Rushed World News From The South Headlines
Alabama legislature notes Chicago rioting and promotes peace South. Yorks plan aims to fund a rural university. Congress weighs war tax tweaks and 5 cent soft drinks. Alabama bonds for roads and a large prison sentence for Hunter Raine. Mexican bandits ransom case and open treaty moves dominate pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Chicago
Washington
South
Bureau of Engraving
Alvin York
York University
Congress
Nebraska
Hunter Raine
State Department
Mexico
Atlanta
James L. Key
Wilson
Oscar Hammerstein
New York
Middle West
Landing
N. J
Atlas Powder Company
Massachusetts
Athens County
Toney Stravisar
Kimberly
Nelsonville
Ohio
Solomon
National House
Foreign General Denekine captures Kamishin on the Volga
Reported victory for the Russian commander Denekine over the Bolsheviks includes the capture of Kamishin on the Volga with about five thousand Bolshevists nine guns and large material spoils. Turks and Tartars are advancing on Armenians cutting relief supplies and threatening extermination without protection. Police strike in London and provinces mobilizes sixty five thousand officers. Polish parliament ratifies German treaty and minority protections by 245 to 41. Carranza opens doors to immigrants with wholesome citizenship. Shantung riots under martial law and French labor troubles grow. Internacional Trades Union Congress meets Amsterdam with American Tobin denouncing capitalistic wars. Bulgarian transport strike declared. Austrian minister Bauer warns of thirty years under allied bondage and 70 percent debt share. German premier cautions against revolution while acknowledging discontent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denekine
Kamishin
Volga
London
Carranza
Mexico
Shantung
Paris
Internationale Trades Union Congress
Amsterdam
Holland
Tobin
Otto Bauer
Austria
New Mexico Battleships Trembled in Off Coast Quake
Six dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet, including the U S S New Mexico, were shaken by a double earthquake 20 miles off Colima Mexico. No hull damage was reported though the New Mexico shuddered as if striking a reef. Navigation officers sounded collision quarters and crew rushed to posts as watertight compartments were secured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. S. New Mexico
Colima
Mexico
New Mexico
Cruelty to Americans in Mexico Reported
Washington received news through unofficial channels of cruelty to Americans in Mexico. The account cites starvation deaths of an elderly Washington woman, Mrs. W. H. Keenright, amid bandit attacks possibly linked to Carranzistas, with Dr. and Mrs. Charles T. Sturgis and Mrs. Keenright subjected to abuse and property confiscation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mexico
Charles T. Sturgis
W. H. Keenright
Keenright
Henry appeals for Kaiser in letter to cousin
Copenhagen report that former Prince Henry of Prussia writes to King George urging allied statesmen to reveal war truths. He proposes trying the former German emperor, while asking George to desist from extradition and trial demands. The letter, signed Your Humble Cousin Henry, accuses England of plotting Germany’s commercial downfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Prince Henry
Prussia
George
Henry
England
Germany
Supreme Council Orders Romanian Army Stop Near Budapest
Paris reports the supreme inter allied council cautioned the Romanian army along the Theiss to halt its advance on Budapest at once. The note, conveyed through the Italian mission in Budapest to the new Hungarian government, remained temperate as the peace conference aims to aid Hungary in forming a stable government under Premier Jules Peidell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Supreme Inter-Allied Council
Theiss
Budapest
Supreme Council
Jules Peidell
Bicketts Reply to Chicago Wire Over Negro Return Policy
Raleigh Governor T W Bickett answers a Chicago newspaper query. He says North Carolina can absorb 25000 Negroes returning from Illinois provided they avoid taint from dreams of social equality or political dominion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
T. W. Bickett
Chicago
North Carolina
Illinois
South
Complete tie up of all railroads feared
Chicago. A complete tie up of the railroads of the country is very probable in the opinion of M. L. Harver president of the Chicago district council of the Federated Railway Shopmen's Union. He declared the strike is spreading rapidly and that unrest among railway workers is so general that the movement has overwhelmed the international officers of the various unions involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
M. L. Harver
Chicago District Council
Federate Railway Shopmen’s Union
Five Die in Italy Explosion Tares Rail Lines Safe
In Taranto Italy a high power explosion near Chiatona killed five people during a general strike. Police say radicals planted the device to terrorize. Parts of bodies were scattered, yet railway lines remained undamaged as investigators probe the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taranto
Italy
Chiatona
Sunday blue law sparks constitutional debate in Wilson county
In Wilson County opponents claim the Sunday Blue Law violates constitutional rights by denying voters a voice in law?making. The piece notes guilt admissions by May or Hill, and argues the statute targets private rights and constitutes class legislation under the U S Constitution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Wilson County
Hill
Taylor’s
United States
North State Telephone adopts new monthly billing plan
The North State Telephone Co introduces a uniform collection system starting June 1. Subscribers will receive a monthly bill on the first, with tolls itemized, and may pay at the office or by mail. A collector’s office opens at 112 College St with specified hours, and accounts unpaid by the 10th will face service suspension. The plan, approved by regulators, aims to simplify payments and is widely used nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colleetor
North State Telephone Co
College St
Central
North Carolina Corporation Commission
Interstate Corporation Commission
Also Mentioned on This Page
the News OF the South
Southland
Foreign Relations Committee
Colombia
Senate
France
Erwin W. Thompson
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Porfirio Diaz
Burleson
Railroad Administration
The
Grain Corporation
League of Nations
White House
Congress of
Sonora
Calles
General Pershing
Panama
House of Representatives
Baker
War Department
America
John West Thompson
Mexico City
Kaiser
Bickett
WIRE
Rairoads
Petitiu
Goldsboro
119Th Infantry
Old Hickory
Asheville
Vernon W. Patterson
Louisville
Lake Juanita
W. S. Henderson
Chimney Rock
Fayetteville
Marquis de LaFayette
Troy
Montgomery County
J. H. Johnson
Washington, D. C
Brinson
Kenansville
Duplin County
Simmons
War Baker
Greensboro
W. D. Taylor
Wilmington
J. R. D. Matheson
Beaufort
Cape Fear
Chamber of Commerce
Whisky Creek
Edgar Williams
New Bern
Trent
Gastonia
Junior Order of United American Mechanics
Charlotte
F. R. McNinch
Mangannie
Hendersonville
Highland Lake
Brevard
Black Mountain
Waynesville Lake
Junaluska
Tryon -Saluda-Flat Rock
Kanuga Lake
Blowing Rock
Liaville
Tate Spring
Tenn
Signal Mountain
United States Railroad Administration
Southern Railroad Lines
5ING Drug Company
Rexel
Stamey
Everythi
Eleventh Street
Washington, D.C
Matton Drug Co
Eastman
Matton Drug Company
North Main Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!