Sale of Smileage Books at the Home Sale
A Soldiers Home event reports rapid selling of smileage books with many named purchasers and amounts, listing Capt W J, Capt Predeign, Mrs Lucy Duel, Miss Mary Lee Banary, George F Casady, J Webb, Harney J Erwin, J M Burns, John Welch, William Watson, George K E Bailey, Thomas Underland, and others contributing payments from $0.50 to $10, reflecting active fundraising progress and broad community support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wil
Shile
W, J
Predeign
Les He Babb
Niven
George F. Casady
Lucy Due
Mary Lee Banary
Mise Moore
Mate Fuqua
Jows Webb
Harney J. Erwin
B. M. Burns
Mr. Comstock
Doughert
OC. Maher
HS. Harengton
Harry Veateh
BB. Foxter
Gray
FAW
Ed Hawley
Furward Motody
Ed Bast
Scott
Wl. C
Deadrick
Percy Meyvelt
Josephus Pool
Charles & Kling
JG. Westcott
Fi Wy L. Hilbert
Hog Rally Day Planned in Jonesboro
Monday will be Hog Rally Day in Washington county as hog fabers and pork producers meet in Jonesboro for a morning session. County Agent Smith prepares a stock hog supply and demand table and will propose a gathering of hog owners to boost pork production this year. All interested are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Songer
de Bing
Universal Car
Washington County
Jonesboro
Axunt Smith
Little Piece of Lead Sparks World War Reflections
A fragmentary editorial laments a tiny lead bullet that ignited a global catastrophe. It recalls how a serbian royal assassination touched many nations and provoked widespread suffering, urging preservation of the “little piece of lead” as a silent teacher of restraint and peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo
Germany
France
Belgium
United States
Turkey
Libera
Italy
Montenegro
Kimania
Bulgaria
Albania
Canada
Australia
China
Japan
South Amrerica
India
Juesu
Painslue Insurance Two Days Before Death
Private Raymond L. Henry of Olyphant Pennsylvania obtained a $10,000 life insurance policy forty eight hours before his death from pneumonia at Camp Dix Wrightstown New Jersey. Colonel Anderson of the Sixth testified Henry wanted the policy and the money would go to his mother. Henry had been told he would have an opportunity for insurance if he were well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dix
Wrightstown
N. J
Raymond L. Henry
Olyphant
312Th Infantry
Henry
Anderson
Henry Wes
Local travelers and visitors rotate through regional towns
Mr and Mrs Norman Hayek and a child return from Cleveland after visiting relatives. M King of Bristol was among traveling men here Wednesday. Dr J L Clark of Boones Creek, a pension examiner, was in town yesterday. Gail Barber of Erwin was a business visitor this week. Mrs Higes spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Greeneville on business. Trustee J W Weeks of Jonesboro stayed a week on business. Mack Winters of Camp Sevier is here on a five day furlough. Charles Monk on furlough at Sevier. W H Jowell made a business trip to Khagapory this week. Claude G Taylor visits Western North Carolina merchants. A Siahners, W J Barton, P G Malten and G G Ewald were in Kingaport on business Wednesday.
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Norman Hayek
Little Man
Cleveland
M. King
Bristol
J. L. Clark
Boones Creek
Clark
Waslington
Gail Barber
Erwin
Higes
Greeneville
J. W. Weeks
Jonesboro
Mack Winters
Camp Sevier
Charlie Monk
Sevier
W. H. Jowell
Khagapory
Claude G. Taylor
North Carolina
A. Siiahners
W. J. Barton
ACCOUNTANTS WANTED BADLY BY UNCLE SAM
The United States government seeks several hundred expert accountants for vacancies in the accounts section of the finance department of the equipment division of the Signal Corps and other branches. Positions in Washington or the field offer salaries from 2.40 to 5. Per year, men only. Applications will be rated on education and experience rather than exams, with urgent need requiring prompt submission.
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Washington
United States
Finance Department
Signal Corps
War Department
States Civil Service Commission
Board of Civil Serving
Inger
United States Civil Service Commission
Washington, DO
Tenned Senators Secure Seed Distribution in Tennessee
Washington Jan 30 Senators Shields and Melellar received notice from the department of agriculture of seed allotments for tree distribution upon request of Tennessee residents. Shields holds 20 000 packages of trees and 900 quarts of seed. He plans to preserve some giant persimmon seeds from Professor Gould. McKellar secures 2 000 packages of vegetables and 3 000 flowers for the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whebington
Shields
Melellar
Department of Agriculture
Tennessee
Shielde Han
Gould
Senator McKellar
Representative Sells Demands Probe Of Muted Soldier Body
Washington January 80 Representative Sells wrote Secretary Baker urging immediate punishment for an army officer in the Caen A Keek case. The body from Camp Jackson South Carolina was shipped to Tazewell Tennessee and reportedly returned in an unopenable coffin. The family opened it and found the body horribly mutilated and unclothed. An autopsy after death is suspected.
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Washington
Sella
Baker
Caen
A. Keek
Claiborne County
Tazewell, Tenn
Camp Jackson
South Carolina
Aad
Sells
Youngest Captain in Camp Sherman Leads Company K
Captain R. T. Kingler, at 22, is named the youngest captain in camp. Commissioned at 21, he passed his twenty second birthday last August and commands Jefferson County boys in Company K, 322d Infantry. Soldiers praise his leadership despite long odds and lean figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Sherman
R. T. Kiingler
Kingler
Kiingler
Jefferson County
Few German Alien Enemies To Be Registered Here
Government announces registration of German alien enemies in the city. Marshall J. I. Thompson and Chief D. J. Hickison oversee the process to register all German aliens age 18 and up. Registration runs February 4 onward with notes that many veterans home residents may be affected and several foreign birth residents have already naturalized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Mites
Marshall J. i. Thompson
Knieville
D. J. Hicki Ison
Blanke
Hickman
Marshall Thompson
Jall
German Empire
Wyerla
Uni
America
Mountai Beaned Soldiers
Hickasan
Bristol Lights Spook Bristol Fans At Night
Report of a strange light in the Bristol sky last night drew attention from locals. Witnesses described a moving glow starting near a grocery on Kentucky Avenue, shifting west, and appearing to shoot downward like a plane’s exhaust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Herald Courier
Bristol
Rey
Kentucky Avenue
Hewie
Lone
Rule Moose Expires in Salem Oregon Ballot Change
The Dull I Moose is dead in Oregon as Attorney General Brown bars the Progressive Party from the May ballot. Oregon statutes disallow any party that fails to win over 20 percent of the general election vote from ballot recognition, noting the prior year's Progressive result as ineligible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salem
Oregan
Oregon
Oes
Brown
Ad Rates Listed With Times In Comet Publication
Diners and readers note a series of time stamps and prices in the Comet notice. The fragment shows ad slots and prices such as 5:00 pm 4:40 pm and 4:37 pm with several numbers recurring, indicating scheduling details for advertisements.
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H.R. Parrott Motor Co
Guy Erwin
U.S. Food Administration
Bell
War and Navy Departments
Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company Incorporated
Josesborro
Bobby
Hostom
Uncle Sam
Whitten
Air
Soldiers Home
THE
SAY
Regelar
H. Lyle
Momes
the Tennessee Trust Co
Adam B. Crouch
Prez
JE. Brading
Jas. A. Ponder
C.E. Cargillo
Mary V. Smith
Washington County Gas Company Service
East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad
Colinville River Railway Company
Central Standard
Eastwan
mLy
Jouhson
Milligan
Watange Point
Sycamore Shoal
Elizabethton “Valley
Forge Hampton
Pardon Point
Whitk Rock
Shell Creek
Elk Park
Raiberry
Whstwarly
Shulls Mills
Gro. W. Hardin
Sas
Linville Tiver
Berry
Minnopolis
Nowland
Mofttezuma Pineola
Linville
Jestes Sidtei
Briste Telephone Co
Southern Railway Company
Eoe Oremne
Allway
Tororo
Thy Secibara Reimar Company
Bettet
Fae
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