Salem College Shows Spirit Amid World Crisis
Salem College, opened in 1772, maintains patriotic resolve as war strains enter a sixth year. Students stay at work for full education, with 25 volunteers in Red Cross training under Dr. Fred M. Hanes. A war time cookery course led by Miss Margaret Whittemore teaches meat economy, canning, leftovers, and wheat substitutes. The college runs a daily war time meal sample and distributes typewritten recipes. Acreage is cultivated more than ever to ease food shortages while woodland is preserved for future needs.
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Salem Colege
South
Salem
Red Cross
Fred M. Hanes
Winston- Salem
Margaret Whittemore
Brother of Local Man Promoted to Cashier of a Bank
W J Crowson Jr elected cashier of the National Bank of Sumter succeeding Bernard Manning who resigned to join the officers’ training camp at Fort Oglethorpe. Crowson has nine years at the bank rising from collector to assistant cashier and now to cashier renowned for qualifications.
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Sumter
M. ©. Crowson
Home Banking Company
National Bank of
Fort Oglethorpe
Crowson
Bank
Prohibition of Meetings Declared in Dublin
Dublin authorities extend a ban on all meetings or processions from April 23 to May 13 unless written police authorization is obtained. The order, issued by General Sir Bryan Mahon, marks the first anniversary of the rebellion that began on Easter Monday April 24.
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Dublin
Sir Bryan Mahon
Ireland
Americans Fight at Vimy Ridge in Canadian Army
Lieut. A. H. Pannill of Chatham Virginia recalls the American "lost legion" at Vimy Ridge. He describes the barrage, mines, and heavy shelling, the first and second German lines taken, and casualties including Lieut. Frank Bh. Hinds of Minneapolis. Pannill was wounded and later hospitalized in London.
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Vimy Ridge
Lieut
A. H. Pannill
Chatham
Zachary Taylor
James E. B. Stuart
Pannill
Frank Bh. Hinds
Minneapolis
19Th Company
Volunteer Signal Corps
Philippines
Pannills
Legion
Abe Walters
22Nd
U. S. Infantry
P. D. Gossard
Council Bluffs
Iowa
General Accoustic Co
Pittsburgh
Toronto
London
Augusta Pannill
Kaw Point farm to give 10000 tomato plants to families
Henry P. Ewing known as the Kaw Valley potato king announces a plant giveaway to aid the army and civilians. Today at Kaw Point farm he will distribute 10 000 tomato plants with two dozen per eligible family while supplies last.
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Kansas City
Henry P. Ewing
Kaw Valley
Kaw Point
Conference in a French town near Savoy frontier
The May 10 report states a French conference with British Prime Minister David Lloyd George French Premier Alexandre Ribet and Italian Premier Signor Beseli. They met in a French Savoy village on a siding near the Italian frontier to discuss matters of mutual interest.
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Paris
David Lloyd George
Alexandre Ribet
Signer Beseli
French
Savoy
Foley Cathartic Tablets Advertisement Preview
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Mann Drug Co
Japanese Warship Carries Guthrie’s Body Home
In Yokohama on May 10 the first class Japanese cruiser Azuma transported former U S ambassador George W Guthrie’s body to the United States with Japanese naval officers and honors. Mrs Guthrie sailed May 4 aboard the Columbia to meet the procession, which is expected to reach San Francisco around May 25.
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Yokohama
Japan
George W. Guthrie
Azuma
San Francisco
Guthrie
Columbia
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
America
United States
Viscount Hiroaki Tamura
Genkichi Nakajima
Imperial Japanese Navy
Tamura
Pittsburgh
Nakajima
Nitro
Memorial to Lord Byron Again in the Papers
London reports the annual In Memoriam notice for Lord Byron appears again for the ninety third year. It records Byron dying nobly for Greece at Misso longhi in April 1824 and notes Sir Walter Scott's remark that it was as if the sun had gone out. Byron left for Greece in 1823 and died there from rheumatic fever after landing in January 1824.
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No. Man’s Land
Bowies
Kamerd
Bowd
Unner
Major Warrison
Lord Byron
London
Byron
George Gordon Niel
Greece
Missolonghi
Sir Walter Scott
England
Grant kin enter military service amid Civil War lineage
Ulysses S. Grant, 34, son of General Frederick Grant and grandson of President Grant, serves as a major of engineers in the regular army. His son Ulysses S. Grant, 4th, enlists as a private in a New York National Guard regiment. Others likely to bear the salute to France include Fitzhugh Lee Philip J. Sheridan and Joseph Wheeler, along with numerous Civil War descendants.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Frederick ©. Grant
President Grant
Ulyssess. Grant, Jr
New York National Guard
France
Fitzhugh Lee
Philip J. Sheridan
Joseph Wheeler
South Dakota fire chiefs meet in Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls hosts the annual two day meeting of the South Dakota fire chiefs association with over 100 members. Chief John B. Mayo of Lead presides as discussions cover improved fire prevention and firefighting techniques. A navy recruit named Wallace Leone Farragut, great grandson of Admiral Farragut, is noted in the report.
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Sioux Falls
Aail
Association of South Dakota Fire Chiefs
John B. Mayo
Lead
Wallace Leonee Farragut
Admiral Farragut
Hard Work for Women and Foley Kidney Pills
Mrs. A. G. Wells of Rocky Mount North Carolina writes that overwork from house chores harms kidneys and Foley Kidney Pills give wonderful benefits, according to Mann Drug Co.
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A. G. Wells
Rocky Mount
N. O
Foley
Mann Drug Co
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