Governor calls special session dates and rail rate issue
Governor Craig issues a proclamation for a September 24 extraordinary session of the General Assembly. The twofold agenda includes setting transportation rates with railroads and receiving a constitutional commission report with proposed amendments for public submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Craig
General Assembly
North Carolina
Constitutional Commission
Railroads and Corporation Commission
State Opticians Adjourns Amid Resolutions and Tours
Durham minutes record resolutions condemning mail order selling of glasses. NC Opticians elect new officers led by C. H. Hanessée and Frank M. Jolley. members tour Liggett & Myers plant in Durham. Next year’s meeting chosen for New Bern with Buncombe delegates named for Good Roads gathering in Morehead City. Two women killed by a train near Asheville. Still raid nets 50 gallon liquor outfit. New North Carolina postmasters listed and Route 1 carrier named. Builders Exchange to hold semi annual session in Charlotte next May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Ashley Horne
Durham
Fayetteville
Soakety
United States Post Office Department
St. Louis
North Carolina Society
C. H. Hanessée
Asherville
Frank M. Jolley
Raleigh
Nathan Rosnstein
R. W. Walker
Winston-Salem
Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company
State Jewelers’ Association
New Bern
Buncombe
E. C. Chambers
Good Roads Association
Asheville
Buncombe County
North Carolina Good Roads Association
Morehead City
Locke Craig
Chas
P. Ambler
J. E. Rankin
Frank R. Hewitt
Fergus Stikeleather
Fred L. Seely
S. Westray Battle
Southern Railway
Morristown
Tenn
Riverside Park
Harden
Justice
Rutherford
Ardent
State Builders’ Exchange
Builders’ Exchange of
Charlotte
C. C. Hook
Greater
Man Given Sixty Years for Double Murder in Asheville
Jack Burton alias Jack Berry, a Black man, pleaded guilty to two counts of second degree murder for killing two women in a South French Broad avenue dance hall in Asheville. Judge Frank Carter sentenced him to two concurrent thirty year terms at the state penitentiary, citing congested superior court dockets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Burton
Jack Berry
South French Broad Avenue
Asheville
Frank Carter
Southern Grocers' Convention Admired in Charlotte
The twenty-second annual convention of the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association concluded in Charlotte with high praise from J. H. McLaurin and J. Koster. The Isle of Palms, Charleston, was chosen for the next meeting, with officers elected including McLaurin as president.
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Charlotte
Southern Wholesale Grocers’ Association
J. H. McLaurin
Jacksonville
Fla
Charleston
J. Koster
Isle of Palms
Morality charges filed against three Greensboro figures
Greensboro and Winston-Salem men, a stenographer and a child, are under $400 bonds to face police court over immorality charges. The story cites the birth of a child with the trio allegedly leaving the infant with a Winston-Salem suburban woman before the baby died. An investigation followed after a burial certificate was sought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
W. C
Tiss
Winstonsalem
Lillie Tess
Winston-Salem
North Carolina Briefs Highlight Tragedy and Local Affairs
Reports from Lumberton Goldsboro Newbern Wilson Greenville Raleigh Washington and other towns recount a mule incident that killed a farmer, a Plymouth arrest, a New Bern fire causing widespread damage, a postponement of a court hearing, road bond debates, rail service additions, school additions, road plans for High Point, a social embezzlement allegation in Wilmington, and a veteran mule’s life ending in Greene County.
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Lumberton
Gotton
Atowne Terfortato
Ae Hope
Dave Lester
Goldsboro
Plymouth
W. H. Gibson
Hooker Grocery Company
Dry Goode
John Rachid
Wilson
George Whitley
Bailey
J. H. Fulghum
J. P
Middlesex
F. H. Brooks
Greenville
Raleigh
Corporation Commission
Southern Railway
Sanford
Mount Airy
Washington
Beaufort County
Wilson Superior Court
Cooke
John Morris
Morris
Emporia
Wilmington
A. J. Maxwell
North Carolina Retail Merchants’ Association
Wrightsville Beach
High Point
Coler Road
Elizbeth van B. Nichols
Allan B. Nichols
New York
L. J. H. Mewborn
Greete
Huerta Regime Seen Growing Shaky and Protests Rise
Washington reports indicate renewed tension in Mexico as Huerta's government nears a possible collapse. President Wilson plans to review first hand reports from Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson while Bryan coordinates conferences. Senate backing grows for a Nicaragua protectorate policy and suffragists mobilize by car to press for universal suffrage, with events set for July 31 in Congress.
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Washington
Huerta
Mexico
United States
Wilson
Havana
Bryan
Blue
The
Public Health Service
Key West
Senate
Nicaragua
Committee On Foreign Relations
Congress
National Woman Suffrage Association
House
Earth Shocks Felt Across Southern Germany and Zurich
Tremors were felt across Württemberg and southern Germany with reports from Strassburg to Munich and extending to Zurich. People were knocked down in streets and many fled their homes in terror as seismic instruments failed in Strassburg due to the intense disturbance.
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Germany
Berlin
Wurtemberg
Strassburg
Frankfort
Munich
Bavaria
Zurich
Switzerland
Calamity Wil Come Says Smoot
Republican Senators deride the Underwood Simmons tariff bill in the Senate. Senator Burton of Ohio asserts it will fail to lower living costs while Senator Smoot of Utah denounces it as the most injurious measure, alleging partisan and sectional motives from secret caucus methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smoot
Washington
Burton
Ohio
Utah
Senate
United States
Peary Pressed to Accept French Legion Title
President Wilson asks Congress to decide if Rear Admiral Robert E Peary may accept the grand officer of the Legion of Honor from France. As a Naval officer he cannot accept a foreign decoration without congressional permission. The decoration was sent to the American Ambassador to France and forwarded to Secretary Bryan.
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Peary
Washington
Congress
Wilson
Robert E. Peary
Poincare
France
Bryan
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MR. Craig
Tion
Sembly
Franklin County
George C. Royall
Capt. N. O’berry
F. K. Borden
John M. Grantham
G. A. Norwood
John Borden
Wayne County
John Whitaker
Wilson County
W. S. O'B. Robinson
Babe” Robinson
New Hanover County
Bud” Davis
Durham County
Mecklenburg
Mount Holly
Rozzells Ferry
Rowan County
Salisbury
Piedmont Toll Bridge
Wil
Joseph H. Lane
Leaksville
Pres J. Caudell
St. Paul
Otho K. Holding
Wake Forest
Jos H Bowen
West Durham
Lizzie Galloway
William C. Tucker
Thomasville
Grogers
Bertie County
Windsor
Bertie
KiHed
National Cotton Mills
Della Blackburn
Seaboard
Birmingham
Atlanta
Wrightsville
Mew Enterprises
Graham Water Company
Capital
L. Henderson
Graham
Park View Hospital, Incorporated
Rocky Mount
R. H. Speight
Matt Slaughter Company
Kinston
Matt Slaughter
Orange County
Quebec
Miami Road
Oxford Road
News OF
TON Daily
Matton's
Matton Drag CO
Independent Telephone Lines
Arek Serica
Concord
Sali Isbury
Spencer
China Grove
Alice Lexington
Kernersville
North State Telephone
F. Hayden
High Point Milling CO
High Point Milling Company
Rexall
Ring Drug Co
British Woolen Mills
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