Empey’s Wartime Journeys and a Brave British Chaplain
American Arthur Guy Empey details his enlistment in the British army after the Lusitania sinking, training in France, frontline experience, and river of duties in trenches. He highlights the chaplain Captain Hall who braved fire three times to rescue wounded men, earning respect for the chaplains of the British army.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man's Land
Hall
Tommy
Chapter XIV Picks and Shovels in No Man's Land
The narrator recounts a raid into No Man's Land with a digging party. They face shellfire, machine gun bursts, and a brutal retreat back to their trench after heavy casualties. The piece ends with a stark cost analysis of war, noting the high expense of killing or wounding soldiers.
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Cordin
No Man's Land
Fritz
Royal Engineers
Tommy
London
Waves of optimism as Allied forces mobilize for major push
Washington reports a distinctly cheering front with Italian troops pouring into France to join the struggle while British lines hold in Flanders and French reinforcements arrive. American officials foresee a possible summer offensive led by Foch as Baker meets Wilson to accelerate U.S. participation and relay Pershing’s frontline reports.
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France
Washington
Batle
Foch
Flanders
Rome
Italy
Great Britain
America
Belgium
Portugal
Baker
Wilson
Laker
Pershin
Cotton price fixing talk sparks regional concern
Southern cotton holders hint at dampening loyalty if price fixing occurs. Dealers suggest manufacturers may set raw cotton prices below market to enable cheaper finished goods. North Carolina protests reach Senator Simmons, who discusses with War Trade Board chair Vance McCormick. No immediate danger of raw cotton price fixing. government may fix finished product prices.
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Washington
Sim
North Carolina
J. Allan Taylor
Wilmington
Simmons
Vance McCromick
War Trade Board
Socialism Called Poisonous German Propaganda by Labor Leader
Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, denounced socialism in America as poisonous German propaganda in a City Club speech supporting the Liberty loan drive. He told about 1,500 listeners that there is no American socialist party and that the American socialist movement is a branch of Germany's.
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Cleveland
Ohio
America
Samuel Gompars
American Federation of Labor
Liberty Loan
Mty Club
Socialist Party
Omners
City Club
American Social‘st
Germany
Crowder Probes Effect of Amendment on Draft Credit
Washington reports General Crowder asked the Senate Military Committee to consider a House amendment to a Senate bill altering draft allotment rules. The change would redefine which states earn credit for men furnished by enlistment and draft, with Crowder noting his office studies its impact on the new draft system.
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Washington
Crowder
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Ender
War Savings and Liberty Bonds Highlighted by Monroe Governor
Governor Bickett spoke on war finance and selective service at a Union County gathering. The courthouse filled, with a choir and Icemarlee band providing music as he drew parallels between biblical and modern draft laws and urged support for Liberty Bonds.
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Monroe
Bickett
Court House
Icemarlee
Solomon
Union County
Father
God
Moses
Sinai
Egypt
Israel
Winston-Salem Hotels Ban Wheat From Menus
Mrs A F Young Food Administrator and Frances Hotel will omit all wheat products from menus starting this harvest. The Zinzendorf Hotel under A H Galoway follows suit, joining a citywide effort to model Total Abstainers and inspire homes and boarding houses to participate.
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Winston-Salem
Winston. Salem
A. F. Young
Zinzendorf Hotel
A. H. Galoway
Hotel Committee
The
Food Administration For
North Carolina
Total Abstainers Club
Gold nugget collar button gifted to Wilson for WWI
J F Steele of Exway Richmond County presents a collar button carved from a North Carolina gold nugget to President Woodrow Wilson for use during the world war. Wilson acknowledges the gift in a letter to Representative Lee Robinson of North Carolina.
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N. C. Gold
Washington
Wilson
North Carolina
J. F. Steele
Exway
Richmond County
Lee Robinson
North Carolina Briefs Highlight Local Examinations and Economic Notes
Civil service exams set for May 8 for postmasters at Faison and Graham with salaries of 1300 and 1600 dollars. Pension awards go to Janet Shepherd and Rachel A. Lewis for 25 dollars each. A Charlotte cotton broker bought 2350 bales at 30 3 8 cents per pound with deliveries to Carolinas mills. Adj at Fort Wayne plans 461 necroes to be entrained May 1. Charlotte National Bank secures permit for a new 150000 home. Marson McManaway dies at an aviation camp in Texas. Wachovia Bank directors vote to join the federal reserve system. Ai marle bakery closes amid wheat shortage.
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Faison
Graham
Janet Shepherd
Democrat
Rachel A. Lewis
Charlotte
J. A. Burton
Newberry
S. C
Carolinas
Adjutant General
Fort Wayne
Minn
Charlotte National Bank
Marson McManaway
Dr. McManaway
Texas
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co
Winston-Salem
Carr to Lead Southern Ship Yard Drive in War Effort
General Julian S. Carr resigns as Hoover aide and becomes chairman of a Southern Commercial Congress committee to spur shipyard work in the South. Dr. Clarence J. Owens will join him as the group organizes meetings in Southern ports to mobilize workers and materials.
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Washington
Julian S. Carr
North Carolina
Hoover
South
Southern Commercial Congress
Carr
Clarence J. Owens
Congress
Owens
Shipping Board
Hurley
Baltimore
Flour Mill Closed by Food Administration in Albemarle
Raleigh Albemarle Milling Company in Albemarle Stanly County has been shut by the Food Administration for rule violations. The plant used excessive wheat per flour output and ignored the administration's feed price schedule. Additional mills are under investigation with actions pending.
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Raleigh—Albemarle Milling Company
Albemarle
Stanly County
Food Administration
Negroes Buy Bonds in Monroe Seaboard Event
B L Hammer Sea board official told Monroe audience that every negro in the Seaboard shops at Richmond Raleigh and Monroe has bought Liberty bonds He spoke to selling bonds to Seaboard employees and sold five thousand five hundred dollars worth in Monroe
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Monroe
Seaboard
Richmond
Raleigh
B. L. Hammer
Loyal Wake Forest Students Remove Disloyal Member
Wake Forest students identified a disloyal member and acted quickly to remove him from the college. They informed the faculty there was no room for both the lass and the alleged disloyal member and ordered one to vacate promptly.
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Wake Forest
Uncle Sam
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NO Man’s Land
Xili
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Holy Joe
Tom
Coton
JT. W. Bickett
Monroe Court House
North Caroina Briefs
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