Flemish University Plan Faces German Opposition
The German governor-general Baron von Bissing insists on converting Ghent University into a Flemish institution despite petitions from Antwerp leaders. He cites ongoing reform plans and rejects Belgian internal policy objections while urging no restraint on professors and students. Belgians and Dutch discuss international law limits on occupant interference as efforts to assemble faculty and students continue.
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Ghent University
Louis Franck
Intercommunal Commission of
Antwerp
Jan Devos
Alfons Ryckmans
Leo van Peborga
Senate
Ghent
Germany
Belgium
Baron von Bissing
Holland
Endeavorers of High Point to Present Play in Greensboro
Greensboro April 4 85 High Point Endeavorers prepare to present the play Mrs Church to a Greensboro audience at the Smith Memorial building on Friday April 7 The play traces 35 years of Christian Endeavor from its 1881 origin and features 35 characters representing nations Proceeds after expenses will be shared by High Point and Greensboro City unions Greensboro reports a growing network of local Endeavor societies including Guilford college and plans to form groups in local Negro churches
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Smith Memorial Building
Christian Endeavor
Mrs. Church
L. W. McFarland
Feu
Williston Church
Portland
Christman Endeavor
Levil
Greensboro
High Point
Reformed Church
Guilford College
Fire Threatens Lower Manhattan Paper District
A spectacular blaze yesterday afternoon severely damaged two five-story buildings at 16 and 18 Beekman Street housing paper dealers. Loss estimated at 1 006. Fire spread quickly due to inflammable materials and endangered nearby skyscrapers on Nassau Street. Morse building doors damaged and the American Tract Society building housing the New York Sun offices sustained smoke and water damage. South of Twenty third Street fire apparatus were deployed and police reserves protected bystanders.
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New York
Beekman Street
Nassau Street
Morse
American Tract Society
New York Sun
Twenty-thir Street
Riots in Torreon Over Food Spark Looting and Distress
From Laredo Texas April 4 a dispatch reports serious food riots in Torreon Mexico on March 28 with about 1000 women and children taking to the streets crying for corn. Looting followed as prices soared. Soldiers refused to fire on crowds. Government ordered carloads of corn distributed locally and several buildings were damaged.
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Laredo
Tex
Torre
Torreon
German Account Of The Air Raid Over England
Berlin reports that during the night of April 12 German naval airships attacked the east coast of England for about ninety minutes. Bombs hit blast furnaces iron works and multiple establishments on the Tees south bank and at Middlesbrough and Sunderland with large explosions and fires. The German account says the airships sustained no losses or damage despite heavy enemy shelling.
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Berlin
England
Tees
Liddlesbrough
Sunderland
Trinity pitcher fans 21 in 14-inning college game
In Waxahachie Texas Watson a Trinity University pitcher set what is claimed as a college record by striking out 21 TCU batters in nine innings of a 14 inning game. TCU won 4 to 3. Watson finished with 26 strikeouts for the full contest.
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Waxahachie
Tex
Watson
Trinity University
Texas Christian University
Retired merchant praises Dreco relief from long illness
George Schlerf of 919 P Street NW says three bottles of Dreco relieved rheumatism back and limb pains biliousness nervousness and sleep troubles after years of sickness and medicines. He notes previous bakery work and dietary decline and credits old time root remedies. Dreco sold exclusively by Ring Drug Co at 1.00 a bottle.
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Northwest
Tormer
Agarn
The
Ring Drug Co
Zeppelin raid spares public buildings in Scotland
A Scottish correspondent reports a Zeppelin raid last night circling a town for 40 minutes after midnight. Bombs fell on residential areas, killing five people in a passage to a tenement, two servant girls in a doctor's house, and a man in the street. two hotels were struck and others injured.
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London
Scotland
Citrolax advertised by Mann Drug Co
Citrolax is promoted as the best remedy for constipation sour stomach lazy liver and sluggish bowels. The ad claims it stops a sick headache almost at once and provides a thorough cleansing with no pain or nausea. It says the product keeps the system cleansed sweet and wholesome and urges asking for Citrolax from Mann Drug Co.
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Mann Drug Co. Adv
Land Sale Notice in Jamestown Township NC
Commissioner announces sale of a 58 acre tract in Jamestown township Guilford County North Carolina on April 1 1916 at 2 PM. Sale requires 25 percent cash deposit with bid, 20.5 acres already sold, sale subject to court confirmation.
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Jamestown Township
County of
Ruilford
State of North Carolina
Luther Kennedy
Jd. Cox
P. J. Dodson
Moravian Road
Hodson
Dean
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Baror von Bissing
Anoucea Luea
Associated Press
the Hague
Netherlands
Bergauia
University of Ghent
Uni
Ant
Werp
Mex
Dreco
George Schlerf
Victor Hugo
Waterloo
Napoleon
George Dewey
U. S
W. B. Allison
Dred
Tennyson's
Kipling
And
Webster
Hayne
Charles Lamb
Sands
Ata
Superior Court
W. H. Ragan
Elizabeth Wheeler
Ueceased
H. O. Wheeler
Cyrus Wheeler
Ruth Davis
W. Hi. Ragan
North State
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Danville
Lynchburg
Charlotte
Greenville
Fayetteville
Camden
S. C
Columbia
Aiken
Augusta
North State Telephone Company
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