German Submarine Sinks Transport Captain Lincoln Ordered Silence
Survivor account from Julian Riffe of Houstonville Kentucky describes a German U boat attack on the President Lincoln off the French coast. The crew of 600 and 115 passengers endured torpedo strikes, two sinks, and a perilous swim to life boats. Germans photographed survivors and ordered them to stop singing the Star Spangled Banner.
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Lincoln
Julian Riffe
Houstonville
Riffe
Detroit Electric Car Company
France
Wayside Notes From Clark County Local Bits In 1918
A Clark county column recounts street scenes and incidents. A telegraph office altercation in Flanagan ends with shots fired but no injuries. Labor notes praise union wear and talks on wages, while locals discuss temperance, autos, and harvest work. Mentions Hiram Johnson, W. S. Fish, and the Dixie Boone Highway survey plans.
Public highway land owners duties under county act
The act requires owners and managers of lands bordering public highways to cut back brush and overhanging limbs between July 1 and August 20 each year. The county road engineer must publish notices in the county paper for two weeks and post handbills in voting precincts. Violations carry fines from twenty to fifty dollars for individuals and twenty five to one hundred dollars for engineers. Costs of publication are borne by the county Fiscal Court. Ordered by the Fiscal Court with signatories listed.
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Commonwealth
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Edgar S. Albright
Kentucky Press Association
United States
President Grant
New York Evening Post
Wayside
Rockcastle
Flanagan
Payne
O. M Payne
Trica
Neck of the Woods
Brotherhood
Luke McLuke
Bill Bole
Middletown
Bourbon County
War Savings
Hiram Johnson
London
C. C. Williams
Clark County
Clark
Pikes
Presbyterian
Winchester Sun
Ohio
New York
Kentucky
Clark County Pikes
Winchester
Livingston
Seven Mile
Dixie- Boone Highway
Parker’s Creek
Laurel
Louis Cooper
Lee County
W. S. Fish
Stanford
Louisville
Paint Lick
Richmond
W. S
Mr. Fish
Albert
Henry Fish
Fletcher
Rockcastle Baptist Sunday School
W. H. Owens
Bro. Geo. Childers
F. M. Jones
L. D. Gooch
J. W. Brown
B. H. Hellard
C. C. Metcalf
Geo. Childers
America
Germany
A J. Pike
L. W. Bethurum
God
C. G. Colston
W. H. Sowder
D. R. Gentry
A. J. Pike
Freedom
Brodhead
Union
Providence
Poplar Grove
J. J. Painter
G&j
G&j Tires
Sjld
John Robins
Brodhead, KY
Wallins Creek
R. B. Winkler
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Cam Mullins
C. Guy Roberts
D. Abney
J. P
W.D. Mullins
J. P. Freeman
Ketron J. P
Castoria
Packer
Food Administration
Swift & Company
Union Stock Yards
Chicago
Illinois
U.S.A
J. P. Kelsay
Somerset, KY
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