Playing Fair and Good Sport in Life's Game
A blend of verse by Berton Braley on facing life with grace and sport. Community notes report Comfort bags for 107 Company M members after supper at South Main street school, visiting couple P L Cantrell in the city, Idol's return from Moore's Springs, and a Tar Heel Chapter Children of the Confederacy meeting at Miss Helen Long’s on Friday at 10.
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Bke
Berton Braley
Company M
South Main Street
Tar Heel
Children of the Confederacy
Helen Long
Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Edward Willingham Smith
A son was born to Mr Edward Willingham Smith and Mrs Smith of Atlanta Georgia on August 1.
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Edward Willingham Smith
Atlanta, Ga
Local Social Notes Highlight North Carolina Trips
Mrs. O P Arnold of Riverside California is visiting as guest of her sister Mrs Clarence A Smith. The Smiths and Mrs Arnold plan a weekend in Saluda North Carolina. Miss Martha Newton of Bennettsville South Carolina visits Mrs Bascom Hoskins on Parkway. Mrs W J McAnally returns from trips to Chattanooga Sional Mountain and Asheville. J Allen Austin and Walter Royals were Greensboro visitors yesterday. Carter Dalton traveled from Raleigh after attending a code commission meeting. L H Putnam of the North Carolina Children's Home Society visits on business. Mrs R W Sills spends the week in Hendersonville with her parents at their summer cottage.
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P. L. Cantrell
Charlotte
Deal
Bay Street
Mrs. Cantrell
Lillie Smith
O. P. Arnold
Riverside, Cal
City
Clarence A. Smith
Saluda
North Carolina
Martha Newton
Bennettsville, S.C
Bascom Hoskins
Parkway
B Y P U Picnic Planned at Hayworth Springs Tonight
The Baptist Young People union of First Baptist church will hold its annual picnic and supper at Thay worth mineral springs this evening. About 40 members are expected to attend. meet at the church at 7 o'clock to arrive at the grounds early.
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The
Baptist Young People ’S Union of the First Baptist Church
Thayworth
Chuch
Remnant Sale At Loflin's Millinery This Weekend
Special remnant sale of ribbons runs Friday Saturday and Monday at Loflin's Millinery. New summer felts are available for the season.
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Loflin’s
Loflin
Woman credits Cardus tonic for life change after long illness
Mary Kilman of Rouse City Texas recalls months of agony with a stubborn side pain. She says a doctor's care failed to help until Cardus was tried, leading to full recovery after three bottles and years of good health. The ad promotes Cardus as a remedy for headaches back pain and fatigue.
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Cardus
Sunshine Day Proclaimed In High Point For Children
Mayor W P Ragan designates Saturday August 4 1917 as sunshine day to raise funds for the North Carolina Children's Home Society Greensboro. About 75 young ladies will sell sunshine tags on city streets with proceeds for dependent children and a Greensboro event recently raised about 600.
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W. P. Ragan
High Point
North Carolina Children’s Tome Society
Greensboro
Ragan
North Carolina Children's Trome Society of
North Carolina
Children’s Home Society
Children’s Home Sociey
J. H W. Putnam
The
Marines Praise Fayetteville Welcome on Training Route
About 500 marines marching through Fayetteville from Port Royal to Quantico praised the town as the best yet and received a warm, loud greeting. The crowd cheered as the train paused, and townspeople honked horns in a lively sendoff before the marines continued to await training in France-bound duties.
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Fayetteville
Port Royal
Marine Corps
Quantico
Payetteville
Second North Carolina Infantry
Asheville Engraver Vanishes With Four Year Old
In Asheville on August 2 mystery swirls around J. B. Johnson an engraver for a local jewelry house who disappeared with his four year old son since Sunday. Mrs Jobson reports he left home promising to visit friends and return late. A purchase made earlier caused suspicion while a letter from Glen Rock station says he will arrange care for the boy until work is found. The wife vows he must return for their child and declares no known reason for his departure.
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Asheville
J. B. Johnson
Jobson
Glen Rock
British Counter Attack Restores Front Near Roullers Ypres
General Haig reports British forces launched a counter attack in Flanders and re established their former line near the Roullers Ypres railway, recapturing territory recently gained by German forces.
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London
Flanders
Haig
Roullers-Ypres
Lassie Repeats in 10000 Pav/ Mills Stake Trot
Busy's Lassie the New Jersey mare won the 10000 Pav/ Mills stake at Kalamazoo yesterday in straight heats. The field matched last week’s Detroit M. and M. winner and Walter Cox secured his third Paper Mills stake victory as the best time 2 05 44 equaled the event record.
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Kalamazoo
New Jersey
Detroit
Paver Mills
Walter Cox
Milts
Canada to nationalize railways in Dominion
In parliament, Finance Minister Sir Thomas White announced plans to nationalize railways on a large scale. The government would add the Inter-Colonial railway to a proposed acquisition of the Canadian Northern system totaling over 90,000 miles, with 6,000 miles in the western wheat belt, including subsidies in steamships, telegraphs, express services, hotels, and grain elevators in western Canada.
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Ottawa
Dominion
Thomas White
Inter- Colonial
Canada
Canadian Northern Railway
Western Wheat Belt
Near fatal automobile crash on Lilesville road
A vehicle carrying William Little Steel Tohe McCoy and Sheriff H D Baldwin overturned two miles east of Wadesboro on the Lilesville road about 7:30 last evening. Baldwin sustained cuts on hands and face, Steel head lacerations, McCoy chest bruising. All occupants severely bruised but not believed to be seriously hurt. Cause of the turn unknown.
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Wadesboro
Here
Lilesville Road
William Little Steel
Tohe McCoy
H D. Bladwin
Rockingham
Sheriff Baldwin
Mr. Steel
Mr. McCoy
Shipwreck Coal Recovery Effort Off Nyborg Denmark
A wrecking company begins raising 1200 tons of coal from the Great Belt near Nyborg, where the steamer Dorka sank in 1883. About 1000 tons are expected to be recoverable and samples show the coal undamaged by long immersion.
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Stockholm
Nyborg
Dorka
Lightning kills three men in Virginia hayfield
In Bristol Tennessee Virginia area on August 1 two men James Bailey and Minnick were killed by lightning while harvesting hay on R D Browns farm near Abingdon Va A young Brown son working with them was severely shocked and is in serious condition Two barns in the same community were burned by fire caused by the lightning
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Bristol
Tenn
James, Bailey
Minnick
R. D. Brown
Abingdon
To A Friend in Georgia Poem by Jack Fields
A brief verse from Jack Fields expresses shared heat and weariness. The speaker jokes about sweating and fanning, imagining the recipient in Georgia feels the same heat. The informal letter style frames a regional greeting poem.
A Bad Spring for Women Ailments Reported in Nebraska Letter
A Nebraska reader describes a rough spring bringing backache rheumatic pains and muscle joints discomfort blamed on damp cold. Mrs To Jo Bucknell of Hardy reports similar symptoms and seeks remedies.
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Jo Bucknell
Hardy
Neb
Hotels and Restaurants Promote Beefless Tuesday Plan
Washington officials report hotel and restaurant leaders adopted measures to cut beef and wheat bread use. They pledge to shift at least 10 percent to other flours, promote corn and rice cakes, and substitute poultry and fish. A "bug-a-calf" program aims to buy 10,000 calves and raise them to boost meat supply over two years, with a hoped total purchases reaching over a million calves nationwide.
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Washington
Food Administra
Hotel and Restaurant Committee
Man of the Country
Reading
Mexico Aids Sufferers of Recent Earthquake
Mexico City reports strong solidarity with San Salvador as funds are raised for earthquake victims. The Mexican chamber of deputies allocates 30 000 pesos and numerous organizations donate to a successful relief fair.
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Mexico
Mexico City
San Salvador
Republic
Mexican Chamber of Deputies
Richmond Cavalry Troop Member Wounded in Armory Accident
Roslyn DD Young, 21, a prominent member of troop B first Virginia cavalry, formerly the Richmond Blues, was accidentally shot at the Blues armory in Richmond today. A revolver in another trooper's hands discharged and a steel jacketed bullet passed through Young's right hand and into his body near the waist. Three other Blues members have been killed in the last month, two this week on railroads.
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Richmond
Roslyn DD. Young
First Virginia Cavalry
Richmond Blues
Blues’ Armory
Young
Blues’ Command
Worn Money and Remedies Note in Local Ad
A. M. Hunsucker of Bogue Chitto Miss writes of rhestmatism kidney and bladder trouble and says Foley Kidney Pills gave complete relief. The notice also mentions disordered kidneys and pains warning readers of a half price sale at Mann Drug Co with Bridey event on Saturday and Monday.
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A. M. Hunsucker
Chittog
Miss
Foley
Mann Drug Co
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Moore's Springs
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Winston-Salem
Duchess
Charmesse
NEW Today
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Ing Company
W. J. McAnally
Chattanooga
Sional Mountain
J. Allen Austin
Walter Royals
Carter Dalton
Raleigh
Code Commission
L. H. Putnam
Hayworth Springs
Rouse City, Tex
Mary Kil
Matton’s—Drug Store
Matton’s
Pass Island
France
Georgia
Jack Fields
Isaac Hamburger & Sons
Merchant Tailors
Baltimore, Md
Virginia
Alexander
J. A. Hart Drug Ca
Warner
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Lisle
Beavans
Fight For Democracy
She Commercial National Bank
High Point, N.C
Prudence
Diabank & Trust
Ny Capital
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W. C. Idol
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