North Carolina Leads in Southern Agricultural Education
North Carolina shows higher pupil incomes and profits from agricultural education than other Southern states. NC pupils averaged 150.43 in net profit per pupil with teaching returns of 1.41 per dollar invested, according to federal agent R. D. Maltby during a visit to State College. Census data place Granville county population at 26,846, up 6.7 percent in ten years.
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Raleigh
R. D. Maltby
Agricultural Education
State College
State Board For Vocational Education
Teachers of Vocational Agriculture
North Carolina
Maltby
Granville
Washington
Census Bureau
No Cussing Wanted from Outlandish Governor Bickett
Governor Bickett rejects outside scrutiny of North Carolina prisons and defends state officials. He notes faith in Dr. W. S. Rankin and R. F. Bowseye, wages against outlander agitators, and asserts constitutional right to criticize only by North Carolinians. A commission to probe the Durham machine gun unit is named, with Royster Boyden and Whodbee listed. Also reports navy recruits, Jenkins to Antwerp for the Olympics, a Graham rape reward, Alamance County situation, and suffragists opening Raleigh headquarters.
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Bickett
Prisoners Belief Society of
Washington
KH. E. Duding
Provident
North Carolina
W. 8. Rankin
R. F. Bows Jey
Cape Lookout
Slick Rork Creek
Beverly 8. Royster
Oxford
A. H. Boyden
Salisbury
W. H. Whodbee
Greenville
T. W. Bickett
Durham Machine
Graham
A. A. Riddle
M. Gattis
Alamance
Funeral of Lieutenant Manning in a 1918 influenza death
Funeral services for Lieut. Frederick Manning, son of the attorney general, were held at Christ church after a storm, with about 200 veterans present in uniform. The body accompanied by military escort to the attorney general’s home and Oakwood Cemetery interment followed. Separate notes report organized drainage land in several North Carolina counties totaling 128,192 acres and a projected cost of 645,600 dollars. Also listed are civil service exams in the fourth district with clerks and carriers positions and starting salaries of 1400 dollars, plus school savings figures and thrift stamp sales in the region.
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Lieutenant Manning
Frederick Manning
France
Christchurch
Oakwood
Organized Drainage Enterprises
Washington
Sam L. Rogers
Bladen
Columbus
Cumberland
Harnett
New Hanover
Pender
Robeson
North Carolina
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service District
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
District of Columbi
Durham
Edenton
Greensboro
Greenville
High Point
Oxford
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
Treasury
LUDENDORFF OFFERS ARMY FOR BOL SHEVIK FIGHT
The piece reports that General Ludendorff offers to raise an army of one million to combat Bolsheviks if allied terms are loosened, demanding restitution of Posen and annulment of Versailles clauses including Danzig, while Britain’s Churchill backs Germany acting to halt Bolshevik advance. It also covers Polish Soviet armistice talks at Baranovitchi, strategic moves in Thrace, Syria, and Mexico, plus postwar political maneuvering in Britain and the United States.
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Europe
Lloyd George
Bon Jogne
Millerand
I J
Poland
Russia
General Wrangle
Millerrod
Germany
France
Moscow
London
Italy
Great Britain
Pole
Ludendorf
Berlin
Posen
Danzig
Winston Churchill
Augustowo
Suwalki
East Prussia
Reichswehr
Insterburg
Baranovitchl
Trotsky
Warsaw
Inter
Gazeta Warsaawska
Barzew
Corler Ponanny
Sovet
Italians flock to America overtax Hoffman Island
New York reports Hoffman Island, a quarantine detention station, handles an average daily transit population surpassing 1000 Italian immigrants. Five doctors work nonstop on fumigation and inspection as officials cite miscommunication with Italian authorities and steamship lines about U S health rules. In the past week multiple ships arrived from typhus districts, with delousing steps required before landing. Cuba’s population is listed as 2,838,805.
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New York
Hoffman Island
New York Quarantine Service
United States
Global turmoil and political unrest across wartime Britain and Europe
An eclectic update reports Ireland under British rule, Sinn Fein plots in Dublin, Villa in Mexico, Dutch Doorn rumors about William, and German and Allied moves. It notes Amer ica’s wage probes, Wilson’s league focus, a war secretary swearing in, and finances study as debt talks and labor issues rise.
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Lloyd George
England
Ireland
Duke of Northumberland
Sir Edward Carson
Sinn Fein
Paris
Frank Brooks
Viscount French
Lord Leutenant
Dublin
Dublin and Southwestern Railway
Westland Row
Sinn
de la Huerta
Spa
Entente
Francisco Vila
Eugenio Martines
Ville
Francisco Villa
Holland
William
Doorn
Germany
Soviet
Russia
Walter Simons
Reichstag
W! Ham
Haw Saverthenens
Amerongen
Washington Eyes Japan Policy Amid East Asia Tangles
The United States monitors Japanese moves in Manchuria, Korea, and Siberia as tensions rise. Secretary Baker releases war department sales to Poland before hostilities with Russia. Railway finances show a $100 million monthly loss, with the South profit, and a court declines to hear a mandamus bid on ending the German war clause. An emergent European crisis shapes U S policy.
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Japan
Far East
Siberia
Saghalien
United States
Poland
Soviet Russia
Baker
War Department
Russia
Wart Department
Polish Republic
Interstate Commerce Commission
South
Colby
Germany
Harry
McCartney
Chicago
McCoy
District Supreme Court
Cotton market weak as July ends amid varied news
Weekly cotton activity shows little strength with slight declines and mixed domestic signals. A New Orleans warehouse fire causes over a million dollars in loss, while firemen save lives and property. Georgia debates insurance permits and a bathing bill draws national attention. Military honors go to two sergeants at Camp Gordon. A fatal assault case lands a 22 year old in Fulton court. News also notes sugar stability, strike investigations, a London widow, and an octob er aeroplane race with Pulitzer prizes. Women vote to read the Bible in schools. President Wilson urges miners back to work. dry goods quiet and drownings in Alabama are reported amid broad wartime discourse.
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New Orleans
House of Representatives
Georgia
Chicago
War Department
Josiah Daniels
Charles H. Knapp
Camp Gordon
New York
Fulton Superior Court
Charley Jasper
Humphries
Grant Park
Atlanta
Trade and Commission
Chicago Yardmen's Association
Federal
George Ogilvy Hall
London
Misa Charlotte
Thomas EB. Watso
Thomson
Wilson
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Harding
Cox
League of the Ton
Heflin
Harlan
Hugh
Houston Colvard
Alexander City
Tallapools
Miami Valley
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina Textile School
Textile Department
State Colege
Texas Engineering
Carthage
Cato
William McGirt
Wilmington
McGirt
State General Assembly
Alice Pant
National Woman's Party
Tennessee
Tennousse
University of North
Charlotte Recorder
Hamilton C. Jones
Leo 3. Overman
Charlotte
New Corporation
Seminole Company
Goldsboro
Bankers’ Fire Insurance Company
ReoCarolina Company
Navy
United States Navy
Naval
W. A. Wilson
H.R. Revis
C. A. Wesson
Gastonia
J. H. Tarlton
J. P Waddell
Concord
FB. R. Limerick
Bessemer City
J. W. Wofford
Enoree
TL. B. Mills
Mooresville
Dual Suffrage Association
Shepard
Jerman
Miss Well
Jérman
Chester W. Chapin
Towners
N. Y
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Antwerp
Ludendorff
Villa
Cantu
Mexico
Edward W. Pickard
Baranoviteht
Bialystok
Syria
Feisul
Damascus
Ful
Palestine
Thrace
Adrianople
Jafar Tayar
Alexander
Fireaks
Kirk-Kiliseh
Pancho” Villa
Estefan Cantu
Lower
California
Cuntu
Nils
Hoyle
Martines
Torreon
Middle West
Lewis
Serlious
Lowden
Tlinois
National
Me. Tumulty
Wilkson
Malmer
Commerce Commission
Tumulty
Dayton
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Fils
Flarding
Denver
Memphis
Boston
Indianapolis
Pacific Coast
Fos Pritary
Resolute Ste
Sir Thomas Lipton
Mik Yaeht
Ttie
Sir Thomas
Congressional
Junketing
Manila
Philippines
China
Doctor Relnsch
America
Cuba
Sootland
League of Nations
William R. Williams
Richmond
White House
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Columbus. Ga
World Conference of the Women’ Christian Temperance Union
Montevideo
Burleson
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