U-117 Sunk In First All‑Air Naval Test Off Cape Charles
A three‑plane flight dropped nine 163‑pound bombs from about 1100 feet, hitting U‑117 with a direct strike and crippling it within minutes. Nearly 200 bombs prepared. only 12 used as the first aerial division achieved a decisive hit while other units could not engage.
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Cape Charles
Atlantic
Navy
Army
Delos Thomas
Keane
Rummill
Garvey
Thomas
Inland Sea voyage from Kobe to Kole in Japan
Journal letters describe sailing the Inland Sea aboard the Gunzan Maru from Kobe toward Kagoshima with land and islands framing the voyage. J. W. Prank recalls Bryan’s visit, notes sea travel perils, and discusses Kole Mecca, its 2,500 students, churches, and his mission to coastal fishermen along a fifty mile stretch.
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Kobe
Shikoku
William Jennings Bryan
Harayama
Miyazaki
Yamashita
Kagoshima
Kanzan
Paul
Hudson River
Chesapeake Bay
Puget Sound
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Japan
Kole
Jesus Christ
Inland Sea
J. W. Prank
Chamberlains Tablets Endorsement by Mrs Newton Vreeland
Mrs Newton Vreeland of Minoa New York says Chamberlains Tablets have helped her and her husband for five years. She notes they ease heavy meals and digestive discomfort and she uses them for constipation or indigestion with good results.
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Chamberlain
Newton Vreeland
Minoa
N. Y
Three U S Ships Vanish From Seas Mystery Grows
Washington reports a sea mystery as three coastal steamers and a schooner disappear with no wreckage or distress, raising fears of mutiny, foul play, or unseen perils at sea. Officials cite missing vessels near Cape Hatteras after the Deering episode and a pirate theory without conclusive proof.
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Washington
Russia
Eee Carol Deering
Sian
Aivaucal
Hoover
Portland Mystery: Bottle Note Links Deering Crew Fate
A bottle note purporting to explain the disappearance of the Bath schooner Carroll A. Deering is found genuine. Henry Bates of Islesboro Maine, a crew member, is identified as author. Authorities pursue the pirate theory linking a missing oil steamer Hewitt to the same crew.
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Portland
North Atlantic
Cape Hatteras
Carroll A. Deering
Diamond Shoals
Henry Bates
Islesboro
Maine
World wide search launched for missing Carroll A. Deering crew
Washington reports a global hunt for the Carroll A Deering crew from Bath Maine after the schooner ran ashore at North Carolina with all aboard missing. The effort involves the state department justice and commerce and parallels the suspected disappearance of the Hewett from Sabine Pass Texas bound for Boston observed about the same time. The consuls receive a summary noting the vessel passed Cape Lookout Lightship on January 29.
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Rio de Janeiro
Norfolk
State Department
Deering
Cape Hatteras
Washington
Carroll A. Deering
Bath
Maine
North Carolina
Department of Justice
Department of Commerce
Hewett
Sabine Pass
Texas
Boston
Cape Lookout
N. C
Amusement a Remedy for Mischief in Charity Work
Foreign observers note Americans spend much on pleasure and recreation in charities from public schools to Y M C A and churches. Reports cite free movies in tenements, Hudson Guild efforts, and parks like Chelsea Park drawing crowds and easing policing in New York’s lower West Side.
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Etiain Gab Degins
Beilick
Whitechapel
London
London Daily Telegraph
Pacific
Atlantic
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
New York
Charlie
Bill Hart
Hudson Guild
Chelsea Park
Lower West Side
Literary Digest
Church South Gives Large Famine Relief Gift to China
The M. E. Church South contributed nearly a quarter of a million dollars to aid famine victims in China.
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M. E. Church
South
China
Why Suffer from Rheumatism
Nine of ten rheumatism cases are muscle or chronic rheumatism and need no internal treatment. Pain relief comes from Chamberlain's Liniment which aids sleep and rest, improving comfort.
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Chamberlain
Doctor committed to Raleigh asylum for life
Greensboro June 24 Dr J W Peacock acquitted of murder of Thomasville chief of police J E Taylor is ordered confined to the insanity asylum for life by Judge T B Finley after a hearing. Experts testified to his insanity and progressive disease as a danger to society.
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Greensboro
J. W. Peacock
J. E. Taylor
Thomasville
Rowan County
Lexington
Raleigh
T. B. Finley
Finley
Dr. Peacock
Raper
Dr Peacock
Clyde R. Hoey
Mr. Raper
Taylor
Bower
Mr. Bower
North Carolina
H. Hoyle Sink
Peacock
John J. Parker
Sink
Link
Superior Court
Reverend Gilbert T. Rowe named book editor of Southern Methodist Quarterly Review
Greensboro reports that Rev. Dr. Gilbert T. Rowe, editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate, was elected book editor of the Quarterly Review of the Southern Methodist Church in Nashville. He succeeds the late Rev. Dr. Frank Thomas and is viewed as a likely future bishop candidate with a storied ministry in Asheville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, and Greensboro.
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Greensboro
North Carolina
Nashville
Tenn
Gilbert T. Rowe
North Carolina Christian Advocate
Quarterly Review
The
Southern Methodist Church
Rowe
Frank Thomas
North Carolina threshers must obtain free license
The North Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture and the U. S. Department of Agriculture announce that each grain thresher must obtain a license from the Register of Deeds before operating. The law requires records of bushels threshed and acres harvested, with reports due by September 15 to the county Register of Deeds. A $25 fine applies for failure to report.
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North Carolina
Register of Deeds
Raleigh
Epworth League Selects North Wilkesboro for Next Conference
North Wilkesboro was chosen as the next Epworth League conference site after Morgan ton hosted a two day annual session last week.
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North Wilkesboro
Epworth League
Morganton
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Yorktown
Langley Field
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