For Sale Notices and Local Obituaries from Nelsonville
A compilation of small ads offers potatoes whisky barrels Ford trucks houses and car corn with contact details and dates. Obituaries report Mrs Charles Lee and Mr Norris Jackson buried in Greenlawn with local relatives and friends attending services. Various residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on their movements and visits.
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Norris Jackson
R. H. Jackson
Mr. Norris Jackson
Nelsonville
Greenlawn
York Township Faces Ongoing Floo Crisis
York remains without relief as the Floo situation continues. The latest report shows 63 new cases on Tuesday, plus 3 additional pneumonia cases and two deaths.
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York
York Township
Hartwell Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for Rescue
Private Albert S. Hartwell, living in Paris with his mother, earned the Distinguished Service Cross after repeatedly driving an ambulance amid gas and shellfire east of Reims. Severely wounded in the head and legs, he carried a fellow wounded American to safety and crawled to a dressing station for aid.
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Paris
Albert S. Hartwell
Hartwell
Pershing
Pauline Nellie Hartwell
Rue Poncreu
Yank General in Retreat in French Railcar
An American general arriving in France meets peasants in a third class carriage. A comely young girl in the opposite compartment speaks to him with broken English and French, declaring love, while the general and his staff react with embarrassment as the train pauses at a junction. The moment staggers the general, who withdraws in retreat amid amused reactions from all aboard.
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France
Speek Fengleesh
Longest Name in Draft Sparks Atlanta Debate
Atlanta, Ga police and draft officials consider the lengthy Pappanikolo polous name as a standout entry in division No. 2 of the draft. Officials may shorten the moniker at Camp Medon if the man is inducted, with Nick Pana as a potential clipping.
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Atlanta
Nikitag Pappanikolopolous
Pappaniko
Camp
Medon
Panppan
Mr. Pappan
Nick Pana
Labrador Fishery Outlook Shrinks for Newfoundland
The Labrador fishery, a major Newfoundland cod industry, may be short this year as ships export mostly to Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece at high prices. In past years about 20 000 fishers gathered each season with catches around 250 600 quintals. this year 10 000 to 12 000 workers may yield over 50 000 quintals, assuming a good season.
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St. John’s
N. P
Labrador
Newfoundland
Portugal
Spain
Italy
Greece
Kaiser Changes Name Amid Anti German Sentiment
James Monroe Kaiser petitions the circuit court in Clinton Missouri for a name change claiming Kaiser's name is odious in the current climate. Judge Calvird notes the language as emphatic but justified. In other news, Spain plans an electric railroad from Madrid to the French frontier. London reports Germans retreating along a 75 mile front from the River Scheldt to the Aisne as Allied forces advance, crossing the Franco-Belgian border near Bavay and nearing Maubeuge, with Normal forest mostly in Allied hands.
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Clinton, Mo
James Monroe Kaiser
Kaiser
Calvird
London
Scheidt
Aisne
Valenciennes
Bavay
Marbeuge
Postoffice Is Robbed In McArthur Heist
McArthur on November 6 reports the postoffice safe blown open last night. Thrift stamps and money worth about 100 dollars were taken, authorities said.
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Mcarthur
Tattooed Kaiser Head Sparks Draft Board Inquiry
Altoona Pa A GI named Paul Kraull showed a tattooed life size head of the Kaiser on his breast when before Blair Four board examiners He escaped from a German ship interned in an American port and waived deferred classification to join the American army He is held for further investigation.
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Altoona
Paul Kraull
Blair Four
Kaiser
Kraull
American Soldier In England Stir At Music Hall
London reports Pershing's offensive revival a month-old tale that reaches the music hall stage. A British inquirer asks an American soldier if he is YMCA, to which he quips that they are the Salvation Army.
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London
Pershing
America
England
Red Cross Faces Larger World War Aid Demand
A Paris cablegram to the American Red Cross says growing European war conditions may require increased American support abroad. A committee led by Homer Folks of New York will survey future Red Cross work in affected and forthcoming areas, including food and health needs and civil population impacts.
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Washington
Europe
Red Cross
A&a
Paris
Homer Folks
New York
Cablegram
Navy and Army cadets showcase gymnasium exhibition
Daily entertainments for the Student Army and Navy Training Corps begin at 10 45 each morning with Y M C A oversight led by secretary Frank Speck. The program features bouts led by Thor Olson including Overly vs Burley in a humorous sparring match and a 145 pound army vs army wrestling match between Sprague and Warfield. Olson’s final bout with Ferguson ends in multiple takedowns over ten to fifteen minutes.
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Army and Navy Training Corps
Ymc.a
Frank Speck
Thor Olson
Overly
Navy
Burley
Army
Sprague
Warfield
Ferguson
Cincinnati Markets Report on Produce and Live Poultry Prices
Today in Cincinnati the produce market shows eggs firm with firsts 58 to 66 1 2 cents a dozen and ordinary 68 cents. Live poultry steady with fowls 3 pounds and over 26 cents per pound. hens 8 pounds and over 27 cents. turkeys toms 10 pounds and over 27 cents.
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Oday
Cincinnati
Chicago Grain Prices Reported For November Trading
In Chicago Illinois on November 6 corn for November delivery at 1.23 and December and January at 1.12. Oats listed at 72.44 cents for November 70 5 8 cents for December and 70 1 2 for January. Pork futures shown with November at 35.80 and January at 42.00.
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Chicago
Ill
Pittsburg Livestock Market Report
Pittsburg stockyards report for November 6 shows cattle receipts at 100 cars with no price change, sheep and lambs 20 cars unchanged, hogs 15 cars unchanged. Market steady across categories.
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Pittsburg Livestock
Pittsburg
Cincinnati Cattle Market Report
Cincinnati cattle market notes cattle receipts 1100 with shippers paying 12.00 to 15.00 per hundredweight calves higher at 17.25 to 17.50 hogs receipts 6500 market rising good packers and butchers paying 17.75 sheep receipts 400 with extra 8.50 to 9.00 lambs extra 15.50.
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Cincinnati
Ohio State to reopen next Tuesday in Columbus
Ohio State University will reopen next Tuesday at 8 o'clock. Judge J. J. Adams acting dean announced the plan today in Columbus Ohio.
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Ohio State
Columbus, O
Ohio State University
J. J. Adams
West Virginia votes Republican surge in state House and Congress
West Virginia officials reported a strong Republican wave with the state legislature likely in GOP hands and a Republican delegation to Congress. The only unsettled race appeared in the first district where Democrat M. M. Neley may have defeated Charles W. Schuck.
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O. K
Charleston
West Virginia
Congress
M. M. Neley
Charles W. Schuck
Elevator Lift in LA Theatre Puts Musicians on Stage
The theatre in Los Angeles features an orchestra pit floor that doubles as the top of a large hydraulic elevator. The system raises musicians from a basement to their seats and lowers them out after performances.
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Los Angeles
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