Delegation from Guilford County meets for Sunday school planning
The Guilford County Sunday School association held its spring meeting in Greensboro at the YMCA on May 27 with fourteen townships represented, led by officers including Riv Yon A. Riser and George A. Short. Discussions focused on township convention programs, proper departmental divisions, and equipment to boost enrollments and church growth.
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High Point
Sunday School Association
Guilford County Sunday School Association
Greensboro
Young Men's Christian Association
Assention Building
Guilford County
County Association
Riv Yon A. Riser
Gibsonville
George A. Short
Summerfield
W. G. Frazier
Guilford College
I. L. Trogdon
Climax
Martha Dozier
Board of Religious Education
Bod, Coltrane
Coltrane
J. L. Tregdon
Tabernacle
Clay Township Association
Tabernacle Church
Starch Collar Foreshadows End for Starched Wear
London readers learn that starch extraction from cereals will be banned soon. Captain Bathurst, the assistant food controller, announced in the House of Commons the shift toward soft collars as a social change.
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London
Great Britain
Bathurst
House of Commons
Revolution May Shake the Throne of Sweden
London dispatches report unrest in Sweden amid democratic surge and pressure on King Gustaf. Danish observers in Stockholm describe a deepening crisis, with speculation that Gustaf could lose his throne, as social and political tensions mount.
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Sweden
Christian
Stockholm
Gustaf
Oscar
Russia
Coustas
Lawiclerk Beotadotte
Desiree Clary
Bawen
Victoria
Mnion
Ziebringer
240 Miles of Narrow Gauge Railway on Italian Front
Rome reports 240 miles of narrow gauge railways completed on the Italian army front. Albanian work crews have laid sixty miles of lines and built 180 miles of macadam roads, the first major roads there since the Roman era. Mrs. Antoinette L. B. Blackwell, pioneer woman minister, has entered her ninety third year. The first Woman's Exchange in the United States began in New York in 1878 to aid women in reduced circumstances through selling their handiwork.
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Rome
War Department
Albania
Antoinette L. B. Blackwell
United States
New York City
Helena Paderewski Charity Society Formed by Polish Women
A group of several hundred prominent Polish American women organize the Helena Paderewski Charitable Society to raise funds for a home in Warsaw for women victims of the German invasion of Poland.
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Helena Paderewski
Warsaw
Poland
Cardui hailed as a splendid female tonic by a Tennessee speaker
Mrs J B Gadd of Hixson Tennessee credits Cardui with curing long standing left side pain and general weakness after a decade of illness. She urges other women to use Cardui to relieve headaches backaches nervousness sleeplessness and tired feelings. The ad extols Cardui as a solution for womanly troubles and promotes its 40 year history.
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Cardui
Cardut
Americans' Efforts Helped British Minister in Constantinople
A British official recounts how the American ambassador in Constantinople protected the leading British nonconformist minister from internment by Turkish authorities before the U.S. entry into World War I. The envoy's tactful intervention persuaded Enver Pasha to halt the seizure and commission a courier to release the minister.
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London
Constantinople
Ottoman Empire
Bosporous
Asia Minor
Enver Pasha
Italian Navy deploys fortified flatcars to fight submarines
Rome reports a novel anti submarine tactic by arming flatcars with light cannon placed along coastal railroad lines. Each section comprises 70 sailors and armored train cars. a signal ladder car manned by a lookout guides the convoy as it barrels along the tracks to deter subs reaching the shore.
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Rome
Italian Navy Department
Abo
Seventeen 800 Strikers in National League Highlight Batting
Recent batting records show seventeen 800 strikers in the National league and only eight in the American league. No better pitching could be dished up to the National league batsmen, even if the hitters themselves did tie twirl. Miss Claudia Ellis, a pretty young wo man of St. Louis, unable to accompany her brother when he enlisted in the navy decided to take the brother's place as motor truck driver so that he might re spond to the call for men.
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Claudia Ellis
St. Louis
No One Should Have Gray Hair Ad
An early 20th century advertisement promotes Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer as a harmless, safe, permanent solution to gray or faded hair. It claims gradual, undetectable color return and offers a money back guarantee. Sold for 50 cents at Hart Drug Co with additional Q-Ban products and a free hair culture book.
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Hart Drug Co
Hessig-Ellis Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
Administrator's Notice for Sarah Millikan Tucker Estate
J E Millikan administrator of Sarah Millikan Tucker deceased in Guilford county North Carolina notifies creditors to exhibit claims by May 29 1918 or be barred. Debtors urged to pay promptly. Document dated May 29 1917 and signed by attorney W J Ragan with four-term code.
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Sarah Millikan Tucker
Guilford County
North Carolina
Mason W. Gant
Remove Grilles to Let Women See Parliament
London may 29 the grille in the house of commons restricting the women's gallery view may be removed soon MPs debated the medieval obstruction once blamed for past throngs and even temporary seizure of seats by women during debates.
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Parliament
London
House of Commons
Women’s Gallery
Treaty of Cambrai negotiated by Louisa and Margaret
The Peace of Cambrai, the only treaty signed by women, was negotiated in 1529 by Louisa of Savoy mother of Francis IV and Margaret of Austria who represented her nephew Charles V. of Germany.
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Cambrai
Louisa of Savoy
Francis IV
France
Margaret of Austria
Charles V
Germany
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Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
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Czar
William
Baden
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Cardus
J. E. Millikan
W. J. Ragan
Atty
Ed States
High Point, N.C
Gilmer Brothers
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