Rich Gives Ast Performance for Fund Tonight
Aerial artist Harry Rich drew a crowd of over a thousand last night on Market Street. He performed blindfolded at Dizzy Height with crowd-pleasing drops and rapid movements despite damp trapezes from rain earlier. The event promotes the Our Boys in France Tobac co fund with proceeds aiding soldiers in France. The final show is tonight at 7 30 with a matinee at 3 30 for city residents and children. An auto exhibit on Yorker Street accompanies the event.
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Market Street
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Harry Rich
Syceme
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Canhin Astomobile Co
Camp Hancock to Meet Camp Jackson in Columbia Grid Tilt
In Columbia South Carolina on December 8 Camp Hancock Aufin Georgia faces Camp Jackson eleven. Hancock’s lineup features former Washington and Jefferson players and college men, while Camp Jackson remains undefeated and unscored upon this season. Coach Walter Camp Jr leads Camp Hancock’s eleven.
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Camp Hancock
Niy Associated Presa
Columbia
S. C
Aufi'n
Camp Jacks
Loluplancock
Washington & Jefferson
University
Southern Colhr
Loenp
Walter Camp, Jr
Limkeard
Fragmented Local Geographic Note on Area Comparison
The readable text mentions an area nearly equal to that of a state, with unclear names and figures. It abbreviates and garbles place references. The fragment lacks full context to identify the exact state or measurement.
Public school funding debate advances county bond plan
School committees from New Hanover County and Wilmington met at the Court House to urge immediate improvements as conditions in county schools are described as inadequate. Officials warned of a $30,000 deficit and the need for 24 added rooms while proposing a bond issue or special tax to finance repairs and raises.
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New Hanover County
Wilmington
Court
Thos. E. Cooper
S Board of Education
Cooper
Board of Education
John J. Blair
Washington Catlett
Charles B. Newcombe, Esq
J. Allan Taylor
Treble Clef Club To Give Concert For Red Cross
The Treble Clef Club will present a Red Cross benefit concert on Wednesday evening January 2 at Hemenway School Auditorium. The program, titled music of the Allies, features composers from England France Italy and the United States. Guest artist Miss Augustine Haughton of Philadelphia will sing three groups of Folk Songs with brief remarks. Her reputation includes lectures and recitals in Brooklyn Princeton Bryn Mawr Swarthmore and other colleges. The club’s talent pool includes leading local voices and musicians. full program to be announced.
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Treble Cief Club
Red Cross
Hemenway School
England
France
Italy
United States
Augustine Haughton
Philadelphia
Haughton
North
Brooklyn Institute
Princeton
Bryn Mawr
Swarthmore
Treble Clef Club
Attorneys Offer Free Aid for WWI Draft Questionnaires
The Wilmington Bar Association agreed to provide free legal help at headquarters in Peoples Savings Park starting December 15 to assist registrants with the new Selective Service questionnaires. Attorneys will operate in relays daily from 9:30 to 1:30 and 2:30 to 6:30, aiding classification and ensuring accurate sworn filings for all registrants not yet called.
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Bar Association
Court House
Legal Advisory Board of
New Manover County
L’ooples Savings Park
W National Army
George Rountree
New Hanover Legal Advisory Board
Wilson
Bickett
Raleigh
Thomas W. Davis
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Wilmington
New Hanover
State of North Carolina
New Hanover County
Paul D. Satchwell
K. O. Burgwin
Iredell Meares
Geo. H. Howell
Chestey C. Bellamy
W. F. Jones
C. D Weeks
Woodus Kellum
J.C. King
J. A. McNorton
Wm. L. Smith
Carl ‘H. Davis
A. L. Hardee
A. G. Ricaud
Geo. L. Peschau
Louis Goodman
Walter G. MacRae
Walter P. Gafford
L Clayton Grant
H. Edmund Rodgers
Thos. W. Davis
Marsden Bellamy
Chas. B. Newcomb
Jno
D. Bellamy, Jr
W. A. Townes
C. EH. Saint-Amand
P. A. Willcox
E. T. Burton
Multilingual hearings mark Recorder's Court session
In a morning session the Recorder's court heard cases involving Polish, Hungarian and African defendants. John E. Harriss was found guilty of cruelty to animals for shooting a Polish family’s dog and was fined costs with a road sentence warning on a future appearance. State v. Sanders involved a Hungarian accused of cutting a man. judgment suspended for 12 months if expenses are paid and the defendant is to appear next Saturday to prove compliance. Gussie Gause, a colored boy, was fined five dollars plus costs for obstructing a sidewalk. A monkey rum case arose as George Miller, colored, faced charges of manufacturing whisky. investigators found mash on premises but no still, and he was bound over to the next term of Superior Court.
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America
Austria
Africa
Recorder’s Court
John E. Harriss
Castle Haynes
State
C. D. Weeks
Gussie Gause
Recorder's Court
George Miller
Leon George
Rock Hill
Superior Court
Godwin vows long stay after Capitol return
Wilmington district representative Hannibal L. Godwin returns to the Capitol ready for a long session and pledges to serve constituents. He highlights reports on soil surveys of Columbus and Harnett counties and offers free copies by request, including bulk shipping via his congressional frank.
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Washington, D. C
Hannibal L. Godwin
Wilmington
Capitol
Congress
Godwin
Mr. Godwin
Dispatch
Columbus
Congressional Frank
Army appropriation work starts as House moves to act
Washington December 7 The House Military Affairs committee will begin preparing the army appropriation bill immediately after estimates from the Secretary of War call for about 6.5 billion dollars for the next fiscal year. Chairman S Hubert Dent says the bill will be laid before the House at the earliest possible moment for full discussion.
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George H. Manning
Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Military Affairs Committee
House
Secretary of War
S. Hubert Dent
Unaman Dent
Congress
Week long halt in armistice negotiations noted
A Russian dispatch from Petrograd reports Bolshevik Foreign Minister Trotsky informs Allied embassies that armistice talks with the Central powers are suspended for a week to allow the Allies to assess the negotiations. Trotsky conditions a future accord on troop transfers and German withdrawal from Moon Sound islands.
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Associated Press
London
Leon Trotzy
Petrograd
Moon Sound
Europe
Union Prayer Service at Calvary Baptist Church
The next union prayer meeting will be held at Calvary Baptist Church Monday December 9 at 5 p.m. Rev. J A Sullivan is pastor. All Christians and others are invited. These services are increasing in interest.
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Calvary Baptist Church
J. A. Sullivan
Snow and Rain Sweep Nation Across Regions
Snow covers the Northeast with a cold wave across the Midwest reaching the Gulf. Weather bureau predicts continued accumulation tonight and tomorrow. Tennessee and East Gulf states face cold wave warnings as the storm center sits over Eastern Kentucky. About 15 inches fell in the Ohio Valley in 12 hours. Storm warnings extend from Jacksonville to Eastport.
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Associated Press
Washington
Middle West
Gulf of Mexico
Weather Bureau
Tennessee
Eost Gulf
South Atlantic
Kentucky
Ohio Valley
Gulf Coast
Mississippi
Jacksonville
Fla
Eastport
Russia Regeneration Amid Bolshevik Challenge
London dispatch from The Morning Post notes regenerative processes in Russia and a return to common sense as real Russia works toward reconstruction. It cites a rising challenge from an organization called the Union of Anarchist Syndicalists amid Bolshevik pressures.
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London
Russia
Petrograd
the Morning Post
Union of
Anarchist-Syndicalists
Brazil Moves to Regulate German Subjects at Home
Rio de Janeiro December 8 reports the Brazilian cabinet ordered cancellation of all public land contracts with foreign enemies in Brazil and suspension of enemy property exports. Authorities gain special powers to control enemy enterprises and to intern suspected enemy subjects abroad.
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Associated Press
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
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