Early Dispatch Urged for Thousands to France Training Camps
Washington reports war department praise for four months of volunteer enlistments across army navy and National Guard. Officials favor selective conscription while speeding up training and transport to France. Rapid drills and seasoned officers urge double time deployment to bolster the American effort.
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France
Edward B. Glark
Washington
War Department
United
Army
Navy
Arm
Marine Corps
National Guard
Reserve Corps
Regular Army
Manrlue Corps
National Army
United States Army
Regnars
National
United States
Congress
Supreme Court
Fired then sues for $1000 in Tulsa suit
Albert Golden sues Bumgarner & Downing furniture dealers for $1000 claiming discharge after delays at military registration. He says he left at 4:80 pm to register but a long line kept him waiting until 10:80 pm and the next morning he was fired.
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Tulsa
Okla
Albert Golden
Bumgarner & Downing
Olden
Britain Leads Air Effort With 30,000 Aircraft Changes
A British report outlines rapid aeronautics advances shared with the United States, detailing advisory committee work on engines light alloys airship stability propellers and high speed airframes. It notes ongoing experiments, weather reporting stations, new bombsights, and coordinated efforts with military aviation to boost wartime output and stability of aircraft designs.
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London
United States
America
Britain
Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Serodyba Miles
Military
Nix Department
Tropics
Crave for White Bread Reaches Paris Troop Food
American residents in Paris urge for real white bread as troops in France receive it. An American hostess woke at five to buy a tiny loaf for 10 cents, a rare treat amid months of dark war bread at a small dinner.
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Paris
United States
France
New York
Hale In Form of Grogs in Petersburg Red Cross Effort
In Petersburg Indiana Lester Battieta, planning to show support for the Red Cross, visited a barber and had his hair cut into a distinctive shape resembling swags on the back of his head. The humorous stunt followed his decision after study of the best way to express enthusiasm.
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Hale
Petersburg
Ind
Lester Battieta
Lester
Red Cross
One Gift That Money Will Not Buy
A neglectful husband learns, after asking his wife for a gift, that love and affection are the priceless presents. She reminds him that true warmth cannot be bought, and he vows to renew tenderness. Love shared strengthens family bonds beyond wealth or status, a timeless moral from 1947.
Mother's Seven Cook Book Way To Cool Drinks And Sherbets
A vintage home recipe fragment describes chilled beverages and sherbet ideas for hot days. Instructions include dissolving gelatine with lemon juice and grape juice, chilling with ice and salt, beating egg white, and serving sherbet with marshmallow cubes and grape juice. It also covers lemonades and orangeade bases and suggests iced coffee and tea with citrus.
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Fruit Brink
Innovations and Inventions Sweep Modern Life
A survey of new devices includes an adjustable iris rifle sight a pocket radio transmitter receiver, a crank spring hammer drill delivering 1800 blows per minute, and steam driven electric cars adopted by a European railroad. Violets thrive worldwide while arc lamp carbons are improved in arrangement. A trench scientist claims a light socket powered purifier. A nail launched poster gun enables display in hard to reach spots. Efforts to harness Bay of Fundy tides continue as factory work goes mobile on trucks. British losses from pests are estimated at 200 million annually.
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Bay of Fundy
Missouri
Tosges
Sapling Shot During Training At English Camp
An American ambulance driver recalled a training incident in England where a gunner, eager to fire at targets, insisted there was a sapling right in front of him. The officer pressed him to identify a sapling, and confusion followed as the dialogue broke down into garbled phrases and misunderstood orders.
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Bngland
United Sinifen
Beas Ay
Slri
Heford
Smoky Joe Wood First as Infielder and Pitcher
Joe Wood began pro baseball as a shortstop in Kansas City. Readers recall him playing multiple infield and outfield positions, and eventually pitching as his primary role, with Hack Spencer cited as key during his shift to the mound.
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Smoky Joe” Wood
Joe Wood
Smoky Joe
Kansas City
Hutchinson
Skan
Western Association
Joe
Sepaon
Hack Spencer
Boston
Fait let detags roll three plots of water and sugar
A dated home brew style instruction describes steeping water and 11 percent sugar for ten minutes, cooling, adding lemon and orange juices and strawberry juice, then combining with charged water and serving with mint and lemon or strawberry garnish.
Impatient temper harms dignity and harmony in life
Orville Dewey notes that constant unhappiness and petty irritability corrode self respect and ruin domestic peace. The fretful, faultfinding temperament spreads discord, compares to vices like gluttony, and destroys inner life even when hidden.
Fatalist Soldiers On British Front Trade Fates In Trench Deaths
An officer writes home of fate intertwining with war as orders and meetings determine who will face danger. He notes escaping death after swapping duties with a comrade who was killed in the trenches, highlighting recurring near misses and the sense fate governs who survives on the front.
The Woman Who Understands by John D Wells
A reflective verse from Buffalo News praising a woman who understands and forgives male flaws. It contrasts traditional womanly praise with the unseen support of those who overlook errors and ease men's penance, urging gratitude for such understanding.
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John D. Wells
Buffalo Ne
Fragmented Readings From An Era Of Change
The passage surveys diverse notes from 19th to early 20th century topics: Asia supplied garden radishes, steam plows began in 1879, war disrupted bird supply, cooks favored kerosene stoves, Indians call the bee the white mans fly, Bcgtc Presbyterian church in New York has had seven pastors in 160 years, Horace Vernet’s memory for color, Brazil’s dyeing materials, California land irrigation plans at 10 to 15 million dollars, an alloy of palladium and auyer as platinum substitute, Drgineg gellja lare for cold relief, a Russian grand duke’s motor sleigh with a suction turbine, Japan’s rice crop record of 208,466,706 bushels surpassing 1914, and an unspecified new invention related to a saucer.
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Asia
Bcgtc
Presbyterian Church
New York City
Horace Vernet
Brazil
California
Japan
Orda
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