Fringed War Poem and Local Notices From Historic Page
Poem part laments fallen soldiers and asks France to keep the dead. followed by a New York Times notice of an East End Methodist church Orange Social on December 11, 1917 at 7:50 PM at 201 Cable Street to raise funds for benches. Local items include Jette’s illness, visits in Greensboro, Mrs Ellison critical after stroke, Glenn Rawley enlisting, and William Ragan Jr ill with diphtheria.
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Phileathea
East End Methodist Church
J. O. Wood
Cable Street
Everrybody
Club Meeting on Colonial Brazil Subject at Mrs White Home
The Witerture Department of the Woman's club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 30 at the home of Mrs H A White on Lindsay street. The subject is The Colonial Period of the History of Brazil. All members welcomed.
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Witerture
The
Woman's Club
H. A. White
Lindsay Street
Brazil
Miss Mellichampe Injured in Kitchen Stove Explosion
Frozen pipes caused Rev. W. L. Mellichampe's kitchen stove to explode yesterday morning injuring Miss Sadie Mellichampe with a fractured arm and multiple bruises and cuts.
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W. L. Mellichampe
Sadie Mellichampe
Visitors and residents seen in Greensboro gatherings
Austin Finch and Henry Litaker of Thomasville visited Greensboro briefly. Frank Henley returned to Greensboro after a weekend at home. Miss Maude Owen and guest Miss Brown of Ayden visited Greensboro Saturday. Mr and Mrs C C Prince motored to Greensboro Saturday. Mrs J P Rawley was called to Char...
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Austin Finch
Henry Litaker
Thomasville
City
Frank Henley
Greensboro
Maude Owen
Miss Brown
Ayden
Mrs. C. C. Prince
J. P. Rawley
Char
Devil Writes to the Kaiser Letters From a Pirate Tale
A fragmentary historical text describes a dialogue about commanding a German submarine to sink ships, with figures Batholomew Roberts and Kidd referenced. It notes crew mutiny fears and the devilish sender expressing a desire for victory while lamenting unavailable crews.
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Naiser
Batholomew Roberts
Chajoner
Every
Kidd
Wilhelm
Hades
Seelzebub
Rocky Mount Tobacco Market Shatters Records
Rocky Mount sales total 19,800,000 pounds this season, averaging $2.61 per hundredweight, approaching the 20,000,000 pound benchmark and surpassing last year’s record by nearly 3,000,000 pounds as Dee reports.
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Rocky Mount
Dee
Route plan for Whitakers to Battleboro highway
Engineer Snowden of the state highway commission visited Rocky Mount with local citizens from Rocky Mount Battleboro and Whitakers to select a route for a proposed swamp crossing highway from Whitakers to Battleboro.
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Rocky Mount
Snowden
State Highway Commission
Rocky, Mount
Battleboro
Whitakers
No One Need Be Hungry Boy Struck by Automobile
Rocky Mount reports Kendricks Knight, a city boy, hospitalized after being struck by a automobile driven by local timer J. E. Lane. Knight sustained a severe head blow and minor scratches. The item then lists assorted jokes and quotes about bores and railway safety.
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Rocky Mount
Kendricks Knight
J. E. Lane
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America
France
Heros
New York Times
Jette
Valette Jones
Dorothy and
Virgian Henley
Jd. F. Ellison
Glenn P. Rawley
Washington
Philadelphia
Navy
William P. Ragan, Jr
West High Street
Dishtheria
Miss Mellichampe
de Qunled
Eugene A. Blake
Imperial Vaéit
River Si
Rocky Mount Tobacco Sales
Belber Traveling Goods
J. A. Hart Drug
United States
Charles W. Eliot
Cambridge
Dr. Blot
Dr. Eliot
Frisco
Tlking
Channcey M. Depew
Southern Railway Company
Southern Railway
Thesahroads
Snally
South
the Reity Taylor
Mporters Secaeres
Omcians USA
Luzianne
the Reily~Taylor Company
New Orleans
Allen
Crepe DE Chine Underwear
High Point
Tel
Coats
Moffitt Furnishing
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