Charleston to gain nine million dock and channel work
Washington reports a naval budget with a nine million dollar dock and channel project for Charleston South Carolina. It includes dredging funds and an authorization for twelve 9 500 ton ships to be built at Charleston shipyards. The plan ties dock funds to channel deepening approval and notes a Norfolk dock is not funded.
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Washington
Naval Service
Navy Department
House Naval Committee
Navy
Marine Corps
Charleston
S. C
Naval Proving Grounds
Indian Head
Virginia
Potomac
Shipping Board
Representative Whaley
South Carolina
Naval
Army
Cooper River
Naval Committee
Whaley
Navy Yard
Congress
Norfolk
Joint labor commission forms to study Hampton Roads area
Washington reports a three department joint commission to study wages housing and labor matters in the Hampton Roads Virginia district with representatives from war navy labor and shipping boards. Courts deal with house breaking assault and farm sentence cases including Sharpless Johnson Hawkins Grant Factothes King Eleby and others with various outcomes.
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Washington
Hampton Roads
Virginia
War, Navy and
Labor Departments
Shipping Board
Moses Sharpless
James John
Recorder's Court
Sharpless
Johnson
Rev
R. E. Gribbin
Gribbin
Coleman
Shamrock
Willie Hawkins
James Johnson
Maggie Geary
Vera Grant
Annie King
Depmsey
Grant
Will Eleby
Air Raid Over Hartlepool Kills Six In Two Days
London reports a second air raid in two days with one man, one woman, and three children killed in Hartlepool. Four bombs dropped by an airship caused six dwellings to be demolished and about 30 homes damaged.
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London
Hartlepool
Final lecture of series delivered on salesmanship
Dr Stanley L Krebs delivered the final lecture on Flow to Sell Goods at the Chamber of Commerce last night with three-night turnout praised as highly engaging. Merchants supporting the lectures supplied tickets and many sales forces gained new ideas to better serve employers and the public across Wilmington stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley L. Krebs
Chamber of Commerce
Krebs
Wilmington
Belk-Williams Co
Bon Marche
J. H. Rehder & Co
J. W. H. Fuchs
C. W. Yates Co
N. Jacobi Hardware Co
C. H. Fore & Co
C. W. Polvogt Co
A. D. Brown Co
A. O. Schuster
R. F. Johnson
Jas. A. Northam
Baxter Tobacco Co
Hall & Durham
Frank M. Ross
Jno. S. Me. Eachern Sons
R. C. Jones
R. C. Platt
Wm. Otersen
I. Shrier & Sons
Shrier & Solomon
Wilmington Grocery Co
Geo. W. Huggins
G. Danenbaum
Peterson & Rulfs
Hyman Upply Co
Boylan & Hancuwck
Queen City Cycle Co
Peoples Supply Co
Wilmington Shoe Co
Wilmington Furniture Co
Thomas Grocery Co
Chas. Finkelstein
Pope Benedict Names Cardinal Van Rossum Prefect
Rome reports Pope Benedict appointed Cardinal Van Rossum the first Dutch member of the Sacred College as prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
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Rome
Benedict
Cardinal van Rossum
Sacred College
Congregation of the Propaganda
Senate Backs Bill For Two More Assistant Secretaries
The Senate yesterday raised a House bill creating two additional assistant secretaries of war. The measure would raise salaries from 4500 to 5000 dollars annually.
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Baker
Washington
House
Senate
Delaware House Adopts Federal Prohibition Amendment
Dover March 14 The Delaware House of Representatives adopted a joint resolution ratifying the Federal Prohibition amendment by 27 to 6. The measure now proceeds to the Senate.
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Delaware
Dover
Del
Delaware House of Representatives
Senate
Italy’s War Expenses Reach 33 Billion Lire
Rome official statistics reported by exchange telegraph show Italy’s war expenses up to January 31 totaling 33,091,000,000 lire. About 31,000,000,000 lire funded the army with the remainder for the navy.
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Italy
London
Rome
Seventy Casualties Reported by Pershing List
Washington dispatch from March 14 shows General Pershing's casualty list naming 70 soldiers. Four killed in action, two dead of wounds, one dead of an accident, nine dead from disease, 14 severely wounded, and 40 slightly wounded. The two officers named are Captain Hugh H. Barber and Lieutenant Harris B. Smith, both reported slightly wounded.
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Washington
Pershing
Hugh H. Barber
Harris B. Smith
Fillet Edging and Monkey Face Insertion Crochet Pattern
Crochet guide describes chain counts and stitches for a filet edging and a Monkey Face motif. Includes row by row instructions, chaining, turning, and stitch placements with occasional garbled phrases. It reads as a vintage craft instruction fragment.
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Hook
Monkeys Fight Train on Mauritius Sugar Route
In Mauritius trains carry sugar cane by rails and monkeys learned to signal approaching trains. The tribe would ride the cars and throw cane down to the mill, forcing guards to keep marauders away. A warning system evolved to protect the transport.
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Mauritius
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Emigland
Winifred Worth
Crochet
St. St
Serve Co
Pala
Erica
Central Consumers CO
the Wagner Distributing Co
Wilmington, N. C
Water and
Orange Streets
P. O. Box
Fehr
Central Consumers Company
Louisville
Kentucky
Siberia
United States
Helsingfors
Alexander I
Grand Duchsia
Abo
Sweden
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