Internal Pressure Mounts for Germany War Aims Statement
British and German fronts endure heavy artillery duels in Flanders as weather worsens. Pressure in Reichstag grows over Germanys war aims with debates on pan German expansion and annexations. Reports surface of German naval movements toward Helsingfors and Petrograd amid preparations for a possible invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Michaelis
von Bethmann
Loll
Interior Helfferich
Reichstag
von Stenin
Hollweg
Admiral von Tirpitz
New Fatherland Party
von Tirpitz
Vosges
Flanders
Passchedaele-Gheluvelt Ridge
Roulers-Menin
Club Department Revived to Rebuild Local Industry Board
Members of the Commercial club and the industrial department decide to revive activities akin to the High Point chamber of commerce. They plan a funds canvass, hire a secretary, and resume rebuilding efforts to promote growth and prosperity in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Department of Commercial Club
Itv
High Point
Fire Prevention Day Observed in North Carolina Cities
Tomorrow marks Fire Prevention Day by a North Carolina General Assembly act and a gubernatorial proclamation. Mayor W P Ragan says schools will host programs with fire insurance representatives addressing pupils during chapel hour. Parents and friends are invited to attend. fire district inspections by firefighters are planned with no other city observances expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Assembly of
North Carolina
T. W. Bickett
W. P. Ragan
Banks Closed Thursday for Central Carolina Fair
City banks will be closed Thursday to allow employees to attend the Central Carolina fair in Greensboro. Patrons are advised to conduct banking business on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensboro
Cotton futures rise on frost fears in eastern markets
In New York on October 8 reports of Sunday frosts in the east and colder weather fueled buying. The market opened firm with advances of 13 to 14 points, December at 26.06 and January at 25.86, with other nearby months quoted higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Revival Started at Wesley Church
Revival services at Wesley Memorial Methodist church featured two sermons by Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe on Sin. The morning sermon focused on For all have sinned, while the evening sermon cited Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned. Congregations were large and attentive. services begin at 7 50 each evening this week except Saturday with no day services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Memorial Church
Gilbert T. Rowe
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church
ASK WOMEN TO SAVE WOOL FOR WAR KNITWEAR
The Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense appeals to American women to conserve wool. With nurses soldiers and sailors needing warm garments in Northern France and the North Atlantic six million Red Cross sweaters are requested. Women should stop making unnecessary sweaters after possessing one to ensure knit yarns reach fighting troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oct. S
Woman's Committee
The
Council of National Defense
Women of America
Hannah J. Patterson
Consumttee
Red Cross
France
North Atlantic
United States
American Red Cross
Woman's
Fur supply cut by draft and global sales kickoff
Drafting of trappers into the national army has reduced U S fur supplies. Dealers attend a 3 million dollar sale opening today at the International Fur Exchange. The event, lasting five days, features offerings from nearly every country except Germany and Austria, with sealskins from South America debuting at the sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
United States
Germany
Austria
French Captives Fly Home From Saloniki Front
Four French soldiers captured by Bulgarians escaped in the woods for three weeks after freeing themselves with a pocket knife. They signaled a French airplane and were rescued by the aviator who returned with three more planes, carrying all four back to French lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Saloniki
Britain Gets Additional 15 Million Credit From U.S. Government
Washington reports the United States advanced another 15 million dollars to Great Britain on October 8 as part of ongoing financial support. The credit aims to bolster Britain’s wartime economy and maintain Allied war efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Great Britain
Fighting on Riga Front in War Office Report
Petrograd reports on the Riga region where small enemy detachments attacked north of the Pakoff high road and east of Lemberg but were repelled. Other fronts saw only fusillades and scouting encounters. enemy aircraft bomb Galatz Romania causing several casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
War Office
Riga
Pakoff High Road
Lemberg
Galatz
Romania
Panaveff Theater Fire Claims 100 Soldiers
A blaze at the Panaveff theater in Petrograd killed about 100 soldiers and left many others missing. The building served as an officers hospital and a field post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Panaveff
Salvador Declares Neutrality Stance in Pan American World Struggle
The Salvadoran foreign office states that El Salvador remains neutral yet friendly to the United States, citing shared pan-American sentiment amid the global conflict. The U S government has asked for clarification on the significance of Salvador’s declaration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Salvador
Salvador
United States
Foreign Office
Discontinuance of Martial Law in Spain Declared
Madrid reports a decree announced today stating the discontinuance of martial law throughout Spain. The move ends the military authority across the country, with implications for governance and public order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Spain
Supreme Court to Review News Piracy and Antitrust Appeals
The Supreme Court agreed to review federal decrees restraining International News Service from pirating AP material and advanced appeals from Minnesota Ohio and New York on the draft law. It fixed December 10 for hearing arguments and January 7 for re hearing in the United Machinery antitrust suit first brought in 1911.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dct. S
Supreme Court
International News Service
Associated Press
Minnesota
Ohio
New York
United Machinery Company
Trial of abductors opens in Marshville Missouri
Claude J. Piersol aged 20 heads a kidnap ring accused of abducting Lloyd Wheet infant son of a Springfield banker. Two others are charged with him and four more with plotting to abduct a Springfield jeweler. The child’s body was found in a well. Conviction for kidnapping carries a life sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshville
Claude J. Piersol
First Liberty Truck for Government Is Finished
Lima Ohio reports the completion today of the first Liberty motor truck for the government. The vehicle is a product of top designers and a collaboration of 12 motor truck plants and 62 auto part factories, aiming to produce 35,000 in the first half of the year. It is powered by the Liberty motor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lima
Liberty
Arry
Liberty Motor
Administration of Trading with Enemy Law Announced
The White House will announce the administration of the trading with the enemy act. The action comes as part of wartime measures during the ongoing conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oct. S
White House
Young Daniels Impersonation Case Sentences Levy
Joseph Levy of Pittsburg pleaded guilty to impersonating a son of Secretary Daniels. He was sentenced to two years in the federal penitentiary for obtaining loans and gaining admittance to navy yards using the ruse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Daniels
Trenton
Oct
Joseph Levy
Pittsburg
Daniels
Federal
Young Daniels Levy
Navy Yards
War crosses awarded to American Field Service members
Paris reports that during the Verdun offensive in France three American Field Service volunteers received War Crosses for bravery in transporting wounded. Named are Joseph Bixby from Lowell Massachusetts Stephen K Dresser from Westbrook Maine John B Manes from Webster Groves Missouri and Henry M Sherrerd from Haddonfield New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Verdun
Joseph Bixby
Lowell
Mass
Stephen K. Dresser
Westbrook
John B. Manes
Webster Groves
Henry M. Sherrerd
Haddonfield
N. J
Whale boat load of Germans taken
A Melbourne telegram reports a captured whale boat with a German crew from the Seaddler near the Fiji islands. The boat held machine guns and the Germans said they were sent to raid. Two German raiders were noted in the Pacific, with crews from the Seaddler. Several shops were sunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Melbourne
Fiji Islands
Pacific
Samoa
Navy Department
Seaddler
South Atlantic
Young Man Accepted by Aviation Corps of the Army
Oscar Richardson grandson of J D Richardson of this city has been accepted by the aviation corps United States Army and ordered from Texas to the aviation field on Long Island N Y Richardson was attending school in Texas when examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Richardson
J. D. Richardson
Aviation Corps
United States Army
Texas
Long Island
N. Y
Richardson
New Postal Rates To Take Effect Soon
New postal regulations set to begin November 2 raise rates to three cents per ounce or fraction for most mail. Letters cost three cents, drop letters exempt, two cents for postal cards, and one-cent ecards require an extra cent stamp. The change, approved by Congress during its latest session, aims to boost wartime government revenue.
Lutheran pastor argues Protestant Church is Catholic
Rev P J Bame of Lexington preached at the Lutheran church defining Catholic as universal. He criticized Roman Catholic formalities as silly and foolish and urged that the Protestant church embodies true Catholic meaning universal church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Bame
Lexington
To Serve as Business Committee for Nash County Soldiers
A committee named by the North Carolina Council of Defense to aid Nash County soldiers includes Rocky Mount attorney J. N. Sills as clerk of Nash County Superior Court N. B. Fincil of Spring Hope Dr. J. A. Speight Nash County health officer and Mick Cutehia of Whitakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Movunt
M. V. Barnhill
Rocky Mount
J. N. Sills
Nash County
N. B. Fincil
Spring Hope
J. A. Speight
Mick Cutehia
Whitakers
North Carolina Council of Defense
Soldiers
Tobacco sales set Danville record in week
Danville Virginia reports 2,897,171 pounds of tobacco sold last week at an average price of 30.35 dollars per hundredweight, with S-R L. Dibrell presenting the figures as president of the Danville Tobacco Association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
R. L. Dibrell
Danville Tobacco Association
Hearing On LaFollette Speech Delayed In Senate Probe
The senate committee began an inquiry into Senator LaFollette's St Paul speech but adjourned to Thursday. No public hearings will be held now and the investigation may close without testimony. LaFollette plans a public statement over Bryan's alleged Lusitania ammunition claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LaFollette
St. Paul
Senate v Committee
Pomerene
Bryan
Deserter shoots self in lungs near Camp Sevier
Private Norman Overcash of Company L, Camp Sevier Greenville, allegedly deserted and shot himself in the left lung with a .22 rifle about 8 pm Saturday. He was reported dying in Kannapolis and later said to be alive in Concord as officials noted possible military court martial as motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kannapolis
N. C
Norman Overcash
Camp Sevier
Greenville
D. C
Concord
Overcash
National Guard
Ecuador Rejects German Minister Arrival
Ecuadorian foreign affairs says Dr. Perl, the German minister to Lima, will not be officially received if he tries to enter Ecuador. The passport handover to Dr. Perl occurred Saturday amid reports of a possible Ecuadorian visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quito
Eouador
Oct. S
Lima
Peru
Dr. Pearl
Ecuador
Perl
Pero
No Hope for Crushing Germany on Land, Says Reichstag Member
Amsterdam report quotes George Got Jen, a progressive Reichstag member, stating at a central committee meeting that despite satisfactory military conditions there is no hope of crushing Germany's enemies on land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Amsterdam
Cgeorge Got Jen
Reichstag
Central Committee
Frost Predicted Sparks Cotton Price Jump
New York on October 8 reports predicted frosts in the south sent cotton futures higher with January around 26.45 a bale, up seven cents per pound from earlier. Both foreign and domestic buyers showed strong interest in the market.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
South
Spain discipline after German submarine escape from Cadiz
In Washington on October 8 the Spanish government imposed drastic measures against officials responsible for the safe internment of the German submarine that escaped Cadiz.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Cadiz
Cleveland Faces Cincinnati 4 3 Tilt In Baseball Action
Cleveland edged Cincinnati 4 to 3 with Eller and Wingo driving runs and Bagby Coumbe O'Neill contributing in a tight clash. The game featured strong pitching and late-inning defense from both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Eller
Wingo
Bagby
Coumbe
O'Neill
German Submarine Escapes From Cadiz Interment
Madrid reports a German submarine interned at Cadiz escaped after German subs sought refuge in Spanish ports. King Alphonso had ordered submarines of belligerents out of Spanish waters and ports on June 30, declaring all subs to be interned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Cadiz
Alphonso
Hall Reports for Military Service
Banner J Hall reported to the exemption board after a delay in reporting for Camp Jackson. He traveled by train to Camp Jackson for training and then returned home to assist with crops. Jess Thompson remains missing and faces possible desertion charges with a 350 reward for capture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Banner J. Hall
Camp Jackson
Hall
Jess Thompson
Trinity Man Promoted at Army Training Camp
W. F. Ellis Jr of Trinity rises to first sergeant in the quartermaster corps at Camp Jackson South Carolina. Former traveling representative for High Point Hosiery mills he moved to the camp with the Randolph county increment and led the squad. He is well known in the city and previously worked for Allen's store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Ellis, Jr
Trinity
High Point Hosiery Mills
Quartermaster Corps
Camp Jackson
8. C
Els
Randolph County
Allen’s
Richards Rapidly Recovering in Idaho
Friends of M V Richards chief industrial agent of the Southern railway note he is rapidly recovering from an illness that once threatened his life. In a letter to Postmaster Farrian Richards says he is in Idaho recovering and had previously gone home to die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. V. Richards
The
Southern Railway
Farrian
Expressman Cline Dies By Own Hand In Salisbury
A young white expressman named Cline committed suicide in Salisbury early today. Officials report the death as self inflicted while on duty. exact cause and time pending coroner notes. The incident occurred in Salisbury with no other persons involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Cline
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ers
Cessful
Stockholm
Baltic
Gulf of Finland
Helsingorrs
Finland
Helsingfors
the Commercial Club
the Industrial Department
High Point Chamber of Ecommerce Or
Wesley Church
Defense Auxiliary
South America
England
Missouri
Self
Polygon Wood
Russia
Banner D. Hall
Trinity Man
ARMY
MR. Richards
Idaho
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!