Grand Lodge and Daughters of Rebekah Adjourn After Busy Session
Special to The Dispatch High Point NC May 17 The Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the State Assembly of the Daughters of Rebekah adjourned after sessions from Tuesday afternoon. Officers were elected for both groups with Miss Lillian Byrd Asheville as president and William L. Smith Wilmington named treasureship. The meetings featured committee reports, a Rebekah degree, and a fraternal film showing at a local theater.
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High Point
N. C
Grand Lodge Independent Order of Odd Fellows
State Assembly of the Daughters of Rebekah
Odd Fellows
Reption Lodge No. 63
Grand Lodge
State Assembly
Rebekahs
Winston-Salem
Wilmington
North Carolina
William L. Smith
Richard J. Jones
Five Minute Talks by National Leaders
Will H. Hayes, chairman of the Republican State Committee of Indiana, discusses national policy ideas in concise five minute talks. The series aims to shape party messaging and public understanding ahead of contests.
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Will H. Hayes
Republican State Committee
Indiana
Call to Young Men for Deeper Civic Duty
A Civic exhortation urges young men to engage in state and national government, arguing their future voting power and professional duties hinge on understanding public affairs. It stresses that liberty rests on informed participation and responsible governance.
Hen KH HK To Austrian Ambassador Sails For Home
A brief dispatch notes HEN KH HK sailing home aboard a vessel bound for Austria to reconnect with the Austrian ambassador. The report highlights diplomatic ties and a swift return from overseas duties.
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KH HK
SRK
Tarnowski Returns Under Safe Passage Guarantee
Count Adam Tarnowski Austro Hungarian ambassador to the United States returns home aboard the steamship Ryndam after severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Austria. He had not been officially recognized by the government since succeeding Dumba and departed under a safe passage guarantee.
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Adam Tarnowski
United States
Dumba
Ryndam
Count Tarnowski
Austria
General Wood Letter of Appreciation From Wilmington Chamber
General Leonard Wood thanks the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce for its telegram of greeting. He recalls his Wilmington visit and expresses pleasure at the welcome. He notes the nation faces a great war and credits local support and cooperation as the department's strength.
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Chamber of Commerce
Leonard Wood
Southeastern Department
Charleston
S. C
Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
Wilmington
N. C
Four Candidates Sent Home From Camp At Chickamauga
Chattanooga Tenn May 17 Four candidates for commissions in the reserve officers camp were sent home as defects in mental moral or physical condition could bar completion of the course. It is estimated that about five men daily will be weeded out, with new applicants taking their places after passing exams but lacking camp facilities to accommodate them.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chickamauga
Coffee by products from coffee husk to double crop value
After forty years of research a method to double Brazil's coffee crop value uses coffee berry husk by products. Dr Pedro Baptista de Andrade distills husk to produce explosives alcohol and caffeine with strong market demand amid wartime needs.
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United Press
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Pedro Baptista de Andrade
Manila
Andradede
Western league adopts six youth roster rule
A new Western league rule requires each team to carry six young players on its roster. The measure aims to gradually weed out veterans and rebuild teams with fresh timber.
Notable Confederate Memorial Unveiled at Shiloh Battlefield
The United Daughters of the Confederacy unveiled a $50,000 Confederate monument in Prentiss Circle at Shiloh Battlefield Park Nashville May 17. Frederick C. Hibbard of Chicago designed the memorial depicting the two day battle of April 6 and 7, 1862. Bishop Thomas F. Gailor gave the oration.
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Associated Press
Nashville, Tenn
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Shiloh Battlefield
Prentiss Circle
Shiloh Battlefield Park
Frederick C. Hibbard
Chicago
Albert Sidney Johnston
Navy denies crews were poorly clad in war zone
Washington officials rebut Queenstown claims that American destroyer crews were inadequately dressed. The men wore woolen underwear, uniforms, caps, socks, jerseys, pea jackets, sea boots and oil skins with extra lambs wool jackets issued before sailing. New winter outfits from a department contract will aid all sailors abroad.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
Queenstown
Austrian Foreign Minister Czernin Heads to German Talks
A semi official Vienna announcement says Count Czernin has departed for German headquarters to resume conferences with Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg on key diplomatic matters.
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Vienna
Count Czernin
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Intelligent person earn monthly from newspapers
An intelligent person may earn 100 dollars monthly corresponding for newspapers and 40 to 50 dollars monthly in spare time. No canvassing required. Subjects suggested. Send for particulars to National Press Bureau Room 4199 Buffalo NY. May 14, 1911.
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National Press Bureau
Buffalo
N. Y
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Odd Fellows and Daughters of
Rebekah
Wilmingtonians
Lillian Byrd
Asheville
Mabel Garrison
C. B. Taylor
Wilson
Lillian Flora
Sligo
Mary Jones
Hendersonville
Ballard
Eppsy
Bessie Spry
Will H. Hays
America
Count Tarnow
General Wood
Leonard Wshrdlu
Messenger Service
Poetal Telegraph Cable Company
Postal Telegraph
W. M. Sneeden
N. 7Th Street
W. R. Brown
South 2Nd Street
T. E. D.” Care Dispatch
Cleer
Lenoir
Care Dispatch
Grove
Wrightsville Station
Water Front
J. O. Hinton
City Laundry
Marshburn’s
May’s Delicatessen
C. H. Bornemann’s Department Store
Orange
C. H. Bornemann
7Th
Orange Streets
Irene
Rnes
Ivor Johnson
Queen City Cycle Co
Market Street
J. T. Gordon
Charles Finkelstein
South Front Street
Wilmington Shirt Co
Grand Theatre
R. D. Foster & Co
Princess Street
H. Hall
Casle Street
Farris
Farris’ Bakery
ARMY
Foltz & Kendrick
Southern Building
Remington
Monarch
Smith Premier
Remington Junior
Remington Typewriter Company
Phone
Sterling Furniture Co
DH. H. Sneed
L. Mazer
S. 5Th Street
Philadelphia
Shands Grocery
P. K’s
P. K
Royal Theatre Building
Southern Box and Lumber Co
H. J. McCartney
Front St
Harriss
Harriss Typewriting and Advertising Company
California
Bear Produce & Merchandise Co
Motte
Leon J L. Motte
South Fifth Street
Gordon's
C. W. Yates Co
Liberty
W. B. Cooper & Go
Wilmington, N. C
Builders’ Supplies
W. B. Thorpe & CO
Water and Ann Streets
United States War Bonds
the Peoples Savings Bank
Liberty Bond
the Murchison National Bank
Lumina
The
Tide Water Power Co
Ottumwa
Cape Fear
Wiley's
Payne Drug Company
5Th
Red Cross Street
Ae Ell Thomas Grocery Company
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