British Air Raids Round Up Key Targets Across Europe
Aerial activity on London reports heavy bombing of Courtrai Ledeghem and Pou railway stations and Courtrai airfield. British raids hit Trier Saarbrucken and Mannheim factories docks and rail hubs with several losses on both sides.
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London
Courtrai
Ledeghem
Pou
Cambrai
Ghent
Germany
Mannheim
Treves
Thiomble
Saarsakken
Oberbill
United Mine Workers Back Wilson War Policy
In Indianapolis on January 26 the United Mine Workers expelled any I W W members and endorsed government control of war mines while preserving union rights to bargain collectively. They opposed conscription of labor and adopted a war resolution aligning with President Wilson to make the world safe for democracy and to protect workers’ right to organize.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Industrial Workers of the World
United Mine Workers
Wilson
Michigan Statehood Anniversary Noted in Lansing
Lansing marks the January 26 anniversary of Michigan’s admission to the Union in 1837 as the twenty sixth state. Stevens T. Mason serves as the first governor in the state’s early history.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Stevens T. Mason
Wheatless Days urged by Food Administration in Raleigh
Raleigh January 26 intensified food conservation program calls for two wheatless days each week Monday and Wednesday and one wheatless meal daily plus a Meatless day on Tuesday and two porkless days on Tuesday and Saturday. Public places urged to avoid wheat products and pork items to meet wartime needs and keep supplies for allies.
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Raleigh
Food Administration
United States
Hatters and hotel tipping loom as government control nears
Special Correspondent notes gloom as talk of Uncle Sam taking over big hotels spreads. Journalists press hotel proprietors like George Boldt John McK Bowman Copeland Townsend for views on possible end of tipping and impact on service industry. The piece frames the issue as a silver lining amid war.
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The
Dispatch
New York
Uncle Sam
George Boldt
John _McK. Bowman
Copeland Townsend
Hat Pirates and Bribery on Broadway and Beyond
A satirical look at tipping schemes and bribes involving waiters porters and hat check staff. Concessionaires pay high fees for privileges while staff patrols and pocket schemes fade into nightlife in Greenwich Village and on Broadway. The piece also notes a surge in Help Wanted ads and recalls actor William Courtenay hiring press agent William Sill after a past line he wrote changed his career.
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Econo
Broadway
William Raymond Sill
William Courtenay
Sill
Courtenay
New York
Patriotic Week Observed Across Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania launches Patriotic Week with the state committee of public safety directing a sedition slamming campaign. About two hundred volunteer speakers will address mass meetings in cities and towns throughout the state over the seven days beginning tomorrow.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Committee of Public Safety
Foreclosure Sale on Wilmington Property by Mechanics Home
Mechanics Home Association to sell by public auction on February 4 1918 at noon at the New Hanover Court House door. Property is lot 5 block 64 in Wilmington city plan, mortgaged by Herbert Eskins and Viola Hiskin for defaulted payments. W B McKay attorney for the association.
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Herbert Eskins
Viola Hiskin
the Register of Deeds
New Hanover County
Mechanics’ Home Association
Wooster Street
Seventh Street
Wilmington
W. B. McKay
The
Public Auction of Wilmington Lot in Larkins Case
Under a 1917 Superior Court decree in the case of Alice Larkins et al versus Thomas Harriss et al a lot in Wilmington will be sold at public auction for cash. The sale by Commissioner William M Bellamy will take place February 4 1918 at 12 oclock noon at the Court House door Wilmington. The parcel is Lot 6 Block 74 bounded by Queen Street Second Street and the northern city line.
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Superior Court
Alice Larkins
John Larkins
Thomas Harriss
Court House
Wilmington
Queen Street
Second Street
Whaiwetce
William M. Bellamy
Notice of Sale of Personal Property in Wilmington
Under and by virtue of a chattel mortgage dated October 15 1915 from D J Prease to W H M Koch the mortgage is in default and the undersigned will sell at twelve noon Saturday January 19 1918 at 20 South Second Street Wilmington for cash the described personal property including a cornice brake locker rotary shears punching machine swedging machine burning machine wit machine six bench stakes pipe folder and all other chattels wares and merchandise appliances belonging to the business conducted at said location by D J.
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D. J. Prease
W. H. M. Koch
Office of the Register of Deeds
New Hanover County
South Second Street
Wilmington
D. J
Obscure Character Named Swoodin Grips Local Scene
A garbled account describes a figure called Swoodin, aka Noble Johnson, depicted as a dangerous, shadowy presence in a rural locale. The passage portrays him as a villainous cattle handler whose menace unsettles the community and hints at broader conflict.
Dorothy Phillips Receives Tokio Greeting Letter
A Tokyo letter from Soichi Kashimura dated 1917 praises Dorothy Phillips star of Jewel Walcee rein coed waking and requests a portrait. The message, signed with admiration, expresses interest in Phillips’s current status and asks for a personal photograph.
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Dorothy Phillips
Universal Weekly Now as Government Organ
George Creel chairman of the Committee on Public Information of the United States government has arranged Universal Weekly as an official organ by appointing Jack Cohn as an employee of the bureau. Creel believes this will foster greater government cooperation with producers.
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George Creel
Mittee On Public Information
United States
Universal Weekly
Jack Cohn
Bureau
Creel
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Tokio
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