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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1917
Page
3
Premier Kerensky has returned to Petrograd and rejected his resignation after a ministerial meeting. He issued a manifesto stating it is impossible to refuse the demand to lead a strong revolutionary government to apply old principles amid threats of defeat and internal disintegration.
British and French forces report limited success in Flanders with several counterattacks driving German troops from Hollebeke after a night bombardment. Canadians tighten pressure around Lens, extending advances toward the center of the city while holding gains along the Oite du Moulin. French repulse German raids on Aisne and Casemates Plateau as Crown Prince Rupprecht’s forces push near Arras and Juvincourt but fail to break lines.
Amsterdam report says the Holland-American liner Noordam, returning home, struck a mine west of Texel. The ship remains afloat with no casualties. A German airplane landed on Ameland due to motor trouble and its occupants were interned.
New York reports a disruption on the Pacific cable linking the Far East with the Philippines and China including Ang Kone via San Francisco. Commercial Cable Company says messages can only be forwarded via Europe until repairs. The outage occurred between Guam and the Philippines requiring sending a repair crew to restore the line.
In Petrograd a joint meeting of Sikmen's executives and soldiers and peasants councils backed Premier Kerensky with a 147 to 46 vote. The night conference decision was confirmed despite Maximilsts pushing against it and forty two members abstaining. The Tay committee also supported Kerensky.
The boys and girls short course at A and E College Raleigh runs August 21 24 with attendance expected to exceed 500. Faculty from A and E plus North Carolina Experiment Station and Agricultural Extension Service will present lectures demonstrations and moving pictures on food production and conservation. Costs are modest with dormitory space free meals 25 cents and rail rates reduced.
Premium lists for the Catawba county fair to be held September 25 to 28 are mailed out. The event aims to be the best yet with good crops promising higher attendance than last year. Hickory pioneered western state fairs and hosts a twenty acre grounds near the city with buildings and a race track. The first fair in the new quarters was held last fall despite floods harming crops.
Asheville Buncombe county builds concrete highways from Asheville to the Henderson county line ten miles south of Asheville as part of a two million dollar road building program. Highways from the south reach Asheville via Greenville South Carolina and Hendersonville or Spartanburg South Carolina and Hendersonville. Several other good highways are open to Asheville with Florida Georgia and South Carolina automobile parties reporting fair conditions.
North Carolina briefs note more than $6,000 in fines and costs paid to Clerk of U S Court Leo D Heartt in Raleigh liquor dealer cases with guilty pleas. Architects submitted plans for a new state warehouse funded by the last legislature. Greensboro will gain a $100,000 knitting mill by J B Latham Company, capable of producing six hundred dozen men’s half hose daily, with machinery bought and en route. North Carolina’s L L Case reports returning from a Bristol cattle sale with $2,490 in pure bred cattle for farmers.
In New York the state military census in the city unearthed curious occupations. A 24 year old man said he was the man who brushes off gents after their shoes are shined, carrying a whisk broom. A photographer showed a portfolio and attempted to sell works to registrars. Four Greeks claimed joint ownership of one horse, each holding a quarter share. Another man listed his job as handy man about the house.
A vivid portrait of Mary, an Italian woman known as the cooper who scours Boston’s wholesale quarter for empty broken barrels. With her husband she repairs them in a North End garret, earning respect through hard work and honesty. Mary’s daily rounds move barrels amid trucks, earning her steady goodwill and the nickname “cooper woman.”
Mack the fourteen year old English bulldog, owned by H. C. Flint of 316 West Evergreen Street, has long been a neighborhood celebrity. He thwarted a burglar, herds chickens, brings in wood and mail, and even calls his family to the telephone. He saved a rug fire and once turned down bed covers before sleep. Mack is an expert mouser and enjoys car rides despite past wrecks. He was born on Christmas Day.
Neighbors found two boys in strange attire and with demented behavior during the Mrs Sinziski case at 5408 Carnegie Avenue Lawrenceville. The eldest, fourteen, crawled on hands and knees barking like a dog while nine year old Joseph pounded his head. Police placed the older boy in custody and turned the younger to the Humane Society. The home, long called The House of Mystery, had not welcomed outsiders for five years.
A period kitchen column offers ready to prepare luncheon and tea snacks. Recipes include Mock Chicken rolls with steak and bacon, Chicken a la King in a creamy sauce with mushrooms, Green Gage Sherbet with gelatin, Honey Rolls with raisins and honey, and a Tomato and Asparagus Salad with olive oil dressing.
A set of home canning and preserving instructions detailing spiced blackberries and cherry preserves. It covers making spiced blackberry preserves in a vinegar sugar solution, cherry preserves using ripe Morello cherries with leaf sugar, green beans brined in salt, and drying small berries by sun or stove. Final line notes Nerece sr.
A veteran scout speaks of building bridges across life’s chasms and guiding a younger scout. The movement, rooted in citizenship, character, and efficiency, shapes strong, disciplined, morally straight youths. It stands as a democratic, enduring force for American preparedness and personal development.
A Royal scout in New York transcribes a heartfelt letter from Maxime Couqueret, a French boy scout of the class of 1917, writing from the trenches. He speaks of family losses in Germany, loneliness, and a vow to avenge his parents, praising America and France for uniting with the Allies.
Troop 8 Boy Scouts of Lynbrook New York volunteer to care for Civic Park cutting grass and raking walks. Leaders remind boys must balance duties with meals sleep and play as most Scouts would push on beyond limits.
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