Peace Talks and Homebound Reflections Across Years
In Waxhaw on December 24 a correspondent recalls holiday travel by train crowded with soldiers, delays, and a wish to cut coal costs by logging wood locally. The piece links wartime fuel worries, paper subscriptions, and a plan to drop nonpaying readers while noting peace talks at Brest-Litovsk and Bolshevik aims against German militarism.
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Jesse
Waxhaw
Whiteville
Clarkton
Seaboard Air Line
Lumberton
Monroe
Hancock, S. C
Jesse Williams
McAlister
Williams
Henry Gore
Henry
Amon
Journal
Lonnie Helms
R. F
Mia
Brest-Litovsk
Leopold of
Bavaria
von Keuhlmann
Chabad
Russia
Romania
Rumania
Central Executive Committee of Soldiers
Petrograd
Peasant Congress
Leon Trotsky
Bolsheviki
Trotsky
Europe
Cxariam
Constituent Assembly
Wingate School closes fall term with large enrollment
The Wingate school ends its fall term with enrollment over 200 and strong work in all departments. Debating societies excel, Miss Lea directs the business department, and Miss Lilas leads a 28 member music class. More boarding students arrive, dormitories are in demand, and the spring term begins January 1, 1918.
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Wingate
Dec
Lea
Lilas
Christmay
Friends of the
Sco
Mary Redfearn
Bessie McIntyre
Ruth Black
Oxford
Ethel Snyder
Chowan
Ellie Bivens
Coker
Pauline Byn
State Normal
Ellen
Mary Gaddy
Thoma Humphrey
Victoria McIntyre
Florence Endy
Mary Bennett
Meredith
Ita Mullin
William Liles
Henalpine
Roosevelt backs war time prohibition for workers in war effort
Washington reports Col. Theodore Roosevelt issued a letter via Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the National Temperance board endorsing prohibition of liquor in war time. He urged extending this to railroad, factory, mine and shipyard workers to preserve strength and health for the nation's war needs. His sons in France support absolute army prohibition, reinforcing the stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Clarence True Wilson
National Temperance Board
France
General Pershing
Homing Instinct Strong in Marshville A Christmas Homecoming
Correspondent reports Marshville residents returning for Christmas. Teachers and students from La Grange College and Wingate join family gatherings, marriages occur in Gilboa, and local couples prepare for holidays. Notes on travel, snow, and festive greetings accompany names of residents and visiting kin.
Christmas greetings and social notes from Oakboro area
The item lists visits and greetings among locals including Mr John Hitchcock and son Benjamin of Oakboro visiting Mr W J Kenney, Mrs Ellen Barring with Mrs Kobt Price at Unionville, Misses Lote and Luelle Tarlton from Wadesboro visiting Mrs J W Little, and Mrs J Mod Maness visiting in Win kate. It mentions a Christmas song service at the Methodist church and holiday travels by Mr and Mrs C W Barrino and children, plus a general seasonal wish for peace and freedom from war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ple
John Hitchcock
Benjamin
Oakboro
W. J. Kenney
Ellen Barring
Santer
C. W. Barrino
Johnson Dente He That Killed His Bride
Richmond reports Dr. Lemuel J. Johnson a 23 year old Middlesex dentist facing murder charges in the death of his wife Alice Knight Johnson, 23, after she ingested poison. He is held in Richmond jail with preliminary exam set for January 2. Police consider possible exhumation for coroner’s inquiry and probe his motive linked to loving another woman Miss Ollie White of Zebulon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria-Hungary
Brenta
Piave
Italy
Asiago
Pinve
William
Richmond
Lemuel J. Johnson
Middlesex
N. C
Richmond City
Wilson
Johnson
John Wiley
North Carolina
Alice Knight Johnson
Dy. Johnson
Misa Rhight
Middlesey
Ollie White
Zebulon
N.C
Miss White
Americans Abroad Not to Eat Turkey Dinner
In France the American expeditionary force will miss Christmas turkey. A submarine sank the cranberry-carrying ship and other vessels ran late, leaving supplies of turkey insufficient. Expected Christmastime meals collapse to canned beef or money turkey, provoking disappointment among troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Turkey
United States
Quartermaster Corpe
Atlantic
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RFP
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Belgium
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Kaiser
Emperor William
Berlin
Westen
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Brussels
Tom Best
Greensboro
J. W. Batley
Jstate
Col. Roosevelt
Marshville
Carrie Belle Vaughan
la Grange College
la Grange
Jennie Vaughan
Morven Graded School
R. M. Vaughan
J. T. Garland
Masters Dallas
Franklin
Ware Shoals
S. C
Messrs Grier and
Earl Marsh
Myron Green Gwynne Griffin
Clayton Brewer
Ouis Marsh
Odessa Curlee
Kate Bailey
Female College
Pauline Taylor
Davenport Female College
Lenoir
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Raleigh
Clementine Marsh
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Veasy
Peachland
J. N. McDonald
Conley Stegall
Tittle
Ruth
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Muriel
Stegall
Melissa Stegall
Jjoin
Delia Evans
B. A. Evans
A. R. Newsome
Wilmington
Roy Marsh
Belmont
Ed H. Moore
Rhursa
Charlotte
J. E. Bailey
Adam Curlee
Chesterfield County
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J. B. Thomas
Providence
Funderburk
Tom McBride
Clay Newsome
Philadelphia
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J.C. Little
B. F. Dees
Mise Jenale Holes
George Holmes
C. J. Black
Wingate Lumlay
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