Cheerful Wingate visitors and local happenings noted
Wingate scene includes pastors Black and Haigler visiting Arlington for Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Association. Dr. J. W. Gale of Pageland to join Wingate Drug Store after October 1 with 30 years in the field. The piece also mentions Mr. Marcus Griffin, Mr. E. C. Robeson’s new meat market and restaurant, injury and death notices, and community events with old Confederate veteran gatherings and local goings on.
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Wingate
Pageland
Gale
J. W. Griffin
Matthews
David C. Trull
C. J. Black
Ansonville Road
Marcus Griffin
Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College
E. C. Robeson
Robeson
B. Thompson
Charlotte
Thompson
Norwood
Williams
Bro. Williams
John Fraaler
Georgia
Fratzie
Abe Lincoln
Frazier
Instituton
Europe
Fletcher Ie
Funderburk List Birthday Celebrated by Dudley Community
The Dudley area marked W H Funderburk’s birthday with a large gathering in a Dudley oak grove. About 600 attendees heard a lengthy address by W B Love of Monroe praising family values and communal esteem during the event.
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Dudley
W. H. Funderburk
Old Kentucky
Sweet Home
W. B. Love
Monroe
Two Condemned to Die in Graham County Murders
Hardie Wiggins and Merritt Miller were found guilty of killing Phillip Phillips, a Graham county farmer. They face the November 5 execution date after ambushing Phillips as he rode his mule toward Robbinsville. Phillips named his attackers before dying, amid a case connected to the killing of his wife and family by Ed Williams, now deemed outlawed by Judge Ferguson.
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Annie Laurie
Massa
A. F. Funderburk
Paxeland
J. M. Hough
Lancaster
Funderburk
W. H
Ellison
J. T. Panderburk
Darkey
Grahamity
Graham County
Hardie Wiggins
Merritt Miller
Phillip Phillips
Miller
Wiggins
Phillips
Robbinsville
North Carolina
Ed Williams
Judge Ferguson
Mammoth loan proposed to fund Britain and France
The New York Dispatch reports a proposed large credit loan to Britain and France to be underwritten by a U S syndicate of bankers. Securities offered are British and French five percent bonds at par. The loan amount is said to be between 600 million and 800 million dollars. The underwriting group would be the largest of its kind in the United States and open to many banks and trust companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
France
United States
Austrian Ambassador Refutes Recall Claims in Letter
Dr Constantine Dumba Austro Hungarian ambassador to the United States defends his actions in a letter to Secretary Lansing. He disputes a U S recall demand over alleged plans to incite strikes at US munitions plants and seeks a leave of absence to explain his position. He laments unequal cables rights for allies' envoys and contends he was acting on government guidance when communicating through Archibald.
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United States
Y York Dispatch
Constantine Dumba
America
Scretary Lansing
Diniba
Washington
Vienna
Dumba
Lansing
de. Dunn
James F. J. Archibald
Archibald
Vienne
Harding Foresees Cotton Rise As Federal Reserve Official Speaks
Federal Reserve Board member W P G Harding told Raleigh’s Chamber of Commerce banquet that foreign demand for cotton now lies between 10 and 12 million bales and a 12 cent price seems plausible. He urged southern bankers to provide cheap money enabling farmers to gain intrinsic cotton values this season and praised a “financial emancipation” of the rural South.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reserve Board
Raleigh
W. P. G. Harding
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
Harding
Mr. Harding
North Carolina
Mecklenburg
Chase of a train by a heavyset man at a station
ConMteOUS E. Plurivus Jones reached the station platform as a train pulled out. He burst ahead gaining 50 feet before fading into a losing pace. He quit at the freight yards and declared he was chasing the train to clear dust from his coat sleeve, warning about tracks.
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E. Plurivus Jones
Staton
Jones
Zeppelin Raid Over London Reported Aboard Ship Orduna
Aboard the steamship Orduna passengers reported London’s September 9 Zeppelin raid with three airships over the Strand and the city center. Bomb damage hit warehouses near St Paul’s, a tenement, and other blocks. casualties were estimated at about 40 killed and 200 wounded. Passengers described searchlights, anti aircraft fire, and the night’s flames while observers noted British efforts and the returning ships Rotterdam and Orduna.
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New York Dispatch
London
New York
Orduna
St. Paul's Cathedral
Kunstronhelly
Newgate Street
Holborn
Cheapside
Bloomfeld Street
Liverpool Sition
Thames River
St. Paul
Searchfieht
Eye Witheaue
Hashon
Bloomford Street
Trafalgar Square
Bankers of the South Press Cotton Crisis There
President Wilson says cotton maintenance hinges on Southern bankers who bear responsibility for an unsatisfactory outcome. A published Tumulty letter to McLaurin discusses the season's cotton crop and accuses Southern bankers allied with New York financiers of pushing for 10 cent cotton sales.
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South
Wilson
Tumulty
McLaurin
New York
Old Billy Bryan Warns on European Debts and War Costs
Novas Home surveys European debt and population at war start with Great Britain at 45 million and 3.695 billion debt. France 99.3 million people and 86.2837 billion debt. Russia 4.553 billion. Germany 64.9 million and 1.1774 billion debt. Austria-Hungary 49.4 million and 1.0513 billion debt. Writer argues war waste and questions who will pay, urging sober policy and noting bonds finance roads and improvements rather than war.
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Novas
Senex
Dritwin
Germany
Great Britain
England
France
Russia
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Teast
Townsfolk hunt killer as Palmaerville area buzzes with manhunt
In Stanly County a massive posse bands with bloodhounds from Granite Quarry Salisbury and Raeford to track a murderer. J C M a jail superintendent shot and killed near Albemarle Township as authorities sweep the woods and Badin area. Community leaders rail against war taxes while urging steadiness and repudiation of burdens. NOVUS HOMO
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Albemarle
von Hindenburg
Vilna
Dardanelles
Stanly County
J.C. M
Albemarle Township
Palmerville
Badin
Salisbury
Raeford
John Parker
Parker
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J. C. Laney
Union County
Black Joe
Old Lang
William
Lax
Choraw
Chesterfield
Mt. Croghan
Jefferson
Nock Mill
Monroe Matthews
Waxhaw
Cnete
Willa
Adna V. Funderburk
Berlin
Count von Bernstorff
Associated Press
Toay
Nderburk
Escribe
Walter H. Page
Kin Basey
Grosvenor Square
Frank C. Page
Serbia
Petrogad
Leopold
Bavaris
Lida
Dworzec
Pripjet
Rovno
Pripet
Volhynia
Galicia
Danube
Turkey
Bulgaria
Billy Bryan
Stanly
Reaven
William Jennings Bryan
Streighten
Heineuiber
Ord
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