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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1917
Page
4
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Raleigh dispatch reports Gov Bickett calls 5000 unorganized militia into state service to curb crime. A Home Guard will draft 25 per county, kept for state duties, with Adjutant General Young organizing the process. Authorities warn against mob rule and defend negro citizens’ rights.
Raleigh Sept 24 An agreement with the state board of health and Wake county quarantine officer Dr Z M Caveness places Dr A McR Crouch state epidemiologist in charge of the county quarantine work for three months to study the new quarantine law. Caveness remains county officer and physicians report diseases to him while Crouch performs the duties in his name.
Representatives of more than two million farmers met President Wilson at the White House to press for farm labor exemption rules under the draft. The memorial, prepared by the Federal Board of Farm Organizations, argues agriculture remains undermanned and calls for prompt, targeted exemptions to keep skilled farm workers on the land.
Montreal hosts the General Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Charities with delegates from the United States Canada and Great Britain. The opening service at the Church of the Messiah features Rev Sydney B Snow and Rev Frederick Griffin with a sermon by Rev Stanley A Meeker. William H Tait former U S president and conference president delivers tomorrow’s address along with eminent figures like Professor Ann Garlin Spencer Thomas Mott Osborn and Rev Samuel A Eliot of Boston.
Poultry men from across the United States and Canada gather in Milwaukee for the American Poultry Association annual convention to discuss cooperating with the council of defense, eliminating food waste, and boosting future poultry production. Sessions run through Friday.
The article notes a government push to increase fish consumption and warns it will complicate household routines as breadwinner may take time off, risking delays in farm chores like wheat planting.
Boston teams have won every world series they contested with four Red Sox titles and one Braves title. Ed Reulbach set pitching marks for the big series while with the Cubs in 1906 beating the White Sox 1 to 0. Babe Adams won three games for Pittsburgh in 1909 against Detroit. Christy Mathewson starred for the Giants with three shutouts against the Athletics in the LiO5 series. Frank Parker, then with the Athletics and later with the Yankees, hit two homers in the 1911 A’s Giants series. Frank Isbell of the White Sox had four two-base hits and three runs in a 1916 Sox Cubs game.
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