Lafayette Day Celebrated as Franco American Friendship Grows
New York observers mark Lafayette's birthday with a dual national holiday idea tied to the Marne victory. The Lafayette Day National Committee includes Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Eliot and calls for fraternal ties with France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
France
United States
Marquis de Lafayette
Republic
Marne
Paris
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles W. Eliot
Myron T. Herrick
Lafayette
City Hall
Henry van Dyke
Hague
John H. Finly
Philadelphia
Hotel de Ville
Marshal Joffre
New York City
Jean Paul Roche Yves Gilbert Mottier
Chateau Chavagnacc
Auverne
Metz
Duke of Gloucester
England
Great Britain
America
Baron de Kalb
Silas Deane
Deane
Congress
Franklin
Brandywine
Sullivan
Washington
Dutch official urges more American capital in Indies
J B van der Houwen van Oordt, Holland official linked to the Washington export mission, says expanding American investment in the Netherlands East Indies is desirable. He notes growing US–Dutch India trade since WWI, with ships carrying rubber east and machinery back, and calls for more American rubber, sugar, tea, mining ventures and other opportunities, despite limited current American capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hague
Netherlands
Associated Press
Netherlands East Indies
J. B. van der Houven van Oordt
Washington
van Oordt
Council of the Netherlands Fast Indies
America
Dutch India
Java
San Francisco
United States
Sumatra
Union
Netherlands Fast Indies
Breakfast as a Political and Social Function in London
Breakfast as a function for politics and society is revived. Lloyd George used a breakfast party at 10 Downing Street to announce Paris conference success to French guests and has hosted many breakfasts for open business discussion. Lord Rhonddaale invites businesspeople to breakfast for planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lloyd George
Paris
Downing Street
Lord Rhonddaale
Hookworm as German Ally Highlighted in Health Warning
Medical authorities link hookworm infection to anaemia and poor health, noting 47 cases in 75 recruits. Public Health Service urges routine hookworm checks for National Guard and Army units, especially from the South, as North Carolina campaigns to eradicate the disease. The state reports one fourth of schoolchildren and one sixth of adults infected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Army
C. W. Stiles
United States Public Health Service
National Guard
National Army
South
North Carolina
State Board of Health
Biggest Babies Contest At State Fair October Dates Set
Raleigh announced the biggest better babies contest in the state to be held October 15 to 20 in the new Woman's building at the State Fair. Babies aged six to thirty six months will compete under health department oversight with expert doctors and nurses. Mae Reynolds leads applications for this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
Mae Reynolds
State Board of Health
Health Department
Woman's Club of
W. A. Withers
State Fair Association
Mexico to Buy Corn For Poor In Mexico City
The national chamber of commerce committee considers raising funds via a popular subscription to purchase 1 000 000 bushels of corn in the United States and sell at cost to aid the poor. The U S chamber could not aid in establishing credit and the sale commission declined to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
National Chamber of Commerce
United States
Mexico
Chamber of Commerce of
Question on Jesus and conscientious objection sparks debate
A Balliol College master is asked at a public meeting whether Jesus today would oppose war or go to prison for conscientious objection. He replies by noting historical incongruities and imagines Julius Caesar at a telephone before arguing religious leaders would oppose child harm. The Buffalo Express quotes this to examine minds of objectors and wartime aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balliol College
Oxford
Bis
Jesus Christ
Julius Caesar
Germany
Buffalo Express
Worse Than War Teuton Seeks Shelter Amid War Scare
A Spokane policeman finds a weakly leaning Bavarian man with alcohol near a lamp post on a cold night. The man laments his mixed heritage and fear of dying as war starts, while the officer quietly guides him back toward a saloon to rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Averen
Bavaria
Southern Railway pays $1.05 back for every dollar in July 1917
Comptroller A H Plant notes July 1917 disbursements by Southern Railway totaled $6. WT ALL with $5,336,561 paid to southern individuals and industries, a $247,846 excess over south’s transportation funds. Revenue rose to $7,269,592 while expenses reached $5,487,409.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Southern Railway Company
South
Southern Rilway
A. H. Plant
Southren Railway Company
Southern
Cottage Cheese as a Protein Rich Meat Substitute
The North Carolina agricultural experiment station explains cottage cheese provides about 20 percent protein, nearly all digestible, more efficient than lean meat. It describes making cottage cheese from skim milk at 68–70F for 24 hours, heating to 90–94F, draining, salting, and adding thick cream for best quality. From 100 pounds of skim milk one yields about 15 pounds of cheese at 10–15 cents per pound, a return of 1.50 to 2.25 dollars per hundred pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dairy Department
The
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station
West Virginia Deputy Marshal Leads Campaign Against Slackers
Miss Gladys Cornwell, the only woman deputy marshal in West Virginia, has been conducting an effective campaign against slackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Cornwell
West Virginia
Porto Rican bill would let women hold office but not vote
In San Juan on September 5 the house opened debate on a bill by Fulgencio Pinero Jr and Antonio Pinero to grant women the right to hold office without voting. Mrs Ana Duprey of the Suffragist League warned of strong opposition and called the bill demeaning. A Senate measure would allow women to both vote and hold office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Juan
Porto Rico
House of Representatives
Fulgencio Pinero, Jr
Antonio Pinero
Ana Duprey
League of
Poro Rico
Porti Rico
Pomeroy Begins 42nd Year of Solitary Confinement Reform
Jesse Pomeroy, serving a life term for murder, marks 42 years in prison at Charles Town. After forty years in solitary, a governor’s council review ended the solitary clause, allowing him to share privileges with other life prisoners for the first time in decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Jesse Pomeroy
Charlestown
Pomeroy
Pomeroyf
Trend of democracy seen in Japan
Osaka dispatch reports a leading Osaka Mainichi analysis questioning Terauchi cabinet policy for preserving clan and bureaucratic influence. The piece favors monarchy and democracy coexisting and notes democratic ideas spreading in Britain United States Russia China and even Germany, while criticizing the cabinet’s bid to stem democracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oska
Japan
Preas
Osaka Mainichi
Terauchi
Count Terauchi
Great Britain
United States
Russia
China
Germany
Teran Pnaichi
Terauch
Cork At a Premium in Germany Amid Trade Blockade
Amsterdam reports cork remains scarce in Germany as the Entente blockade halts imports. Used champagne corks fetch high prices while two Plauen chemists seek a patent for artificial cork from a tough Saxon forest plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Germany
Plauen
Saxony
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indies
Holland
Hart Drug Co
Engineers
Camp Greene
Fifth Battalion
North Carolina Engineers
Charlotte N
Foley
Chas. Reitz
Allens Mills
Mann Drug Co
Territory
Virginia
Arctic Ice & Coal Comp
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!