Civil Service Open Competition Nears in Southern Cities
The Civil Service Commission announced an open competition on May 28 across southern cities to fill first grade clerical vacancies in customs and internal revenue services. Examinations will be held May 23 in many East Coast and Southern locales, with several Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, and West Virginia cities listed.
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Mission
South
Customs Service
Gauger
Internal Revenue Service
United States
Fourth Civil Service District
Crisfield
Cumberland
Hagerstown
Salisbury
Asheville
Charlotte
Durham
Elizabeth City
Goldsboro
Greensboro
New Bern
Raleigh
Statesville
Washington
Wilmington
Winston- Salem
North Carolina
Abington
Alexandria
Charlottesville
Danville
Fredericksburg
Lynchburg
Newport News
Norfolk
Petersburg
Richmond
Roanoke
Staunton
Winchester
Bluefield
Charleston
Grafton
Hinton
Huntington
Keyser
Martinsburg
Parkersburg
West Virginia
Northern League to Open With New Leaders in 1917
Fargo North Carolina reports the Northern baseball league restarts for 1917 with a new president managers and players. The compact four club circuit aims to cut travel costs and promises a successful championship season.
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Fargo
N. C
Northern Baseball League
Canning Div Home Guards Lead North Carolina Food Campaign
Special to the Enterprise describes the Canning Division of Home Guards under General McKimmon as a vital force in North Carolina's wartime drive to boost food and feed production. It praises Mrs. McKimmon's organization, notes past canning club gains from 1912 to 1915, and reports membership surpassing 10 000 with projected growth toward 15 000. It highlights home demonstration agents in 50 counties, Negro canning instruction, and mills like Patterson Milling supporting canning education.
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North Carolina
John Paul Lucas
State Food Conservation Commission
Ccotton Mills
Detective Dramatizes Police Training in Rose Screening
Nell Craig pretends to be a detective at Chicago's police bureau as part of the Rose theater program featuring The Breaker from Essanay. Bryant Washburn leads the cast. the article notes his passion for swimming and his career path from Japan to Chicago to cinema, including The Bottle Imp and Hawaii filmed scenes.
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Nell Craig
Chicago
Miss Craig
Essanay
Arthur Stringer
Saturday Evening Post
the Rose
Bryant Washburn
Japan
Imperial Naval College
Navy
Otto Kawakami
America
University of Chicago
Hawaii
The Bugler of Algiers at Rose Theatre
Ella Hall stars with Rupert Julian Kingsley Benedict and Zoe Rae in a Bluebird photoplay about loyalty, love, and devotion during war. A girl stays true to her beloved as he wins honor, while a brother dies earning the Legion of Honor, ending with a poignant return.
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Algiers
Rose Theatre
Ella Hall
Rupert Julian
Kingsley Benedict
Little Zoe Rae
Ella Tall
Legion of Honor
Kettle Invention Goes Wrong At Studio
Colin Chase of the Pallas Paramount production The Spirit of Romance claims to have invented a kettle that will not boil over. He tested it at his bungalow workshop but found it boiled over, extinguished the gas stove, and nearly asphyxiated his prize bull pup.
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Colin Chase
Vivian Martin
Pallas-Paramount
Chase
Ireland Divides Over New Summer Time Changes
Ireland remains split over the summer time clock with some cities running on Greenwich aligned hours while many rural areas keep old time. Trains and offices adopt the new measure. bishops and Catholic clergy mostly cling to the old schedule despite progress in Protestant churches. Archbishop Walsh supports the new time. Cardinal Logue backs the old.
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Ireland
Commissioners of National Education
Dublin
Doctor Walsh
All Ireland
Cardinal Logue
Enthusiastic State Farm Agents Report Progress in Food Conservation
Raleigh May 9 Enthusiastic reports come in from farm demonstration agents across counties to C R Hudson state agent for farm demonstration work They belong to the Food Conservation commission and focus on increasing farm acreage and per acre yields Some farmers respond while others show lethargy Zeno Moore Edgecombe reports a farm meeting being held as a school commencement shifts to food conservation and a neighbor drives six mules to plant corn to beat a rival in cotton planting The state official Lucas says there is still a long way to go before victory in the woods
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Raleigh
C. R. Hudson
Food Conservation Commission
Zeno Moore
Edgecombe County
Edgecombe
Eagles
Lucas
State Food Conservation Commission
London Favored For Greatest War Museum Site
The Tower of London is favored as England is to house its greatest war museum. A moat would display German submarines captured in the war. The Crystal Palace and other sites were considered but the Tower offers this feature. Officials plan a preliminary summer exhibition.
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London
Tower of London
England
Crystal Palace
Admiralty
War Office
Ministry of Munitions
Sessue Hayakawa Raves Over Surf Backdrop Picture
Japanese star Sessue Hayakawa praises the photodramatic version of The Bottle Imp filmed near Waikiki. He arrived by surfboard and described a stormy voyage and a recent underwater fight scene as well as a cliff jump during the Hawaii shoot.
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Sessue Hayakawa
Lasky-Paramount
Robert Louis Stevenson
Salvation Army Seeks War Time Service Role
In Philadelphia the Salvation Army readies for its thirty seventh annual congress. The organization plans to place its barracks hospitals and industrial homes at the disposal of the government and offers its thousands of trained personnel for nursing relief and other duties as the government may require.
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Philadelphia
Salvation Army
Humencker credits Foley Kidney Pills relief
A. M. Humencker of Bogue Chitto Mississippi reports suffering rheumatism kidney and bladder trouble and dizziness. He says Foley Kidney Pills gave him entire relief. Disordered kidneys cause pains in side and back sore muscles swollen joints and tired feeling Maun Drug Co.
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J .A. Hart Drug Co
A. M. Humencker
Bogue Chitto
Miss
Foley
Maun Drug Co
Tax Sales Notice for Guilford County Real Estate
Real estate listed in 1914 1915 tax rolls in High Point township Guilford County N C sold by sheriff W B Stafford on August 7 1916. Taxes and costs must be paid by August 7 1917 or deed will be sought. Purchaser J L Parrish.
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W. B. Stafford
Guilford County
N. Y
High Point Township
N.C
J. L. Parrish
Surprise in Cleveland as minister debates election with servant
James Yates Mellen describes a conversation with his colored man of all work about church attendance. The servant confirms weekly worship at a Presbyterian church and belief in election, humorously noting he did not know the master was a candidate for salvation.
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James Yates Mellen
Cleveland
Yessuh
Prespeteeryn
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