Embargo on Flour Lifted Across South Carolina
South Carolina lifts its flour embargo effective June 18 after initial impact from May 15. State shipments fell from 6 436 barrels weekly to 1 174 as North Carolina and Georgia remained higher. Sugar sales are limited to two pounds for city residents and five pounds for rural residents under June 19 rules.
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South Carolina
William Elliott
The
Food Administration
North Carolina
Georgia
William Eliott
Rush to Camp Jackson for 2000 Negro selectmen drive
Report says 2000 Negroes reported at Camp Jackson completing the first section of a new call for selectmen. Camp mustering officers handled the influx as 3000 men were processed. A new drive aims to send 15000 white selectmen in five days from South Carolina North Carolina Florida Illinois combined.
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Camp
Jackson
Camp Jackson
South Carolina
North Carolina
Florida
Illinois
Educational forces join health and sanitation campaign
State educational bodies will back a broad campaign for public health and sanitation. A letter to state college presidents asks that a woman be chosen to attend an upcoming conference, with plans already being laid for wide-reaching efforts.
Advice to Join Reserve Militia and Farm Loan Trends
Officials urge draft age men to join state reserve militia for pre service training and leadership paths as Congress weighs raising draft age to 45. Decreased May government farm loans totaling 9.53 million to 4300 farmers tied to dull months and banking delays. Clemson schedules two tractor schools in Orangeburg and Greenwood to showcase tractor use and cultivation demos.
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Columbus Company
Reserve
National Guard
Congress
State Regiment of Reserve Militia
Henry T. Thompson
Thompson
Richland
France
Washington Dispatch
Alump
D. A. Houston
Columbia Farm Loan Bank
Houston
Washington
Columbia
Columbia Bank
W. W. Long
Clemson College
Orangeburg
Greenwood
Fruit preserving venture seen in South Carolina may grow
A potential opening for a fruit preserving industry emerges in South Carolina as demand for food climbs. Secretary Slatter of the Chamber of Commerce received a telegram from Depot Headquartermaster Gallagher in Atlanta seeking names and addresses of reliable jam and preserve manufacturers in the state.
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South Carolina
Slatter
Chamber of Comyoorce
Galagher
Atlanta
Surplus corn and oats drive plea for state market aid
Sumter Council of National Defense and H J McLaurin urge boards of trade and congressional figures to press the quartermaster general to buy South Carolina surplus grain. Four carloads of oats and four carloads of baled oat hay are ready for shipment, with no current market. Officials in Georgia and Missouri camps say they are not in the market.
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Sumter
BE. I. Reardon
McLaurin
Georgia
Kansas City
St. Louis
Reardon
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
South Carolina
Sumter Council
Augusta
Chicago
West
Sumter Country
Corporate and finance updates from South Carolina towns
In Columbia the W S Copelston Company of Charleston dissolves with ownership transferring to L M Copleston. Palmetto Fire Insurance of Sumter seeks to double capital to 200000. Waddell Company of Georgetown applies for charter with 50000 capital, led by James A Waddell Ridgewood NJ and Clifford F Crane and Walter Hazard Georgetown for continuance of corporate purposes. In Greenville the war savings drive yields 124 join the limit club targeting 500 members and sweeping pledges for smaller purchases.
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Columbia
W. S. Copelston Company
Charleston
James A. Waddell
Ridgewood
N. J
Cifford F. Crane
Walter Hazard
Georgetown
Greenville
Inda
Greenville County
Limit Club
Chester County War Savings Drive Surpasses Local Quota
War savings stamps drive in Chester County gathers momentum with church gatherings and sermons urging investment. Fort Lawn becomes first town to exceed its quota oversubscribing by 1500 dollars, while the county has subscribed 75000 toward a 600000 goal.
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Chester County
Alma High
Chester
Fort Lawn
Labor distribution plan aims to stabilize war work
The United States employment service will centralize labor allocation across 13 districts to ensure steady staffing for essential war industries. District superintendents will move surplus labor to shortages, with employers required to use federal offices for hiring and with Charleston Columbia and Greenville offices opening under H L Tilghman in the Fifth district. Separate divisions will assist women, and Columbia hosts a local office to manage state needs. Fine opportunities for women arise as the University of South Carolina expands courses and accommodations for female students.
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Columbia
United States Employment Service
Department of Labor
Federal Service
Ohio
Maryland
West Virginia
Alabama
Charleston
Greenville
H. L. Tilghman
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Tilghman
University of South Carolina
Sesson
Camp Wadsworth Officers Boycott Cleveland Hotel
Spartanburg reports officers at Camp Wadsworth have agreed informally to refrain from patronizing the Cleveland hotel due to alleged excessive rates. Army officers have avoided the lobbies for two days as the reason leaks out.
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Spartanburg
Camp
Wadsworth
Cleveland
Engineer Corps Seeks 70 Men in Columbia
The United States Public Service Reserve calls for 70 qualified men in Columbia. Twenty stenographers for home service, ten surveyors, ten transit men, twenty bridge carpenters, and ten civil engineers. Most must be physically fit for overseas duty. Applications to Horace L. Tilghman, state director of the service reserve.
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Engineer Corps
Columbia
United States Public Service Reserve
Horace LL Tilghman
Servce Reserve
How Lydia and the Philippian Jailer Began the Christian Life
Lesson text outlines Lydia as Europe’s first convert, detailing four steps to salvation: attendance at prayer, hearing the Word, God opening the heart, and baptism. It then covers the Philippian jailer’s conversion after an earthquake, stressing belief in Jesus Christ, baptism, and household faith, with signs of new life.
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Lydia
Europe
Paul
Christ
Tle
John Ord
Lydian
Silas
Lord Jesus Christ
How This Nervous Woman Got Well
A Christopher Illinois woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing four years of irregularities weakness and nervousness after two doctors failed. She says she is no longer nervous regular and in excellent health. The ad urges other women to write for guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Mass.
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Christopher
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Alich Heller
Pinkham
Minne Sot Woman Gifts Mail Carrier War Savings Coins
A Minnesota woman surprised a mail man by giving 174 pounds of buffalo nickels worth about $1,600 in exchange for War Savings certificates. After counting, the carrier found he could not store all the coins and dumped them into his leather sack.
Not a Winner Among The Bridge Party Tales
A family exchange recalls a bridge party where a mother returns home empty handed but for a grouch. A modern airship navigator is urged to carry a safety anchor to prevent loss, with a note that losing a ring is better than losing a finger.
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W.F. Young
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Springfold
Mase
Daisy Fly
Ons Prom
Harold Somers
DE ‘Kalb Ave
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M. Ba
Mall
Thomas E. Green Bank
Chatsworth
Pioney
Uadellifs Hospital
Aahville
Qrove
Temps
London Globe
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Berm Ee
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