LABOR UPHEAVAL IN KAISER LAND REPORTED
Newsreel style report notes the German government and the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung framing the Tribe movement as a pretext to derail Brest-Litovsk talks. It warns strikes will hinder negotiations and expects workers to resume calm labor. Strikes spread from Berlin to provincial cities with agitation for a general stoppage in Munich.
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Oeernment
Brest-Litovsk
Norddeutsche Allemeine Zeitung
Brestiovsk
Germany
Amsterdam
Berlin
Koelnische Volke Zeitung
Across the Way Poem and Local Social Notes
A verse laments the sunlit house across the way now closed after a soldier’s grave in France. Virginia Monroe Doty and Mrs. F A Butler visit, with Durham hosts returning home. Social events include Every Day Gladness Circle at Dr. J J Hurt's and a Junior Auxiliary tableau with 43 children and Red Cross scenes at 1910 Market Street.
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J. H. Hinton
Market Street
Red Cross
Lila Williams
Margaret Branch
Katie Hudson
J. D. Edwards
William Murphy
Murphy
Local Social Notes Include Travel and Visits
Raleigh residents Miss Annie May Uzzell and Miss Ruth Clark visit friends and travel to South Boston and Curie. Rev and Mrs W V McRae return from honeymoon and reside at 817 Princess street. Mrs J T Sholar plans to return home after an operation. Ella Magee comes back from Goldsboro while C L Hudson and Mrs D L Whitaker visit the city. Mabel Lowry visits Faison, and Sergeant James T Land returns to Camp Sevier after a brief stay. Young Men's Hebrew Association hosts a Mascle Ball on North Front Street with archive prizes for costumes and proceeds to the Red Cross.
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Hebrew Associ
North Front Street
Red Cross
Draft board notice urges reporting changes in deferred classifications
The Craven county local board warns district officials about incomplete pledges from some industrial officials to report status changes for deferred agricultural or industrial workers. It urges superior executives and police to ensure immediate reporting to local boards. Ned Egan, new Milwaukee Brewers manager, is noted as a 16 year minor league pilot with eight pennants and multiple top finishes.
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Eastern District Exemption Board
Craven County
Gco
Ned Egan
Milwaukee Brewers
Crisis Looms Over Austria Hungary Amid Multiethnic Strife
Washington dispatches warn Austria Hungary stands at the edge of a great crisis as Bohemia and other nationalities push for autonomy. The piece notes Czech gains in language and education, German dominance waning, and questions whether the empire will crumble under internal revolts and external pressures.
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Washington, D. C
Austria-Hungary
Central Europe
House of Hapsburg
Als
Thucydides
Bohemia
Prague
Carniola
Carinthia
Cienia
Moravia
Austrian Silesia
Thames
Seine
Tiber
Potomac
Engineer repurposes linen maps into hospital bandages
Sir Francis Foz, a prominent English engineer, found a wartime aid by turning linen from old maps and survey plans into bandages. He soaked, separated, and laundered the material to produce usable hospital supplies.
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Francis Foz
Mothers' Club Meeting in Winter Park Friday
The Mothers' Club of the Winter Park community will hold a meeting Friday at 3 p.m. Members are urged to attend and make the gathering the most successful yet.
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Gladness Circle
J. J. Hurt
Dock Street
Mothers’ Club
Winter Park
Newport Explosion Not Work of Enemy
Washington reports naval officials are convinced the Newport Rhode Island torpedo station blast was not an enemy attack. An ordnance bureau investigation found 125 pounds of fulminate of mercury destroyed in the dry house inside a former bomb proof.
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Washington
Naval Torpedo Station
Newport
R. I
Naval
Ordnance Bureau
Folk resigns as chief counsel of Interstate Commerce
Joseph W. Folk sent his resignation as the commissions chief counsel to take effect before February 15. He will return to St. Louis to become general counsel of the Chambers of Commerce there. The Commission may not name a successor during the war or while government railroad operation continues.
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Washington
Joseph W. Folk
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce
Pershing Attends Supreme War Council Meeting
General Pershing and General Tasker Bliss attended the Supreme War Council session in Versailles on January 31. Prime Minister Clemenceau presided as the meeting opened at 3 p.m. and concluded around 5 p.m., drawing a larger crowd than prior sessions.
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Versailles
France
General Pershing
Supreme War Council
Tasker H. Bliss
Clemenceau
British Casualties 73 017 in January
London reports January British casualties totalled 73 017. Breakdown lists killed or died of wounds officers 358 men 13 698. wounded or missing officers 1 205 men 57 756.
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London
Casualty totals dip in January after December peak
January casualties show a slight fall from December’s 79,527. November losses reached 129,089 amid heavy fighting on the Cambrai front that month.
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Cambrai Front
Army Officer to Retire After 42 Years of Service
Colonel J. Frank N. Jones of the Seventh U. S. Army, a Mississippi native and Point graduate of 1879, will be placed on the retired list tomorrow. He has served over forty two years and is currently stationed at Greene in North Carolina near Washington.
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Washington, D. C
J. Frank N. Jones
Reprisal Described in War Office Statement
Official war office statement today describes a reprisal and notes a large drop of fourteen tons, with Paris referenced. Berlin reports the event dated January 31. via alga.
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War Office
Paris
Berlin
Alga
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Boy `Om
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Virginia
Monroe
Doty
F. A. Butler
J. E. Butler
Durham
Lucille Darden
Lumberton
John F. Holman
Lorraine Hotel
Annie May Uzzell
Raleigh
Ruth Clark
Ernoon
South Boston
J. T. Sholar
Ankersley Sanitarium
Ella Magee
Goldsboro
Reltives
C. L. Hudson
Buraw
D. L. Whitaker
Wallace
J. P. Brinson
Curie
N. C
D. Malpass
Mabel Lowry
Faison
South. 1
James T. Land
Camp Sevier
Greenville
S. C
B. Land
Third Street
Central
Europe
Wilmington
A. D. Brown Co
Brown’s
ST. John’s Lodge NO. 1
A. F
A. M
Holden. Sec
Joseph Folk
OUR
Marseilles
Kes
Belk~Williams Co
Mr. Bryan
Pershing
Supreme Council
Bald
Fuchs’ Cash Department Store
Ladies Home Journal
J. W. H. Fuchs’ Department Store
the Store
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