Richmond tobacco market reorganizes board and closes for holidays
The Rich mond Tobacco Board of Trade reorganized as Monds night with Stone Norman named supervisor of sales. W S Judy presides as president and Wearen Kennedy as secretary treasurer. The Richmond market will close December 19 for holidays and reopen December 29 to give growers time to prepare crops for the new year.
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Richman
Richmond Tobacco Board of Trade
Stone Norman
Norman
Board of Trade
W. S. Judy
R. J. Reynolds
Wearen Kennedy
American Tobacco Company
E. Liston
Warfield Bennett
W. P. Kincaid
W. E. Patton
S. A. D. Jones
Messrs
Richmond
Alr
Berea Boy Sparks Gymnastics Push at Kentucky
Lexington reports Herman Bartlette a Berea freshman in pre medical studies at the University of Kentucky has led a gymnastic dancing class with growing success. He aims to form a higher gymnastics class next semester to engage male students in acrobatic work, a first for the university.
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Lexington
Herman Bartlette
Berea
College of Arts and Science
University of Kentucky
Mrr. Bartlette
Mt. Herman
Massachusetts
Frankfort pardon ends Black term for Curry riot hero
Gov. Black pardoned Eli Curry, a Black inmate who faced a planned August 1918 riot at a Pike County convict camp. Curry, who had served 15 years of a life sentence, confronted arming convicts with only a pick, helping avert violence and earning a prior prisoner status.
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Frankfort
Black
Eli Curry
Pike County
Curry
State Reformatory
Senate backs Edge bill to mobilize credit for exports
The Senate adopted the conference report on the Edge bill authorizing corporations to extend credit in Europe to stimulate export trade. The measure now goes to the President for signature.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Today
Europe
School Warrants Called In in Kentucky
All outstanding school warrants totaling 1,780,145.34 dollars were called in by State Treasurer Sherman Goodpaster for redemption. Interest on the warrants will cease December 26.
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Frankfort
Sherman Goodpaster
Berea Students Vote Again on Peace Treaty
Berea College students and faculty will hold a new referendum on the peace treaty and League of Nations. Telegrams from university editors and college presidents outline four questions and note backing from Yale Harvard Princeton and Butler.
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BEREA
Berea College
United States
Columbia Spectator
Daily
Princetonian
Yale Daily News
Harvard Crimson
Senate
Hadley
Yale
Lowell
Harvard
Hibben
Princeton
Butler
Columbia
Frost
Students of
League of Nations
Contempt Charges Against UMW Officials Held Up
Federal court in Indianapolis continued contempt charges against 84 United Mine Workers officials except Alexander Howard of the Kansas district. Howard faces continued injunction violations and is cited to appear next month.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
Alexander Howard
Kansas District
Howard
House committee backs sugar control extension to 1920
Washington December 16 The House agriculture committee approved an amendment to extend the food control law provisions giving the President power to regulate sugar prices and movement and ordered the Senate bill favorably reported continuing the United States Sugar Equalization Board through 1920.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Senate
United States Sugar Equilization Board
Former Madison Colored Girl Wins Rich Ranch
Joe Mackey of Richmond relays news from California that Ella M. Murphy has had her title to a 1000 acre Las Positas ranch in Alameda county sustained by the California Supreme Court. The ruling denies a rehearing to May E. Bridge and Fred W. Bridge, ending costly litigation. Ella is wife of Herman Murphy, son of Flem Murphy of Danville, and resides in the Golden West.
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Joe Mackey
Richmond
California
Ella M.murphy
California Supreme Court
Herman Murphy
Flem Murphy
Danville
Golden West
San Francisco
Las Positas Ranch
Alameda County
Supreme Court of California
May E. Bridge
Fred W. Bridge
Supreme Court
Pay Day for Teachers Delayed to Saturday Meeting
Fragmentary note reports teachers to be paid and a Saturday meeting titled pay day. The text mentions fake teachers and Habit but lacks clear names or dates.
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Filso
Wells Buys 244 Acre Indiana Tobacco Farm at $50 an Acre
Thomas A. Wells advertises a sale at his rented Taylor's Fork location while announcing he has purchased a 244 acre farm near Bloomington Indiana eight miles from the city. He paid fifty dollars per acre and plans a large tobacco crop to market at Madison loose leaf warehouses. Wells, an expert grower, recently sold 4020 pounds at an average of eighty cents per pound.
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Thomas A. Wells
Taylor’s Fork Pike
Indiana
Bloomington
Mr. Wells
Madison
Ind
Wells
Richmond
Forged Check Ties to Governor's Household
Kentucky case from Finkfort reports Gov James D Black returning from Barbourville to learn a forged check for 436 dollars drawn in Mrs Black's name had been cashed by servant Jeff Harris ex convict cook. The check payable to Walter Johnson, another servant, dated November 2, claimed as expenses for the governor's last reception. Harris to face examining trial before Police Judge Herndon.
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Finkfort
Gover
James D. Black
Barbourville
Harris
Herndon
One-Cent Postage Proposed in House
Washington December 16 A bill to reduce first class local and rural postage from two cents to one cent was introduced in the House by Rep A B Rouse of Kentucky sixth district He had introduced a similar measure three years earlier.
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Washington
A. B. Rouse
Kentucky
Much corn spoiling in shock across county
Reports from all parts of the county indicate much corn is spoiling in the shock as farmers neglect corn to prepare tobacco for market. Heavy rains and a cold wave worsen conditions, with well posted farmers predicting higher corn prices early next year.
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Madison
Final Tax Payment Made To State For Sheriff Whitlock
Deputy Sheriff Ed Warford traveled to Frankfort to make the final settlement for Sheriff Pete Whitlock with the State Auditor. He paid 69 244.73 by check, bringing Madison county’s total to 94 117.59 in taxes paid to the state treasury. The county received the quietus, confirming full settlement for the year. Taxable valuations totaled 24 923 542, with livestock at 1 858 860 and land and other property at 23 064 682. Land taxes at 40 cents amounted to 92 258.73 and livestock taxes at 10 cents totaled 1 858.86.
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Ed Warford
Frankfort
Pete Whitlock
Madison County
Warford
Madison
Prices Stay High at Madison House Tobacco Sale
Madison Warehouse sales Tuesday show strong demand for tobacco with Col Jesse Cobb and Col Jim Pearson touting high prices. Mat Tussey, Spencer Abney, Larkin Abney and many others sold large baskets at 14c to 99c per pound, with numerous lots across buyers and weights reported.
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Madison Warehouse
Jesse Cobb
Jim Pearson
Madison House
Mat Tussey
Spencer Abney
Larkin Abney
Jim Rogers
Hervey and Lawson
J. Rogers
Chas. Gadd
Jas
Foster
Long
Cornelison and Crow
Long and Johnson
Tle
Dunn and
Peel
Ritter and Potts
Markets Report Cattle Hogs Sheep Volume Note
Cincinnati markets show hogs up 25 cents to a top of 14 dollars with steady cattle and slow movement. Louisville on December 16 records cattle unchanged at 250 head hogs 25 cents higher top 14 dollars, sheep 50 cents higher with lambs down 13 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Louisville
Leak Reported On High Court Decision
Washington reports a Supreme Court clerk denied a leak in the Court's prohibition ruling and said he knew nothing of a Justice Department inquiry into leaks used as stock tips. A minor official and a Supreme Court attache are implicated per the stories.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jas. D. Maher
Supreme Court
Department’ of Justice
Department
Bolshevik Victory Report From Novo Nikolaevsk Reach
The Bolsheviks captured Novo Nikolaevsk, 400 miles east of Omsk, taking 5,000 prisoners and numerous guns and generals from the Kolchak army, according to a wireless Soviet communique received today. The report details heavy captures and a broad roundup as part of the red advance.
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Associated Press
London
Novo
Nikolaevsk
Omsk
Kansas wheat sowing down 23 percent in state report
Kansas winter wheat plantings total 8,? million acres, 23 percent below last year’s record 11,610,446 acres. Officials of the state department of agriculture report the new acreage at 15,951,834 with an average condition of 97.1 percent normal, amid lowered totals and weather considerations.
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Associated Press
Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Department of Agriculture
Gossip by telephone banned amid coal strike curtailment
Emporia Kansas on December 16 reports that gossip conducted by telephone was banned as part of general consolation measures during the coal strike. Manager W. W. Fin Bey announced actions as the Boel exchange cut off communications.
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Associated Press
Emporia, Kas
W. W. Fin Bey
Boel Exchange
Liquor dealers seek Supreme Court challenge to Prohibition
New Jersey retail liquor dealers say they have asked the Supreme Court to hear original proceedings to declare the national prohibition amendment unconstitutional. They seek to enjoin enforcement of the 18th and Volstead acts, arguing the amendment infringes state police powers and violates the fifth amendment on private property without just compensation.
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Associated Press
Washington
New Jersey
Supreme Court
Liquor Dealers Association
Congress
Liquor Groups Plan Civil Case Over Prohibition Losses
In New York on December 16 lawyers for liquor interests signaled a civil action against the U.S. government seeking about three hundred million dollars in compensation. They argued the Supreme Court ruling on wartime prohibition effectively confiscated liquor holdings, a setback that stirred immediate dismay in the trade.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Supreme Court
House Agriculture Committee votes against repeal of wartime prohibition
Washington December 16 The House agriculture committee by a 16 to 3 vote ordered an unfavorable report on the bill to repeal war time prohibition law Representative Rainey a Democratic congressman from Illinois urged for a wet period He claimed wealthy men stored liquor for medical use and said poorer individuals deserve the same chance
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Associated Press
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Rainey
Illinois
First Lexington arrest under war time prohibition act
Lexington Kentucky December 16 The first arrest for alleged war time prohibition act violations is Robert Dearing a gro cer who procured a quart of whisky and sold it to a revenue agent for 15 dollars He was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal David Reagan and held over to the federal grand jury under 500 dollar bond Government agents have been active in Lexington recently with about fifteen more warrants ready to be served.
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Lexington
Robert Dearing
Dearing
United States
David Reagan
S. S. Yantis
Grand Jury
Great Magician Here Wednesday Herrmann the Great
Prominent illusionist Herrmann the Great, heir to the title from his uncle, headlines an engagement at the new opera house opening last night. The show features a dazzling array of magic and a snappy musical organization enhancing the performance.
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Herrmann the Great
Solill
Herrmann
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