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French Front on October 17 reports a German plan to attack Verdun region near Anberive and Sonain height. The First Bavarian division led a costly assault drill with shock troops, booty squads, and gas, intended for August 16–17, to seize French artillery and terrain. French artillery and raids disrupted the plan, forcing the crown prince to delay and redeploy forces toward Verdun, yielding no harvest of prisoners or land.
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An Berive
Sonain
Champagne
Adt
Engineer Corps
Flanders
Crown Prince
Bantamweight Champion Pete Herman Granted Draft Exemption
New Orleans reports Pete Herman world bantamweight champion born Peter Gulotta was exempted from military service under the selective draft. The exemption cited support for aged parents and three orphaned nieces and a sister and delays were previously granted to defend his title and earn income for his family. Herman telegraphed the national war department offering to serve as a boxing instructor at a cantonment.
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New Orleans
Pete Herman
Peter Gulotta
National Army
Herman
Frankie Burns
Agas
W. ©. Raycroft
War Department
Appointed Member of Aircraft Board
R. F. Howe of New York named as civilian member of the aircraft board guiding U S air service development. Howard B. Coffin will head the new board after a conference with President Wilson and the aircraft production board.
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Washington
R. F. Howe
New York
International Harvester Co
Wilson, Howard &. Coffn
Chief of Army Medical Staff at Macon Dead
Major Richard Weil, chief of the medical staff at Camp Wheeler base hospital, died of pneumonia in Macon Georgia. His body will be sent to New York. Weil came from New York to lead the base hospital and had been ill eight days. His wife, daughter of Isador Strauss of New York, previously perished in the Titanic sinking. Weil taught at Cornell and did Mount Sinai research on spinal meningitis. Two private soldiers from Alabama also died of pneumonia at Camp Wheeler.
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Macon
Richard Weil
Camp Wheeler Base Hospital
New York
Weil
Camp Wheeler
Isador Strauss
Army Medical Corps
Cornell University
Mount Sinai Hospital
Alabama
High Point City approves Steele and Richardson street improvement district
City Council declares an improvement district for Steele Street from East Richardson Street to Barker Mill and the west side of the new Richardson Street near the triangular park. R. G. Lassiter and Company to pave with sheet asphalt on a four inch concrete base. Assessments, due 1917 to 1927, will be charged to abutting property owners, with payment options and mandatory water and sewer connections by November 29, 1917. Publication in the High Point Enterprise.
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High Point
N. C
Steele Street
Richardson Street
Steel Street
City of
Barker Mill
Triangular Park
N. Y
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Army Medical Staff
T. J Murphy
N. Dp. Dodson
Kirkman
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J Hamlin
Richardson Estate
City of High Point
High Point, N.C
Whirpool
Wrestling
Ethel Barrymore
METRO
Vik Ij
Emotions
Aha
Lionel Ore
Schloss Brothers
Nobby New Trench
Manhattan
Cannon-Fetzer Company
R. E. Andrews
City Transfer Co
J. A. Dalton
Jay
Tanenhaus Brothers
Avidenge
Bank OF Commerce
H. A. Millis
C. E. Kearns
S. H. Adams
A. M. Rankin
G. A. Pollock
Sora
Universal Car
Ford Car
Wilson Motor Company
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