Praise for South Carolina Troops on the Border Banquet
The Palmetto troops and Citadel cadets receive high praise for their border service in El Paso. A October 26 banquet at the Toltec club honors Col. Wright Lt. Col. Allison and all units including infantry cavalry engineers and hospital corps.
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South Carolina
Palmetto Field Hospital
Cavalry
Company of Engineers
Citadel
J. A. Mood, Jr
R. H. Hudgens
F. R. Rogers
Capt. Mahon
Carolina
Col
W. K. Wright
Wright
Palmetto
23Rd Infantry
Blythe
Springs
Col. Wright
Allison
Brailsford
Sergeant Mood
el Paso
Border Patrol
Mexico City
South Carolina Infantry
Alamgorda
Styx
Wew Enterprises Chartered and Poultry Produce Company Commissioned
A regional notice records charters and commissions for multiple companies. Wew Enterprises is chartered with a 10000 capital stock and listed petitioners H Q Colvin W B Wright M D Colvin J R Shelton. Cothran and Carley Meat Co of Greenville is commissioned with 4000 capital, petitioners J C Cothran G Cheatham and W P Carley. Palmetto Poultry Produce Co of Columbia is commissioned with 3000 capital, petitioners J T C Pate and M B Jenking.
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Wew Enterprises Chartered
Bank of Shelton
H. Q. Colvin
W. B. Wright
M. D. Colvin
J. R. Shelton
Cothran & Carley Meat Company
Greenville
J. C. Cothran
G, Cheatham
W. P. Carley
Palmetto Poultry @ Produce company of Columbia
JT. C. Pate
M. B. Jenking
Hospital Feels Higher Prices
All day session of the board of regents of the State Hospital for the Insane disposed of many matters. The most important issue was the purchase of quarterly grocery supplies for the hospital. Members present included R. B. Scarborough Conway J. E. Sirrine Greenville S. C. Baker M. D. Sumter and B. W. Segars Oswego. The board was agitated by the high cost of commodities.
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Board of Regents
State Hospital
R. B. Scarborough
Conway
J. EB. Sirrine
Greenville
S. C. Baker
M. D
Sumter
B. W. Segars
Oswego
Troops Deployed to Enforce Ejectment at Anderson Mills
Governor Manning orders five Coast Artillery companies to Anderson to back civil authorities in ejecting striking workers from Equinox and Gluck mills. Major Robertson takes command as 260 National Guardsmen move in with 200 naval militia ready. Civil processes exhausted, writs to remove strikers proceed under martial order amid tense passivity.
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Anderson
Coast Artillery
National Guard of
South Carolina
Columbia
William S. Robertson
Crouch
Charleston
National Guard
Robert 50N
Cox
John H. M. Ashley
Ligon
Mquinox Mill
Manning
National
Naval
Heing
S. C
Greenville
Spartanburg
Gaffney
Jonesville
Greenwood
William T. Robertson
Robertson
Richard T. Manning
Yur New Serial Sidney A Nurse In Training Tale
A vivid segment centers on Yur New Serial Sidney a bright young woman training as a nurse. Life presses in with harsh realities while friends stand by and a mysterious figure labeled K aids her journey through growing pains and hopeful resilience.
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Sidney
Fifty Five Sons of Peers Fall in European War
London reports fifty five sons of British peers have fallen in the European war. Lieut Wyndham Tennant eldest son of Lord Glenconner was killed in France on September 22. His cousin Lieut Mark Tennant had just died in action. Tennant wrote to his mother before battle expressing courage and devotion. Prominent figures including cabinet ministers and party leaders have lost sons, with mentions of Asquith and Henderson families and ties to legal careers.
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London
Wyndham Tennant
Lord Glenconner
France
Lieut
Mark Tennant
Liev
Wyndham Pennant
The
Amy
Kive
Mr. Asquith
Lord Lansdowne
Pike Pease
Arthur Henderson
Lord Crewe
Mr. Henderson
Labor Party
Wid
Raymond Asquith
Mir Asquith
Dardanelles
Can't Keep Boy Out of War: American Enlisted in British Army
Norman Bruce Wallis, an eighteen year old American from New Orleans, enlisted as a private in the British army and fights in France with a Scottish regiment. Despite three efforts by his family via the American embassy to bring him home, he remained in service after a mix of missed connections and re-enlistments. An embassy official intervened but Wallis later returned to his old regiment and was arrested for desertion, yet punishment was averted and he is now with his unit in France under the name Norman Macgregor Bruce.
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South Carolina
Rence
Morton
Naval Consulting Board
W. M. Riggs
Clemson College
H. L. Scalfe
Clinton
John McNeal
Easton
Columbia
J. L. Coker, Jr
Hartsville
R. N. Brackett
Dr. Riggs
Citadel
Clemson
University of South Carolina
Sealife
Scalfe
Geenwood
London
Norman Bruce Wallis
New Orleans
United States
France
America
Wallis
Walulga
Norman Macgregor Bruce
Shoe salesman refuses raise after sales slip scheme
Ciena David Marks, a shoe salesman, rejected a raise but drew arrest on theft charges after employers uncovered a Muiphcnic system of sales slips. Authorities report losses of around 1000 dollars.
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Ciena David Marks
Boys to Fight War Soon in German Army Draft Trends
London reports the war department contemplates using younger soldiers as the war progresses. It cites Sir Douglas Tate and British forces weighing the value of men from eighteen to twenty five. England already registers boys born in 1899 to be called at eighteen and notes older men move to supply roles.
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London
War Department
Tong
Douglas Tate
England
Antiques trade shifts as Americans drive bargains overseas
London dealers report war era trade rebound from American buyers who pay fair prices for real and sham antiques. Dealers note Americans seek authenticity, resist inflated marks, and look for sensible value. Opera by wireless and a steam driven street sprinker are also mentioned as contemporaneous advances.
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London
Bond Street
Holland Mines Rise to Produce Coal at High Rate
Holland mines are now producing coal at about 2,000,000 tons per year, signaling strong output growth for the region's coal industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holland's
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Lill Hughey
R. J. Kirk
Ralph Smith
John McSween
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M. FF. Robertson
K. le Moyne
Mrs. Rinehart
Sidney Page
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Germany
Haig
Hhide
Opera
New York
Hotel Astor
Lee Deforest
Metropolitan Opera House
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