Monroe Schools Elect Officers In Two Literary Societies
The Monroe high school students elect officers for the Excelsiary and Elizabeth Brownittg Literary Societies. Officers include Horace President Jo McEwen Secretary Treasurer Leland Stewart censors William Austin Clarence Lee Mamie Lemmond President Nell Laney Vice-President Caroline Coble Lacy Wray. Monroe Wins Another Basketball Game 42 to 9 over Lancaster S C with strong defense and passing. Inter-State Commerce Commission delays rail rate increase to April 4 1918. Observation balloons escape confinement and cause widespread damage across Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma before being captured near Fort Sill and Fort Omaha.
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Monroe
Story
Lancaster
S. C
Kansas City
United States Army
Fortha
Neb
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Fort Sill
Oklo
Fort Omaha
Kansas Cities
Newton
Kan
Halifax Snow Crushes City Left Desolate and In Need
Halifax endures a blizzard with over a foot of snow as twenty thousand residents face destitution and many injuries. Federal provincial and Red Cross aid, plus U S volunteers, rush to assist while Massachusetts relief trains bring doctors and supplies. Water supply concerns and massive property losses loom as rescues continue. A child Lola Burns, eight, survives praying under wreckage as Private Henneberry mourns his family found among the collapsed home.
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Halifax
Dee
Red Cross
United States
Massachusetts
Lola Burns
Lola
Richmond
Henneberry
63Rd Battalion
St. John
Government to furnish nitrate of soda to southern farmers
Pa H Anderson reports Washington that a government agricultural department plan will deliver nitrate of soda to southern farmers in time for spring crops. Delivery may begin by year’s start, cost at actual government expense plus freight, with Chilean supply secured under a 10 million dollar appropriation to the secretary of agriculture.
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South
Pa H. Anderson
Washington
Greensboro
Robinson Ment
Chile
Bolus
Mr. Robinson
North Carolina
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Births and death notice from Monroe
Birth announcements list several families in Monroe with dates in November and October for newborns including a son for Simpson, Moser, Knight, and Lander and a daughter for Murtis and Limerick. A death notice honors Rear Admiral Charles Curtis Rogers, age 61, former Guantanamo naval station builder and Norfolk yard commandant, who died in a Washington hospital following a career in the U.S. Navy.
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Oscar F. Simpson
Monroe
Charles William Moser
W. Robert Murtis
Monroe R. F. D
Prank T. Lander
James V. Limebrick
Noy
A. S. Knight
R. F
Charles Curtis Rogjers
U.S. N
Guantanamo
Cuba
Norfolk Navy Yard
Washington
Virginia
Unclear Medical Note on Laka Bromo Ovininh Effects
Fragmentary text reports a claimed effect on head tonic and anilinamate tone with confusing terms. Mentions Laka Bromo Ovininh and possible botter reference, but lacks coherent details, dates, or identifiable entities.
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Han Crdimery
Prisoners Rescue After German Escort Attack Near Gous
Fifty American and Canadian engineers with British troops were cut off in German advance near Gous saucot. A German escort led them toward a prison, but the engineers and British soldiers attacked the guards and reclaimed their rifles. They then joined British forces in retreat to safety.
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Cambrai
Goussaucott
Goureaucourt
Canbrai
la Vacquerie
Message from General Pershing Declares Germany Beatable
Bishop Luther B. Wilson returned to New York after a European trip for the YMCA. He carried a message to Americans from General Pershing: there is no ground for the belief Germany cannot be defeated. Germany can be beaten and must be beaten.
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Luther B. Wilson
New York
Europe
Y. MC. A
General Pershing
Germany
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Navy
The
W.j.rudge Co. Jewelers and Stationers
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Missippi
Great Lakes
James Monroe
Louisiana Purchase
First National Bank
Lee
J. E. Ashcraft
J. W. Laney
Governm
Luzianne
TeReinetayee
Reily
Taylor
New Orleans
Inter-State Motor Company
Muncie
Muncie, Indiana
Carolina Auto Sales Company Distrbutors
E. G. Fletcher
Gen. Mgr
Horac Sal, Sec
Treas
Monroe, N.C
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