Engineers Enlistment Offer for Men 19 to 45 by US Army
A recruiting notice invites men aged 19 to 45 with private sector training and business experience to enlist in the Engineers Enlisted Reserve Corps. Major A. K. Waldron in Wilmington DC outlines master and junior engineer roles, corresponding ranks, and required specialized qualifications such as topography, lithography, carpentry, signaling, and many skilled trades.
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Engineers
United States Army
A. K. Waldron
Corps of Engineers
P. O. Building
Wilmington
D.C
Washington club ships Cut-up Sawyer to Minneapolis Millers
The Washington club trades Cut-up Sawyer, understudy to Nick Altrock, to the Minneapolis Millers as part of a busy week of sports moves. The note highlights other figures in baseball boxing and hockey including Wallie Pipp, George Chip, and Earl Earhardt.
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Washington
Sawyer
Nick Altrock
Minneapolis Millers
Freddie Welsh
New Jersey
John Hines
James C. Dunn
Cleveland
Indians
Joe Tinker
Columbus American Association
Earhardt
Wallie Pipp
Boston
Pittsburgh A. A
Braves
Yankees
George Chip
al McCoy
Brooklyn
McCoy
Chip
Lajoie
Pastiner
Young Battler
Rhode Island
Carl Morris
Fred Fulton
Jess Willard
New York
Milwaukee
Ritchie Mitchell
Bennie Leonard
Cream City
Ahearn
Mike Gibbons
St. Paul
Hannes Kolelimainen
Villie Kyronen
Sidney Hatch
Arthur Roth
Boston A. A
Employers urged to reemploy returning servicemen after enlistment
The article urges employers to assure returning servicemen their jobs at the end of enlistments. It emphasizes civil life, letters of recommendation, and the need to provide reassurances so men do not fear losing their positions when their service ends.
Strange chameleons amuse wounded British soldiers
In Alexandria Egypt April 15 a few score chameleons are standard hospital equipment in Egypt aiding fly control and providing entertainment for wounded soldiers. Highlanders bet with chameleons against a Tar fankilt background as the reptile fails to match the pattern and settles for a neutral tone.
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Alexandria
Egypt
Singer McCormack Buys $125,000 Noroton Estate
John McCormack, famed tenor, takes possession of a Noroton Conn estate paid for with about 125000 dollars. The purchase mirrors what phonograph firms paid in recent years and adds to an estimated additional public earnings from his ballads. Marries Dublin origins to London rise mark his early thirties.
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New York
John McCormack
Noroton
Conn
Old Erin
McCormack
Dublin
London
Kansas City to Show Patriotism
Kansas City plans a large meeting in Convention Hall tomorrow to promote patriotism. The event, organized by the Kansas City Americanization Committee, targets foreign-born residents to participate.
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Kansas City
Convention Hall
North Carolina Medical Society Meets in Asheville
The sixty fourth annual North Carolina State Medical Society meeting will be held in Asheville April 17 18 and 19 with Battery Park hotel as headquarters. An April 16 session of the Health Officers association precedes the meeting. Officers include Laughinghouse of Greenville president and Hill of Lexington first vice president.
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North Carolina State Medical Society
Asheville
Battery Park Hotel
North Carolina Health Officers’ Association
The
State Medical Society
Chas. O'H. Laughinghouse
Greenville
D. J. Hill
Lexington
J. L. Spruill
Columbia
J. H. Shuford
Hickory
Benj. K. Hays
Oxford
W. M. Jones
Greensboro
D. Hiden Ramsey
Public Safety
L. J. Picot
Littleton
Chas
Laughinghouse
State Board of Health
J. W. Long
Biltmore Dairy
New Canada Labour Party forms in Toronto
A general conference in Toronto on April 14 aims to debut Dominion labor organizations in active politics. Leaders advocate public ownership of all transportation and natural resources as a core platform, signaling a party uniting Canada’s labor groups.
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Toronto
Ont
Dominion
Canada
Nellie McClung and the four year old wit
Canadian suffrage lecturer Nellie McClung entertained a Boston luncheon with a joking story about her youngest child. After a spanking, the boy sang to his mother and blamed her headache on too much spanking of innocent people.
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Nellie McClung
Boston
Mrs. McClung
Shippers to Oppose Rate Increase in Chicago Meeting
A general conference of commercial and manufacturing interests is held in Chicago to discuss the railroad petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission seeking a nationwide freight rate rise. Shippers plan to present their side before a final decision.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Big Meeting of Machinery Men in Memphis
Memphis hosts three allied machinery groups from April 13 to 16 as they stage joint and separate sessions to discuss ways the machinery trade can support the national effort. The American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers association, the National Supply and Machinery Dealers association, and the Southern Supply and Machinery Dealers association convene in one of the largest gatherings of its kind.
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Memphis
Tenn
American Supply and Machinery Manufacturers’ Association
National Supply and Machinery Dealers’ Association
Southern Supply and Machinery Dealers’ Association
Southern league opens with strong, even field for 1917 season
Opening in the Southern league today in Atlanta signals a aggressive, well contested 1917 season. Nashville champions and tail-enders Mobile Memphis New Orleans Birmingham Chattanooga all strengthened. First games feature Memphis at Little Rock New Orleans at Mobile Nashville at Birmingham and Chattanooga at Atlanta. Season spans 152 games ending September 15.
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Atlanta
Nashville
Mobiles
Memphis
Little Rock
New Orleans
Mobile
Birmingham
Chattanooga
The Wise One and the Chair Yet the Dog
An elderly renter shares a villa with a large dog and a beloved armchair. She avoids chasing the dog from the chair, calling cats to trigger its bark so she may slip in. When the dog finally notices, he looks out the window and then calmly occupies the chair himself.
Groundwater Underpins National Resolve
A brief exchange recalls that land once submerged proves resilience and endurance. An int g remarks on waterlogged ground, while a patriotic youth counters that history cannot keep the country down.
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New Canada Labor Party
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