Swiss Minister Dr Ritter A Cultured Diplomats Career
Doctor Ritter from Basel born 1865 and educated at Paris Basel Gottingen and Jena joined Swiss foreign service after Leipzig LL D. He served 17 years in Japan as consul general and envoy later to Washington in 1909. Known for deep knowledge of law and languages including fluent Japanese he sustains tactful diplomacy and cordial relations with peers and administrations.
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Paul Ritter
Switzerland
Washington
Germany
Doctor Ritter
Leipzig
Ritter
Basel
Paris
Goettingen
Jena
Berne
Japan
Frederick Hale Maine Senator Aims For United States Seat
The new Maine senator Frederick Hale comes from a storied political family. Born in Detroit on October 7, 1874, he studied in Versailles and at Groton and Harvard, later attending Columbia Law. A 1912 Roosevelt supporter, Hale remains unmarried and hosts lavish gatherings on Portland's State Street.
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Frederick Hale
Maine
Eugene Hale
Mary D. (Chandler) Hale
Chandler
Detroit
Mich
Hale
Chandler Hale
Cameron
Pennsylvania
United States Senate
Charles F. Johnson
Versailles
Groton
Harvard
Columbia Law School
Roosevelt
State Street
Portland
Ludendorff Dictates All German War Efforts From Imperial HQ
The article describes General von Ludendorff as virtually dictator of Germany, controlling military and civil administration, food, industry, agriculture, and foreign relations from imperial headquarters with von Hindenburg. His fiat drove the universal labor service, war economy, deportations of workers, stricter food rules, and the decision for unrestricted submarine warfare, all while Hindenburg’s name shields the nonmilitary decisions.
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von Ludendorff
von Hindenburg
Germany
Ludendorff
Prince of Pless
Imperial
Universal-Auxiliary Labor Service
Field Marshal von Hindenburg
Uncle Jimmy’s Fame Through Senate Door and Scathing Retorts
Col J F Edwards known as Uncle Jimmy in Washington for 40 years as a Senate doorkeeper and for once cussing out former Confederate Senator West. West, once a Confederate private, later US senator, kept Edwards in his position, though Edwards remained volatile and popular in the senate.
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Jimmy
Col. J. F. Edwards
Army of the
Confederate States of America
Washington
United States Senate
Senator West
West
Missouri
Confederate Congress
J. F. Edwards
United States
Edwards
Pawarde
Senate
North Carolina 1917 adjourns with key reforms passed
On the 1917 adjournment day Governor Bickett's program moved forward. Major acts include school funding measures, tax exemptions for home notes, rural improvements, and highway funding. The legislature also investigated state farms, approved prison reform, and authorized blockading as a felony. The report on convict camps criticized conditions and called for modernization.
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State Board of Health
State Highway Commission
General Assembly
Turner
Gastonia
Gaston County
Rotary Club of
Charlotte
Burgwyn
W. H. Joyner
J. H. Darden
Beasley
Whitney
Baron
House
North Carolina
Senate
Supreme Court
A. & E. College
State Department of Agriculture
Kinston Recorders Court
High Point Milling promotes Goo flour line in letter
A promotional note from High Point Milling Company touts Goo flour as the best white frost luxury flour for baking. It claims the product uses the best wheat and yields superior bread, cakes, and pastry, signed by the company.
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High Point Millings Mill
High Point Milling Company
Carolina & Yadkin River schedule October 14 1914
Train timetable lists southbound No 21 and northbound Nos 22 and 24 with station stops from High Point to Thomasville and High Rock to High Point. Times shown are not guaranteed and subject to change. W F Price agent.
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High Point
Thomasville
Gordontown
Denton
High Rock
W. F Price. Agt
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Raleigh
Max Gardner
Walter Murphy
North Carolina General Assembly
Bickett
Carolina & Yadkin River Railway Company
T. Kirkman & CO
Mr. Farmer
Public Service Co
S. Main High Point
N. C
J. W. Sechrest
Moore Springs
Moore's Springs
W. W. Idol &Co
Moore’s Mineral Springs Co
Moores Springs
Mann Drug CO
North State Tele. Co
Postal Telegraph Cable CO
The
Postal Co
Bell
Danville Tynchby
Charlotte Spartanburg, S. Greenville
S.C
Washington, D. Atheta
Gainesville, Ga
Seneca, S. C
Henderson
Petersburg, Va
Richmond, Va
Fredericksburg
Fayetteville
Canden
S . Columbia
S. Aiken
Augusta, Ga
Prater Levannah
Memphis
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