Landry and Sybil's church wedding in the country
Landry Jones and Sybil Randolph wed in a church with a large reception and friends from college in attendance. The couple honeymoon in a seaside cottage as they adjust to married life, with Landry joking about a public square ceremony and the mother’s influence.
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Landry
Lloyd Masters
Graham York
Howard Lawton
Robert Huber
Starr Jordan
Chun
Sybil Randolph T
Landry Jones
Amusement Reflections From a Quiet Moment
Brief line from a 1917 Dale Drummond copyright piece describes feeling gently loved and content in a fleeting moment with tomorrow hinted at as amusement.
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Dale Drummond
Federal employees convene to form national union
Federal employees meeting in Washington adopted resolutions pledging support for the president and Congress during the crisis. They endorsed Nolan minimum wage, woman suffrage, equal pay for women doing men's work, a scientific reclassification of jobs, a retirement measure, and extending free public education to higher schools. Secretary Wilson attended a banquet with delegates and officials.
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Washington
Congress
Nolan
Employer
Wilson
Select Men Move On Camp Jackson
A special train bearing 340 select men for the national army arrived in Columbia from Charlotte and detrained at Camp Jackson. The seven-coach train carried enthusiastic troops split from Mecklenburg county and contiguous territory. Another train with western North Carolina troops arrived from Spartanburg, bringing the total to about 3,000 men at Camp Jackson.
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Columbia
S. C
National Army
Charlotte
Mecklenburg County
Contiguous Territory
Camp Jackson
North Carolina
Spartanburg
American POWs in Germany to get food kits
Washington says each American prisoner of war in Germany will receive every two weeks through the Red Cross three food kits of nine to ten pounds. The surgeon general's food division has set a nutritionally balanced menu for each kit to sustain prisoners until the next shipment arrives.
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Peking
Associated Press
China
Germany
German-Asiatic Bank
Fire Power Group
German Asiatic Bank
Tientsin
Tsinanfu
Tsingtau
Hannan
Canton
Orient
Arnold Karberg and Company
Far East
Shanghai
Washington
American Red Cross Committee
Switzerland
Surgeon General's Office
Charlotte Man Assigned to Machine Gun Battery
The second increment of select men from Charlotte arriving at Camp Jackson will be assigned to the 317th machine gun battery. Mexico City reports a National Symphony orchestra organized by the department of fine arts with concerts pairing classical and popular selections and five chamber concerts featuring Mexican composers. A moving picture actor training school is also formed, along with a 2000-voice chorus for the Mexican independence celebration.
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Columbia
Charlotte
Camp Jackson
Mexico City
Department of Fine Arts
Plenty of Work at an Airdome
Describes night and day activity at an army aerodrome behind British lines in France. Mechanics handle overhauls on damaged planes, replace parts, and ensure accuracy of measurements, while pilots rest and squads prepare for dawn flights. The orderly officer oversees operations and readiness for night bombing or defenses.
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France
Associated Press
No Man’s Land
Ambulance Unit Heads to Petersburg Camp
Dr Charles D Scott captain of ambulance company No 43 sails from Raleigh to muster his unit for Camp Petersburg Virginia. Ten Sanford and Lee county volunteers join including L Ek Fonda Marion Beckwith and J R Hutchins Jr with others from Sanford and Jonesboro. Red Cross supplied comfort bags and fed the men previously.
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Sanford
Charles D. Scott
Raleigh
Petersburg
Sanford and Lee County
L. Ek. Fonda
Lee Huckins
Edgar Jones
Fisher Makepeace
Marion Beckwith
J. R. Hutchins, Jr
M. B. Smith
Virgie McBryde
Ernest Caddell
Armour Avent
Joncesboro
Pendleton Round-Up Promises Record Crowd In Annual Carnival
Pendleton Oregon hosts the annual Round Up carnival starting today with riding roping broncho busting and rich prizes. The program is the most elaborate yet featuring new attractions alongside the traditional events as the city expects record visitors this week.
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Pendelton
Ore
Interurban Line Schedule March 20 1917 High Point to Winston Salem
Schedule shows daily interurban service between High Point Winston Salem and High Point Greensboro from Zinzendorf to Guilford Hotel with departure times 9 00 am 12 00 pm and 9 00 am 11 30 am 5 00 pm. Local fares 7e per mile. one suitcase free up to 20 pounds. cars stop anywhere for passengers and express service available. Special trips by hire and sober courteous drivers. Phone 58.
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High Point
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Ben
Bank safe deposit box yields lone rubber band in murder case
In New York a bank safe deposit box opened under police and district attorney supervision yielded only a rubber band as evidence regarding the missing fortune of Mrs. Maude A. King, the wealthy widow shot at Concord North Carolina. Assistant District Attorney Dooling will travel to Concord with documents for North Carolina authorities as the inquest is reopened.
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New York
National Bank
Maude A. King
Concord
District Attorney’s Office
Police Department
Dooling
North Carolina
Mayor Bridges Smith Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday
Macon Georgia reports Mayor Bridges Smith marked his sixtieth birthday. A long time city leader, he has served as Macon’s mayor since 1899 with only six years as city clerk, arriving in 1857 and working in the Civil War ammunition factory. He has a long record as an unbeat en candidate.
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Macon
Bridges Smith
South
Smith
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