German inspired disturbances erupt in southern Brazil
Unrest in Rio Grande do Sul as authorities move to curb German influence amid rail strikes and wartime tensions. Reports say German residents face censorship and closures of German schools and churches while officials investigate German support for strikes and revolutionary activity.
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Brazil
Easton Jrassen
Porto Alegre
Rio Grapa
Rio Grande Do Sul
Etro Grande Do Sul
Appointed Chief of General Staff in France
London reports Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence named chief of the general staff in France. Col. F E Cox to brigadier on the general staff of the intelligence department and Gen. Travers Clarke as quartermaster general. Changes are not related to the Cambrai operations report.
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London
James Ian MacPherson
War Office
House of Commons
Herbert Alexander Lawrence
France
FE . Cox
Intelligence Department
Travers E. Clarke
MacPherson
War Council
Cambrai
Lower house would hasten adjournment
A resolution by Mr. Young of Charleston prohibiting introduction of bills except those applying to one county after January 24 was adopted by the lower body to expedite business for an early adjournment.
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Columbia
D. C
Young
Charleston
Experience comes to Greensboro in a two day engagement
Beginning January 25 the modern drama Experience by George Slo bart’s company arrives at the Municipal theater Greensboro NC for a two day engagement. A cast of eighty two stars features the Primrose Path scene with a full chorus. The play portrays youth facing life’s temptations and consequences with a verdict that the wages of sin are misery and degradation.
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George ¥. Slobart
America
Municipal Theater
Greensboro
N.C
Himsel
New York
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Marie Sinclair
Leota Sinclair
Jennifer Sinclair
Alice Palmer
Trene Palmer
Julia Cobb
Gertrude Dustin
Harold Burnett
William Dupont
George Berry
Lillian Armstrong
Aldeah Wise
Molly Adams
Bernard Craney
Axel Olson
Bad Weather Hits Shipping Hard at Newport News
Newport News authorities report two weeks of severe weather have crippled shipping with steamers stuck in the harbor awaiting bunker coal and cargoes. Ice conditions and a coal shortage extend the city’s worst port crisis on record despite efforts by the fuel administration to ease supplies.
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Newport News
Fuel Administration
Quartermaster Officers Return to Duty at Camp Sevier
Camp Sevier Greenville S C January Capt Hiram Stanley recovered from illness and reassigned to the camp quartermaster office Captain Walter G Craven plans to depart for Washington for new duties and duties elsewhere await him
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Camp Sevier
Greenville
S. C
Jan
Hiram Stanley
Stanley
Walter G. Craven
Washington
Indoor workouts for soldiers at Camp Sevier planned
Camp Sevier in Greenville South Carolina outlines a large YMCA building modification to clear a 26 by 100 foot center space for indoor drills. If successful the plan could be extended to all buildings enabling six to ten thousand men to exercise daily indoors leveraging 125 pairs of boxing gloves arriving soon.
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Dow
E. Marriott
Camp Y. M. C. A. Physicx
Long trips by baseball clubs to be eliminated
National and American leagues agree to end long road trips as a patriotic measure to ease railroad strain. Playing dates will be consolidated and teams from cities with Sunday baseball bans likely won’t take one–game trips to western cities that permit Sunday games. Scheduling to be completed soon.
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Pittsburgh
Trustees to Pick New Head for School for the Blind
The state school for the blind trustees meet Friday to select a new superintendent after the death of John E. Ray. The law requires a superintendent trained to teach the blind and deaf. Prof. J. C. Blair is among those mentioned as a candidate. many others are considered before the election. Joseph E. K. Pogue chairs the board.
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Raleigh, Jan
State School For the Blind
John E. Ray
J. C. Blair
Joseph EK. Pogue
Austria Accepts the Strikers Conditions
A Paris dispatch reports the Austrian government accepts the strikers conditions while other dispatches say the agitation remains intense. The note says Austrian labor groups have for the first time successfully pressured the government amid anti pan Germanist sentiment.
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Washington
Paris
France
Auglican
Negligence Found In Boat Overloads At Shipyard
Tampa coroner's jury verdict finds FL M. Drudnall H N Isriffin and GG W Lowis negligent for allowing overloaded boats. Sixteen employees including two white men drowned crossing the Ybor channel on January 16. No criminal charges were filed.
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Tampa
Fla
FL M. Drudnall
H. N. Isriffin
GG. W. Lowis
Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Ybor Channel
Hadnal
Grigin
Bowis
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