Draft registrants urged to attend special school for Clemson
Draft registrants qualified for general service and with grammar school education are urged to present to the local exemption board before July 1 for an opportunity to train as auto tradesmen and related roles at Clemson College. Five men will be entrained for Clemson, S.C., around July 1, with training funded by the government and assignment to army branches based on needs.
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Clemson
War Department
Clemson College
8. C
S.C
Grammar School
Clemson Agricultural College
Civan
American Railway Association
Aged Joy Water From King's Cellar Sold in London Event
A bottle of rum from the king's cellar dated 1820 sold for 250 dollars at a Red Cross wine and spirits auction in London. Three bottles bottled in 1776 and distilled in Jamaica 20 years earlier fetched 125 dollars. The rum predates the French Revolution and the American War of Independence.
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King’s Cellar
Red Cross
London
Jamaica
UNC to Offer Three Year War Engineering Course
The University of North Carolina will start a special three year war engineering program next fall to speed up technical training. The program leads to a bachelor of science in engineering with three tracks: engineering corps, signal corps, and naval team engineering, starting with common foundational courses in year one and specializing in year two and completing in year three.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Engineering
Signal Corps
Navy
Irish conscription postponed not abandoned says Times
The British government sees Irish home rule and conscription as postponed not dropped. Conscription will not be withdrawn and efforts to frame self government for Ireland continue. Recent events push the duty to establish law and order first.
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London
Times
Ireland
Foley Kidney Pills Endorsement from Calvert Reader
A Calvert Alabama resident M W Taylor recommends Foley Kidney Pills saying they gave relief when other remedies failed and helped restore kidney function while easing backache rheumatic pains stiff joints and sore muscles in a testimonial published by Mana Drug Co.
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M. W. Taylor
Calvert
Ala
Foley
Mana Drug Co
Caruso Set to Star in Two Films for Famous Players
New York reports Enrico Caruso has agreed to appear in two movies for Famous Players-Lasky, likely starting with Pagliacci. The contract could be signed within days, paying the tenor a record sum of 200000 dollars. Carolina White is hinted as Nedda opposite him in the first production.
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Caruso
New York
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Carolina White
Nedda
Hhe Pictures
This Guy Kills Wife While Speeding Along in a Pullman Car
Kansas City police report John R. Jackson confessed to strangling his wife in a Pullman compartment and throwing her from the train. He was sent to Shelbina, Missouri to face a murder charge. Jackson previously lived in Birmingham, Alabama where he was known as Irving Morgan and had a $1000 bond in an embezzling case.
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Kansas City
John R. Jackson
Shelbina
A. McCall
Jackson
Birmingham
Ala
Irving Morgan
Plane foremen held by government in war material case
Elaira New York June 24 Lew Longwell and Hector Bordeaux foremen at the Curtis airplane factory in Hammondport were arrested Friday by special government agents on the charge of violating the act of April 20 1918 against wilful injury or destruction of war material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elaira
N. Y
Lew Longwell
Hector Bordeaux
Curtis Airplane
Hammondsport
Railroads Allowed Higher Tobacco Freight Rates
Washington June 24 permission granted southeastern railroads to charge higher rates for manufactured tobacco moving from Virginia cities to Atlanta and other southeastern cities than for tobacco moved from North Carolina points to the southeast by the interstate commerce commission.
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Washington
Virginia
Atlanta
Southeastern
North Carolina
Interstate Commerce Commission
Riverdale Man Dies of Wounds in Casualty List
Ottawa Ont June 24 The casualty list Friday includes KK Mullen Riverdale NC who died of wounds.
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Iverdale
Ottawa
Ont
Kk. Mullen
Riverdale
N. C
Judge Gets Prison Term for Draft Law Conspiracy
Indianapolis Ind June 24 Judge Leonard Snitkin of New York City has been sentenced to five years in federal prison by Judge Anderson after conviction of conspiring to illegally obtain an exemption for a draft registrant. A Joseph Schur and Maurice Snitkin, alleged co conspirators, received six years each.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Leonard Snitkin
New York City
Anderson
United States District Court
A. Joseph Schur
Eighth District Board
Maurice Snitkin
New York
British Raids East of Amiens and Flanders Front
War Office reports raids by British troops in the Amiens east region and in portions of the Flanders front. Prisoners were taken and casualties inflicted on the enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Amiens
Flanders Front
War Office
Mortgage Sale Notice of Tuttle Sells Lot 32 Guilford County
Mortgage sale under a deed by S G Tuttle and Irene Tuttle to T A Pierce and J R Skeen dated October 25 1917 recorded Book 303 Page 285 Guilford County NC. On July 2 1918 at 2 PM at public auction on premises in High Point Township the lot No 32 as per plot described as one fourth acre more or less in Ward Street area. W P Ragan attorney for the mortgagees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. G. Tuttle
Irene Tuttle
T. A. Pierce
J. R. Skeen
Register of Deeds Office
Trich Point
High Point Township
Guilford County
North Carolina
Ian Hl, Tuttle
M. Silman
TH. A. Pierce
N. C
Ward Street
L. FH
Tuttle
H. A. Pierce
W. P. Ragan
Atty. Mortengees
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Office of
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Crowder
Calomel
University
Jessie L. Lasky
Warblers Falls
Enrico Caruso
Andoly
Anodyne
Lumdago
ST Pring
Ansotn Company
Beraches
Wow
York
Edward Lassere, Inc
America
Cae
Atlantic Store, Inc
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