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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1918
Page
4
The piece reports Liberty Bonds selling at par in New York and General Pershing leading about one and a half million American troops overseas. It notes a large casualty list, draft age expansion to 45, and July’s over three hundred thousand soldiers sent abroad. It also warns merchants on flour substitutes and sugar quotas while sharing vivid anecdotes from the front.
Dispatches claim Germany has 5 436 000 engaged with 4 760 000 dead and losses since March reaching 1.5 million while the US Army could exceed two million by year end boosting allied numbers. They note a Boissons capture and a 30 mile two week push as the Hun is said to be on the run.
Reports portray Allied victories on the western front with gains along a 40 mile front as German retreat deepens. In North Carolina politics, E. L. Travis is indicted and released on bond amid conspiratorial charges relating to military classifications and war contracts. Local Red Cross output includes 21 pajamas, 23 pajama trousers and 13 operating caps made last week.
A translated era editorial mocks Germany for dreaming of seizing Texas Arizona and New Mexico and invading Canada with 300000 reservists, calling such plots routine and doomed to fail while noting Potsdam’s deceit and a dismissal of German plans as matters to nip in the bud. A second fragment shows a certificate of dissolution in North Carolina stating official approval of a corporation’s dissolution in Guilford County with signatures and dates.
A mixed run of legal notices and summons from Guilford County North Carolina dated 1918. Includes mortgage description fronting 19 High Point and adjacent lots in Greensboro area and a dissolution of marriage action, with publication in The High Point Review and summons issued by M W Gant Clerk. Administratrix notice for Armetus H Cox estate also listed with filing deadline July 15 1919.
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