Berlin political crisis a bluff amid German power politics
Frederic William Wise deconstructs Berlin’s so called political crisis as a bluff, noting cabinet reshuffles and Reichstag impotence while warning that real power remains with the Kaiser's circle. Tirpitz’s dismissal did not curb submarine warfare and German forces still threaten British lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Berlin
Germany
Helfferich
Herr Zimmermann
Reichstag
William
Frankfurtur Zeitung
Bismarck
Denmark
Austria
France
Admiral von Tirpitz
Navy
Tirpitz
von Tirpitz
von Capelle
Amis
England
Flanders
Hindenberg
National Emergency Food Garden Campaign Opens South Drive
The National Emergency Food Garden commission launches a southern drive to boost fall planting with a 5000 prize fund for best canned vegetables. President Charles Lathrop Pack urges doubled crops to bolster the nation's food supply, citing a 215 percent rise in spring gardens across eleven southern states. The effort provides free planting instructions to newspapers and offers housewives two cent stamps to obtain canning and drying manuals.
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Washington
National Emergency Food Garden Commission
South
Charles Lathrop Pack
Spy scare at base of American fleet
Aug. 4 report from a British waters base notes an acute spy scare afflicting the village hosting American flotillas. Residents privately acknowledge a watching spy presence, with orders to be vigilant and discreet, especially among locals wary of strangers.
Foley Tablets Advertised for Digestion Relief
An ad from Mann Drug Co promotes Foley Tablets to prevent bowel waste buildup and ease indigestion. It claims gentle, non nauseating relief for indigestion constipation headaches bloating biliousness sour stomach and coated tongue linked to bad bread and disordered digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mann Drug Co
National War Garden Canned Produce Contest Offers 5000 in Prizes
Washington announces 1000 cash prizes totaling 5000 for best canned and dried war garden products in every state. Charles Lathrop Pack urges women and city farmers to enter blue ribbon exhibits, citing a 222 percent increase in garden efforts and promising merit certificates. Details to be released soon. managers urged to write to 210 Maryland Building. The commission is mailing drying and canning manuals to applicants.
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Washington
Charles Lathrop Pack
National Emergency Good Garden Commission
Wilson
Pack
Department of Agrculture
Maryland Building
Tonyone
Typhoid’s Source Is Human Intestines Says Health Board
The state board of health warns that typhoid fever originates solely in the human intestines of an infected person or carrier. It spreads through excrement, with flies as chief vectors, and emphasizes sanitation, clean food and water, vaccination as protection, and sarcasm about hens and ammunition factories.
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State Board of Health
Nin
British steamers move millions of troops and materiel
Commander Dion Calthorp reports the British merchant marine carried 8 million men and 10 million tons of war material to destinations. In six months last year only one in a thousand ships through Dover was sunk or damaged, and not a single fire loss occurred ferrying men to France. The war saw 1,000,000 sick and wounded transported here, plus 1,000,000 horses and mules, 50 million gallons of petrol, 100,000,000 cwt of wheat and 7,000,000 tons of iron ore. He notes German widows and orphans and many husbands lost to U boats.
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London
Dion Calthorp
Dover Patrol
France
Germany
Health work must be pushed in wartime state
State health authorities unite on preventive and curative measures as a national health plan grows. Dr Frederick L Hoffman suggests a nationwide health organ with state and local reports, fed to a central map, to track infectious disease trends daily via the state epidemiologist and county quarantine officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick L. Hoffman
National Health Organization
State Board of Health
Mortgagee's Sale Listing in Mechanicsville
Mortgagee by virtue of a July 1915 deed will sell at public sale at 2 PM September 1 1917 in front of J W Montgomery's store Mechanicsville. The lot lies 85 yards from the Mechanicsville graded school and is described by three compass-directed bounds. Highest bidder for cash.
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J. W. Montgomery
Mechanicsville
Lamd
Mortgage Notice Describes Property Sale to Satisfy Note
A notice states stake in Elisha King corner thence northwestwardly 200 feet to the beginning containing 1 3 acre more or less with a two room house. The lot is sold to satisfy the note secured by the named mortgages this August 1917. J W Hedgecock, Mortgagee.
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Elisha King's Corner
Public Auction of Lands in Three Randolph County Counties
The Greensboro Loan and Trust Co. will sell by public auction lands in Randolph and Guilford counties on Sept 3 4 1917 to settle partition of O R Cox estate. Nine tracts in Randolph City Asheboro plus several Guilford County lands in High Point and Thomasville with cash and staged payments. stocks and personal property also offered. sale conduct and title protections described by decree of Randolph Superior Court. Proceeds fund partition among heirs. notices list tract boundaries and local attorneys.
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Superior Court
Randolph County
North Carolina
Greenaboro Loan and Trust Co
O. R. Cox
Sarah KE. Cox
Asheboro
N. C
Depot Street
High Point, Randleman, Asheboro, and Southern Railroad Company
J. S
W. P. Lewis
Bank
Hardware
J. S. and
Finch and Caviness
High Point, Randleman, Asheboro and Southern Railroad Company
Greensboro Loan and Trust Co
First National Bank of
Thomasville
Dixie Fire Insurance Co
Bank of Randolph Stock
Asheboro Land = and Trust Co
High Point
Randleman, Asheboro, and Southern Railroad Co
Bank of Randolph County
Guilford County
Brockett Ave
Tate Ave
Price Street
Lee Street
Chippendale Road
No. 14
J. M. Sechrest
Office of the Register of Deeds
N.C
Liberty Street
George T. Penny
College
June A. Johnson
C. E
Office of Register of Deeds
Davidson County
Henry Rappy Bard
W. C. Hammer
J. A. Spence
King and Kimball
Atorneys
Greensboro
Greensboro Loan & Trust CO
J. W. Fry
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Frederic William Wise
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Garden Commission
Fight For Democracy
The
Commercial National Bank
High Point, N.C
Cornwall
National Service
Emcent
Elisha King
Ndnah King
J. W. Hedgecock
Mortgagee
First National Bank
North Street
McCrary-Redding Hardware Company
Said Street
Randleman and Southern Railroad
Fisher Ave
Hoover Street
Arthur Ross
Holder
J. W. Jolly
W. S. Skeens
Cemetery Street
Phyllis Baldwin
Franklinville
Cherry Street
Rush Street
A. A. Spencer
Franklinville Township
A.S. Foust
Hartwell Bird
A. S. Foust
Cedar Falls
Deep River
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Co
Hayworth Mineral Water
Frank P. Crane
Hayworth Mineral Springs
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