Merchants Push Plan to Cut City Deliveries
High Point Merchants' association officials move toward a delivery reduction plan. They urge customers to carry home purchases when possible, end return goods abuse, and cut waste to lower prices and free workers for essential duties. Gilbert W. Clark appeals to patriotism and government guidance from the Commercial Economy board.
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High Point Merchants’ Association
Merchants’ Association of
High Point
Eagles Flock to Buffalo for Fraternal Meeting
Buffalo August 13 Hundreds of members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and national officers have arrived for the Rand Aerie annual meeting. Attendance is expected to be large with a week of entertainment and business sessions. War referendum participation and a grand reunion parade Thursday promise a mammoth patriotic demonstration.
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Buffalo
Order of Fragles
Rand Aerie
Order In War
Taft Still Improves After Illness
Taft shows continued improvement in condition. physician Dr. B F Morgan reports he took considerable nourishment after a night of rest better than since the intestinal ailment began last Tuesday. a lecture engagement had been postponed.
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Clay Centré
Kan
William Howard
Taft
B. F. Morgan
Carter
Mission to U S Mexico City Commission to study imports
The National Commercial Congress appointed a commission to depart for the United States to find ways for Mexico to obtain essential articles, especially foodstuffs the republic lacks. Also an ad promotes Foley's King Malaria Chill Tense for chills fevers and sweats with quinine virtues and energy.
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Mexico City
National Commercial Congress
United States
Mexico
Republic
Foley
Notables FISH NEAR CITY ON GUILD FARM ADVENTURE
United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue W. TH. Osborn congressman Charles Manly Stedman and Greensboro postmaster A Wayland Cooke, with Eugene Parrish as guide, arrived for a fishing excursion at the Gould farm lake. The group planned a brief stay and would return home this evening.
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Osborn
Stedman
Cooke
Gould Lake
Charles Manly Stedman
A. Wayland Cooke
Greensboro
City
Eugene Parrish
Gould Farm
Parrish
Guilford County
Major Stedman
Osborne
Mobile voters to decide 600000 bond for port terminals
In Mobile on August 13 voters face a special election to approve a 600000 bond issue for port terminals. War Department approval backs plans, signaling Mobile’s rise as a Gulf port.
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Mobile
Ala
Gulf
War Department
Journeymen Plumbers Convene in Toledo for Annual Convention
Journeymen plumbers from the United States and Canada, nearly 1,000 strong, gather in Toledo for the international union annual convention opening today. The event spans most of the week and blends business sessions with leisure activities.
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Toledo
United States
Canada
Minnesota Christian Endeavorers Converge at Cass Lake Convention
An army of enthusiastic young Christian Endeavorers from across Minnesota gathers in Cass Lake for the state convention. Sessions run several days and will be addressed by noted religious workers from the United States and Canada.
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Cass Lake
Minn
Minnnesota
United States
Canada
State Board Ships Silver Nitrate Prophylaxis for Newborn Eyes
North Carolina moves to prevent 30 percent infant blindness by eye infection at birth by sending 6000 ampoules of one percent silver nitrate solution to physicians and midwives. The prophylactic, packaged with sterile needles, is mandatory under the 1917 act and aims to reach all newborns as supplies continue to arrive.
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North Carolina
State Board of Health
General Assembly
Inspection Tour Planned of Lepers Settlements
Vancouver news reports W M Danner secretary of the Mission to Lepers sails on the Empress of Asia for a six months inspection tour of leper settlements in Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines. He travels with his wife and daughter to visit twenty stations aiding 11,000 lepers and children across ninety two colonies headquartered in Boston.
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Vancouver
B. C
W. M. Danner
Mission To
Japan
China
Korea
Philippines
Boston
Display of Monumental Sculpture Exhibition Opens in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on August 13 the Commercial Museums will host what is likely the largest display of monumental and sculptural works in the nation. The exhibit opens tomorrow and runs through the week as part of the National Retail Monument Dealers association annual convention.
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Philadelphis Iva
National Retail Monument Dealers’ Association
A Bad Spring for Women
A damp spring brings backache rheumatic pains and aches in sides joints and muscles. Bucknell Hardy Nebraska reports recovery from lumbago after using Foley Kidney Pills. Menn Drug Co.
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Bucknell, Hardy, Neb
Foley
Menn Drug Co
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Gilbert W. Clark
Merchants’ Association
Eagles
U. S
Commissioner of Inter
Nal Revenue
W. TH. Osborn
Congresman
Port Mobile
Minnesota
Christian Endeavorers
Henderson & Co
Bennett
J. T. Bennett Co
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
J. Gurney Briggs
Mer
Bank OF Commerce
H. A. Millis
C. E. Kearns
I. MN. Adams
A. M. Rankin
G. A. Pollock
FES Wheat Mili CO
Thomasville Roller
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