Five Pamlico men face US draft case arraignment
Craven County reports damage from rains with crops injured and bridges destroyed. Five Pamlico County men arrested at Lowlands and Hobuck for resisting the draft and dynamiting the Lowlands post office face arraignment before US Commissioner Hill next Monday. Bonds set at 3000 each. two bail possible at 2500, three remain jailed. Government, with E M Green leading, will present evidence. further charges and defense planned. (Continued on Page Two.)
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New Horn
Pamlico County
Lowlands
Hoback
United States
BB. Hill
Federal Building
E. M. Green
A Sensational Rise in Cotton Prices
New York October 3 The governments estimate of a prospective short cotton crop triggered a further sensational rise in the market. The December contract jumped to 12 a bale, within one cent of the year’s high, as stronger demand from foreign and domestic trade interests broadens buying.
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New York
Washington
Bryan Visits White House For Personal Talks
William J. Bryan met with President Wilson for about thirty minutes in Washington on October 3. He said he would campaign personally this fall in Iowa and Ohio for prohibition and in New York for suffrage, and also spoke with Secretary Baker and Secretary Daniels.
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Bryan
White House
Ftv
Associated Press
Washington
William J. Bryan
Wilson
Iowa
Ohio
New York
Baker
Daniels
Goitre and Thyroid Health Stressed by Chiropractor
A Wilmington chiropractor warns of goitre arising from thyroid enlargement without inflammation and nerve pressure. He explains thyroid structure, causes, and cell overgrowth, claiming many long standing cases improve with adjustments and offers a booklet to interested readers.
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Wilmington
Muzzle Law For Dogs Debated By City Officials
The Board of Health order requiring dogs to be muzzled or restrained by October 4 faces doubt over enforceability. Mayor Moore points to county regulations that mandate five newspaper notices before action, while officials caution against wholesale dog killings until all legal steps are met.
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Board of Health
Joho
Moore
New Hanover
Bayo Moore
Ruark
New National Party Organizing Across Prohibition and Progressive Lines
Chicago hosts a conference of Prohibitionists Progressives Social Democrats and single tax advocates to form a new national party aiming to elect US Senators and House members in 1918 with a 1920 Washington march planned. The draft platform urges universal suffrage referendum recall short ballot executive budget proportional representation public ownership of utilities and outlawing liquor traffic. The 20 vote per group balance fixes initial strength while a 300 100 campaign fund and district focus follow.
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Associated Presa
Chicago
United States
House of Representatives
Washington
John Spargo
Prohibition
St. Paul
National Non-Partisan League
Prohibition National Committee
National Party
Labor Adjustment Board Heads West to Ease Shipbuilding Strikes
The Labor Adjustment Board, on assignment from Associated Press, will travel from Washington to the Pacific coast. It will first proceed to Seattle, then Portland and San Francisco to address strikes hampering shipbuilding operations.
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Labor Adjustment Board
Associated Press
Washington
The
Pacific Coast
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Revolution Rises in Turkestan Under Turmoil
In Turkestan a revolutionary movement is reported under way. General Cherkess, district commander, was attacked and beaten as unrest spreads across the region from Petrograd reports dated Monday October 1.
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Turkestan
Petrograd
Cherkess
Stenographer Wanted for Light Busy Work
Stenographer wanted with limited experience. State full particulars including salary required. Address "B," care Dispatch, 10-32tj Shand's Grocery Fourth and Nun. Also line for Hecker's Oat Meal Buckwheat and Pancake Flour. Phone 630. 9-30-if. Also advertisement seeking fifty laborers, white or colored, to clean land with three years guaranteed work. Apply M. Lance, Carolina Beach. 8-31-if.
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Shand's
Hecker
M. Lance
Carolina Beach
For Sale Cheap Blickensderfer Featherweight Typewriter
Classified item offers a Blickensderfer featherweight typewriter never used for 37.50 after a 60 dollar list price. Contact Chas Finkelstein at No 6 South Front Street with phone 642 for quick sale. Also promotes Mulitigraph facsimile typewritten letters and Harriss Typewriting and Advertising Company services.
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Chas
Finkelstein
South Front Street
Harriss Typewriting and Advertising Company
Southern Railway Outlays in August 1917 Record South Benefits
Washington Oct 3 Comptroller A H Platt reports for August 1917 every dollar spent by the Southern Railway in the South yielded $1 28 back in the region Total disbursements for labor materials and other needs were $8 402 015 with $7 047 911 paid to Southern entities and industries within the South The company spent $1 507 648 on roadway and structures improvements and shows a gross August revenue of $7 353 628 with operating expenses and taxes at $5 796 200. increases versus 1916 are noted in both revenue and costs.
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Washington, D. C
Southern Railway Company
South
Southern Railway
A. H. Platt
New York Takes Liberty Bonds Subscriptions Rise
Official subscriptions to the second Liberty Loan in the New York area reached 93 345 850 by noon today. The sum represents about one sixteenth of the district total of 1 500 000 000, with partisan and official subscriptions continuing.
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Associated Press
New York
Federal Reserve District
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