Officials forecasting break with Austria over submarine policy
Washington officials say Germany will not back down from its ruthless submarine campaign and expect Austria to support it. Berlin controls Austria Hungary and Turkey appears swayed toward Berlin aims while Bulgaria follows Kaiser's dictates.
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Constantinople
United States
Germany
Elkas
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Mediterranean
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Mohammed V
Washington
Border officer Armstrong honored with border funeral
Lieutenant Hiatt reports the burial of Biv Armstrong Co M North Carolina N G who died of meningitis at Fort Bliss El Paso. A military funeral on the border featured escorts from Companies A C and D second North Carolina regiment and was led by Captain J M Roberson. Pallbearers included Major Gordon Smith and Lt Luck. Routing of the remains ran from Fort Worth to High Point via Shreveport Meridian Birmingham Atlanta Charlotte arriving last night at 9 30. Remaining border guardsmen await orders with High Point Field Hospital No 1 due to depart El Paso March 15.
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J. M. Roberson
Episcopal Church of
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Hiatt
Gordon Smith
Luck
Little
Knight
Armstrong
Fort Worth
Shreveport
Meridian
Miss
Birmingham
Ala
Atlanta
Charlotte
High Point
el Paso
High Point Boys
Field Hospital No. 1
Funeral arrangements for Major General Frederick Funston
San Francisco on February 22 arrangements were completed for a marked demonstration in honor of the late Major General Frederick Funston. His body arrives tomorrow from San Antonio Texas escorted by a battalion of coast artillery from the railroad station to City Hall. He will rest in the rotunda at City Hall until the funeral on Saturday morning with services at First Presbyterian Church and burial at the national cemetery on the Presidio.
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San Francisco
Frederick Funston
San Antonio
Tex
Coast Artillery
First Presbyterian Church
National Cemetery
The
Preridio
Buick Car Stolen From Neese Hall Front in Greensboro
The Buick belonging to Smith Richardson was stolen last night before midnight from in front of Neese hall on East Washington street. Police were notified and are actively searching for the vehicle and the thief.
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Greensboro
Smith Richardson
Neese Hall
East Washington Street
Revision of Legion of Honor Statutes Proposed in France
A bill in the French Chamber of Deputies seeks to revise Legion of Honor pension rules. It would distinguish between civil and military wartime service and cap pensions at 250 francs yearly for soldiers and officers promoted during the war, excluding those not decorated for courage.
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Associated Press
Paris
Order of the Legion of Honor
Chamber of Deputies
Legion
Legion of Honor
Prand Ross
Statesville Champion Of State In Basketball
Statesville defeats Davidson College 37 to 31 to claim North Carolina state basketball honors in a suspenseful finish. Merchants' Band provided music as Statesville pulls away in the last five minutes. Manning, Etheridge, Morrison, Brady and others star for Statesville with a strong team effort.
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Statesville
Davidson College
North Carolina
Merchants’ Band
Holding
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Strupper
Etheridge
Morrison
R.g
Brady
Urge Sunday as Day of Prayer for Peace
Chicago, Feb 23 A call by the executive committee of the Association of German American pastors urged all churches to observe Sunday February 25 as a day of repentance and prayer to avert war by the United States. The statement says the U S is responsible for prolonging the war by supplying weapons to belligerents.
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Chicago
United States
Association of German-Amer
Ican
Stevenson Captures Fifth District Seat With 2147 Vote Margin
In unofficial returns from Columbia South Carolina the Chesterfield candidate W F Stevenson defeats Claude N Sapp by a 2147 vote majority in yesterday's special election for the fifth congressional district.
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Columbia
S. C
W. F. Stevenson
Chesterfield
Claude N. Sapp
Tanlac Renews Wife’s Health in High Point Story
W. C. Alridge recounts how Tanlac restored his wife Mrs. Lucy Ellen Alridge after a decade of indigestion and nervous distress. She regained appetite, gained 15 pounds, and could work again. Hart Drugs in High Point distributes Genuine Tanlac.
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High Point
Lucy Ellen Alridge
W. C. Alridge
Tanlac
Tanlae
Hart Drugs Store
Thomasville
Thomasville Drug Ecompany
Randleman
Randleman Drug Co
Large Acreage in Irish Potatoes to Be Planted
Mount Olive Feb 23 Indications are that the coming season will see the largest Irish potato crop in the Mount Olive Calypso area despite high seed costs and bad weather. About carloads of the best seed stock in Aroostook County Maine have been distributed along the Goldsboro Wilmington Coast Line. Farmers expect higher potato prices and plan heavy plantings of peppers beans cucumbers and watermelons for 1917.
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Mount Olive
Calypso
Aristock County
Maine
Goldsboro-Wilmington
Coast Line
Political conditions in Russia outlined by Stockholm report
Berlin via Sayville Feb 23 reports from the Koelnische Zeitung Stockholm correspondent noting private Russian information on the current crisis. The struggle is described as Anglo-French influence versus national Russian factions, with cadet leader Milyukov allied to foreign powers and at risk of losing influence.
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Berlin
Sayville
Stockholm
Koelnische Zeitung
Crowne
Milyukov
Su‘tick
Rev J M Duncan resigns pastorate at Benson
Mount Olive Feb 25 Rev J M Duncan longtime pastor of the Benson Baptist church resigns and will devote future work to evangelistic missions He led a four year pastorate that saw a new church building costing about 18000 and membership roughly double.
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Mount Olive
J. M. Duncan
Baptist Church
Benson
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Duncan
Submarine Bremen Sunk On First Voyage Across Atlantic
Berlin confirms the German merchant submarine Bremen went down on its first voyage to the United States amid great North Atlantic storms, contrary to Scandinavian reports claiming it served as a supply ship.
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Copenhagen
London
Bremen
Germany
Associated Press
Berlin
United States
North Atlantic
Westward surge of thirty thousand empty freight cars
New York reports thirty thousand empty freight cars moving westward from Atlantic port to relieve the shortage by month’s end. President Wilson must decide on export charges, affecting cargo flow and vessel operations as season changes free up icebound cars.
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New York
Atlantic Porte
West
Wilson
Seaboard
Atlantic
Crumpton Wins Elon College Intercollegiate Debater honor
At Elon College on a February evening the annual intercollegiate peace contest named J L Crumpton of Roxboro as the winner and orator's medalist. Henry Terrie Floyd and William Carson King of Seagrove and Roanoke Alabama also competed with King as alternate. The judges were PD R Fonville Supt C D Johnson and Rev J W Harrel.
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Elon College
Henry Terrie Floyd
Roanoke
Ala
John Laymond Crumpton
Roxboro
Havilah Babcock
Appomattox
William Carson King
Seagrove
PD. R. Fonville
Burlington
C. D. Johnson
J. W. Harrel
J. L. Crumpton
W. €. King
Simple Adler-ika Mixture Said To Relieve Constipation
High Point residents report rapid relief using Adler-ika a mix of buckthorn bark glycerine and related ingredients. One spoonful claimed to ease constipation sour stomach or gas with quick effect. a few doses may aid appendicitis prevention and chronic stomach issues. Matton Drug Co.
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Adler-ika
Matton Drug Co
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