North Carolina math teachers to meet in Greensboro Friday
High school mathematics teachers from across North Carolina will gather in Greensboro for a two day conference during college weekend. Sessions start Friday night at 8 30 in the Greensboro high school and continue Saturday afternoon at 2 30. The event is hosted by the University of North Carolina with speakers from UNC including Dr Archibald Henderson.
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Teachers of Mathematics of
North Carolina
Greensboro
South Spring Street
University of North Carolina
Archibald Henderson
Jr. Iaso
W. W. Rankin
O W. Hicks
Haw River High School
J. W. Moore
Winston-Salem High School
Mathematics Teachers’ Library
J. W. Lasley, Jr
Olivia Brooks
Chapel Hill High School
More Liberal Treatment for Certain Alien Enemies
Washington officials consider pleas to ease restrictions on German residents in major cities. The plan, led by Attorney General Gregory, envisions exemptions for long resident Germans deemed peaceful who would otherwise need to relocate away from fortifications and arsenals.
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Washington
Department of Justice
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Gregory
Conference on boosting food supply via cut-over lands in the South
New Orleans April 11 the cut over land conference began with discussion of plans to neutralize about 100000000 acres of southern cut over timber lands to increase the food supply governors federal agriculture and forestry experts landowners lumbermen and business leaders attended the opening session the conference runs to Friday
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Associated Press
New Orleans
South
Germans Become Swiss in Record Naturalization Year
Berne Switzerland April 11. Of 6047 individuals seeking Swiss citizenship in 1916 the overwhelming majority were German. Of 4110 naturalization grants 2335 were Germans. The year sets a new record compared with the prewar average of about a thousand annually.
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Berne
Switzerland
Poll tax deadline looms for city election voters
City Manager Arthur Lyon urges residents to pay the poll tax by May 1 to be eligible for the May general city election. Primary voting on April 24 does not require poll tax, but deputy sheriff or tax collector visit is needed to vote. Five dollar fee set for mayor and four council seats, with candidates including W P Ragan for mayor and J W Hendrick, R O Lindsay, C C Cummings, and D A Stanton running in the primaries.
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Arthur Lyon
W. PP. Ragan
J. W. Hendrick
R. O. Lindsay
C. C. Cummings
Church Choirs Reopen With Veteran Musicians
London church choirs disrupted by army mobilization revive with veterans aged 65 to 70 returning to the stalls. In some cases women, wearing surplice and cassock with purple uniform hats, join as choristers again.
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London
Submarine War Drops Swiss Embroidery Exports in February 1917
St Gall Switzerland April 11 The submarine war and prevailing conditions are cited as the reason for a large drop in Swiss embroidery exports to the United States in February 1917 down about 75 percent from February 1916. Tech exports totaled 4 406 636 francs that February but fell to 1 200 436 francs this year a loss of 3 146 200 francs.
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St. Gall
Switzerland
United States
Duties of Boy Scouts in War Time in High Point
A letter from W. M. Marr, scoutmaster of Troop 1, outlines wartime duties for High Point Boy Scouts. Scouts pledge to duty to God and country, help others, and stay physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. They will not bear arms but may aid in first aid and relief efforts, with plans to assist in civic emergencies and only with parental approval.
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High Point Boy Scouts
Scoutmas
Act of Congress
Boy Scouts
Boy Scouts of
High Point
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W. W. Rankin, Jr
W. M. Marr
Ters
Bank OF Commerce
the Welcome Bank
O. E. Kearns
J. H. Adams
A. M. Rankin
G. A. Pollock
H. A. Millis
Jarrett
North State
J. W. Paschael
Thacker’s Store
Jarrell Building
American Land Company
High Point and
Greensboro, N. C
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