Tar Heel Boyo Among Leaders in National Guard targets
The Eighth Company Coast Artillery Oregon National Guard posted the highest merit mark for 1916 National Guard target practice. Firing 10 inch rifles at 10,137 yards they made three hits in three shots for 89.72. Oregon fifth company second. Maine fifth third. North Carolina second company led eight inch rifles. California ninth led 12 inch rifles. Georgia fourth Company won mortar class.
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War Department
Associated Press
Washington
Coast Artillery
Oregon National Guard
National Guard
War Department Militia Bureau
Oregon
Maine
North Carolina
California
Georgia
Greece's King Says Venizelos Dictator Type Figure
In a message broadcast worldwide, the Greek king criticizes Venizelos as a self serving dictator who would bend Greece to personal power rather than heed the popular will. He argues the entente misread Greek politics and warns Greece will decide its own destiny without foreign control.
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Associated Press
América
Greece
Venizelos
England
France
Russia
United States
Aaron Burr
Peo
Lloyd George outlines wartime import curbs and food policy
Prime Minister Lloyd George pledges他new import restrictions to ease the submarine threat and boost home food production. He aims to cut paper imports by half and limit luxury goods from France and Italy while keeping essential foods on the free list.
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India
Lloyd-George
France
Italy
Mr. Lloyd- George
British ships reach New York after submarine zone passage
Two British steamers arrived in New York after escaping the German submarine zone. The tanker Iroquois towing the barge Navahoe came from London, and the freighter Stentor from Liverpool. The Manchuria sailed from London and likely reaches New York tonight with the Madonna of the Fabre Line bound for Marseilles. The Carpathia and Giuseppe Verdi also sailed carrying passengers.
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Associated Press
New York
Iroquois
Navahoe
London
Stentor
Liverpool
Atlantic Transport Line
Manchuria
Nantucket
Madonna of the Fabre Line
Marseilles
Cunard Line
Carpathia
Giuseppe Verdi
Naples
Greece’s mood in face of entente policy and Greek unrest
A Greek speaker criticizes Allied conduct in the Balkans. He argues Greece harbors less pro German sentiment than the US or Scandinavia and blames the Allies for mistrust, disarmament, and hardship in Greece, urging calm reassessment and faith. He notes Venizelos’ revolutionary faction, hunger, and military confinement as context for the strain.
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Greece
United States
Holland
Balkan
Macedonia
Peloponessus
Revolutionary Party of
Venizelos
Woman's Tan Lace Walking Shoe Ad at $4.98
A Wilmington Shoe Co advertisement lists a women's tan lace walking shoe priced at $4.98, showcasing a sale item from a 2-23-25-28 issue. The notice highlights a bargain on a practical footwear option for women.
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Wilmington Shoe Co
Orleans FreightER Safe in French Port
Oriental Navigation Company said the freighter Orleans was due in Bordeaux after sailing from Paris on Feb 11 with Arthur H. Frazier and an unofficial embassy party awaiting its arrival. The Rochester also sailed for Bordeaux on Feb 10, and a report said Orleans may have already reached port.
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Associated Press
New York
The
Oriental Navigation Company
Orleans
Paris
Bordeaux
Arthur H. Frazier
Rochester
Snow Slides Block Railroad Traffic West of Ogden
Storms and snow slides blocked westbound trans continental trains again yesterday and eastbound trains were delayed about 12 hours. No westbound Union Pacific train reached Ogden since 8 p m Wednesday. Los Angeles and Salt Lake line blockade broken last night, with trains tied up for over three days arriving from Los Angeles after being derouted.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Ogden
Trans-Continental Railroad
Union Pacific
Los Angeles and
Salt Lake
Los Angeles
British premier trims labor and imports to curb demand
The premier plans a minimum wage raise for farm laborers from 14 18s to 25s weekly and states goals to reduce cargo space needs by millions of tons. Food imports may drop by nearly a million tons, paper use to half, and cuts in ore and lumber imports are expected to follow.
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England
Lloyd-George
Fifteen offenses heard at Recorder Harriss court
The Recorder's docket Friday morning included fifteen cases. Walter Midway, colored, received three months on the roads for larceny. Estelle Lamb, colored, paroled for a month to pay costs for larceny. Several others paid costs or had judgments suspended for offenses including assault, dis orderly conduct, bicycle lights, and driving ordinance violations. One not guilty verdict was returned for Isabell Croom in a case charging assault with a deadly weapon.
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Harriss
Recorder's Court
Walter Midway
Estelle Lamb
Jackson
J. H
Henry MacFarlan
Willie McAllister
Haywood Pridgen
James Rising
Isabell Croom
New Spring Goods at Wilmington Shoe Co
Adventure of new spring merchandise announced by Wilmington Shoe Co with advertisements dated February 23 25 and 28 presenting arrivals of seasonal footwear and related items for shoppers.
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New Spring
Wilmington Shoe Co
Postal Telegraph Messenger Ad Service Offers City Coverage
A notice explains Postal Telegraph Cable Company messengers will collect ads and cover the city for telegrams night lettergrams cables and similar services. For ads call 176 and for telegraph service call Postal Telegraph.
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Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Postal Telegraph
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Martha Washington
Boys’ Brigade
Ladies Auxiliary Society
5Th Avenue Church
Market Street
Bear Produce and Merchandise Co
Wilmington
N. C
W.B. Cooper Gco
Wilmington, N. C
City Livery Co
Castle Hayne Stave Co
Wright St
City
Gordon’s
H. L. Kidd
Harriss Typewriting & Adv. Co
Victor
Charles Finkelstein
Ford
W. D. MacMillan, Jr
Oregon and California Railroad Co
Grant Lands Locating Co
Portland
L. L. Sheppard
North 4Th St
R. B. Moore
3Rd
Castile
Sterling Furniture Co
Builders’ Supplies
W. B. Thorpe & CO
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Harriss Typewriting and Adv. Co
L.J. Meredith
Southern
Whiteville
the Peoples Savings Bank
the Murchison National Bank
Tide Water Power Co
Princess Street
Richard Dudensing & Son’s
C. Y W. Yates Company
MR. Dudensing
Wilmington Hotel
Payne Brug CO
Fifth and
Red Cross Streets
Payne
Woodrow Wilson
Washington, D.C
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Southern Railway
Raleigh
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Wastitt
Rale ES
J. 0. Jones
Raleigh, N. C
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