Boxing and Wrestling Surge at Camp Sevier
At Camp Sevier Greenville Jan 9 under Y M C A physician director the Association expands boxing and wrestling. New wrestling mat and 80 boxing gloves arrive with 40 sets more ordered enabling about 100 matches. A recent boxing bout produced 175 matches over two hours with ten bouts running simultaneously. A wrestling clash is planned between 60th Infantry Brigade and Unit No 83 serving nearby hospitals and regiments. An intra brigade wrestling tournament is underway.
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Seme
Field Signel Battalion
Tedey
60Th Infantry Brigade
Hese
Fied Hopitals
60Th Brigade
British 1917 Captures and Losses Overall
War Office summary shows 114,544 prisoners and 781 guns captured across fronts in 1917. Losses totaled 28,379 prisoners and 166 guns. Western theater accounts for 73,131 prisoners and 531 guns captured, with 27,200 prisoners and 166 guns lost. Palestine 17,046 prisoners and 108 guns captured. Mesopotamia 11,044 prisoners and 124 guns captured. No guns lost outside the Western theater.
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London
War Office
Western Theater
Palestine
Mesoptotamia
Bnai Brith Postpones Charleston Convention
Charleston South Carolina January 9 war conditions and passenger traffic led to the indefinite postponement of the annual convention of the International Order of Bnai Brrth district grand lodge No 5. E L Levy of Richmond Va reported the decision.
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Charleston
S. C
Adices Wer
District Grand Lodge No. 5
International Order of B'nai B'rith
E. L. Levy
Richmond
Indignation Over US Troops Drunkenness Charges in London
American army and navy officials in London reject reports that soldiers and sailors in Europe drank to excess. Vice Admiral William S. Sims and Col. S. H. Slocum insist charges are false and an insult to Britain. The Rev Dr Joseph Fort Newton had alleged drunkenness in a Sunday sermon.
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City Temple
Joseph Fort Newton
Iowa
London
Newton
William 8. Sims
Col
S. H. Slocum
Great Britain
Rare French tobacco and cigarettes sold in Paris weekly
Paris topics reveal rare tobacco and cigarettes now obtainable only once a week for about thirty minutes. Tobacconists’ shops resemble fuel yards in a shortage, with three to six police officers needed to manage the queue and calm those left waiting when the supply runs out.
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Paris
YMCA Buildings Planned at Camp Sevier Sevier Greenville
Camp Sevier in Greenville South Carolina will host four new YMCA buildings for Army Y M C A work. Locations include Field Signal battalion Remount depot 113th Field artillery and 120th infantry with a possible site at the Artillery range near Cleveland Mills. A rifle range dug-out is also being installed by Y M C A directors.
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Camp Sevier
Greenville
S. C
Army Y. M. C. A. E. D. Langley
Field Signal Battalion
113Th Field Artillery
120Th Infantry
Artillery Range
Cleveland Mills
Greenvile
Rabbits Sell At Fifty Cents In Washington
Washington January 9 there is optimism in Chatham and Wake counties as Prof H Benson of the states relations service recommends a war time plan to more generally use rabbits for food. Rabbits are now selling for 50 cents each in Washington and Benson urges canning and drying to preserve wild game and rabbits.
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Washington
Chatham
Wake Counties
H. Benson
States Relations Service
Department of Agriculture
Benson
German Becomes Mayor of Michigan City
Fred C Miller, a German with first papers for citizenship, was sworn in as mayor of Michigan City at noon yesterday. Legal proceedings to block his taking office on enemy alien grounds were postponed by a judge’s postponement and will resume Thursday with counsel for former mayor Martin T. Krueger contesting the action.
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Valpraise
Ind
Fred C Miller
Michigan City
Miler
Martin T. Krueger
Miller
Southern Railway to Cut Service and Redesign Schedules
Chattanooga Tenn Jan 9 A conference of Southern railway general officers met today to plan radical changes in train operation schedules and system reductions. President Fairfax Harrison arrived in the city last night to join the officials.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
The
Southern Railway
Fairfax Harrison
Illinois Campfire Girls Support War Help
Ninety four thousand Campfire Girls in Illinois back a new war program approved by President Wilson. They knit woolen comforts for soldiers using Red Cross supplied wool and return finished garments to the Red Cross. Chicago groups donate between $800 and $1,000 to Red Cross work and each of three groups sponsors a Belgian family for five years.
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Ilinois
Wilson
Red Cross
Campfire Girls
Chicago
American Army to Treat Wounded From Line to Hospital
Surgeon General Bradley announces a radical change in WWI care for American soldiers. Dr J M T Finney of Johns Hopkins, new surgery director, leads a system of continuous treatment from dressing station on the fighting line to the base hospital, reducing repetitive wound dressing checks.
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France
Bradley
J. M. T. Finney
Johns Hopkins University
Anglovene Aground Off Nova Scotia Pounding Ashore
A Canadian Atlantic port report says the American steamer Anglovene is ashore off the Scatary islands on the Nova Scotia coast and pounding to pieces on the rocks. The crew has been rescued by a tug and a steamer.
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Canadian Atlantic
Anglovene
Scatary Islands
Nova Scotia
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Piedmont
Ei 'Sace
W. C. Idol
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Sevier
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Southern
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Tollar
Atlantic
NEW Today
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Bank of Commerce
High Point
North Carolina
U.S
Storry
Setings
State of
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I. H. A. Millis
H. A. Millis
J. H. Adams
J. A. Eshelman
J. E. Millis
J. C. Siceloff
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