Global affairs and evolving postwar tensions in 1921
A wide survey of international news notes turmoil in China and Ireland, Greek advances in Anatolia, and Spanish Morocco quieting. It also covers disarmament talks, Armistice Day plans for a Washington conference, Debs' case, and Hoover on care for three and a half million orphans abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daugherty
Debs
Harding
Birmingham
Ala
New Orleans
Roosevelt
Navy Department
America
Washington
Japan
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Senate backs agricultural credits plan amid war debt talks
Bipartisan Senate support for the administration’s agricultural credits plan as a substitute for the Norris bill is reported. The Senate Finance Committee orders a favorable report on a measure giving the Treasury authority to fund allied debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Guy D. Goff
Justice Department
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
Lord Northcliffe
Shipping Board
W. J. Harris
Georgia
House
Steenerson
House Committee
Internal Revenue
Blair
War Finance Corporation
State Department
Russia
Divorce suit ties in golf as corespondent
Mrs. Rachel B. Hayward of Montclair sues Sterling P. Hayward in New York for divorce citing the ancient and honorable game of golf as co respondent. The case spotlights marital dispute amid other national matters of crime, industry, and real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Rachel B. Hayward
Montclair
Sterling P. Hayward
Colonial Club
San Francisco
Powell Street
D. L. Flynn
Elkhart
Ind
A. J. Johnston
New York Central
New Carlisle
Louisiana
U. S. Mail Steamship Company
Shipping Board
New York State Supreme Court
Burr
Rebecca B. Mayers
Detroit
American Osteopathic Association
Cleveland
Bank of Bauxite
Ark
B. P. Crum
George W. Jones
American Railway Express Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Presbyterian Church
Los Angeles Gas and Electric Company
Aliso Street
Los Angeles River
Endowment Creates Two States Beneficiaries and Local Grants
Laurence S. Holt of Washington endowed more than 1 million dollars for benevolent and religious uses in North Carolina and Virginia. Annual incomes include 2000 for two orphanages in the state, 2000 to Chapel Hill Episcopal church, and about 400 yearly to Burlington churches, with 11000 for North Carolina Episcopal missions and 15000 to Virginia for education of future ministers. Other notices mention music prodigy Miss Helen Pugh, a probate matter in Winston-Salem, and local civic notes.
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Durham
Laurence S. Holt
Washington
North Carolina
Virginia
Episcopal Churches
Church Educational Society of Virginia
Burlington
Episcopal Church
Chapel Hill
Robbers Loot Salisbury Store for 3000 Dollars
W Wallace and Sons suffered a large loss after thieves entered via a second story window and stole silk shirts silk hose caps and neck wear. The cash register was emptied of about 80 dollars and total loot is estimated near 3000 dollars, possibly more.
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Salisbury
War Finance bonds eyed to aid farms and railroads
Washington officials expect a regular issue of War Finance Corporation short term bonds if Congress broadens the agency’s powers for agricultural and railroad relief. They foresee issuing 50 to 100 million dollars initially, with six to twelve month maturities and interest possibly as low as five and a half percent.
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Washington
War Finance Corporation
Congress
Treasury
German Colonists Seek Mississippi Delta Settlement
Memphis reports negotiations with ten German farmers and families who plan to move to the United States this fall to settle on a tract of cut-over timberland in the Mississippi Delta.
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Memphis
United States
Mississippi Delta
Ex Champ Returns with Ten Straight Bullseyes
West Palm Beach Captain W Milton Farrow, 72, famed rifle shot, made ten consecutive bulls eyes for a perfect fifty at 300 yards before the local rifle and revolver club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
Fla
W. Milton Farrow
Decline in Cotton Crop in July Outlook
The Department of Agriculture reduced the July forecast for cotton production by 230000 bales, bringing the total estimate to 8203000 bales due to the decline in the crop.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Retired Ministers Buy Hotel for Clergy Home in Eustis
The Retired Ministers' Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church has completed negotiations to purchase a hotel at Eustis Florida to serve as a home for retired clergymen. The move sets a permanent residence for aging church pastors in the region.
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Jacksonville, Fla
Reds Not Mobilizing Denial From Bolshevik War Minister
Riga Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik war minister, told Rosta in Moscow that there are no mobilization efforts against states bordering Russia. He denied circulating reports and stated no such plans exist.
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Riga
Leon Trotzky
Rosta
Moscow
Russia
Men Harnessed to Plows in Morelos Fields
Travelers report men in the state of Morelos are seen harnessed to plows performing steady cultivation. Beasts of burden are scarce, leaving laborers to till the land with human power.
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Mexico City
Morelos
Lightning Strikes Launch Kills Fisherman Off Gulf Coast
A fishing party off the gulf coast in Perry Florida faced a severe electrical storm when lightning struck their launch. One man was killed two were seriously injured and several others narrowly escaped drowning during the incident.
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Perry
Fla
Gulf Coast
Hungary and Soviet Russia sign repatriation pact at Riga
An agreement for repatriation of Hungarian prisoners in Russia was signed on July 28 at Riga, Hungary and the Soviet Union announced. In other news, Rev. John Goucher of Goucher College Baltimore received the third China Ho decoration by presidential mandate in Peking.
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Budapest
Hungary
Soviet Russia
Russia
Riga
China
Goucher
Peking
John Goucher
Women's College
Baltimore
East Mondo
East Monico
Iredell County
Margaret E. Lippard
Made In The Carolinas Exposition Moves Ahead In Charlotte
In Charlotte 5000 square feet remain for exhibits as 104 Carolina manufacturers prepare to display at the Made In The Carolinas Exposition September 12 to 29. Officials say nearly every product from both Carolinas will be represented in a single building to showcase regional industry and trade impact.
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Charlotte
Carolinas
Joe Patten
South Carolina
Palmetto
Patton
States
Carolina
Growth in National Banks Operating
Washington reports 8 178 national banks in operation on June 30, a net gain of 82 for the fiscal year per the Comptroller of Currency Cressinger. New York chain candy store slashes candy prices about 50 percent after public outcry over high prices.
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Washington
Comeptroller of Currency
Cressinger
New York
Munitions Factory Closed in Danzig by League Order
Paris reports a dispatch from Danzig stating the arms and munitions factory there has been closed by order of the council of the League of Nations. The move is part of international disarmament actions amid ongoing tensions in the region.
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Paris
Havas
Danzig
Council of the League of Nations
Asheville Invites Harding to Naval Disarmament Conference
Asheville extends invitation to President Warren G. Harding to convene the international naval disarmament conference. We note the agreement from England France Italy Japan and China to United States talks on naval and military disarmament and Far East questions. Grove Park Inn offered for the president's use.
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Asheville
Warren G. Harding
England
France
Italy
Japan
China
United States
Far East
Grove Park Inn
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Southland
Athens
Greece
Angora
Turkey
Constantinople
Sivas
Spanish Morocco
Madrid
Spain
University of
Louvain
Belgium
House of Commons
Lords
Lloyd George
House of Lords
Lord Salisbury
Dublin
de Valera
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville
Jefferson M. Levy
HOLT
Winston-Salem
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
John Neal
Nebraska
Methodist Children’s Home
Oxford Orphanage
Lenoir
Babe’ Burnett
Swain County
Hal Rose
Wilmington
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Road
Prohibition
Kohless
Republican
Franklin
H. B. Jones
Norfolk
The
Cumberland Railway & Power Co
S. B. Hutchinson
Raleigh
Bryan Grimes
Lacey
Public Buildings and Grounds Commission
Finance Corporation
Fayetteville
al J. Pate
Cumberland County
Pate
Cumberland
Rocky Mount
Mattie Bloodworth
Ben
Pisgah Forest
Carr Lumber Company
Beaufort
H. J. Rerspress
Gastonia
R. B. Babington
J. O. Walker
East Boulevard
Lumberton
Rexall
C Greene
W. F. Clegg Cigar Company
Creensboro, N. C
Matton
Eastman Kodak
Matton Drug Company
North Main
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