Head Hunter in American Army Amazes Doctors
In Base Hospital No. 35 Paris a Moro head hunter named Philipo Moreno from the Philippine Islands shows rapid recovery from five bayonet wounds. He entertains staff with songs and tales of the Philippines, revealing his past head hunting and close ties to an American comrade. The hospital colonel confirms Moreno is indeed one of the Moros he knew in the Philippines.
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Paris
France
Philippine Islands
Philipo Moreno
Red Cross
Base Hospital No. 35
Sanitary Corps
Burley
Deep River
Philipp
Philippines
Sin
George
Marines Ready to Marry as They Return Home
At Quantico 10 000 Marines await demobilization and 90 percent say they plan to marry once discharged. Evening classes at the YMCA teach bookkeeping shorthand soil cultivation and dairying as they prepare for civilian life. The Swiss federal council also adopts 24 hour time for government railroads and related institutions.
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Guanitico
Quantico
Hun
Leatherneck
Clares
Federal Council
Victory Girls to Earn Five Dollars for War Work
In Kenton Ohio a group called Victory Girls plans to raise funds for the war effort by earning five dollars each. Mrs Caressa Ohman has opened an employment bureau at her home to place the young ladies in wartime jobs and ensure they do real work for their earnings.
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Kenton, O
Victory Girls
Caressa Ohman
Atlanta surpasses Reno as divorce capital
In superior court Judge John T. Pendleton dismissed a divorce jury and announced that Atlanta has supplanted Reno, Nevada as the nation's greatest center for divorce. He said Reno previously held the record but Atlanta now leads with Georgia divorce laws remaining lax.
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Georgia
United States
Atlanta
Reno
John T. Pendleton
Nevada
Pendleton
Women Aid Corn Husking In Aerial Survey
A survey over Rantoul fields shows many women joining corn husking efforts to save the crop. An aviator reports witnessing hundreds of women helping in the husking drive.
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Rantoul
Vols
Jews of Chicago plan massive relief drive for war victims
Under leaders Julius Rosenwald and Jacob H. Schiff, Chicago Jews mobilize to raise 15 million dollars for starving Jews in Poland Russia Turkey Palestine Galicia and Romania. Chicago aims a 1 million dollar share to aid 8 million people facing famine and violence. The appeal notes gratitude for immigrant opportunities and urges aid to prevent starvation.
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Julius Rosenwald
Jacob H. Schiff
Chicago
Poland
Russia
Turkey
Palestine
Galicia
Roumania
Mr. Rosenwald
North Pole Air Expedition Planned Led by Bartlett
The Aero Club of America announces a polar survey by airplane led by Capt. Robert A. Bartlett to reach the North Pole next June. Rear Admiral Peary conceived the plan with a $250,000 fundraising goal and a route from Cape Columbia across the pole to Cape Chalyuskin. Bartlett previously commanded the Roosevelt on Peary expeditions. Vilhjalmur Stefansson suggests a modern submarine could map remaining Arctic areas.
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Robert A. Bartlett
Polar
North Pole
Aero Club of America
Robert E. Peary
Pole
United States
Etah
Cape Columbia
Cape Chalyuskin
Siberian
Bartlett
Roosevelt
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Salvation Army delivers pies coffee and doughnuts to doughboys
Col. William Barker returns from France where he and Salvation Army teams fed troops with homey pies doughnuts and coffee. He recounts how pie time lifted spirits and eased homesickness during the last great Allied push.
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France
Col
William Barker
Salvation Army
United States
New York
Barker
General Pershing
Chipilly Ridge and the Argonne Remembered by Chicago Troops
Historic letters in Chicago memorials honor the One Hundred Thirty-first and One Hundred Thirty-second Infantry Regiments for hard fighting at Chipilly Ridge and in the Argonne during early August. Reports from nearby units praise the Illinois National Guard regiments and Col. J. B. Sanborn receives royal decoration from King George.
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Chicago
Ttis
Chipilly Ridge
Argonne
New York Harbor
Trinois National Guard
J. B. Sanborn
One Hundred and Thirty-first Infantry
George
Boschee's Syrup advertised for coughs and lung troubles
An advertisement touts Boschee's Syrup as a long trusted remedy used for fifty one years across the United States. It claims it cures coughs bronchitis colds settled in the throat and lung problems and helps patients sleep at night with easy morning excretion. It emphasizes American manufacture and decades of sales.
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United States
Nature
America
Adv
Farmer Corntessel’s son hides to work, chopping wood
The farmer notes his son Josh has returned to work after being urged to talk about the war. He now escapes to a remote spot to chop wood all day, avoiding questions and crowds.
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Josh
Farmer Corntessel
Recipe for Gray Hair Preparation and Use
A simple home mix uses Ba Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine to darken gray hair gradually without staining the scalp. A half pint of water plus 1 oz. Ba Rum a small box of Barbo Compound and glycerine is enough. Full directions are in each Barbo Compound box. Some people make a specialty of killing time for others.
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