North Carolina Good Roads Set Annual Convention at Wrightsville Beach
The North Carolina Good Roads Association schedules its annual convention for August 7 to 9 at Wrightsville Beach. Leaders from government and road engineering will discuss wartime transportation, military roads, financing via bonds and taxes, maintenance, wide tires, and federal aid. Wilmington invites attendance to witness the area's shipbuilding growth making it a new city by the sea.
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The
North Carolina Good Roads Associations
Wrightsville Beach
North Carolina
Atlantic Seaboard
State Highway Commission
Wilmngton
Government Concrete
Wilmington
Austria must feed herself after Germany ends aid
London dispatch reports Germany stopped food shipments to Austria on Monday per Stuttgart Neues Tageblatt. Bad weather and other difficulties cited. Austria will be expected to support itself onward as food prices in the dual kingdom reach wartime highs.
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London
Germany
Austria
Stuttgart
Soldier's Cough is Cured by Foley's Honey and Tar
Private Harold Hamel of the 66th Regiment at Ft Adams Rhode Island reports relief from a three month cough after using Foley's Honey and Tar. The product also gives relief from hay fever asthma and bronchial coughs according to Mann Drug Co.
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Harold Hamel
66Th Regiment
Ft. Adams
R. I
Foley
Ives
Mann Drug Co
British Tommies Sing Humorous War Songs From Front
Behind the British Lines in France correspondence notes that British soldiers use humor to cope with the war’s horror. The piece highlights the folk hymn like “The bells of hell” and a trenchside lament “I want to go home” as emblematic of Tommy Atkins mood and attitude toward glory and fear.
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France
Tommy Atkins
Johns Digestive Tablets Promote Gas Relief For Stomach Ailments
An advertisement from L. D. Johns Co. claims Johns Digestive Tablets relieve stomach gas and indigestion. It urges three to six tablets in water or chewed before meals and promotes keeping tablets handy for chronic cases. Based in New York City at 1123 Broadway.
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New York
John
Mann Drug Advertises Foley Kinney Pills
An advertisement claims Foley Kinney Pills relieve backache rheumatic pains sore muscles stiff joints and frequent bladder action as signs of kidney trouble urging readers to seek relief from Mann Drug.
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Foley Kinney
Mann Drug
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Taylor Holmes
Sidney
Conventioa
Wrightsville
Hart Drug Co
Postoffice
IK Tommies
Fighters of England
Asso
Ciated Press
Tommy
Hell
L. D. Johns Coo
Broadway
New York City
Calomel
Interurban Motor Lines (Incorporated
High Point
N. C
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Elwood
Winston
Zinzendorf
Guilford
Stong
High Point Phont
Prince Albert Tobacco
Eau Claire
Wis
S. P. Woodard
R. B. Gillette
Mgr
Gillette Rubber Co
Manufacturers
Gillette
Chicago
S. Michigan Ave
E. B. Parks
E. B. Parks & Co
Parks
S. H. Smith
Wilson Motor Com’y
N.C
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