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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1921
Page
3
Ambassadors and crises mark royal audience and world events
Col George Harvey, new US ambassador to Great Britain, presented credentials to the British foreign minister and will be received by King George at Buckingham Palace. Britain faces an industrial crisis risking revolution. wartime diplomacy and international alliances are debated as authorities announce various political and economic measures across Europe and the US.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Harvey
England
King George
Buckingham Palace
Harvey
Great Britain
United States
Great Dulain
Earl Cur Son
Foreign Office
Stall
Copenhagen
Eneland
Albert
Vislt Eneland
Alfredo Zayan
Eleet
Ciba
Aoon
Cuba
Camaguey
Transport Workers of London
Political and economic updates from a fragmented late era report
Senate confirms E Mont Reilly as Porto Rico governor. Harding era relief efforts in the South progress noted. Financing figures show $268 311 gold receipts and $4 804 40 disbursements. J B Dye to head Atlanta federal penitentiary. Policy shifts include budgets and fly swatter plan. Shipping wage talks stall. Virginia Tennessee North Carolina Georgia Alabama Arkansas forest sanctuary proposal. Muncy named U S district attorney for Western Virginia. King plans anti pernicious dying probe. Naval and tariff debates continue. Trade and industry items include Memphis stock info and coal price outlooks. Steady rail rate requests, a Chattanooga gathering, and a Broad range of local cases and incidents described.
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Senate
E. Mont Reilly
Missouri
Porto Rico
South
Harding
United States
J.B. Dyee
Jake Manion
Federal
Atlanta
Fred G. Zerbat
Department of Justice
Grover Leveland Bergdo
France
C & Corpse
Davis
Oile
United States Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
G. P. Holmes
University of Virginia
Virginia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Arkansas
National Forest Reservation
Shields of Tenase
Thomas J. Muncy
King
Utah
Rotary Hughes
Neral
Sumatra
Memphis, Tenn., Min and Lumber Company
Chicago
Commercial and Savings Bank
National
Richmond
Chester
D. C
JF. Hawk
Chattanooga
Greenville
Andy J. Wells
Traveler's Rest
New Haven
Conn
Alabama, Tennessee and Northern Railroad
Alabama Railroad Commission
Walter Troy
Dyersburg
Tenn
Southern Baptist Convention
Edward N. Mittle
J. H. Patterson
Bowesville
General Seasions
Orangeburg
S.C
John J. McNamara
Los Angeles
San Quentin
Cal
MoNamara
Llenellyp Iron Workers
National Advertisers
Atlantic City
N. J
Southern Railway Company
New York
Germany
Cincinnati
Ohio
Samuel Gompers
Morgan
West Virginia
Mingo County
War Department
Govern
France retakes stance as Upper Silesia crisis widens
In a World War era dispatch, France remains skeptical of Germany's pledge while Berlin signals compliance with reparations and disarmament terms. The Reichstag’s narrow approval of surrender prompts cautious French reinforcement on the Rhine as Polish and German forces clash in Upper Silesia. The Allied council, Britain and Italy watch closely with the United States facing domestic political hurdles over European commitments.
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Edward W. Pickard
Formany
Sie
Free Council
Odin
Ateed
Wail
Alles
Releastag
Sid
Thor
Berlin
Rhine
Ruhr
Germany
Dr. Wirth
Reparations Commission
Bavaria
France
Germain Grad Supreme Council
Belgiuim
Harding
Senate
Hody
la Pollitte
Wisconsin
United States
Ambusantor Wallace
Whiel Ix
Upper Silesia
Tehitil Boyd
Washingt
Cyr
Korfunty
Rome
Cosel Distriet
Ratibor
Rownberg
Gertois
Supreme Council
League of Nazi Poles
Wlles
Teschen
Ukraine
Dangiy
Poland
Asia Minor
Constantinople
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Greece
Brusn
Rodosto
Ansgari
Tolsheviki
China seeks US and Empire support to block Anglo Japanese treaty
Bertram Lenox Simpson, adviser to China's president, says Beijing aims to sway public opinion in the United States and British and dominion realms to oppose renewal of the Anglo Japanese treaty. He claims the clause regional understandings in the League covenant was crafted to shield Japan and China protests were filed in Paris and Geneva over that inclusion.
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New York
China
United States
Erith Dominions
Bertram — Lenox Simpson
Stylistician
Simpson
Canada
Meighen
Japan
League of Nations
Inter
Paris
Geneva
Much Leaf Tobacco Fire Losses in April in North Carolina
North Carolina suffered over 1.25 million dollars in fire losses in April, nearly doubling March and tripling April a year ago. Leaf tobacco fires accounted for about half the insured losses, with warehouses and a Henderson blaze driving totals. Insurance officials offered no explanation for the month’s wide fire prevalence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Insurance Department
Lucy Wade Wilken
Rocky Mount
To Haven
Henderson
Watts signs letters amid rush of North Carolina job applicants
Col Alston D Watts the state revenue commissioner, in Raleigh, fields a flood of requests from job seekers for administration posts. He has received about 400 applications since taking office and is personally replying to each, averaging ten endorsement letters daily. Many applicants are current revenue department workers seeking to return or keep their posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Germany
Tim
General March
House
Bergdoll
Clarenes Gibboney
Hergdoll
Thas
Tar Heels
Alfred W. Brown
North Carolina
Ineheritance Tax Department
A.D. Watts
Brown
State Tax Service
Colonel Wane
Hostile
World War Memorial Day Plans and Local Developments
World War memorial day plans center on crimson silk poppies produced by French widows and orphans to be distributed nationwide. Local news notes new incorporations in Mebane and Raleigh, a revenue case involving Cannon and Cabarrus mills, a resignation in the inheritance tax office, and expected remarks by John Skelton Williams at Raleigh.
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Flanders Field
Flanders Pield
American Legion
United States
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