Wind Blow Of the Tops of 'Three Box Cars
Government orders plants to shut down for five days to ease a coal shortage. The Fuel Administration under Garfield directs priority to railroads hospitals and essential public services while most manufacturing halts. A second move envisions Monday rest days for ten weeks to distribute scarce energy nationwide. Congress protests and a formal order drafts to clarify enforcement.
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United States Fuel Administration
Washington
America
Mississippi
Louisiana
Minnesota
The
Fuel Administration
Army
Garfield
United States
Mississippi River
Director General of Railways
AML
Tidewater
White House
Congress
House
Senate
Mr. Little Lost Two Valuable Mates
Two mules owned by W L Little drowned when a ferryman attempted a triple crossing at a ferry slip leading to the wagon wheel slipping and the mules dragged into the river. Also reports a Senate speech by Senator McCumber urging swift shipbuilding and boosted morale, and a separate incident where two horses were killed by a Charlotte train near Ansonville while five mules were saved.
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W. L. Little
Wadesboro
Ansonian
Ansonsville
Seaboard
Charlotte
Center Grove Happenings and Weather Turbulence
Jan 17 1918 Center Grove notes Preston Baucom of Badin visits friends and relatives. Mrs M A Pressley near Unionville dies shortly after her daughter arrives. Mrs Edgar Baucom visits her parents. A severe wind storm tears through the area injuring Sardis church and several farms. No school this week as the teacher tends to a sick child.
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Preston Baucom
Badin
John Helms
M. A. Pressley
Unionville
Sardis Church
J. A. Pressley
Lynn Yandle
Bank Robbery at Camp Funston Linked to Captain Whistler
Camp Funston Kan January 15 An official fund check reveals Captain Lewis Whistler took sixty two dollars and twenty six cents from the bank Friday night in a robbery that killed four men with an axe and wounded a fifth Investigators say no trace of the money has been found and believe it was removed from the cantonment division headquarters made the final accounting today
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Thornton
Jackson
New Orleans
Esquire
Simpson
Andrew Jackson
Nashville
Tenn
Harriet Angeline
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
John Speaks
North Carolina
South Carolina
George McKamile
McKamie
Lancaster Dist
Thas Crawford
Jeremiah Cureston
Waxhaws
MeKamie
Thomas Crawford
Cureton
MeKamie Place
Thomas M. Crawford Ivory
George McKamie
McKanie Place
eMay
James Crawford
Anson County
Caroina
North
Henry Page
Lee Griffin
Food Administration
Europe
North Dakota
Washington
McCumber
Senate
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England
Russia
Rumania
France
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Germany
Central Powers
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Whistle
Prom Camp Funston Bank
Camp Funston
Kan
Lewis Whistler
Division
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Journal
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