Kaiser Denied Telegraph to Wilson Over Belgium Neutrality
Berlin reports deny the 1914 telegram alleged by James W. Gerard as sent by the Kaiser to President Wilson. The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung states no such telegram exists and recounts Kaiser Wilhelm’s mediation efforts with King George V, Edward Grey, and the Czar amid Belgium neutrality concerns and mobilization news.
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Berlin
Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung
James W. Gerard
Wilson
Belgium
Germany
George
Prince Henry
Great Britain
France
Austria
Russia
Gerard
Aus
United States
H.R. HU
King George V
London
England
H. M
Sir E. Grey
Edward Grey
Serbia
Vienna
Belgrade
H.E
T. M
Hier
HL. M
Sir J. Grey
Carlisle Town Remains 100 Percent Draft Record
Carlisle Mass August 13 the town boasted a 100 percent draft record with a single man listed. He was examined passed waived exemption and enrolled.
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Carlisle
Mass
Schools 10 Open On September 24
Superintendent W. M. Marr announced the IS17-IS session will open Monday September 24. One teaching vacancy is likely to be filled at the next city council meeting to ensure readiness for the formal opening. The high school adds an eleventh grade this year, with seniors delayed from last year.
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W. M. Marr
Tmis Street
South Maine Street
Religious Ob jectors Placed in Army as Noncombatants
Washington on August 13 religious objectors are to be drafted and sent to mobilization camps where they will serve in noncombatant capacities as designated by the President. They will form part of their states quotas and be assigned to duties described as non-combatant.
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Washington
Body of Girl Found Near St Albans Vermont
The body of 14 year old Jennie Hemingway was found on the edge of a cornfield near St Albans Vermont. Police say identification points to murder and the death was caused by strangling. Robert Warm of Pottstown Pennsylvania a private in the 18th United States cavalry says he was with her last night and is held for investigation.
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St. Albians
Jennie Hemingway
Robert Warm
Pottstown
18Th United States Cavalry
Wheat market steadies after mixed opening
Government plan to rule the wheat and flour business did not deter trading. September wheat opened lower at 2.14 but recovered to 2.15 as the day progressed in Chicago.
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Chicago
Call For First Troops On September The Fifth
Washington August 13 General Crowder announces that thirty percent of the men drafted for the National Army would be called to the colors September 5 beginning movement on that day. Another thirty percent on September 15 and a third thirty percent September 30. The remaining ten percent as soon thereafter as possible.
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Washington
Crowder
National Army
Revival Begins at Green Street Baptist Church
The Green Street Baptist revival, led by Rev. Walter Rodgers, began Sunday morning with a large crowd. Rodgers urged Christians to advance, win souls, and press forward with God as leader. Evening service drew a packed house with six stated focus points and two conversions. Two members joined by letter. Services continue tonight with the sermon Feeding the Hungry.
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Green Street Baptist Church
Walter
Rodgers
Mr. Rodgers
High Point
God
Christ
Green Street
Eighteen Hundred Officers to Be Commissioned at Fort Myers
Washington Aug 13 Eighteen hundred student officers of the Fort Myers camp will be commissioned late today in the presence of cabinet officers members of congress and prominent army and navy officers Secretary Baker will deliver the oration President Wilson has been invited to attend.
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Washington
Fort Myers
Congress
Army
Navy
Baker
Wilson
Port Niagara training camp grants commission to student Wilbur S Sommer
Washington August 13 Commissions granted students at the Port Niagara training camp include Wilbur B Sommer of Asheville to be second lieutenant field artillery.
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Washington
Port Niagara
Wilbur B. Summer
Asheville
Leutenant Field Artillery
Fort McPherson Camp Grants Student Officers Training Role
Fort McPherson Georgia officers training camp includes Captain Infantry John K. Taylor of Yadkinville North Carolina among the granted students.
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Washington
Fort McPherson
Infantry
O. R
Bribed Officials Begin Trial In Exemption Case
New York reporters say evidence is ready for presentation in the cases of Louis I. Cherry and Dr. Samuel Bernfeld of the exemption board, removed from office by presidential order after a Justice Department probe. Kalman Kuher, alleged exemption blank distributor, faces grand jury scrutiny while the prisoners remain jailed at the Tombs after failed bail efforts.
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New York
Louis I. Cherry
Samuel Bernfeld
Exemption Board
Department of Justice
Kalman Kuher
Exemption Blank
Mission steamer City of Athens sinks near Cape Town
Washington reports five Americans lost when the City of Athens hit a mine and sank near Cape Town on August 10. Nineteen Africa Inland Mission missionaries survived. among the dead were Mrs Duckworth and her English husband with six children. Names include Mr Naggard Miss Robinson Caroline Thompson and Mr Summer.
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Washington
City of Athens
Cape Town
South Africa
State Department
Naggard
Robinson
Caroline Thompson
Methodist Mission Board
Pointer
Briggs Street
Brooklyn
Mr. Summer
Duckworth
Denver
Meadows
Ritchie
Chicago
Pritchett
Philadelphia
David L. Astoria
South Dakota
F. Braaten
Minneapolis
Denman
Smith
New York
Capetown
Africa Inland Mission
Farr L. Camp
Charles E. Hurlburd
Soldier Players Handed a Licking by Hosiery Mills
The Company M baseball team lost 11 to 5 to High Point Hosiery Mills on Saturday afternoon. Scout John Carroll led the soldiers with effort but wild pitches and early errors doomed their cause. Carroll says the team will practice and be ready to challenge any rival next Saturday, with Greer and Carroll starring and Gurley Hedgecock Stevenson and Pope in the battery.
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High Point Hosiery Mills
Soldiers
Brough
Company M
John Carroll
Comrads
Soldier Nine
Carroll
War Department
Jawn
Greer
Gurley
Hedgecock
Stevenson
Pope
Sock
Company M Receives $25 Donation From R L Loflin
At a First Baptist church sermon yesterday Dv James A Clark presided as R L Loflin presented Company M with a $25 check in thanks for their work after Mr Loflins store burned. Officers announced the public gratitude today. The men helped remove and guard stock on the street.
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Company M
James A. Clark
First Baptist Church
R. L. Loflin
Well Known Man Died Early Today in Lexington
J N Mendenhall a leading citizen of Davidson and Guilford counties died suddenly at his Lexington home at 3 30 this morning after returning from Guilford College. He was 73, survived by two sons and two brothers, with funeral plans pending for Lexington.
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Lexington
Mendenhall
O. K. Mendenhall
Yearly Meeting of Friends
Guilford College
Fb. BE. Mendenhall
Guilford County
England
S. C. Mendenhall
Old Place
Mr. Mendenhall
C. Bh. Mendenhall
W. H
Storm wrecks crops across area with thousands in losses
Reports from farms northwest of the city describe heavy rain wind hail and an electrical storm causing thousands of dollars in crop damage. Corn fodder was stripped and tobacco shredded while ripening wheat in a nearby field was ruined. Estimates suggest several thousand dollars in losses.
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Sophia
Randolph County
C. D. Smith
East Green Street
Mrs Minnie Woollen Dies After Year-Long Illness
Mrs Minnie Alling Woollen, 40, wife of J E Woollen a South Main street merchant, died at her home last night after a year of illness. Survived by husband and three children, she belonged to the South Main Street Methodist Episcopal church. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 3 PM from the residence led by Rev H H Robbins, with interment in Oakwood cemetery.
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Minnie Alling Woollen
J. E. Woollen
South Main Street
H. H. Robbins
Oakwood Cemetery
Catalonia Railroad Workers May Join Nationwide Strike
Paris reports Catalonia province railroad employees intend to join a general strike aimed at paralyzing traffic across Spain, signaling broad labor action pending the Madrid dispatch.
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Catalonia
Paris
Madrid
Spain
Men Scrutinized for Draft Show High Point Exam
Today 61 men from High Point township were examined for military draft eligibility. Thirteen were rejected due to physical shortcomings, leaving the rest in excellent condition. The morning results mark the best showing to date as white men were examined. later 14 Negro applicants were scheduled.
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High Point Township
Warning on car use to save gasoline for war needs
Washington, Aug. 13. Director Vance H. Manning of the Bureau of Mines warns that drastic action may be taken to curb luxury car use to preserve fuel for America’s war needs. He urges owners to curb unnecessary pleasure riding and adopt economical handling of gasoline, while stressing that buying or keeping cars need not be reversed.
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Manning
Washington
Vance H. Manning
Bureau of Mines Today
America
Ita Allis
Major Burrus Takes Command Of Spartanburg Hospital
Friends confirm Major 4 T Burrus has been assigned to command the base hospital at the Spartanburg cantonment in South Carolina. He left Fort Oglethorpe Georgia this morning after training there. Burrus wired his wife and daughter to meet him at Spartanburg and they plan to travel there soon. Local physicians' friends call the appointment a credit to his abilities, noting 60 000 to 80 000 men may be in training and require hospital facilities.
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Spartanburg
Ss. C
Fort Oglethorpe
Burrus
Funeral of Allred Child in Randleman Today
Infant of Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Allred died yesterday in Greensboro. Remains were brought to Randleman for burial today. Mrs. J. B. Allen of this city is the aunt. J. B. Allen and Mrs. Allen left for Randleman to attend the funeral.
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A. Y. Allred
Greensboro
Randleman
Mr. Allred
J.B. Allen
J. &. Allen
General Debate On War Tax Bill Begun In Senate
Washington Aug 13 general debate on the war tax bill will begin in the Senate today with Senator Simmons in charge after his statement. Secretary McAdoo will confer with Chairman Kitchin about raising part of ten additonal 86,000,000,000 needed to meet war expenses until early 1918. The amount for current needs remains undetermined possibly as high as 240 thousand dollars.
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Washington
Senate
Simmons
McAdoo
Kitchin
Villa’s Former Chief of Staff Shot in Nogales Ranch
Juraez region report says Jose Ynez Sahizr, once Villa’s chief of staff and rebel leader, was shot and killed at the Nogales ranch near Ascension. Earlier dispatches claim Salazar died in Casas Grandes while home guards protected Ascension districts.
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Juraez
Jose Ynez Sahizr
Revalavanies
Villa
Nogales Ranch
Ascension
Americana
Casabandeg
Salazar
Casas Grandes Ascension
Lew Announces Ban on Stockholm Specialist Conference
Not to Attend Conference. Andrew Bonar Lew said in the lower house that the government decided not to grant permission for a specialist conference at Stockholm.
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London
Andrew Bonar Lew
Werviment
Stockholm
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George Carpenter
Captain Wiedman
J. N. Mendenhall
J.N. Mendenhall
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Winston-Salem Road
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