German envoy drafts bill seeking damages from Allies
Von Bernstorff, dismissed ambassador to Washington, prepared a counter claim bill for 13.65 billion dollars alleging injuries to German health and strength from the Allied blockade. It lists values for deaths, productivity losses, and industrial worths, with infant and child valuations and notes on weight loss and disease from food shortages.
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Johann von Bernstorff
Washington
Germany
von Bernstorff
Glidden Named Publicity Chief of U S Air Service
Captain Charles Z. Gudden is appointed chief of publicity for the United States air service with headquarters in New York. The service plans an open recruiting campaign to attract 20,000 men. Gudden, aged 62, has led air service publicity work in New York and London and is noted as a pioneer in telephone and automobile campaigns. He has powered balloon flights, led Glidden tours, and recently offered the Glidden trophy for a transcontinental winning run.
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Charles Z. Gudden
United States Air Service
Teaadquarters
New York
Air Service Willoan
Gillies
Ariistice
Air Service
New Tingdad
Onlin
Gibden
New England Bell Telephone Company
Bell Telephone Company
Texas
Paris
London
Hull
England
United States
America
San Francisco
Lamont Heads U S Rejection of British German Bond Plan
American financial experts led by Thomas W. Lamont reject F M Kernes British plan for a 5 billion dollar Germany bond guaranteed by allies. The delegation including President Wilson finds the proposal unpopular with the American people and unnecessary as European allies seek to extract German assets.
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Klotz
United States
Thomas W. Lamont
F. M. Kernes
Germany
Wilson
Lamont
Ma Burdick Salvation Army war heroine returns home
Ma Burdick sixty year old Salvation Army worker famed as a Europe battlefront volunteer arrives back after serving under the red shield. She fried doughnuts and baked 324 pies in 24 hours to feed troops and treated the wounded behind the trenches before returning to duties after the armistice.
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Ma” Burdick
Salvation Army
Europe
Ma Burdick
Red Shield
France
Paris
Ensign Floyd Burdick
German merchants sell ice cream to Americans
German merchants import ice cream freezers and sell real ice cream at three marks a dish in Nevenahr Rhenish Prussia. A photograph shows a boy enjoying his ice cream.
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Nevenahr
Rhenish
Prussia
Silent Before Johnson A Grandfather Rope Maker Confusion
In a street discussion about capital punishment a man named Johnson argued about his grandfather’s death. A wag had said someone was hanged, sparking Johnson to insist his grandfather died in bed. The exchange reveals a misheard remark about hanging and a wooden link to rope making.
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Johnson
Smith
Ming
Avas
Pepgen touted by Terre Haute woman for stomach relief
Miss Vera Baxter of 1526 Liberty Street Terre Haute Indiana says Pepgen cured her nervous dyspepsia and stomach pains allowing normal meals and increased energy. She notes many locals endorse Pepgen for stomach kidney liver and nervous ills and that it is available at lending drug stores.
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Vera Baxter
Liberty Street
Terre Haute
Ind
Melodrama Gaffe In School for Scandal
While portraying Charles Surface Lewis Waller tripped before his entrance and smeared his hand with red paint from retouched props. He walked on as if covered in gore to the audience's horror, then broke into uncontrollable laughter.
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Lewis Waller
Charles Surface
Mr. Waller
Origin of the Dutch Language
The name Dutch derives from Dietsch meaning vernacular, distinct from Latin. It aligns with Deutsch and belongs to the Frankish Low German group closely related to Flemish. Dutch forms part of the Germanic dialect family and shares nearly identical structure.
Parlor Debate Ends With Witty Table Gaffe
A witty exchange between spouses captures a parliamentary mishap during a home debate on buying a centerpiece. The husband recalls instructing his wife while she cleverly redirected the subject to the table itself.
His Poor Selection
A quip notes skepticism about judgment in choosing partners as Uncle Eben jokes that more than half of what people say may be untrustworthy. The excerpt hints at a wary view of female talk about a man’s future and past.
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