Best drilled companies named in North Carolina brigade contest
Companies F and M of the First North Carolina regiment were declared the best drilled units in the brigade after competitive drills at Camp Glenn. The Asheville based Company F and High Point Company M won top honors in the close and extended order tests.
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High Point
Asheville
F. Asheville
North Carolina
National Guard
Camp Glenn
Zollicoffer
N. C. Infantry
Germany's Jabberwok Market Hits the Skids
London dispatch notes Germany’s animal trade in East Africa collapsed after General Smuts seized German possessions. The first shipload of animals arrives in British hands. Twenty five baboons march the deck with German accents while six porcupines with bayonets guard a hollow square and 400 birds screech as secretary birds take notes. Bostock declares Germany will not regain its animal trade.
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General Smuts
East Africa
Germany
E. H. Bostock
Bostock
United States Sends Doctor to Siam to Oust Hookworm
Dr. R. W. Mendelson of New York City sails from Tokyo to Siam as a U S war department representative to eradicate hookworms blamed for Siamese laziness. He previously aided Nervia during the typhus epidemic and retreat after Belgrade’s fall.
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United States
Doctor
Siam
Tokio
Japan
R. W. Mendelson
New York City
United States War Department
War Department
Mendelson
Nervia
Belgrade
Coley Car Flips on Greensboro Road No Serious Injuries
Yesterday evening about 6:50 the Ford driven by R. L. Coley with Mrs. Coley and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lee aboard turned turtle on the Greensboro road near the Williard place. All occupants were painfully hurt though none seriously. Lee suffered gashes to the ankle, Mrs. Coley received head bruises, and Coley himself was shaken but unhurt.
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R. L. Coley
Loss of Son Tied to Death of Printing Office Reader
William N. Brockwell a former Raleigh native and government printing office proof reader died by his own hand after worry over the loss of his son John Francisco Brockwell a young patent office examiner. His body was found in the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and identified by a son who reported the disappearance to Washington police and Montgomery county authorities.
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Will Andrews
Superior Court
Dalton
Andrews
Grover Brown
Sheloft’s
Broad Street
Clark Bowers
Highland Cotton
Clark
John Roach
Roach
Western Union
Benson
John
A. L. Means
Jim Bullin
A. G. Johnson
Recorder’s Court
Jordan Skeen
Randolph
William N. Brockwell
Raleigh
Government Printing Office
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Brockwell
Washington
Montgomery County
U Boats Destroy Many Ships Reported by Berlin
An official admiralty statement from Berlin reports August losses to central power submarines and mines include 126 hostile merchant ships totaling 170 679 tons and 35 neutral vessels of 38 568 tons carrying contraband to enemies.
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Berlin
Sale of Valuable Land Ordered by Guilford Court
By order of Mason W. Gant clerk of the Superior Court in Minnie Worth et al vs Mrs Lou Kaney Anderson et al, the undersigned commissioner will on be you and other details of the land sale to be conducted under the special proceedings in Guilford County North Carolina.
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Mason W. Gant
Guilford County
North Carolina
Minnie Worth
Als
Lou Kaney Anderson
Guardian
Real estate auction in High Point Guilford NC 1916
Public auction set for September 18 1916 at 2 PM selling multiple parcels in High Point township Guilford County North Carolina. Descriptions include Green street parcels with varied acreages along with several lots in Snow Park McLewallen and Bencini plots and a Blair street frontage. Commissioners Ed L. Ragan and W P. Ragan note the sale is for cash to the highest bidder on the premises.
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High Point Township
Guilford County
North Carolina
T. F. Wrenn
E. A. Snow
Green Street
City of
High Point
N. C
J. A. Barker
Barker
Keziah Ken
White Oak Street
Snow Park
People’s Realty Company
Office of
the Register of Deeds
Kezrah Kendall
J. J
J. B. Cox
McLewallen
Register of Deeds
Greensboro
Blair Street
E. A. Bencini
N.C
James Street
L. Ragan
W. P. Ragan
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Recorders Court Best
London
John Francisco
Patent Office
Seborn Perry
S. Perry
Kanoy
Madam X
the Broadway
Harold Lockwood
May Allison
Metro Wonder
Billie Burke
Gloria
Mary Pickford
Hulda
Holland
Miss Pickford
William Fox
Betty Nansen
Theda Barra
Wallace Reid
Cleo Ridgely
U.S
U. S
Lie
Peur
Cas
Federal Reserve Bank
Banking House
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
DAIL
Federal Reserve
Legal-tender Notes Redemption Fund
CC. S
Tende
Sl&s
Sogato
State OF North Carolina
County OF Guilford
V. A. J. Idol
Notary Public
W. P. Pickett
Dred Peacock
J. Elwood Cox
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