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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
2
Round About the World Condensed War Happenings
Deportation of six hundred Kansas City strikebreakers proceeds under police supervision as city traffic resumes in both Kansas Citys. Reports detail casualties at Kennesaw Mountain and a shell accident. Draft mobilization plans, wartime prices, and international policy measures are outlined amid ongoing war volumes.
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Kansas City
Kansas Citys
Foor
Kennesaw Mountain
Sherman
Joe Johnson
Avera
Battalion
Artillers
Kennesaw
Manetty
Athinta
Tia
United States
Russia
Elihu Root
Ariona Federation of Labor
Warren
Warren (Ariz
Labor Coi
Imnindins
David F. Houston
Heralds Review Of North Carolina Capitol Events
A condensed chronicle presents important happenings at the Capitol and across North Carolina as compiled for Herald readers. The survey highlights political developments, public notices, and notable state activities shaping the period’s civic landscape.
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Herald’s Review of
North Carolina
Capitol
Herald
North Carolina Leaders Call for Safer Schools and Wheat Growth
Insurance Commissioner James Young urges safer school buildings over costly additions amid fire risks and debt. North Carolina should plant 7 million extra bushels of wheat to secure bread supply, improve seed, and farm practices. Also notes exemptions process, anti draft meeting shift to loyalist rally, and governor clemency for Dr. Summers.
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North Carolina
Blooded Jersey and Holstein cattle bought by NC farmers
North Carolina farmers through the Animal Industry Division of the N C Agricultural Extension Service purchased over ten thousand dollars worth of purebred Jersey and Holstein cattle from Ohio centers. Mrs A J Reed authorized the purchases on a trip, with WT Yancey of the National Bank of Oxford lending funds interest free for thirteen Jersey animals.
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North Carolina
N.C. Agricultural Extension Service
A J Reed
Ofice of Dairy Farming
Ohio
Ates
Jerseys
WT Yancey Cashier
National Bank of Aville
Oxford
Jersey
State Fair plans conservation focus for fifty seventh fair
Secretary Joseph E. Pogue announces the fifty seventh state fair to be held October 20. A women’s building will be completed at cost and a grandstand refund to aid the Red Cross is proposed. Major W A Graham names Dr. O H Graham state veterinarian to replace Dr B B Flowe who left for army service. Druggists fear German drugs as boycott spreads and American tablets rise in use.
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Mar Whl
Bicktt
Joseph E. Pogue
Ann
Red Cross
J. CL. Harris
Execut
Abram
W. A. Graham
O. H. Graham
Duplin County
B. B. Flowe
Graham
William Moore
America
North Carolina Briefs Move On With Local Meetings
Joe L. Baker resigns as The Charlotte Observer managing editor to join Oglethorpe training camp. Salisbury boy nine, Robert C. Whirlow Jr., dies after a horse kick to the stomach. Morganton hosts a mass meeting uniting Burke McDowell Caldwell Yancey Catawba Lincoln Avery Watauga counties to urge bringing German POWs to western North Carolina for employment and public works.
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Joe L. Baker
Charlotte Observer
FY Oglethorpe
Robert Charles Whirlow, Jr
Robert C. Whirlow
Salisbury
Concord Merchants’ Association
Morganton
Burke
McDowell Caldwell
Yancey
Catawba
Lincoln
Avery
Watauga
North Carolina
Calls Draft Army Hoover Prepared in Three Parts
A 1917 report states plans to draft the army under President Hoover in three parts to seize wheat and control all troops. Harvest of the 1917 crop would be stored in camps by October if necessary to reduce prices.
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Hoover
Washington
Hon
United States
Congress
Europe
Plans to avoid confusion establish buying agencies
Washington reports a three increment draft plan for 687,000 men to train by October with 12,000 arriving per cantonment after September 5. enrollees will be examined for fitness, housed briefly, and assigned to skeleton units before the next wave arrives.
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Washington
Movement to speed up camp shipments nationwide
The rail way war board orders immediate redistribution of about 21 000 empty cars to the south, middle west and southwest to move grain food and munitions. Over 100 900 empty cars moved in two months, mainly via Pennsylvania system, to meet wartime transport needs including crops and lumber to arm cantonments and shipyards.
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Washington
Car Service Commission
Railway War Board
South
Middle West
Southwest
Pennsylvania
Colision
Atlantic
Birmingham & Atlantic
Central of Georgia
Seaboard
Atlantic Coast Line
Seventeen Die and Dozens Injured in Shore Line Wreck
In North Bradford Connecticut a head on collision of two Shore Line Electric Railway trolley cars near the station left seventeen dead and about forty injured. Both heavy cars jammed in a mass of twisted steel as passengers were trapped inside.
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Bradford
Conn
Shore Line Electric Railway
Four Killed in German City by French Plane
Amsterdam reports an Entente air raid on Frankfort on the Main. Bombs fell on crowded streets, killing four persons and wounding several others. The raid also injured a few hospital inmates. No other fatalities were recorded in the hospital section.
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Amsterdam
Frankfort-on-the- Main
Frankfort
German Government to Explain Emperor's Telegram
Cologne Gazette reports Germany will explain a telegram reportedly sent by Emperor William to President Wilson in August 1914. The Gazette publishes the telegram text as presented by James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany.
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Copenhagen
Cologne
William
Wilson
James W. Gerard
Bor. Im
Gerard
First American Prisoners Taken by Germans
Five Americans are prisoners aboard a German submarine, with four likely the first American POWs taken in the conflict. The Campana steamer crew were captured after the ship was sunk August 6, 140 miles west of Ile de Re off France. Forty seven survivors were landed. Unrest in Flanders continues and in Moldavia heavy fighting between Russians, Romanians and Germans persists as von Mackensen pushes to break the Entente line toward Tecuchiu.
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la Follette
Wisconsin
United States
Navy Department
Campana
Fe de Ro
Campany
Statesbory
New York
Louis J. Cherry
Mowry M. Groekt
Ho J. Herald
Dent Wilson
Hardwick
Georgia
Wilson
Howver
Ragland
South End
London
Suashore Frort
Marsa
Brylanes
Frankfort
Moldavia
Teutons
Aving Terc
Cntton Mille
Alsace
France
Italy
Apa Iap
Flanders
Ostend
Chink Hast
China
Duret
Java
Chrlattana
Zimmermann
Lentae
von Loebell
Paris Journal Des Debate
America
Ile de Re
Teutona
von Mackensen
Tecuchiu
Fokshant
German air raid kills twenty three at South End
London report says twenty three people, including nine women and six children, were killed with many injured as German raiders dropped about forty bombs on South End in Essex, forty miles east of London. Property damage was heavy. two men hurt at Rochford.
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London
South End
Kesex
Rochford
Two Virginians Face Trial On Treason Charge
Big Stone Gap Virginia. Trial of William Verdon McCoy and John W Phipps mountaineers began in U S district court on Monday. They face charges of high treason for recruiting an army to wage war on the United States for fomenting rebellion resisting conscription and conspiring to seize U S property. Phipps and McCoy were arrested on May 27 1917.
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Big Stone Gap
William Verdon McCoy
John W. Phipps
United States District Court
United States
Phipps
McCoy
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