Vast profits from wartime ship trade and wreck sales
Washington reports that American ship brokers have earned enormous fortunes during the war. Tales include the Aztec insured at 2.5 million, a wreck salvaged for 2,500 and later sold for 200,000, and the William J. Logan profiting 2 million after retools. Nebraskan and Nevadan brought 850,000 each. a Halifax schooner rose from 1,000 to 30,000.
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Florida
New Orleans
Insurance Company
William J. Logan
Halifax
Danville Man William Woodall Dies After Illness
Danville Virginia August 7 William Robert Woodall a well known young businessman died at his home on Lee street Sunday night after an eighteen month chronic illness. A development in his long disease brought him to bed a week ago.
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Danville
William Robert Woodall
Lee Street
Amos Furniture Hoosier Cabinet Sale Sells 31 In One Day
The Enterprise reports Amos Furniture of High Point ran a Hoosier kitchen cabinet sale last Saturday advertised by Charles Amos. 31 cabinets sold in one day as 26 discounted and six at regular price disappeared, ending the planned advertisements. The firm plans another shipment and similar terms when stock arrives.
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Amos Furniture Company
Mr. Amos
High Point
Greensboro
Amos
Changes unlabeled for imperial development from Berlin papers
Berlin papers view the new imperial and Prussian minister appointments as inconsequential for parliamentary progress. The Tageblatt and Vossische Zeitung see little sign of a parliamentary government, while Volkszeitung notes only fresh blood in the bureaucracy as a mild positive.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
Tageblatt
Vossische Zeitung
Volkszeitung
Mrs De Saulles III to be moved to Nassau hospital
Bianca De Saulles, held in Mineola on a grand jury charge for harming her former husband John L. De Saulles, is seen by three doctors as extremely nervous and emaciated. She is expected to be transferred from jail to Nassau County Hospital. Her main worry appears to be whether she may see her son.
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Mineola
N. Y
Bianca de Saulles
Nassau County Hospital
Women in England Face Smoking Spread Beyond Control
London reports alarm over rising cigarette use by women and girls as wartime pressures fuel a new craze. Previously moderate smokers now consume up to a hundred or more cigarettes weekly, with factory girls aged sixteen to seventeen boasting of finishing a box daily.
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London
England
First eastern sheep sale opens at Columbus fairgrounds
Big Sheep Sale at Columbus Ohio opened at the state fair grounds as 1 500 registered sheep go to public auction. The sale, supported by registry associations, continues tomorrow and draws breeders and buyers from many states.
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Columbus
Mississippi River
Wolcott Family Reunion Opens in Hartford
Hartford August 7 at the thirteenth annual reunion of the Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott. Hundreds of visitors from distant points attend the opening day as E H Wolcott of Indianapolis presides as president of the association.
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Hartford
Conn
Society of Descendants
Henry Wolcott
New England
E. H. Wolcott
Indianapolis
Family Association
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Southern Bell Telephone
Wolcott Family Reunion
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