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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1921
Page
4
London conference invited as Dublin talks ease Irish tensions
Lloyd George signals conciliatory tone toward Eamon de Valera, likely to accept October 11 London conference invite. Geneva committee reaffirms rejection of Argentine covenant amendments. Britain plans poison labeling to curb accidental deaths. France and Germany eyed to ratify reparations accord, signaling European boom. Soviet Moscow life described as calm, contrary to sensational Berlin reports. German Reichstag mulls confiscating ex‑emperor’s property. Spanish forces press into Melilla border area. Seluan rumor addressed. Japan to seek equal treatment on Pacific mandates. US Yap settlement discussed. Prohibition critique cites failings in Lausanne. Tokyo protests Shanghai radio contract with US firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd-George
Eamonn de Valera
Sinn Fein
London
League of Nations
Committee On Amendments
Geneva
Switzerland
House of Commons
France
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
Berlin
Smok
Independent Socialist Party
Melilla
Zoco el Arban
Nador
Seluan
Japan
United States
Pacific
Lauzanne
Toklo
China
Federal Radio Company of America
Shanghai
Plan for Organized Reserve Aims to Mobilize 4 Million
Washington reports General Staff outlines a national mobilization plan to form an organized reserve for rapid deployment of over four million fighting men. Acting Secretary Wainwright says the initial step assigns officers from the reserve corps to 27 divisions, targeting full war strength by July next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Staff
Wainwright
United States of America
Borah
Idaho
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate
Harding
Shipping Board
Germany
Department of Labor
Charles S. Stoler
Alexandria
W. D. Coolidge
American Roentgen Society
Wisconsin Girl Defies Handicap At 16 Through Vocal Cord Sensing
Wiletta Huggins of Janesville Wisconsin, blind and deaf, reads conversations by placing a finger on the vocal cords of speakers to sense what is being said before words arise. She talks with two people simultaneously and has attracted national attention and medical interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonesville
Wis
Mise Wiletin Hugging
Whyconsin School For the
Janesville
Helen Keller
Wisetta
Wiletta
Mal
J. T. Hooper
Scool
Wiletta Rus Ging
Lnte
Wiletta Huggins
Refugees From Wrangel Armies Flood Constantinople
Milton Bronner reports in the Chicago Post on Russian refugees in Constantinople after Wrangel’s defeat. Thousands arrive from the Crimea seeking ships out, while many wives and daughters take menial work. Police keep crime in check as refugees largely avoid work, prompting France to withdraw aid and push self-support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Russia
France
Europe
Wrangel
Crimea
Poland
Erse
Milton Bronner
Chicago Post
Heel Tangled In Plane Crash Kills Three At Fort Melbourne
A Melbourne dispatch reports Miss Jessie Dorman and two others died when Miss Dorman's heel jammed between the rudder bar and a wooden bar, preventing the pilot from turning the aircraft. Aviator EH. G. Ross and a young man also perished in the crash near Fort Melbourne Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Fort Melbourne
Australia
Central News Dispatch
Melbourne
London Daily News
EH. G. Ross
Jessie Dorman
Wife's bobbed hair sparks New York divorce suit
Harry Novick sues for divorce saying his wife’s bobbed hair displeases him and that she leaves the baby with a neighbor while she goes out in the evenings, prompting the action in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry Novick
YANK GOES APPLAUD BULLFIGHT IN PORTUGAL
Sailors from an American battleship witnessed a Portuguese bullfight in Lisbon described as a display of horsemanship and feints rather than cruelty. The bulls received padded darts and leather covered horns, with Americans cheering as riders teased and clung to the animals amid lively peals of laughter and shouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Lisbon
Portugal
Boston Naval Cadets Pay Visit to Washington
A fragmented report notes Boston naval cadets’ visit to Washington with stray phrases about charity and government officials. The text is garbled but hints at expenses, public interest, and a dismissive tone toward certain figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Naval Cadets
Washington
Tax Must Be Collected on Unlicensed Ginners
Notices warn cotton ginners in North Carolina to apply for licenses or face a five dollar per day penalty. The legislature also imposes a twenty five cent per bale tax on ginned cotton remitted to the Department of Revenue. Other items include railroad tax disputes, postmaster appointments, and state fiscal actions affecting Cannon Mills reductions and highway contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
W. A. Graham
Major Graham
Commissioner of Agriculture
Department of Revenue
Cabarrus County
State Board of Equalization
Better Business Conditions In North Carolina
North Carolina shows a quicker return to business normalcy with rising new enterprise charters filed at the secretary of state. A surge in corporation activity follows months of low mood after Christmas 1919 as financing eases and the state moves toward pre war conditions. Governor Morrison sent his signing pen to Judge William J. Adams Jr the son of a renowned jurist with the appointment to the Supreme Court bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Secretary of State
Dreneas
Cameron Morrison
William J. Adams
Carthage
Supreme Court
William J. Adams, Jr
Adams
McLean Gets Appointment to Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt announced Angus Wilton McClean of Lumberton North Carolina as chair man in the state for the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. Roosevelt chairs the fund raising committee for an annual Wilson name award. Overman introduces cotton production and consumption semi annual report bill to aid farmers. Normalcy in industries notes unemployment improving per National Industrial Council. Postmasters appointed in North Carolina including Flossie M. Jordan and Beattie Logan. vacancies in Mount Holly noted. Communation refused for T J Harris death sentence. Tom Warren denied Supreme Court bid rumors. Tuberculosis workers to convene in Greensboro October 4-5 to map program. Drainage expert Sherwin to advise Beaufort County farmers on swamplands. Additional postmasters named. examinations scheduled October 22. Textile labor organizers to spread through cotton mill towns in four Southern states.
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John Green
Quitman County
Ala
Frank Graff
Harry Lewis
Terre Haute
Ind
W. B. Wyley
West Virginia Coal Company
Seabree
Brotherhood of
Pal
Carl Wanderer
Chicago
Norfolk
Boston
Driftway
Dodson
Royal Arch Masons
Asheville
N C
Portland
Maine
Elizabeth Oty
Lynchburg
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Eugene V. Deba
Walter R. Lambuth
Yokohama
Southern Methodist
Madeline Taylor
Ark
Ben Austin
Dovmorteo Maleneri
Ravenscroft
Tenn
Eireutt
Cookeville
Independent Medical Association
St. Louis
William M. Strother
Boonsboro
Jesse R. Ford, Jr
Ford
Joseph Moore
Owen
Tom
Matt ‘Moore
Los Angeles
McLean
New York
Angus Wilton McClean
Lumberton
North Carolina
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Wilson
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