Scapegoat urges killing buzzards to curb hog cholera
In Columbus County the Union editor of the Whiteville News Reporter urges readers to shoot buzzards and burn carcasses to halt hog cholera. He cites Mullins Enterprise on ravages in Marion and notes bacon prices while farmers lose hogs. The piece discusses legality, praising drastic steps and recounting a deputy’s quip about eating buzzards.
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Columbus County
Union County
Whiteville
Mullins Enterprise
Marion County
Fair Bluff
Bacon
North
South Carolina
Preacher Tom Featured by Greensboro News Sermons
The Monroe Journal notes Greensboro News readers rely on sermons by Tom Best Raleigh correspondent. The paper prints a Sunday sermon on its editorial page without byline, and The Journal suspects Best authored the pieces.
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Tom
Maxton
Monroe Journal
Greensboro News
Best
Journal
Tom Best
Raleigh
Hickory Retired Merchant Shoots Himself
Hickory on October 28 61 year old J A Sellers a retired merchant shot himself in the right temple with a 32 calibre revolver in Dr K A Price's office shortly after 2 pm. Price was in a cafe nearby and had left the deceased reading a newspaper appearing in good spirits.
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Hickory
J. A. Sellers
K. A. Price
Carl White Slays Family in Violent Tragedy near Taylorsville
Carl White aged about thirty three went violent at his home eight miles from Taylorsville Oct 27 shooting his wife and two young children. He surrendered after telling a neighbor he must be killed. Brothers L C White of Statesville and Arthur White banker of Stoney Point were among locals who found the slain. three older children escaped. The Whites are prominent in the area.
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Carl White
Taylorsville
Stoney Point
Russian fleet gains edge as German losses mount
Navy report details Russian naval success in the Gulf of Riga with the loss of German ships including two dreadnoughts and twelve torpedo boats, while German landings on the Esth enian coast are repulsed. Also notes Lieut Silvis Resnall's biplane flight from Hampton Roads to Minela covering 225 miles in 4 hours 11 minutes, setting records for multi passenger aircraft.
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Germany
Russia
Gulf of Riga
Petrograd
Esthenian
Werder
Silvis Resnall
Hampton Roads
Minela
N. Y
Laxative Effect Shown by Laxa Tiva Brom o Quinine Patent
A fragment notes that Laxa Tiva Brom Quinine offers a stronger laxative effect without nervousness, claiming superiority to ordinary imine. Mentions EW Grove and a signature line but provides no clear event or date.
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Grove
Luckenbach Fights U-Boat Off Irish Coast
Washington reports the Luckenbach, attacked by a German submarine on October 19, fought for hours at sea near the Irish coast. The American destroyer arrived, depth charges drove the U-boat to submerge, 494 shots were exchanged, 7 crewmen wounded, engines disabled, yet the ship and crew endured.
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Washington
Luckenbach
Navy Department
Theed Guard
Daniels
Germany
World Armies Ranked in War Department Figures
The War Department reports 38 million men bearing arms in World War I, with 27.5 million allied and 10.6 million central power forces. Russia leads with 9 million, followed by France 6 million, Britain 5 million, Italy 3 million, and the United States over 1 million.
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War Department
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Bulgaria
Russia
France
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
United States
China
Romania
Serbia
Belgium
Greece
Portugal
Montenego
Siam
Cuba
Liberia
San Marino
Panama
Internal Troubles in Austria Close Frontier and Riots
A dispatch from Rein Switzerland reports Austria closed its Austro Swiss frontier amid severe internal unrest. Riots in Vienna Pressburg Brauns Lalbach saw munition factory wrecks and large female rioters. Police fired on crowds, causing deaths and injuries.
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Austria
Reine
Switzerland
Vienna
Pressburg
Bruno
Lalbach
Rts
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Hargrove Bowles
Bank of Union
E. C. Carpenter
Monroe Hardware Co
Bivens Bros. Everthing
Francia Nin Seed
FOU
the Reily~Taylor Company
New Orleans
Nature
Medicine
English Drug CO
Co-operative Mercantile Co
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