Thanksgiving Reflections and Local Club News
Thanksgiving verses ponder gratitude for peace and endurance amid war and fate. Mrs A T Wishart hosted Entre Nous at Lindsay Street with 12 members enjoying rock and a salad course. A theatre party by Mrs Farriss and guests visited Greensboro yesterday afternoon. The Associated Charities board meets in the Wood parlor Friday at 7 20 PM, ministers invited.
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Entre Nous Club
Lindsay Street
Rock
A. Ki. Tate
John Tate
Dred Peacock
Gibbs
John Lindsay
Stephen Clark
Gurney Kearns
Harry Raymond
W. C. Beavans
Bascom Hoskins
Tom Gilliam
Oscar Moffitt
J. J. Farriss
The
Associated Charities
Lwood
Mrs Murphy Ill Here Mother Of City Manager In Tomahawk
Mrs Murphy widow of the late Dr W B Murphy and mother of City Manager Thos J Murphy has been dangerously ill at the Tomahawk NC home of Mr Murphy with a severe pneumonia. Her condition was reported as slightly improved today when her son Dr W B Murphy J of Sneill arrived.
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Murphy
W. B. Murphy
Tomahawk
N. C
Thos. J. Murphy
Sneill
Thanksgiving Guests and Local Social Roundup
Miss Mary Sherrod a Goucher college student in Baltimore visits Philadelphia as a Thanksgiving guest of roommate Miss Irene Rife. Miss Aileen Kelly recovering from appendicitis at Rex hospital Raleigh shows rapid improvement. Miss Clara Steel returns home from G W C for the holiday. KR M1 students Mary and Sarah Huddins from Danville arrive to visit Miss Frances Wood. Miss Mabel Claire Brown of Ayden plans Thanksgiving with Miss Maude Owen. Maude Owen Catherine Harmon Edward Brown of Ayden and Homer Covington attend Greensboro Thanksgiving dance. Mayor W P Ragan spends afternoon in Greensboro. George Lowe Banks Beneiii and Roland Holton attend Greensboro Thanksgiving dance.
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Mary Sherrod
Goucher College
Baltimore
Irene Rife
Philadelphia
Mary and
Sarah Huddins
KR. M. 1
Danville
Frances Wood
Mabel Claire Brown
Ayden
Maude Owen
Catherine Harmon
Edward Brown
Homer Covington
Greensboro
Anarchistic Society Aims at Food Seizure Across U S
Immigrant authorities say literature found at Italian plotters headquarters shows plans to seize foodstuffs nationwide. They allegedly sought Boston as a center of civil unrest with I W W involvement. Pamphlets warned of rising people and mocked food price controls.
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Seattle
Wash
H. M. White
United States
White
Boston
Massachusetts
United States Food Administration
U S Delays Attitude Toward Bolshevik Regime
Washington on November 29 reports there will be no formal statement on the stance of the United States and its allies toward the Bolshevik government in Petrograd. The government awaits official details on Bolshevik leaders' ties to German officers and broader Russian developments.
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America
Washington
United States
Petrograd
Russia
Will Reinstate Striking Clerks
Wilmington Nov 29 President J R Kenley of the Atlantic Coast Line announced his company would reinstate all striking clerks as rapidly as practicable. The move follows President Wilsons request and indicates the strike may end with resumption of duties starting tomorrow.
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Wilmington
J. R. Kenley
Atlantic Coast Line
Wilson
Young Women Certified as Nurses in Asheville Board Exam
Several young women passed the North Carolina state board for nurses examination held in Asheville on November 20 21 and 29. Top honors went to Ethel M Brownsberger of Fletcher with a 941 38 average. Second was Mainie Bell of Wilson with 932 3. The list includes Harriet Boone Anna Case Minnie Kirkpatrick Minnie Higgingbotham Asheville and many others from Morganton Wilson Rocky Mount Kinston New Bern Raleigh Wilmington Charlotte Greensboro Washington D C Rock Till S C plus Fletcher and Fletcher area residents.
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Asheville
North Carolina State Board For Nurses
Ethel M. Brownsberger
Fletcher
Mainie Bell
Wilson
Harriet Boone
Anna Case
Minnie Kirkpatrick
Minnie Higgingbotham
Lessie Johnon
Rebecca Rogers
Bertie Thompson
Raleigh
Isabel Jarvis
Rachael Martin
Marjorie Pierce
Ada Robertson
Wilmington
Virginia Addison
Willie Covington
Anne Crook
Carrie Lawing
Marie Langston
Nokras Beaman
Charlotte
Annie Dooley
Rock Bevans
Greensboro
Vera Cunningham
Pauline Oliver
Kathleen Griffith
Durham
Marie Hendren
Concord
Lucile Cook
Hickory
Errall Henderson
Gastonia
Alice Buckner
Rutherfordton
May Ellis
Conway
D. C
Louise Melton
Helen Kenworthy
Washington, D. C
Cerdie Alien
Bertie Hall
Rock Till
S.C
German inventor restrained from selling substitute for gasoline
Mirvolu Nov 29 A New Jersey drawn restraining order blocks Lewis Enricht a German inventor of a substitute for gasoline from disposing of his product and from giving information about it The order notes the substance contains water and could aid submarine operations The National Motorpower Company claims Enricht planned to sell his formula to Germany and to spies in the United States.
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B. F. Yoakum Railroad
Enricht
Germany
Ferrets Turned Tide in British Trenches as Rat Foe
In France on November 29 a British battalion famed as The Ferrets earned fame for rodent warfare. Private Thomas Marryfield, nicknamed D C Rats, led ferrets that hunted and killed rats overrunning trenches, earning praise for bravery, vigilance, and successful anti rat offensive along the line from Dunkirk to St. Quentin.
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France
Dunkirk
St. Quentin
Flanders
London
Thomas Marryfield
D. C
O. C
Merryfield
No-Man's
German raid targets Mapleton in England
A German communique lists Mapleton as a raid objective. England has three Mapletons, none a town of military importance. The largest in Yorkshire houses 350. others in Derbyshire and Yorkshire have 200 and 175 respectively, with churches being the only public buildings in the towns.
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London
Mapleton
England
Yorkshire
West Derbyshire
West Yorkshire
Big Benefit Show At Auditorium For War Fund
The Odd Fellows present a major charity performance at the Auditorium tonight to raise funds for war relief and the local orphans home. Producer Mr Park, with Miss Dorothy Palmer and Harry Glatt, promises a fine production that will entertain and aid both European and domestic labor institutions.
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War Fund
Y. M.C. Ave
the Orphan's Home
The
Odd Fellows
Lodge
Park
Dorothy Palmer
Harry Glatt
Europe
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Beavans
Aileen Kelly
Rex Hospital
Clara Steel
W. P. Ragan
George Lowe
Banks Beneiii
Roland Holton
Woods
Marjorie Rambreau
Rose Today
Rexall Druggists
Ring Drug CO
Allen’s
Allen's
Saternes
Tanenhaus Bros
J. A. Hart Drug Company
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