Noted author Joseph Hopkinson dies at 75 in Philadelphia
Obituary notes the 75th anniversary of Joseph Hopkinson death, author of Hail Columbia. The Philadelphia native, son of Francis Hopkinson, was a lawyer, congressman, judge, and trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, famed for the patriotic song written in 1798 during Franco British tensions.
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Columbia
Patriotic and Historical Societies
Joseph Hopkinson
Hopkinson
France
Great Britain
United States
Francis Hopkinson
New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Rush
William Corbett
Samuel Chase
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate
Chase
Bank of the United States
Bordentown
Inauguration Planned for New Jersey Governor-Elect Edge
Trenton on January 15 reports readiness for the inauguration of Governor-Elect Walter E. Edge and new state officials. A Republican jubilee follows a Democrat to Republican shift with a bright military parade. Ceremonies occur at the Taylor opera house, then a public capitol reception.
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Trenton
N. J
Walter E. Edge
New Jersey
Taylor Opera House
Capitol
Japanese Ordinance Bars Mail With Enemies
The Japanese government issued a regulation to block telegrams and mail to Germany Austria Turkey. Telegraph and post offices will not forward messages to these enemies. Violations carry punishment, but prisoners of war are exempted.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Meeting Concludes Dark Day Lodge Ceremony Tonight
Raleigh remembers Lincoln assassination with Hiram Lodge No 40 closing a 1865 session begun the night of the president’s shooting. The ceremony precedes North Carolina Masonic Grand Lodge’s 130th annual gathering. Speakers include Gov. Bickett Chief Justice Clark and former Gov. Kitchin.
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Associated Press
Raleigh
Hiram Lodge No. 40
Lincoln
United States
John Nichols
Congress
North Carolina
Masonic Grand Lodge of
Kilpatrick
Sherman
Washington
Annual Sports Trials And Fights Across Nations
A roundup of upcoming events including the National Champion ship Field Trial in Grand Junction Tennessee Alabama Field Trial in Decatur Alabama Northwestern Bowling in Jamestown North Carolina and major boxing card bouts such as Rivers vs Moran in New Orleans Chaney vs Julian in Baltimore Langford vs Tate in Kansas City Levinsky vs Moha in Youngstown Malone vs Billings in Superior and Dundee vs Cline in Philadelphia along with meetings of athletic associations nationwide and boating races in Miami postponed for a month.
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Grand Junction
Tenn
Alabama Field Trial Club
Decatur
Ala
Northwestern Bowling Association
Jamestown
N. C
Joe Rivers
Vic Moran
New Orleans
George Chaney
Duluth Domestic Servants Union Demands Eight- Hour Reform
Duluth women face a choice between doing their own work or meeting a nine hour day plus overtime. The newly formed domestic servants union seeks recreation day weekly wage scales from twenty to thirty dollars monthly and improved housing and sanitation. A general strike is threatened if demands are refused. The union formed with the Industrial Workers of the World and starts with one hundred members aiming to recruit citywide.
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Duluth
Minn
Domestic Servants’ Union
Industral Workers of the World
Revolutionary Letters Collection Shown in Philadelphia
Philadelphia collectors show strong interest in a public sale of Robert Morris confidential correspondence. The collection, intended as Morris guidance, includes intimate descriptions from leading statesmen and military authorities. Eighteen signers of the Declaration of Independence are represented.
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Philadelphia
America
Robert Morris
Germans and Turks Seize Patriarchal Palace in Syria
Cairo report from al Hoda says German and Turkish troops seized the patriarch’s palace at Ekerker near Beirut, injuring church buildings and sending the Maronite patriarch and household as prisoners. A German-Turkish court martial in Acre executed the Greek Catholic archbishop.
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Associated Press
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Egypt
al Hoda
Ekerker
Beirut
Syria
Lebanon
See
Berlin
Aleih
Acre
Akka
Ptolemais
Palestine
Colorado Farmers Congress Opens Annual Sessions at Colorado College
Fort Collins January 15 The Colorado Farmers Congress meets at the Colorado Agricultural College for its annual sessions. The program is among the best prepared with meetings planned for grain growers stock breeders dairymen fruit growers potato growers hops growers and beekeepers throughout the week.
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Fort Collins
Colo
Colorado Farmers’ Congress
Colorado Agricultural College
Montana retail merchants gather for annual convention
Helena Montana January 15 members of the Montana Retail Merchants association convene in force for the annual convention. President Fred S Sanden of Helena opened the gathering with an address as well known representatives from across the state attended the event this morning.
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Helena
Mont
Montana Retail Merchants’ Association
Fred S. Sanden
Signs of Good Health and Digestive Relief Ad
The advertisement touts bright eyes clear skins and energetic movements as signs of health and offers Foley Cathartic Tablets to relieve digestion problems caused by fermenting foods. It promises painless relief without griping or nausea and notes Mann Drug Company as the seller.
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Mann Drug Company
Stopped Children's Croup Cough by Nighttime Dose
A caregiver recalls two children beginning to choke and cough with croup and giving a dose before bedtime which ended the attack by morning. For sale by Mann Drug Company.
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Mann Drug Company
Piedmont Building and Loan stockholders meet in High Point
The Piedmont Building and Loan Association will hold its annual stockholders meeting at 8 p m on January 16 1917 in the Wachovia Bank and Trust company office High Point North Carolina. Elections for a board of directors for the ensuing year will be held and other business may be transacted. All holders are urged to attend. W M Idol Secretary dated December 16 1916.
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Piedmont Building and Loan Association
Wachovia Bank and Trust Company
High Point
N. C
Confederate Veterans Ride To May Reunion On Historic Rail Line
Confederate veterans travel to Washington for the May 28 to June 2, 1917 reunion. They ride the 48 mile stretch between Greensbor o and Danville Va built by Confederate soldiers and later integrated into the Southern's Atlanta Washington line. The line, once disputed after the Civil War, remains a lasting monument to Confederate effort and is now double tracked with few changes since its wartime routing.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Greensboro
Danville
Southern
Atlanta-Washington
Richmond
North Carolina
Virginia
United States
Tennessee
Farmers urged to avoid selling good seed wheat now
Washington January 15. Wheat growing farmers nationwide are cautioned by the department of agriculture not to part with their good seed wheat despite high prices. Experts warn that using shrunken or diseased seed could ruin this year’s crop and disaster may follow.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
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