Durham Leads Counties In Per Capita Wealth In NC Report
State wealth totals are set at about 2.4 billion dollars with Durham recording the highest per capita wealth at 2899.47. Scotland and Dare also rank high and low respectively, while Wake and Mecklenburg sit around mid-range. Interracial relations work, state College campus films, bond selling plans, and public notices fill out a broad bulletin of civic topics.
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Durham
Scotland
Raleigh
North Carolina
A. D. Watts
Dare
Wake
Clay
Mecklenburg
Buncombe
Opposition delays extra session as bonds loom over state
In Raleigh administration circles the governor and council of state plan to delay final action on the proposed extra session until after July 15 when Treasurer Lacy will open bids for 8 372 600 state bonds. Lawmakers oppose a return, while bankers recall a 1910 refunding bond oversubscription as a precedent against a special session. Linney naming and Navy tug Conestoga news included.
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Bellet
Council of State
Lacy
Kitchin
Raleigh
Job for Morrison in a split bonds plan headline
State bonds to be sold July 15 divided into 14 744 separate papers each bearing genuine signatures of the governor and the state treasurer. Five million dollar issue proposed with denominations including 100, 50 and 10 as part of the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison
Lacy
Austria Under Fire From a French Journalist in Vienna
W. John Lenglet reports from Vienna that he found Austrians obsessed with begging and insulting foreigners. He cites shopkeepers, taxi drivers, and waiters overcharging visitors, while Austrians disdain Allied aid and show hostility to neutrals and English speakers.
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New York
Austria
Ne York Herald
W. John Lenglet
Vienna
Schieber
Sehleber
Ilegally
Tie
England
United States
Sealing drive aims for 90000 seals this summer
Uncle Sam mounts a sealing campaign on Pribilof islands in the Bering Sea to supply fur for Sealskin coats. The Navy transport Saturn arrives with eight expert furriers to aid the government effort, following last year’s 28000 seals. Meanwhile a Chicago thief steals a baby’s tub from a rear porch, and Spanish textile plants shut down 25 percent as factories cut shifts to three days weekly.
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Seattle
Wash
Pribitof Islands
Bering Sea
Alnaka
U. S
Saturn
Navy Department
Transport Service
Pribliots
St. Louis
Global Dispatches From The Week’s End
Rumors of postwar deals, strikes, and diplomacy fill the week’s brief from London to Dublin. Britain seeks delay from Japan on alliance renewals, Ireland edges toward settlement talks, and France Britain Italy mediate with Turkish Nationalists as Greece declines. Military raids hit Sinn Fein offices, coal mine talks hinge on subsidies, and leaders like Harding Weeks discuss budget and rail disputes amid postwar strain.
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Red" Lewis
Jack Bloomfield
England
Great Britain
Japan
London
Dublin
Stromboll
Sicily
Quebec
Canada
New Ireland
Arthur Griffith
Sinn Fein
Mount Joy
King George
Buckingham Palace
Virginia
Henry Louis Smith
Washington and le University
Hendon
George Washington
Eamonn de Valera
Lloyd George
Dail Eireann
Board of Trade
Greece
France
Italy
James Craig
Ulster
Ireland
New Orleans to Host Conference on Southern Tax Policy
A July 6 conference in New Orleans by the Southern Tariff Congress will frame a tax plan best for Southern producers. Other items note wage reductions across major railroads, Foch's tribute to American soldiers, and notable appointments at Cornell and in Red Cross work.
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House
Senate
Congress
Carl Vinson
Georgia
Army Air Service
Howard T.douglas
Marl J. Plumb
Chesapeake Bay
Tangiersland
War Department
Langley Field
Virginia
Plumb
Douglas
Charles Dawes
Chicago
Harding
New Orleans
Southern Tariff Congress
United States Railroad Labor Board
Marshal Foch
Executive Committee
Detroit
Livingston Farrand
Red Cross
Cornell University
Jacob Gould Schurman
China
David R. Davis
Eric ‘ Springer
Riverside
Calif
New York
Fort Bliss
Texas
Santa Ana
Cox
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Mayfield
Chattanooga, Tenn
William Freton
The
Southern Railroad
Brotherhood of Railways
W. A. Dillon
Navy
A.J. Miller
Pensacola
Fla
International Kiwanis
Cleveland
Tris ‘Tees
Gulfport
Miss
Pat Han ‘Ra
Admiral Sims
Compromise Knox Porter draft ends war with Germany
Conferees in both chambers have agreed on a compromise draft of the Knox Porter resolution to end the state of war with Germany and Austria. Other items note military and civil administration shifts, budget system plans, and personnel changes across government.
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Harding
Germany
Weeks
War Department
Parker Gilbert, Jr
New Jersey
Trease Jury
Knox Porter
Austria
Senate
House
Army
Navy Air Services
Virginia
Maryland
Myers
Montana
Office of Moving Protate
Department of Commerce
C. E. Sawyer
Lee K. Frankel
New York
Post Office Department
JR McCarl
Nebraska
United States
Charles G. Dawes
Admiral Sims
Denby
Jackass
Marine Corps
Edmund G. Chamberlain
San Antonio
Texas
Senate Naval Committee
Georgia
Middle West
Howard M. Morgan
New York City
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Colonel Watts
Internal Revenue Commissioner
W. L. Poteat
Wake Forest
WN. Everett
Rockingham
J. S. Hunter
Charlotte
State College
Rebecca
Sunny Brook Farm
Mary Pickford
B. R. Lacy
North
de- Carolina
W. HB. Mabee
South
Liverpool
Rufus Person
General Assembly
Representative Person
W. B. Barrow
Bernie Barrow
Fleet” Willams
L. F. Denton
Barrow
Young Williams
Department of Justice
Washington
North Caro
Nina Freder Handy
North “Syoliaa
Catter
Miss Berry
Hattie Berry
North Carolina Good Roads Association
Chapel Hill
Waitesfeild Hospital
North Carolina Society of Washington
Edward E. Britton
Joseph Hyde Pratt
State Board of Geology
Pratt
Lintley
Henry Lincoln Johnson
Linney
Mare Island
Samoa
Pearl Harbor
Joseph Harold Allen
Spartanburg
William Jesse Dill
Gastonia
N. C
James Monroe Wooten
Marmaduke
Claude Kitchin
Scotland Neck
Bulwinkle
Stoner Kluts
Maiden
Weat Point
Leigh Collier
Annapolis
Iowa
Bernard Smilth
Grueslinger
Glen
Des Moines
Gol
Grachtinger
Klondike
Mr. Smith
Enya
Walter
Entente
Eluader
Baden
Wilson
America
Clorno
Sam
Baby
Marquette
Henry Ramph
Muorney Street
Ramph Tny
Florence
Spain
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