Iredell farmer defies burial of dead son
Statesville report says Union Grove farmer John P. Speaks refuses to bury his son Thomas B. Speaks who died in France in 1918. The casket arrived Aug 13 and has been kept in the home amid a welfare investigation. Authorities say burial may be required by law or sanitary concerns.
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Statesville
John P. Speaks
Union Grove Township
Thomas B. Speaks
France
United States
Iredell County
Speaks
W. W. Holland
Holland
Rosa McElwee
M. P. Alexander
Mr. Speaks
Germany
Plague Preventive Efforts Reported Citywide
EPA teams work to control a pest outbreak by applying agents to affected areas. The response targets stray populations and reduces breeding, with evacuation and monitoring in place to protect residents.
Lumberton Tobacco Market Closes With Low Average
The Lumberton market closed for 1921 with 2,389,470 pounds sold for $221,703.56, an average of $9.28 per hundred. Rain damaged curing, yields were thin, and demand favored only good grades. Some farmers lost money per acre, while boll weevil fears and shifting plans could alter next year’s planting.
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Lumberton
Robeson County
Every One Win One Campaign Outlined by Surry Baptists
Rev. Wm. T. Baucom outlines a September ten day evangelistic plan for the Surry Association. The effort centers on church surveys, daily private prayer, cottage prayer meetings, and a week of coordinated visits aimed at winning souls and reenergizing church members.
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Christ
Wm. T. Baucom
Crowded Mercer County Jail Alters Inmate Bail and Schedule
Prisoners are allowed bail and to begin serving sentences once others complete, due to severe overcrowding at the Mercer County jail in West Virginia.
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Mercer County
West Virginia
Elephant with Sparks show is put to death
The Sparks circus killed an elephant after it attacked keeper Lewis Reed and performer Minnie Thompson during a Richford Vermont incident. Thompson suffered a fractured rib punctured lung and arm injuries while Reed was wounded. Nine bullets ended the animal at Malone Vermont after it was loaded onto a car.
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Salisbury
Sparks Circus
Chase Sparks
Richford
Matt
Minnie Thompson
Miss Thompson
St. Albans
Vermont
Lewis Reed
Reed
Malone
Sparks
Estigane
Big Mary
Tennessee
Dakota cattle finance shifts as banks back stockers and feeders
Sioux Falls dealers report easier movement of stockers and feeders and increased cattle shipments to farms in the past two weeks. Eastern money funds these loans with conditions requiring borrower capital and livestock care through bad weather. Loans capped at seven dollars per hundredweight aim to rebuild the cattle industry on a sound financial footing.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Honey Production Boom in South Dakota Farms
In Stour Falls South Dakota honey production thrives on local farms. The Shade farm in Davidson County reports forty two hives yielding over two tons of honey this season. A warm early summer and abundant clover and alfalfa boosted production with some hives reaching 300 pounds per hive.
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Stour Falls
South Dakota
L. B. Shade
Davidson County
Federal troops to march through North Carolina this October
A Raleigh News and Observer report states that a regiment of heavy artillery will move from Camp Jackson South Carolina to Camp Eustis Virginia via Gastonia Charlotte Salisbury Greensboro Durham and Oxford. The convoy of 16 guns and hundreds of vehicles will cover about six weeks on North Carolina soil for roughly three weeks with bases at Charlotte and Durham.
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Sherman
Legionnaires
Columbia
North Carolina
Raleigh News and Observer
Camp Jackson
South Carolina
Camp Eustis
Virginia
Gastonia
Charlotte
Salisbury
Greensboro
Durham
Oxford
Camp Duckson
State Highway Commission
North Carolina Protest Over Army Heavy Artillery Mobility
Washington August 30. Chairman Frank Page of the state highway department protests to the War Department against a plan to move heavy artillery and tractors by road from Camp Jackson to Camp Eustis. Secretary Weeks said he would investigate and discuss with General Pershing. no firm plan to overland move was confirmed.
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Senator Overman
Yadkin River
Salisbury
Page
The
Highway Commission
North Carolina
Washington
Frank Page
North Carolina Highway Department
War Department
Camp Jackson
D. C
Camp Eustis
Weeks
Simmons
Representative Brinson
Wator Simmons
Fitchin
Brinson
North
Caroina
Senator Simmons
Jackson
Eustis
Pershing
French Village Vitri mont Rebuilt To Prewar Form
Mrs. William H. Crocker of San Francisco funded and oversaw the reconstruction of Vitri mont in France, restoring the village to its prewar appearance with modern plumbing and sanitary features. The town hall schoolhouse streets and cottages were rebuilt to exact former designs, preserving the village’s picturesque beauty.
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San Francisco
Cal
Vitrimont
William H. Crocker
Europe
France
Fire Engulfs Ammunition Dumps Near Dixmude Belgium
More than a million shells exploded near Dixmude as efforts began isolating dumps from the blaze. The Hauthulst forest burned while four ammunition depots, left by both German and Allied forces, were engulfed in the fire.
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Dixmude
Belgium
Ames
Hauthulst
Agricultural explorer to undertake three year Southeast Asia trip
A United States Department of Agriculture explorer will depart Washington soon for a three year journey through lesser explored regions of Southeast Asia seeking useful pine and other tree varieties unknown to Western plantmen.
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United States
Washington
Asia
Farmers to Sell Their Own Grain
Sioux Falls South Dakota W S Hill a leading South Dakota farmer and Farm Bureau president says farmers should market their own grain through the U S Grain Growers Inc without fear of Socialist or Bolshevik labeling He argues grain growers deserve a square deal and questions why Chicago interests fund warnings against independent marketing plans.
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Sioux Falls
South Dakota
W. S. Hill
South Dakota Farm Bureau Federation
Farmers of
U. S. Grain Growers, Inc
Hill
U. S
Mr. Hill
Chicago
Smallest Cotton Crop in 33 Years Forecast
Washington report shows the cotton crop for the year will be the smallest in 38 years with the boll weevil devastation driving losses. The Agriculture Department foresees 7,087,000 bales of 500 pounds each and an average yield of 127 pounds per acre, the lowest in 56 years.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Parasite Kills Grass Hoppers in Eastern Montana
A federal crop estimator notes grasshoppers in Eastern Montana are being killed by a parasite that lays an egg on the hopper near a junction. The egg hatches into a maggot that kills the grasshopper.
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Montana
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Iredell
John F. Speaks
Soldier Son
Rae
Surry Association
Dakota
Plan of Grain Growers Association
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