Recruiting Push At Camp Moore Estimates 1800 More Recruits
South Carolina National Guard units at Camp Moore Styx near Columbia pursue a major recruiting drive. Over 1800 more men are needed to reach war strength with stations planned in Greenville Spartanburg Columbia and Florence. Officers named to military exam boards and a banking system for Second regiment pay are announced as camp life continues.
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Camp Moore
Styx
National Guard of
South Carolina
Texas
Greenville
Spartanburg
Columbia
Florence
National Guard
Coast Artillery
J. M. Wallace
J. Hart Brown
Henry C. Moore
Gaffney
Guy B. Foster
W. E. Bell
W. W. Jtames
Jonesville
el Paso
Washington
Philadelphia
Georgia
North Carolina
Springs
Military Examining Board
Blythe
P. K. McCully
E. C. von Tresckow
R. C. Heyward
G. Heyward Mahon, Jr
GC. Chandler
Col. Springs
Carolina
Col. Blythe
Wilson
Gov
Manning
Baker
War Department
United States
Bermuda
First Infantry
T. B. Spratt
Rock Hill
Union
Anderson
Gov. Manning
W. W. Moore
Greenwood
Mills
W. M. Manning
Charleston Light Dragoons
Baptist Hospital
Perry F. Wilson
Wilson G
Flo
A. L. Wilson
Neeses
Route to North Is Open for Pee Dee Travelers
Columbia reports routes reopening for motorists from Florida Georgia and Pee Dee region marooned for days. Watson led marooned cars north via Monticello road to Winnsboro as ferry links at Belmont Gastonia Charlotte opened. plans for Chester Lancaster ferries pending with Sumter Richland urged to reuse Garner's Ferry to shorten Pee Dee travel.
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Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Pee Dee
Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Industries
Gastonia
York
Chester
Charlotte
Watson
Monticello
Winnsboro
County Supervisor . Co
Camden Inegard
Belmont
N. C
Lancaster
Gastonia-Charlotte
Three Men Drowned Crossing Camdens Wateree River
Three workers on the Seaboard trestle lost their lives when a lighter capsized while crossing the Wateree River at Camden. Drowned were T. J. Fletcher of Garnett South Carolina a white foreman Alonzo Pan nosh and Joe Williams both with unknown residences. The trio swam some distance before failing in the current near a whirlpool as river levels rise again.
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Camden
Wateree
T. J. Fletcher
Garnett
S. C
Alonzo Pannosh
Joe Williams
Seaboard
Postpone Junior Order Meeting in Greenwood
The annual Junior Order of American Mechanics meeting in Greenwood is moved from August 1 to September 7. State Counselor Roach Stewart of Lancaster announced the postponement due to current railroad travel conditions, expected to improve by the new date.
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Lancaster
Junior Order of American Mechanics
Greenwood
Roach Stewart
Bridge Collapse Fatal to Miss Neva Dallas
Miss Neva Dallas age twenty one died from injuries after a Saluda River bridge near Ware Shoals gave way and threw her and four friends onto rocks twenty six feet below.
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Ware Shoals
Neva Dallas
Due West Female College
Saluda River
Here
Damage Not So Great Conway
The tropic hurricane heavily hit Horry county but Myrtle Beach reports only slight property damage. Cottages on the strand are occupied and visitors resume hotel stays as if unscathed by the storm.
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Conway
Horry County
Myrtle Beach
Atrand
Mitchell Is Named Magistrate In Highland Township
T J Mitchell of Greer Route 8 is appointed magistrate of Highland township in Greenville county to succeed I L Ballenger who resigned. Crop prospects brighter in Lexington county with old corn plantings the best ever seen and later plantings promising. More corn to be raised than in county history. Dr Skottowe B Fishburne Columbia health officer travels to New York City to study infantile paralysis. A Spartanburg railway worker notes wooden trestles survived floods while steel bridges failed. U S district court clerk shows sharp improvement in business conditions.
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T. J. Mitchell
Greer
Route 8
Highland Township
Greenville County
I. L. Ballenger
Lexington County
Skottowe B. Fishburne
M. D
Columbia
New York City
Spartanburg
United States District Court
Western District
South Carolina
Army Aviators Learn Long Sp ecialized Flight Training
The article outlines five months of specialized aviation schooling for U S Army pilots. It details progression from beginner trainers to high power Moranes and Nieuports, barographs, spirals, and altitude tests, leading to a brevet and finishing at Pau before serving as scouts or fighters.
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Pau
Army
Ile
Moranes
Remarkable leg transfer operation in Paris hospital
Surgeons at the Grand Palais in Paris perform a pioneering procedure uniting two wounded soldiers by transferring part of one man’s leg into the other. Rousselot, 26, and Tillette, 23, lie bound on a single table as surgeons lengthen, reattach, and fuse bone segments to create a single functional limb. The operation follows injuries at Morhange and Fort Dourumont as military medicine tests new frontiers.
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Paris
Grand Palais
Rousselot
Morhange
Germany
Tillette
Fort Dourumont
Miss Sydney Burleson Portrait And Tennis Demeanor
A new photograph features Miss Sydney Burleson daughter of the postmaster general. The Burleson sisters are noted as expert tennis players and enjoy informal visits entertainments and self made summer dresses and hats in their leisure time.
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Sydney Burleson
Burleson
British workers prosper as May wages rise in war industries
London reports sustained employment across the United Kingdom with May figures showing 870000 workers receiving higher wages totaling 81 thousand pounds weekly. Coal miners woollen operatives and engineers led wage increases in industries directly tied to the war effort.
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London
United Kingdom
Board of Trade Labor Gazette
Mexico’s Arredondo Quietly Serves as Ambassador Designate
Eliseo Arredondo, Mexico’s ambassador designate to the United States, is less visible in Washington than his recent prominence suggests. He often uses a messenger to deliver diplomatic notes to a state department clerk and spends most of his time at the embassy as a hard worker.
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Eliseo Arredondo
Mexico
United States
Washington
Lansing
State Department
Plumbers Find Desiccated Cat Mummy in Wisconsin Home
Merrill Wis Plumbers tearing out a partition discover the desiccated body of a cat believed to have entered a small aperture while chasing a mouse and become trapped for years. The discovery was made during renovation work in a residence.
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Merrill, Wis
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Hayne
James A. Hayne
State Board of Health
Medical Corps
United States Army
Foreign Service
West
Canal Zone
James T. Moore
Citadel
Col. H. B. Springs
Joe Doyle
Congaree Creek
Second Regiment
Major Hines
John L. Hines
Dershing
Great Hospital
Parle
Miss Sydney
Begg Hea
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