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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
6
In 1914 Belgium a web of spies unfolds in a village inn. Captain Redmond and French ally plot amid fears of German invasion as Ethel Willoughby secretly allies with a Berlin spy. Innkeeper Henri Christophe and his daughter Jeanne witness tense whispers and wary nerves as danger edges closer.
Charlie Brown arrives at the Lion d Or in Belgium seeking news of war and rents a mezzanine room from Henri Christophe while befriending the innkeeper. He encounters Ethel Willoughby and learns she is Madame de Lorde as Christophe notes their meeting and invites an improvised dinner for Brown and the woman, amid war rumors.
The fragment reads incomplete notes and stray words about Seww and Wes Ewes with a parenthetical TO BE CONTINUED suggesting continuation in a later column or page. No clear event names dates or organizations are present.
The nation mobilizes an apple harvest to aid war needs with motto Eat an apple and send a biscuit. Labor shortages spur emergency organization by chambers, stores, and women’s groups to recruit volunteers, organize crews, and stage swift, well supervised picking and storage.
The food administration proposes government buying agencies at key terminals and mills to fix fair prices, end futures trading, and regulate middlemen to conserve supplies for 1917. It notes world disruption, single buyer systems, and the risk of warehouse glut while clarifying a $2 per bushel minimum applies to the 1918 harvest under forthcoming conditions.
Five Americans are prisoners aboard a German submarine after the steamer Campana was sunk off the French coast August 6. Forty seven survivors were landed safely. The report notes the incident as possibly the first capture of American forces by Germany.
An official statement reports a German air raid on South End near London killing nine women and six children amid a barrage of nearly forty bombs. The attack caused significant property damage and left fifty people affected. two men were among the wounded or missing.
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