Wingate Notes on Farm Life and Local Anecdotes
Wingate community notes from November cover farm work before rough weather wheat sowing and new dormitories for boarders. Local events include a Monroe victory over Wingate basketball, a Wadesboro car mishap, a humorous tale of a lost pant incident, church plans, and updates on illness, visitors, and reunions with regional names like Stanly Mecklenburg and Marshville.
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Monroe
Wingate
James Austin
Stanly County
Busy Bee
E. C. Snyder
Anson Association
Gum Springs Baptist Church
Lilesville
Winston-Salem
M.S. Humphrey
Zula Stegall
Mecklenburg County
Wiley Hefner
Lincolnton
Gastonia
G. M. Stewart
C. W. Baucom
Wadesboro
Mr. Baucom
Uncle Marsh
Winfred
American Patrol Reported Captured on Rhine Marne Front
Berlin reports North American soldiers were captured by a German reconnaissance party on the Rhine Marne canal in No Man's Land. The loss, likely a small scouting party, comes as American forces undergo final training with French regiments in front line trenches.
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Berlin
London
War Office
Rhine-Marne
Rhine-Marne Canal
Washington
Pershing
Tfag
No Man’s Land
General Pershing
Russia Yet Will Fight On In War Says Telegraph
A Petrograd correspondent in London argues Kerensky’s interview was misread and Russia will not seek a separate peace. He notes Russia’s immense sacrifices, civilian privations, and high casualties, urging patience and continued front-line effort alongside Allied support.
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Petrograd
Daily ‘Telegraph
London
Kerensky
Associated Press
Teleh
Russia
Soukhomlinof
The
Daily Express
Ke‘ky
East Prussia
France
Britain
United States
Gurko
England
Baltic
Gulf of Riga
Hertling Appointment Signals German Political Shift
Berne on November 4, Count von Hertling was named imperial German chancellor. Officials view the move as a revolution in Germany’s political life shifting the peace negotiation focus from Prussian military circles to Munich and Vienna. South German and Austrian papers, plus Swiss Germans, see it as a positive omen for peace.
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Houston
Germany
Washington
England
United States
Department of Agriculture
Prussia
Great Britain
Hertling
Berne
Count von Hertling
Munich
Vienna
Switzerland
Weddington Intermediate Honors Roll Names Released
Weddington Intermediate announces honor roll for last month in the Intermediate department. Fourth Grade students John Helms Annie Glenn Hill Flossie Helms and Annie Lee Hemby are listed. Fifth Grade Clara Short. Sixth Grade Adel McManus Zula Helma. Seventh Grade Lena Hemby.
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Weddington
Weddington Academy
John Helms
Annie Glenn Hill
Flossie Helms
Annie Lee Hemby
Clara Short
Adel McManus
Zula Helma
Lena Hemby
Cadorna Holds Line On The North And South Front
Italian General Cadorna maintains intact north and south lines along the Tagliamento river despite Austro German attempts to cross. The new front, reached after a costly retirement, is straighter and shorter, potentially easier to defend, though Austrian and German forces concentrate against Italy and threaten a northward thrust.
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Great Britain
France
Italy
Tagliamento
Belgium
Lloyd George
William KR. Roberson
Imperial Stat
Painleve
Cadorna
Tentino
Galdicaria
Lake Garda
Trentino
Brescia
Flanders
Ailette
Rheims
Chaume
Verdun
Mesopotamia
Bagdad
Tigris
Tekrit
Taglia~amento
Batteries Display Unusual Activity Against Americans
German batteries showed more activity along the French line held by American troops despite rain. Shells landed in trenches while American batteries replied in kind. Officials say the bombardment was not lively, just a departure from quiet, with a high US officer gathering frontline reports to aid training of fresh contingents.
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Chain Gang
Union County
Eleanor Tarlton
Vann Cuthbertson
Weere
Ray Funderburk
The
Baptist
Badin
Esren
Ial
I. Chron
Roy Moore
Mark Perry
Glenalpines
J. M. Bedwell
Tennessee
H. L. Greene
Aquadale
Lee Smith
Mr. Smith
Stanly County
France
Associated Press
United States Army
Aviation Student Killed by Fall from Seaplane at Seaplane Base
Bay Shore November 4 John V W Reynders 22 a student aviator attached to the US naval station here fell 2500 feet from a seaplane into Great South Bay during a turn over water landing. His uniform was torn by impact. A companion in another aircraft saw the crash and dived overboard to recover the body.
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Bay Shore
John V. W. Reynders
United States Naval Station
Great South Bay
Reynders
Lafayette Flying Squad Honors Buckley Prisoner Miracle
In Paris on November 4 French and American members of the Lafayette flying squadron celebrate the news that Corporal Everett Buckley of Kilbourne Illinois, previously reported killed, was captured and wounded by Germans after making five flights into enemy territory during the Verdun offensive.
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U. 8
Germany
Paris
LaFayette
Everett Buckley
Kilburne
Ill
Buckley
Verdun
Americans Kill Three and Wound Five in German Raid
Washington reports say a German raiding party attacked a trench held by American infantry before daylight on November 2. Three Americans were killed, five wounded, and twelve captured or missing. One wounded German was taken prisoner. The incident marks the first actual fighting by American expeditionary forces overseas, with Pershing confirming heavy German shelling cutting off the salient for instruction and a lone prisoner noted.
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Washington
Pershing
War Department
American Expeditionary Forces
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Marsh
New York
Mitchel
John F. Hylan
Tammany Hall
W. R
LaFollette
Madison Square Garden
Hillquit
William M. Bennet
Allen Holubar
Reea
Louise
Lovely
Rome
Teutonic
Chemin Des Dames
Oise-Ainne Jeanal
Corbelny
Laon
Lunevil
Cattegat
Copenhagen
Marie
Trench
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