High Point Plants Garden Seed Drive For Cost of Living
The Industrial Department of the Commercial Club distributes government supplied flower and gallon seeds to residents to grow vegetables for their tables. It will record recipients and later compile success stories from the seed program. A Dayton gardening expert from National Cash Register will lecture at the school auditorium next Thursday. A USDA representative may visit High Point in spring to promote large scale gardening.
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Commercial Club
United States
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National Cash Register Company
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Spy scare in High Point ends with Kansas book agent
A supposed German spy in High Point turns out to be a Kansas native book agent for a publishing company. He was taken to police headquarters for questioning but revealed as a traveling salesman unable to speak German, ending the scare.
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Hig Point
Sherlock Holmes
Commonwealth of Kansas
Citizens’ Preparedness League of
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Smithereens
Kansas
South Carolina
Every Man a Sanitarian War Hygiene Doctrine
The piece argues that frontline health in Europe stems from a culture of personal sanitation. It notes British and French troops show a mortality rate from sickness far lower than peacetime norms and attributes this to officers and soldiers acting as sanitarians in trench life. It highlights trench cleanliness and station bath houses as key preventive tools.
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France
Sanitation Measures Curb Diseases in British Army
The report notes that after two weeks in trenches soldiers are bathed and sanitized, with disinfected underclothes and uniforms. Typhus and typhoid are controlled by baths, sterilization, waste disposal, chlorinated water, fly prevention, careful food handling, rapid removal of cases, and rest stations.
Children receive souvenir airplane offer in ads
Advertisement notes a Tuesday afternoon event from 3 to 5 o clock where children can obtain a souvenir airplane. Amos Furniture Co. promotes the offer within the newspaper page.
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Amos Furniture Co
Prohibition Vote Nears in New York Township
New York March 31. Roslyn L. L. residents push local option referendum on prohibition. North Hempstead township will vote next week under the Raines law allowing biennial referendums in townships near New York City. Previous vote sixteen years ago defeated the proposal.
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New York
New York City
Roslyn
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North Hempstead
Bingham School Defeats Furman University 2 to 1
In ideal weather at Greenville North Carolina Bingham School Mebane defeated Furman University two to one extending its winning streak.
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Mebane
Furman University
Bingham School
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Greenville
Dogs of War Are Loosed A Day Nation
Representatives of the Anti Saloon League of America and allied groups gather in Washington for a conference to map the legislative program for a special congressional session. If war is declared Congress will be urged to pass national prohibition as a first step to prepare the nation for conflict.
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Washington, D. C
Anti-Saloon League of America
Congress
Daylight Saving Promises Higher Output in France and Italy
Paris reports daylight saving will begin tonight as clocks move forward one hour until October. The scheme aims to boost labor output and save scarce coal and oil across Europe.
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Paris
Europe
France
Italy
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