Herman Lewis Returns With Laughter Producers at Wilson
Herman Lewis and his troupe staged a three day engagement at the Wilson Theatre. The show drew large crowds and praised Lewis for his blackface performance while Billy Moring Leon Alien Maude Shelton and the Miami Comedy Four shared applause worthy acts. It plays today and tomorrow.
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Hreman Lewis
Wilson Theatre
Herman
Billy Moring
Leon Alien
Maude Shelton
Miami
the Wilson
Cooper to Pay Out Belief Grows Over Banker's Settlement
Kinston North Carolina December 11 AP predictions spread that Thomas Cooper Wilmington banker found guilty of malpractice will pay the 180000 allowed by Judge Henry Grady. Wilmingtonians say assets of the defunct Liberty Bank would be turned over to him for payment and that friends will help. They expect the Grady sentence to stand on appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Kinston
N. C
Thomas Cooper
Wilmington
Liberty Bank of Wilmington
Henry A. Grady
Cooper
Willingtonians
Grady
Supreme Court
Eddie Collins Named White Sox Manager for 1925 Season
Eddie Collins, second baseman of the Chicago American League club, is appointed manager of the White Sox for the 1925 season, succeeding Johnnie Everts. The decision comes from Charles A. Comiskey, Sox president, who is in New York for the major league meeting.
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Chicago
Eddie Collins
White Sox
Johnnie Everts
Charles A. Comiskey
Sox
New York
German aviator makes 300 mile glider flight for $1.25
Berlin reports F Botsch, a South German aviator, flew 300 miles in three and a half hours in a ten hp glider with an auxiliary tomtit motor. Oil and gasoline cost $1.25, claimed as a German record. A rail trip to a Thuringen town would take 16 hours and cost nearly $8.
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Berlin
F. Botsch
Germany
Thuringen
Free State backs Cork sugar beet project study tour
Dublin reports the Free State government backing a Cork sugar beet development project. Department of Agriculture experts travel to England Belgium and Holland to study cultivation as part of the effort.
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J. W. Riley Grocery Co
Dublin
Free State
Cork
Department of Agriculture
England
Belgium
Helland
Canton College Students Escaped Bandits After Battle
Twenty two more of the Canton college students and teachers captured by Chinese bandits Sunday escaped and returned to Canton after a short fight between bandits and troops under General Lifuh Lin.
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Canton
China
Canton College
Lifuh Lin
Retail food prices rise in 19 cities in November
Retail food prices climbed in 19 leading cities in November, rising from under 0.5 percent in Detroit to 3 percent. The Labor Department announced the trend from Rochester, New York.
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Washington
Detroit
Rochester
N. Y
Department of Labor
Premier Herriott Kept in Bed by Doctors
Paris dispatch reports Premier Herriott ordered to suspend all official duties and stay in bed for a few days due to grippe. Medical bulletin says condition not serious.
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Paris
Herriott
Grippe
Fresh Shoykilers and Groceries at J. W. Riley Co.
A historical grocery listing shows items such as shoykilers bars rekbone spare ribs sausage and sauce along with chitterlings offered by J. W. Riley Grocery Co. likely from a late 19th or early 20th century catalog.
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J. W. Riley Grocery Company
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J. W. Riley Grocery Co
Vocabulary Puzzle From Historical Page Hints
A compact list mixes numbers and clues for a vertical and horizontal word puzzle. The fragment shows crosswords style hints for common English words and parts of speech along with old time notation.
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Black Cloud
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Briggs Hotel
National Biscuit Company
Carroll’s Grocery Co
Rierson
So. Golds
Boro Street
Doc
Reid
Cenes
Opera House
Rocky Mount, N.C
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Apply Sanitary Cafe
Nash Street
William Tell
C. & D. Food Co
D. C
Day
Mammal
America
Poe
Ntal
New England State
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Swift
Valencia
Li Pal
D. P
Old Virginia
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O'Henry
Wilson @ifirret
Park Ave
Planters Bank
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