Army Needs Men for Service Worldwide in 1917
Col A V P Anderson announces at the local recruiting station that the American expeditionary forces in Europe need more recruits immediately. Enlistment terms are one or three years, with postings to overseas depots and assignments across the regular army including infantry, cavalry, engineers, and more in places such as Alaska border duty, Mexico, Hawaii, the Philippines, Panama, and Siberia.
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Europe
Col. A. V. P. Anderson
Camp Meade
Regular Army
Air Service
Alaska
Philippines
Panama
Siberia
Market opens steady after heavy start on crop reports
The stock market opened lower but settled around 33.55 for October and 431.82 for January, about 22 to 23 points higher. Cotton futures opened steady with October at 31.65 December 32.00 January 31.95 March 32.05 May 32.05.
Railroad Schedules Show Southern Lines and Stops
Train times list arrivals and departures for Washington Birmingham Charlotte and Asheboro with noted conditional stops and Sunday suspension. Timetables indicate several routes including Wash to Char and Asheboro passages with multiple daily slots and a late night service.
Stock Market Opens Under Rail Labor Rejection Pressure
Moderate decline attributed to the rejection by railroad shopmen of President Wilsons offer casts a heavy tone on the New York market. Leading rails steels and oils fall one to nearly three points, with losses largely reversed by the end of the first hour as demand returns for traceable steel Baldwin locomotives and other strong issues.
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New York
Wilson
Baldwin Locomotive
Anti Clericals Decry Bible Scenes in Yankee Films
French anti clericals attack recurring Bible and pistol imagery in American movies. Historian M. Aulard argues the sentimental bandit trope misrepresents Americans and urges Americans to keep such depictions to themselves with their pastors and Bibles.
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Paris
M. Aulard
Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound Hair Darkener
A downtown druggist touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a restored natural hair color solution. The product darkens gray hair evenly when applied with a sponge or brush, producing a glossy youthful look after one or two uses.
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Wyeth
Bathing Widow in Black Stirs Atlantic City Beach
Atlantic City on August 27 reports a fashion stir as two women arrive on the shore in mourning bathing outfits. Black crepe veils, white-edged bathing caps, and black ensembles draw curious glances while they stay well back from the surf.
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Bathing Widow
All In Black
Stirf
Atlantic City
Swedish press resumes normal size after compositor strike
STOCKHOLM Aug 27 Despite the compositors strike newspapers are back to normal size as printing offices resume work by employing outsiders.
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Stockholm
Irish Home Rule Debate Focuses on County Option
Dublin reports show Sinn Fein support for full home rule with plebiscite while county option splits opinion. Lloyd George’s possible offer to extend dominion to Ireland sparks discussion as Ulster unionists oppose excluding any region from the new Irish parliament. Sir Horace Plunkett leads a Dominion stance wary of partial Irish inclusion.
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Sinn
Ulster
Ireland
Sir Horace
Steel-Maitland resigns from overseas trade post in protest
Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland resigns as head of the department of overseas trade saying he was blocked by the hybrid political nature of the post. The department was created to bridge the foreign office and board of trade in promoting British trade interests. Responsibility to both masters is cited as a key difficulty.
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Steel-Maitland
Department of Overseas Trade
Foreign Office
Board of Trade
Winston-Salem to get large capacity flour mill
Winston-Salem will see a new large capacity flour mill to raise roller mill output in the region by 20 to 25 percent. Luther C. Hobson sells his Yadkin county mill and home to M. Gorrell Myers and plans to complete the Winston-Salem mill by year’s start. Site selection is pending with two or three possible locations under consideration.
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Luther C. Hobson
Hobson and Myers
Hobson
Yadkin County
Yadkinville
Winston-Salem
Explosion at cafe roaster injures none
A gas fault caused a coffee roaster to blow forty feet into the air at the wholesale coffee house of P. S. Van Winkle in San Francisco. T. M. Van Winkle escaped without serious injury. The blast wrecked the plant interior, shattered windows, and showered glass on passersby. Harbor hospital ambulance was sent, but no treatment was needed.
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San Francisco
P. S. van Winkle
T. M. van Winkle
Harbor Hospital
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S.A. Tuecker
N.C
Farw Ware
L. C. Ferguson
Enterprise Office
Winston Salem Road
Holder
Wm. P Ragan, Jr
West High Street
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Medical Department
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Engineer Corps
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Genger
High Point
Rairoad
Washington
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Washin
Bionil
Danville
Charlie
Chari Washin
Itte
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Charlotte
Atlanta
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Ashebrook
Asheboro
United States Railroad Administration
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Peacock - Sherrod
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Greenwood
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Erin
George
Plunkett
Dominion League
Dublin
Gree
Lloyd George
Minion
Tion
Dubliin
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Minion Leaene
London
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Winston
Gartrell
Increas
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