Germans Break Hindenburg Line On West Front
Nov 21 dispatches report British forces breaking the Hindenburg line west of St Quen, advancing four to five miles with Welsh Ridge and other positions taken. Villages like Wood, Lavaquerce and Ridecourt fell. prisoners were captured as German defenses collapsed under overrun. Strong German counteractions noted but gains held.
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Hindenburg
St. Quentice Scarpe River
Fish
Mau Wood
Lavaquerce
Ridecourt
Julian Burg
Dunoni
Flanders
Local Y M C A War Fund drives start across Americas
Subscriptions began for the Y M C A War Fund with high school students aiming to raise 1000 dollars by April. Georgia totals reach 145,839 with Valdosta 49,500 and Gainesville 2,900. A Roll of Honor for Americas servicemen will be displayed on the water tower, twelve by ten feet, read from names supplied by local authorities. The Georgia Infantry brigade’s Army Y M C A building at Camp Wheeler has been moved and enlarged to serve larger regiments.
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Y. M. C. A. War Fund
Americas
Frank Lanier
C. W. Rowland
Georgia
Valdosta
Washington
Gainesville
Monroe
Lanier
Fort
Americus Light Infantry
Lantern
Chamber of Commerce
Army Y. M. C. A
Georgia Infantry Brigade
Camp Wheeler
Macon
J. A. Thomas
G1st Infantry
Second Georgia
Chester Bishop Lee St Church Service Announcement
Bishop Chester will preach Sunday at Lee Street Church with both morning and evening services. Large attendance expected as many come to hear him.
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B. Chester Rc
LEE ST. Church
B. Chester
Lee ‘St
Large
Hearst Purchases Boston Advertiser
Boston on November 21 reports the sale of The Boston Advertiser to William Randolph Hearst announced by Charles Sumner Bird, president of The Advertiser Newspaper Company. The Boston Evening Record remains with the same company. Hearst will take over the Advertiser this week. The Advertiser traces back to 1748 and has been a daily since 1813.
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Boston
Boston Advertiser
William Randolph Hearst
Charles Sumner Bird
Advertiser
Boston Evening Record
Hearst
Samuel Adams
Maj Banning Leads New Public Information Photo Distribution
Maj Kendall Banning heads the distribution of official American news photography released by the Committee on Public Information in Washington. He formerly directed the division of pictures and is attached to the Signal Corps, U S A. Before the war he was associate editor of System Magazine.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
Divison of
Pictures
Maj. Banning
Signal Corps
System Magazine
Jewelry Store Robbed by Bandits in Downtown Minneapolis
Three automobile bandits robbed a downtown Minneapolis jewelry store at noon, forcing a clerk to open the safe and escaping with jewels valued at $45,000 as thousands passed nearby. The robbers fled in three cars, prompting a large police search.
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Minneapolis
Mint
Restricted district ends in Cincinnati
Cincinnati report notes the segregated district was closed at midnight following a government order. Mayor Puchta announced the closure, aligning with the directive to dissolve segregated districts within five miles of military posts. Fort Thomas Kentucky lies about four miles away.
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Cincinnati
Puchta
Bel
Fort Thomas
Bryant Acquitted in City Court Assault Case
Professor F. M. Bryant, a school teacher from Upper River Road, was found not guilty in city court this morning on a charge of assault. The case alleged he struck his wife, and he was represented by attorney Tom Laue.
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F. M. Bryant
Upper River Road
Miruck
Howie
Tom
Laie
Los Angeles votes to abolish saloons while permitting wine sales
In Los Angeles the city voted to abolish saloons after April 1, 1919. The measure allows sale of light wines in outlets other than saloons and in original packages, with wines containing no more than 14 percent alcohol and no opening of packages on the premises.
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Los Angeles
Cal
English Towns to Re modelled after Rome housing block
British architects study Italian Good Dwellings Society plan in Rome as model for postwar urban housing. The 800-dwelling complex opens into a central garden and includes a Children’s House with nursery and after school rooms, shared laundry, sewing rooms, and a doctor’s surgery with limited free care. Flats vary in size and overcrowding is forbidden.
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Good Dwellings Society
Rome
England
Besn
Veryone
Ten Thousand Tons of Sugar Seized for Market Sale
Ten thousand tons of sugar once purchased by the former imperial government of Russia were seized in New York and will be sold by federal authorities. The sugar, bought before the revolution, is being requisitioned to meet urgent American supply needs and will be distributed through authorized dealers nationwide.
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New York
Russia
Alice
English school boys collect chestnuts for munitions plants
London reports a remarkable wartime effort as British schoolboys gather horse chestnuts and acorns for munitions. A London room of twenty boys tallies 115,700 nuts. a single boy’s haul reaches 24,000 pounds, with records showing 21,175 nuts collected. Nuts must be brown-ripe, husk-free, and stored on a dry floor to avoid heating. Government payments reach 13 dollars per ton for acorns.
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London
Gales Tried Today in City Court
In the Dry court this morning M. Newberry was found not guilty after a trespass charge brought by Terrell Land Company. Victor Adams pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for driving with no lights and colliding with a bogey, fined $50 or eight months. incident occurred on Ellaville road recently.
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Mom. Newberry
Terrell Land Company
Victor Adams
Ellaville Road
Bell in City Visiting Relatives
F Bell of Columbus arrived Monday and will stay a few days as a guest of relatives while attending to business interests in Americus. Bell is manager of the Coca Cola company in Columbus and has many friends in Americus who are glad to see him during his visit.
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F. Bell
Columbia
Bell
Chero-Cola
Columbula
Americus
Clemenceau Becomes Premier After Painleve Cabinet Falls
Former premier Clemenceau forms new cabinet after a short Painleve ministry. Paris reports his leadership seen as logical given opposition to Boulangism in parliament. The ministry lasted two months before defeat and collapse of the coalition.
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Painleve
Bromier Clemenceau
Palnteve
Socialist delegates fail to attack Burleson at AFL meeting
In Buffalo on November 21 a bid by socialist delegates to single out Postmaster General Burleson over newspaper impressions was blocked by the resolutions committee of the American Federation of Labor. A second socialist resolution slated for defeat was moved to the committee on international affairs.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Burleson
Resolutions Committee
Committee On International Affairs
Hunting Parties Score Plentiful Birds in Open Season
In Sumter county on the opening day, hunting parties tallied high counts. Jap Pinkston’s group killed 52, with one member claiming 29 under the bag limit. Gurlow Gatewood’s party logged 44, Emmett McNulty’s 31, R. L. Maynard’s party 70 plus 28 doves, and W. T. Maynard with W. O. Carter produced 59, the limit for two hunters. Americus parties reportedly killed around 300 birds.
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Sumter County
Jap Pinkston
Gurlow
Gatewood
Emmett McNulty
R. L. Maynard
W. T. Maynard
W. O. Carter
Americus
Government buys sugar from Savannah refinery for camps
The United States government has purchased three million four hundred thousand pounds of sugar from the Savannah Sugar Refining Corporation. Most of the sugar will be sent to soldiers training at camps in the region. Due to its location as the only refinery between New Orleans and Philadelphia, the purchase favors southern camps through the Savannah refinery.
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Savvannah Sugar
Savannah
United States
Savannah Sugar Refining Corporation
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Savanniah
Advancing from Bytod Theme Forges Likely February Date
Readable text indicates an advancement from Bytod related to theme forges with a probable February timing. Details are fragmentary, but the note points to an impending event or alignment set for February. Entities include Bytod and February.
City Water Now Fit For Drinking
The Georgia State Board of Health directed Dr. L. T. Pattillo to analyze Americas city water and he reports it is entirely fit to drink. Dr. D. B. Mayes was informed by letter of the finding noting some bacteria present but not contaminating the water.
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Tate Board OF Health
Georgia State Board of Healthas
L. T. Pattilo
Mack
Americas City
D. B. Mayes
City Board of Health
Prohibition on German Natives in Washington DC
Notice from Washington DC announces that no native Germans who are not US citizens may reside in the city while war lasts. Enemy aliens must leave or relocate by December 15 if already in the capital, re enforcing a wartime residency ban across the district.
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Washington, DC
Washington, D. C
Germany
United States
Washington
District of Columbia
Typhoid Conquered in the French Army
Paris reports victory over typhoid fever as a major enemy of armies. Vaccination campaigns, led by Prof. Vincent and Dr. Landousy, reduced cases from seven per January 1915 to nearly zero by March 1917, with deaths dropping to about 0.04 per 100,000 in the current year.
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Paris
France
Vincent
Landousy
Belfort
Middling Cotton Sold Here Today at 28 3-4 Cents
Middling cotton reached a high price of 28 3-4 cents at Americus this morning. The market showed a rising trend with few bales reported sold and some traders noting price changes.
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Americus
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