Lipsner Resigns Aerial Mail Post, Seeks Congressional Probe
Capt B B Lipsner resigns as aerial mail service superintendent and urges a congressional investigation. He accuses Postmaster General Burleson of disrupting the serial mail service and wasting public money. Lipsner says war department airplane construction may be junked and accuses Ot to Praeger of budgeting new funds. He appeals to Senator Sherman for a committee inquiry.
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B. B. Lipsner
Burleson
Army
L. Y. Sherman
Congressional
War Department
Otto Praeger
Lipsner
Admiral Kolchak Dictator of Siberia in Allied Eye
The article notes Admiral Kolchak leads Siberia amid ongoing fighting in Russia and America, seeking aid and supplies rather than recognition. He plans to reorganize the army to aid the Czechs by February, citing shortages of warm clothing and logistics as a major constraint. Allies find him cooperative but refrain from official recognition.
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Russia
Gmsk
Admiral Kolchak
Siberia
Kalchak
Kolchak
Widow of President Harrison Aids War Camp Officers
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison widow of the late President Harrison runs a New York war camp community service desk. She provides comfort and amusement to officers on leave and coordinates with mansions and country homes to shelter soldiers. She emphasizes treating soldiers as men and answering questions about leave.
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Officers’ Department
New York War Camp
Army
Navy
Benjamin Harrison
President Harrison
New York
Mrs. Harrison
Liggett: A Life Driven by Study and Duty
Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett, commander of the First U S Army Corps, began service after West Point in 1879. His career spanned 40 years of study and hard work, culminating in leading heavy Argonne fighting and guiding American troops into occupied German territory.
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Napoleon
Mnside
Hunter Liggett
United States Army Corps
West Point
General Liggett
Pershing
Liggett
Argonne
Cermuns
Fieurman
Portrait of Lady Townshend as frontline nurse and organizer
Lady Townshend wife of the Kut el Amara hero earns staff officer role in the French army for organizing canteens for troops in Lorraine. She frequently faced fire while aiding soldiers.
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Lady Townshend
Kut-el-Amara
Lorraine
Meeting of Cardiff Woman’s Private Literary Circle
A Cardiff woman joined a private literary circle and reported back with humor. Her husband doubted feminine judgment, asking about the meeting, while she said the topics ranged from the brazen woman with dyed hair moving in opposite the Joneses to one of the poets, Shelley, as discussed.
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Cardiff
Joneses
Shelley
Wales
Evading the Law Ends In Joking Escape
A man nicknamed Mr Fedup quits marriage on a Sunday after finding a dead dog on the road. He tells his wife to stay on one side while he crosses to the other, and quips that death parts them, claiming to keep a parson’s vow.
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Mr. Fedup
Like Father Like Son in a Tattered Tale
A fragment from a mid century page presents a playful dialogue about work between a kind old munitions worker and his son Sammie with a joking line about the cabin boy of old. The piece weaves light humor with patter and a stray ad for Cuticura skin care. It ends with a Ruskin quotation and a note on an average horse weight of 1,000 pounds.
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Sammie
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France
Germany
U. S
One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Field Artillery Regiment
Women’s Radio Corps
Women's Radio Corps
Boston
Washington
Elizabeth Baker
Montclair
N. J
Lorena Reed
Cambridge
Maass
Elise Owen
Stonington
Conn
Britain
Dr. Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Ratzend
J. W. Watson
Oakwood Ave
Orange, N
U.s.pat
Absorbine, JR
P.O. F
Temple Street
Indianapolis
Adv
Elsie
Margaret
Gladys
Ruskin
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