Special Taxes Adopted by Mount Airy Board June 1917 List
The Mount Airy Board of Commissioners approved a 1917 1918 schedule of special taxes for numerous occupations and businesses. Items include licenses for firework dealers cider sellers itinerant merchants peddlers patent medicines dancing schools bowling alleys pool rooms moving picture shows and various vehicle and service licenses. The long list sets annual or per item fees such as 10 to 50 dollars depending on activity and vehicle type with late additions for licenses issued after January 1 1918.
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Board of Commissioners of
Town of
Mount Airy
Ceeere
Cs Hed Kokua
Entenda
Stan
Acutbenic Rebvaneksochio
Sap
Usadih
Bina Kene Maka Mae Keane
Shell hole fighting active on western front amid cratered trenches
British dispatch from France notes fighting shifting to shell holes east of Monchy le Preux and west of Warneton on Arras and Messines fronts. Troops man improvised positions in cratered zones, using grenades and machine guns, while Germans cling to shell holes, avoiding exposed fixed lines.
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France
Bloody Monchy-le-Preux
Arras
Warneton
Messines
Monchy
Americans Claim Sinking German Submarine in Battle
An American steamer captain reports sinking a German submarine on June 4 after a night action two days from Liverpool. Wireless accounts describe torpedo near miss, gunfire blows that submerged the U boat, and a crew cheer as the U boat disappears amid smoke and bubbles.
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Atlantic
Liverpool
Mrs Sarah Hoyle Killed in Auto Collision at 82
Charlotte community mourns Mrs Sarah Hoyle 82 wife of Lewis H Hoyle who died at a local hospital after being struck by a Texas Oil Co vehicle driven by C L Smith yesterday. Smith is held on two charges manslaughter and reckless driving. Mrs Hoyle from Lincoln county was buried there this afternoon leaving a husband and three young children.
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Charlotte
Sarah Hoyle
Lewis H. Hoyle
C. L. Smith
Texas Oil Company
Smith
Hoyle
Lincoln County
Many Air Battles Fought By Americans in France
The Lafayette squadrilla’s week from June 10 to 16 saw 54 planes patrol German lines and 9 air battles. Pilot Raoul Lufbery and Sergt Robert Soubieran each fought two battles, with Lufbery downing one foe for his 10th victory while two German machines were damaged.
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France
Associated Press
Lafayette Squadrilla
Raoul Lufbery
Edwin Parsons
Robert Soubieran
Stephen Bigelow
Walter Lowest
Thomas Thomas Hewitt
Johnson Succeeds Moore as Biblical Recorder Editor
Dr. Hight C. Moore resigns after nine and a half years as editor of the Biblical Recorder the Baptist state convention paper. He accepts the managing editorship of the Southern Baptist convention Sunday school board in Nashville Tennessee starting August 1 overseeing four publications with 276000 total circulation. Dr Livingston Johnson pastor at Rocky Mount was elected to succeed Moore.
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Raleigh
Hight C. Moore
The
Biblical Recorder
Baptist State Convention
Moore
Southern Baptist Convention
Nashville
Tenn
Sunday School Board
Livingston Johnson
Baptist Church At
Rocky Mount
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W. West Drug CO
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