes to grade accounting and quarterly settlements to prevent recurrence, cites large 1928 production and 1923 sales, and mentions a boycott by two major buyers.
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Patterson
Association
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Bankers’ Valuation Committee
Tobacco Growers Co-operative Associations
Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association
American
Imperial Tobacco Companies
Death of J C Taylor in Shanghai on world trip
A cablegram from Shanghai reports J C Taylor died of pneumonia in Shanghai while traveling around the world he began in January. He had lived in Morganton since 1915 with his aunt Miss Marriott Cole and worked as chemist and engineer before retiring. The body will be brought to New Bern for burial, with an estimated six to seven weeks for arrival in North Carolina.
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Morganton
Shanghai
China
J. C. Taylor
Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Chapel Hill
Miss Marriott Cole
New Bern
North Carolina
Postage Rates Will Be Higher After That Date
The new schedule, effective April 15, raises post card rates to two cents, affects reply cards, and keeps government postal card rates. It outlines domestic money orders up to 100 dollars with stepped fees and reorganizes third and fourth class rates by weight and zone, plus a two cent service charge on parcels, with rural route exemptions.
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J. B. Sparger
Two Aviators Saved By Their Parachutes
In San Antonio at Kelly Field two pilots Lieutenant C. D. Mc Allister and Cadet Charles A. Lindberg survived a mid air crash during a nine ship formation drill. Both pulled rip cords and parachutes opened, while three other ships crashed and burned.
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San Antonio
Texas
C. D. McAllister
Charles A. Lindberg
Advanced Flying School
Kelly Field
Russel L. Maughan
P. R. Love
Cadet Love
Lindberg
McAllister
Maughan
Cadet Lindberg
Earth
Town of Savaye Wiped From Wyoming Map by Court Order
Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy ordered the entire town of Savaye and its 1,500 residents moved within 66 days to clear a path for the Ohio Ol Company oil project. The 1920s boom town, north of Casper in the Big Salt Creek field, faces demolition of homes and businesses with contempt penalties for noncompliance.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Savaye
Wyoming
T. Blake Kennedy
Kennedy
Ohio Ol Company
Savage
Old West
Lavaye
Salt Creek
Casper
Columbia Student Kills Himself After Fear Of Death
New York March 9 Henry Mead a Columbia University graduate student who earned a Ph D at Brown in 1922 leaped from a sixth floor Hartley Hall dormitory window and died He left four notes one saying You have failed another to his mother He possessed two conflicting personalities a high hopeful side and a fear driven death obsessed side Police found bottles of poisonous liquid and his bed in disarray suggesting a night of planning before the final act
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New York
Henry Mead
Columbia University
Hartley Hall
Brown University
Fall River
Mass
Brooklyn
Mead
G. Alfred Lawrence
Meal
Patrick County Youth Sentenced to Life for Patric Murder
Danville Virginia March 7 John Wagoner a Patrick county youth convicted in Stuart Virginia of the brutal murder of Ada Whaling a 15 year old girl was found guilty and sentenced to life in the state penitentiary The jury fixed the penalty after Wagoner pleaded guilty Fletcher Whitlock and Claud Boyd indicted as accomplices remain to be tried.
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Danville
John Wagoner
Pattick County
Ada Whaling
Patrick
Stuart
State Penitentiary
Wagoner
Fletcher Whitlock
Claud Boyd
Five Bills That Women Supported Were Beaten
Raleigh March 8 The North Carolina women’s legislative council closes its third session discouraged yet committed. Five bills aimed at homes and children failed, including reformatories for colored girls and a women offenders colony. The Australian ballot proposal and a two week marriage banns rule were defeated.
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Raleigh
Mar
North Carolina
Legislative Council of
General Assembly
Mary 0. Cooper
Sir Walter
Hille
The
Council
Committee On Elections
House
North
South Carolina
Samarcand
Public Welfare Committee
Clash Over Senate Rules Roils Lawmakers In Washington
In Washington on March 9 Vice President Dawes faces a clash over Senate rules as he seeks to curb debate. Southern senators recall the Force bill and oppose limiting minority rights. The Underwood proposal sparks North Carolina opposition and doubts among Democrats about support. The Dawes speech and aftermath fuel speculation on public reaction.
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Washington
Senate
Dawes
Overman
Oscar W. Underwood
North Carolina
Underwood
Simmons
Muncle Shoals
Damages Sought in Martin Children Electrocution Case
The Yadkin River Power Co case over the death of three Martin children filed in Rockingham requests $75,000 total damages. The siblings ages 16 11 and 9 died December 26 near Roberdel when a shot shattered an electric insulator and caused live wire contact, instant electrocution.
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Rockingham
Yadkin River Power Co
Martin
Roberdel
Skyscraper Church and Office Complex Planned in Dallas
Dallas March 9 plans for an eighteen story church and office building in the downtown district were announced by Dr L D Young pastor of City Temple Presbyterian church The project costs 62 00 000 and the new edifice will be used by the pro Young faction amid pastorage controversy between factions within the City Temple congregation.
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Dallas
Tex
L. D. Young
City Temple Presbyterian Church
City Temple
Yoong
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Man
Ager
Columbia
Patrick County
North Carolina Council
Judiciary Committee
State Board of Charities and
Public Wel
Committee of 100
Council of Representatives
Legislative Council
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