Hunger Stalks Polish Provinces Amid War Devastation
Inspectors of the American relief administration report mass displacement along Poland's eastern frontier. Thousands live in dugouts with no white bread for years while relief kitchens plan daily meals for children under 17. Food relies on potatoes and foraged greens as areas rebuild after 1917 front lines and Bolshevik advances.
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Warsaw
American Relief Administration
European Children’s Fund
Poland
New Republic
Pripet
Pinsk
Toboly
Swanowicze
Lubieszow
Relief Administration
Communist fires a Patas bullet in Belgrade
July 21 Belgrade reports the interior minister Drsehkovis of Yugoslavia shot dead by a young Bosnian communist. The assassin was arrested.
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Belgrade
Drsehkovis
Jugo- Slavia
Mrs Fisher Blames Men For Health At Institute Congress
Folke-stone England July 22 Mrs H A L Fisher wife of the president of the British National Board of Education says most men become ill through their own faults. She warns men sow seeds of trouble by overeating wrong foods excess drinking laziness and late hours.
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Folkestone
England
H. A. L. Fisher
British National Board of Education
Royal Sanitary Institute
Capture of the tunny fish aids livelihoods in the Mediterranean
The capture of tunny fish provides a crucial livelihood for coastal communities around the Mediterranean. Fishermen rely on this seasonal bounty to sustain families and local economies as fleets work through the harvest.
Secretaries to Convene NC State Meeting in Rocky Mount
S R Bivens of the High Point chamber leads NC Commercial Secretaries Association to its annual session in Rocky Mount. The agenda features talks on membership, convention handling, farm diversification, water transport, cotton marketing, and chamber efficiency with numerous NC officials scheduled to speak.
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S. R. Bivens
High Point
Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount Chamber of Commerce
J. J. Wells
Burker Hobgood
N. C. Commercial Secretary
J. B. Ramsey
Southern Commercial Secretaries’ Association
W. Denmark
Goldsboro
Chamber of Commerce
Norman Y. Chambliss
Wm. T. Ritter
Winston- Salem
North Carolina
H. E. Barlow
New Bern
Co-operative Cotton Marketing
H. Y. Scott
Wilson
Quakers Gather at Richmond for Twelfth Annual Meet
Quakers from most yearly meetings across the United States converge on Richmond Indiana for the twelfth annual Young Friends conference. About 300 young Quakers are expected to attend through August 1, with focus on church history doctrine and social issues. A key feature is the pageant Pisarmament by Jennis Cartland Callister, backed by the Woman's Peace League, Jane Addams, and Dr. David Starr Jordan to promote nationwide publicity. Clarence Pickett notes added emphasis on youth preparing for good citizenship.
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Richmond
Ind
United States
Young Friends Board
Jennis Cartland Callister
Brooklyn
N. Y
Woman's Peace League
Boston
Jane Addams
Chicago
David Starr Jordan
California
Balham College
Quaker Church
Clarence Pickett
Dr Burrus Calls for Central County Hospital Plan
Dr J T Burrus of High Point addressed the Greensboro Kiwanis at the Greensboro Country Club. He praised Guilford County for health policy leadership, adenoid and tonsil work, and tuberculosis and typhoid campaigns. He urged forming a single large county hospital owned by citizens to treat all regardless of ability to pay. Other physicians spoke.
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J. T. Burrus
High Point
Guilford County Medical Society
Greensboro Kiwanis Club
Greensboro Country Club
Burrus
Guilford
Greensboro Kiwanians
Cotton in Danger From Boll Weevil
Hot dry weather plus expected August warmth threatens the southern cotton crop. Boll weevil damage spreads across the belt, with Mississippi delta experts predicting heavy losses as damp cool periods arrive. Farmers plow up hundreds of acres in Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee and Alabama while prices fall and labor costs rise.
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Cotton Belt
Mississippi Delta
J. KR. Lioyd
Memphis Farm Bureau
Lloyd
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Tobacco Combine Sought by Farmers in Three States
Henderson July 22 An intensive drive among Franklin county farmers near Vance to unite tobacco growers for sale this week led by County Farm Agent Anthony of Vance. Anthony says Franklin farmers are enthusiastic and expect to exceed the required 50 percent crop pledge before campaign end. Vance county has about 75 percent of its crop pledged and leaders expect a majority across Virginia North Carolina and South Carolina to join for 1922.
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Henderson
Franklin County
Vance
Anthony
Franklin
Vance County
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Orpheum Tonight Presents Sams Baby Farce and Stars
Harvey Orr's Samiles of 15921 at the Orpheum features the farce Sams Baby. Nate Busby, famed blackface performer, shifts to new material while the company offers other specialties. Marie Walcamp appears in Universal serial Tie Dragon's Net.
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Harvey Orr
Samiles
15921
Nate Busby
Orpheum
Marie Walcamp
Universal
revival meetings planned by Henderson First Methodist
Henderson July 22 Rev. Faymond Browning the prominent Southern Methodist evangelist has been engaged by the congregation of the First Methodist church to conduct a revival in September Browning previously led a Henderson revival in May 1915 at the close.
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Henderson
Faymond Browning
Southern Methodist Church
First Methodist Church
Browning
Meeting Reports Around Five Hundred Conversions
A briefing indicates roughly 500 conversions were reported during the meeting. Officials did not specify the context or sources for the conversions, but the figure is presented as a key data point in the discussion.
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Indiana City
DR. Burkes
Greensboro Club
Memphis
Tenn
Davis Shoe Store
Atlantic
Atlantic Store Inc
Maki
Ernational Harvester Company Ex
Perts
J. Lindley Payne
Wallburg Road
Jno
Beeson Hardware Co
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