Recruitment orders push second division to full strength
Washington Nov 9 telegraphic orders direct the recruiting service to fill the second division to full strength immediately. Stationed at Camp Travis Texas the division remains 6000 short. The War Department notes this is the first peace time order of its kind and recruits may come from any part of the country rather than Texas and Oklahoma.
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Washington, D. C
Camp Travis
Texas
War Department
Oklahoma
Mills Directors Boost Spartanburg Capital Stock in 3 Million
Spartanburg S C Nov 11 The Sparten Mills directors voted to raise capital stock from one to three million dollars and declared a regular semi annual dividend of four per cent. Whitney Mills followed with a four per cent regular and six per cent extra dividend and a capital stock increase from 350000 to 1500000. Pacolet Mills declared a four per cent regular dividend and a six per cent special dividend on one million capital stock.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Sparten Mills
Whitney Mills
Pacolet Mills
Bride Weighing 725 Pounds Brought Home in California
Santa Anna California November 11 A bride weighing 725 pounds was brought home today by John H Hamilton who weighs 155 pounds. She was formerly Miss Alma Selm of Venice California. Her sister Mrs Kring, who attended the wedding weighs 420 pounds.
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Santa Anna
Cal
John H. Hamilton
Alma Selm
Venice
California
L.C. Kring
Supreme Court Rejects Georgia Tax Appeal in Morton Case
Washington D C November 9 The Supreme Court held the estate of J O Morton of Brooks County Georgia denied due process as tax assessment was fixed by the court overturning Georgia Supreme Court decrees The court upheld state representatives right to be heard before finalizing the assessment The assessment was raised to 80650 with arbitration sought but three arbitrators failed to agree and state law left the board final figure without estate representatives hearing
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Washington, D. C
J. O. Morton
Brooks County
Georgia
Supreme Court
Georgia ‘Supreme Court
Worker's Dreadnaught Office In London Raided
Girl workers in the Com munistic paper Worker's Dreadnaught were thrashed as an angry crowd opened the office. Party leaders claim the employees sang and danced and banged tin cans during two minutes of silence for the dead.
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London
Sylvia Pankhurst
Worker
Turks and Armenians sign an armistice
An Armenian communique dated November 7 reports an armistice between Armenians and the Turkish Nationalists. Turks gain control of Alexandropol fortress and railway station and surrounding districts while guaranteeing safety and order during peace talks.
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London
Alexandropol
Jacksonville Terminal seeks renewal of notes for two years
The Jacksonville Terminal Company of Jacksonville Florida asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to renew its outstanding notes totaling 735,925 dollars for two more years.
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Washington, D. C
Jacksonville Terminal Company
Jacksonville
Fla
Interstate Commerce Commission
Armistice Day Observed Worldwide With War Heroes Honored
Imperial ceremonies marked Armistice Day in London and Paris as Britain buried an unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey and unveiled a cenotaph in Whitehall while France laid a French soldier to rest at Verdun under the Arc de Triomphe. In the United States, states proclaimed holidays and the navy awarded divers medals for wartime service.
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England
Westminster Abbey
United States
Arlington
Paris
Verdun
Arc de Triomphe
Millerand
Marshalls
Joffre
Och
Petain
United States Naval Department
London
Great Britain
Westminster ‘Abbey
Whitehall
Medals Distributed to World War Heroes
Washington scene marks armistice anniversary with nearly two thousand medals and letters of commendation issued by Secretary Daniels office. Orders sent by radio and telegraph honor valorous and distinguished service by commanding officers worldwide. Rear Admiral Sims listed for the DSM though no medal was forwarded.
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Washington, D. C
Navy
Marine Corps
Daniel
Officers and enlisted men buried in Arlington National Cemetery
Armistice Day observance in Washington marked by the burial of 12 officers and enlisted men at Arlington Cemetery. A detachment of blue jackets formed a guard of honor.
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Arlington
Washington, D. C
Washington
Arlington Cemetery
Veterans protest as Pittsburgh mayor attends event
Scores of overseas veterans refuse to march past the reviewing stand in Pittsburgh on November 11 in protest of Mayor Babcock and a city permit for what was called Program Tag Day. The action prompted veterans to demand the mayor leave the stand.
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Pittsburgh
Babcock
Ottawa Bank Vault Breached. Teller Not Inside
National City Bank of Ottawa officials and local authorities worked overnight to open a six inch steel vault door in a bank robbery search for Francis J. Carey the teller. No one was found inside and sixty thousand dollars taken from the safe was recovered after a man dropped a package in the bank rear sighting.
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Ottawa
Canada
National City Bank of
Francis J. Carey
Berlin Unemployed Storm City and 15 Industries
London reports 3000 unemployed men in Berlin stormed Lion Metal Works driving out owners and engineers and putting out furnaces. Workers on the north side also drove out the industrial council and formed a political soviet. Carey has not returned home since supper per his mother.
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London
Berlin
Lion Metal Works
Industrial Council
Carey
Twenty Professors to Play Chess With Youthful Pole
West Point scene as twenty professors and army officers from the military academy challenge 11 year old chess prodigy Samuel Rexchewski from Poland in twenty simultaneous games. The boy has impressed Europe with his skill after arriving in the country recently.
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West Point
Military ‘Academy
Samuel Rexechewski
Poland
Europe
Tennessee Congressman Garrett Faces Liquor Charge
Washington report says Representative Garrett of Tennessee spent the night in a precinct police station and appeared in police court to answer driving while intoxicated. His car struck Miss Olive Schofield, causing a compound fracture of the hip. Garrett deferred bond last night. bond set at 500 dollars today as the case continued to November.
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Washington
Cell
Washington, D. C
Representative Garrett
Tennessee
Olive Schofield
Wey
Garrett
Harding to speak on Armistice Day in Texas port town
President-elect Harding will interrupt his vacation at Point Isabel to deliver an Armistice Day address in Barwnsville Texas. He plans an informal message of goodwill to Mexicans and Americans from the lower Rio Grande valley audience.
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Barwnsville
Tex
Harding
Point Isabel
Rio Grande Valley
Republic
South
Radical threats at Columbus probe note to veterans parade
DoJ operatives search for the authors of a note left at American Legion headquarters in Columbus warning ex soldiers away from the Armistice Day parade. The note threatens war-lovers with hell and asserts they spoiled one parade. Veterans of three wars prepared to march.
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Columbus
Department of Justice
American Legion
Three Bodies Found on El Mundo After Ship Explosion
New York reports three bodies found in the hold of the Morgan liner El Mundo after a fuel tank explosion tied the ship to the Hudson waterfront. The Evening World investigates a link to labor graft, alleging a plot against Robert Brindell and blaming frenzied workers for the blast.
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el Mundo
New York
Hudson River
Evening World Today
Wall Street
Building Trust
Robert Brindell
The
Building Trades Council
Stock Exchange Annex
Brindell
Raymond Clark
Robbers Loot Express Safe Near Sharpe Station
An express messenger’s safe on Southern Railway train No 36 was thrown off at Sharpe station about 15 miles from Columbia by train robbers. The safe contained about sixteen thousand dollars. the crew of a passing freight train recovered the chest before the bandits could return.
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Columbia
Charlotte
Southern Railway
Sharpe Station
Sweet potatoes sell at low price in Macon streets
Macon Ga Nov 11 sweet potatoes sold today on the streets here for 50 cents per bushel, having dropped below any prices quoted since 1914. An unusually large crop was given as the reason.
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Macon
Armistice Day Parade Fills Thomasville Crowd
Armistice Day observances in Thomasville opened and closed smoothly with a large crowd. The parade began at 2 o clock rather than 2 15 and park exercises started around 2 20. About eighty ex service men led the march with many other groups present, and details will be printed later.
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Thomasville
Thomasville Heads Red Cross Roll Call Again
Thomasville North Carolina led the Southeast by reporting Over the Top in the Red Cross annual roll call. With a population around 3800 the town listed 1018 members by 7 am, reflecting strong community support cited by the Red Cross office.
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Thomasville
N. C
RED Cross
Atlanta
American Red Cross
Fort Worth banks subscribe capital to Southern Export Corp
Fort Worth banks at a meeting last night subscribed 3 percent of their capital stock to the Southern Export Corporation recently organized in New Orleans.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Southern Export Corporation
New Orleans
Judge Merrill Leads Full Program as Master of Ceremonies
The event featured both on foot and by car, with Judge Merrill serving as master of ceremonies and overseeing the complete program.
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Merrill
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