Verge of break with Berlin sparks congressional tension
Washington reports a deep mood in Congress over Germany and the fate of U S policy as leaders fear war unless President Wilson shifts from allowing Americans on belligerent ships. House conservatives push a warning resolution while North Carolinians and lawmakers like McLemore and Gore push for action to deter armed vessels.
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Washington
Spain
Germany
Senate
House
Berlin
Wilson
Germarmy
Major Stedman
Nitehin
Webb
Page
Stedman
Congress
White House
United States
House of Representatives
Howevr
Conprese
Endeays
Republic
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
McLemore
Texas
England
Foreign Affairs Committee
Great Britain
Gore
Oklahoma
White chamois killed by Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Correspondence reports the white chamois slain August 28, 1913 near Castle Bluhnbach in the Salzburg Alps by Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Duchess of Hohenberg. The event fueled Alpine superstition that a hunter of a white chamois dies within a year.
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Francis Ferdinand
Chamois
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Ess
Hohenberg
Austrian Alpine Countries
Bluehnbach
Salzburg Alps
Konopiselit
Archduke Ferdinand
Duchess von Hohenberg
French civilians in occupied zones starved amid German requisitions
Paris reports two and a quarter million French in north and east zones under German control face severe shortages. Fresh beef at 1.25 dollars a pound and eggs at 15 cents reflect the high cost of living, with limited daily rations assigned to each family and widespread poverty among children and workers. Relief efforts by American and neutral agencies organize distributions via local French committees under American oversight.
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North
Aisnes
Ardennes
Pas de Calais
Mesnil
Meuse
Sommes
Marne
Ose
Voges
American Relief Relief Commission
Spain
Holland
Maurice Barres
French Academy
America
Longwy
Lille
Valenciennes
Vergnis
Charleville
Swiss Governoment
Southern Railway Extends Telephone Dispatching Line
The Southern railway plans two new telephone circuits between Alexandria Virginia and Monroe Virginia to dispatch trains over the 350 mile line to Salisbury North Carolina. The project will create jobs under W H Potter and improve speed and accuracy by spelling all figures, with the Monroe Salisbury section already using telephone dispatching. The initiative, part of a broader upgrade including double tracking and automatic electric block signals, aims to make the line one of the most modern in the world.
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Washington, D .C
Alexandria
Salisbury
N. C
Southern Railway
Monroe
W. H. Potter
Telegraph
Southern
Washington
Wooster College to Inaugurate J Campbell White
The College of Wooster plans the presidential inauguration of J Campbell White MA LLD for February 24 with ceremonies and May events. Secured speakers include Roy Willis Dean Shailer Mathews Robert K Speer Fletcher Brockman and George Eddy alongside W O Thompson. White is an 1890 alumnus and since 1906 has led the Laymen’s Missionary Movement.
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J. Campbell White
College of Wooster
Roy. Willis
Ohio
Shailer Mathews
University of Chicago
Robert K. Speer
Fletcher S. Brockman
George Sherwood Eddy
New York
W. O. Thompson
Ohio State University
Register Now to Enter High Point as Progressive City
Books close Saturday and delays may cause you to be called out of town on that day, preventing inclusion of High Point on the list of progressive cities.
Public Sale of Property of the Late Dr. J H Mock
The public sale of the late Dr J H Mock's personal property began yesterday in Thomasville with a crowd of several hundred. About 30 head of horses and mules 15 20 buggies cows ponies goats and farming implements were sold. M A Ritchie contracted paralysis and remains bedfast though improvement is reported. The February recorder court shows excellent behavior with only one drunken case. J L Armfield with an abscess is able to be out again.
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Thomasville
J. H. Mock
M. A. Ritchie
Recorders Court
J. L. Armfield
Paris Snails From Burgundy Flagged by Teuton Origin Fears
Paris gourmets prize Burgundy snails but before the war many were imported from Bavaria and some now come from Switzerland. Patrons urge frontier seizure on suspicion of Teuton origin, per Dr. Berillon.
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Paris
Burgundy
Berillon
Bavaria
Switzerland
Unregistered voters barred from bond election
The notice states that all residents who have not registered by Saturday night will be unable to participate in the bond election.
British Losses Top One Thousand Officers in January
January casualty lists show 310 British officers killed, 647 wounded, 40 missing, totaling 1,024. Since the war’s start, 23,087 casualties include 7,157 killed, 14,158 wounded, 1,772 missing. Notable losses: regiments in Persian and Balkan theatres, royal flying corps with 42 casualties. Brigadier-General Fitton and six lieutenant colonels were killed. Brigadier-General Harvey wounded.
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Associated Press
London
Kents
Lancashires
Black Watch
Field Artillery
Engineers
Yorkshires
Royal Flying Corps
Fitton
Harvey
Danville Man Killed by Overhead Shafting at Mills
Frank Jordan a 30 year old Riverside Mills dye house worker in North Danville was killed when a projecting screw in a pulley caught his jacket and twisted him into a swiftly revolving shaft. He was torn and crushed, fell to the ground, and died at a local hospital after being rescued from the machinery. He leaves a wife and several children.
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Danville
Frank Jordan
Riverside Mills
North Danville
Indefinite Consul Report on China Seizure
Washington reports the American consul in Shanghai submitted a partial state department summary about the seizure of 38 Germans aboard the American steamship China by a British warship. The location was given as ten miles offshore, and Secretary Lansing called the report indefinite pending more details.
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Washington
Shanghai
China
State Department
After Lagrippe What Foley’s Honey and Tar Restores Health
Bedford Indiana resident F G Prevo describes an attack of lagrippe with a severe cough that left him thin. He credits two bottles of Foley's Honey and Tar with restoring his health and weight. The ad promotes it as a reliable remedy for coughs colds and croup by Mann Drug Co.
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F. G. Prevo
Bedford, Ind
Foley
Mann Drug Co. Adv
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Ling
High Point, N. C
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