Federal probes to investigate Ku Klux Klan activities
Washington reports two federal probes into the Ku Klux Klan. The Department of Justice will review the order led by William J. Simmons while the Post Office seeks to check for violations of postal rules. Congress may authorize hearings to compel Klan officers to testify.
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Department of Justice
Congress
Washington
Ku Klux Klan
William Joseph Simmons
Atlanta
Post Office Department
American Federation of Labor
Klan
South
Burns
Wiliam J. Burns
Bureau of Investigation
Daugherty
Peter F. Tague
Massachusetts
Leonidas M. Dyer
Missouri
House
Judiciary Committee
Dyer
Benjamin J. Fairchild
New York
Caught Carp With Corn by Midway Fishermen on Pee Dee
Alec Smith and John Shepard of Midway report catching 42 carp over five days in the Pee Dee using trout lines with about 100 hooks each and five boiled corn kernels as bait. Carp average nine pounds, one 14-pounder, sold for 1 to 1.50 dollars. fishermen plan a corn meal baked bait trial to deter dissolving.
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Rockingham
Rockingham Dispatch
Alec Smith
John Shepard
Midway
Pee Dee River
Blewetterry
Asia
Smith
Shepard
Oppau Explosion Kills 800 in German Industrial Plant
Mayence Germany Sept 21 eight hundred people were reported killed and many injured at the Badoache Anilinfabrik works Oppau near Frackenphal in Rhine Palatinate. The blast occurred at 746 am during shift changes and was followed by further explosions as rescuers struggled to reach victims. The blast shattered windows across Mannheim Ludwigshafen and Frankfurt and created a thick smoke that hampered relief efforts.
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Mayence
Germany
Badoache Anilinfabrik
Oppau
Frarkenphal
Phine Palatinate
Manheim
Ludwigshafen
Monheim
Worms
Frankfort
Partic
Maine Hikers on Way to San Francisco
Two Portland men Jack Mc Closky and Harry C Bushman hike from Portland to San Francisco with no money for food or shelter. They have reached Winston-Salem after twelve weeks on a roughly 5000 mile route, plan to pass Atlanta New Orleans and El Paso and reach San Francisco by Christmas. They avoid begging or stealing and rely on strangers for aid. Both served in wars with Mc Closky formerly an officer in the British army.
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Winston Sentinel
Portland
San Francisco
Jack McClosky
Harry C. Bushman
Pacific Coast
Winston-Salem
McClosky
Maine
United States
Atlanta
New Orleans
Fl Paso
Fear of German immigration flood after consular offices
Washington reports fear of a large influx of Germans once American consular offices reopen in Germany. The labor department warns that visas could ease entry for more than 13 000 Germans, though few have arrived recently. Italy slashes immigration as passport restrictions curb travel.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Berlin
Italy
Engineer Saves Child From Freight Train On Cumberland Line
Engineer J H W Farmar of Norfolk Southern spotted a toddling girl, Gertrude Collins, on the tracks near Kipling two miles from Raleigh. He braked hard then crawled onto the cowcatcher to grab the child as the freight train slowed to ten miles an hour. The girl suffered only a bruise and scratched foot, and the rescuer returned to his duties, hailed as the coolest engineer on the line.
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Raleigh
J. H W. Farmar
Gertrude Collins
Norfolk Southern
Smith
Kipling
Fayetteville
Furman
Cape Fear River
Lillington
Boylan Heights
Navy
Unemployed in England given half a billion
London reports that more than half a billion dollars has been spent by the British government to relieve the unemployed since November 11, 1918. Churchill says expenditure is unparalleled and cabinet planned to decide next week on further measures with possible special help for acute areas.
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London
Winston Spencer Churchill
Churchill
Minnesota farmers plan corn-fueled winter to save costs
Minnesota farmers aim to burn corn instead of coal this winter as they push for the state's largest corn crop yet. With no ready market and rail freight rates high on coal and corn, producers see corn as the cheaper option to weather the crisis.
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Minnesota
French Welcome Pershing With Huge Havre Parade
General John J. Pershing arrived in France aboard the Paris and received a roaring welcome as French ships and town bells saluted. A crowd cheered him ashore while schoolchildren presented American Beauties and Mayor Meer welcomed him in Havre. He planned to meet M. Barthou and then travel to Coblenz after a Thursday honor reception.
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Havre
John J. Pershing
France
Paris
General Pershing
Atlantic
Strassburg
Metz
Paria
Maurer
Cape de la Hey
Franchette D’esprey
Col
H. Bentley Mott
Pershing
Meer
Coblenz
M. Barthou
Shy Suitor Gets March On With Carnation Kiss
From the Los Angeles Times a shy young man, long silent about his feelings for Mabel, accepts a bold dare. She offers a kiss for his carnation, he blushes deeply then dashes to the florist for more blossoms, sealing the moment with a cheerful exit.
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Mabel
Isabel
Los Angeles Times
German Military Spirit and Tax Break for Wilhelm II Property
The piece discusses Germany's military faction seeking power and a republican government in power opposing military spirit. It notes a bill exempting the former emperor William's private estate from taxes, covering vast lands and assets. The author argues the military party remains influential enough to pass such legislation despite republican governance.
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Germany
William
Women’s Club Urges Free City Tree Planting Plan
An appeal urges citizens to beautify the town with shade trees and well kept lawns. It suggests establishing a municipal tree nursery like Providence and offering free trees for residents to plant, funded by a half acre of maple plantings for public beautification.
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Woman's Club
Providence
Rhode Island
Made in Carolinas Exposition Opens in Charlotte
The Made in Carolinas exposition runs September 12 to 29 in Charlotte with over three thousand articles on display. Governor Morrison and Col. Hyde Pratt spoke on opening day along with a New York city concert band and other artists, highlighting sixty years of industrial growth across North and South Carolina. Morrison urged mutual trade benefits and urged all Carolinians to attend.
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Carolinas
Charlotte
Governor Morrison
Col. Hyde Pratt
New York
North
South Carolina
Tates
Morrison
The
Parent Prosecuted for Neglect of Sons
Twin-City Sentinel reports a Winston-Salem father charged with contributing to delinquency of a son. The son, already delinquent and sent to the reform school, had another son in reform school. Probation Officer Watts described neglectful conditions including street roaming and sleeping in alleys. The father, owning eight boys, received a court lecture and a costs payment, with a warning of a harsher road sentence on recurrence.
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Twin-City
Watts
Reformatory
Double execution draws 10000 to Crestview hanging
In Crestview Florida on September 24 Putnam Ponsell and Jake Martin were executed for the July 4 murder of John Tuggle. The public hanging began at 12:10 PM and lasted 18 minutes as 10000 spectators watched. A letter from Tuggle’s mother read aloud and funds were raised for the widows and children of both condemned men.
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Crestview
Fla
Putnam Ponsell
Jake Martin
John Tuggle
Ponsell
Martin
Wealthy Man Buried in Plain Pine Coffin
Dr. D. W. Alderman of Alcola D C died last Friday and was buried at Wells Chapel Dublin county on Sunday in a plain unornamented pine coffin. The box was built from lumber sawed at his mill and by a carpenter long employed by the deceased.
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Wilmington
D. W. Alderman
Alcola
D. C
Wells Chapel
Dublin County
S. F. Highsmith
Alderman
Dense white smoke screens up at Camp Meade
A new dense white smoke screen has been invented and tested at Camp Meade. Chemists and army officials closely guard the secret and control its use amid strict secrecy surrounding the project.
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Camp Meade
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