Expansion of Army and Navy's War Year Highlights
The government review marks one year of U S war effort noting a massive buildup. The army and National Guard expanded from about 9 5 thousand officers and 202 5 thousand men to 123 8 thousand officers and 1 5289 thousand enlisted. The Navy grows to 21 thousand officers and 330 thousand enlisted with orders, shipbuilding, and overseas operations accelerating rapidly.
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ARMY
NAVY
United States
Committee On Public Informaton
Shipping Board
Treasury Department
Nat Honal Guard
Adjutant General
Regular Army
National Guard
National Army
France
General Pershing
Paris
West Point
World War Era Headlines Echo Losses and Reforms
A roundup of war news from Lincolnshire England to Wisconsin highlights include the death of three American aviators in a ground collision at Lincolns hire airdome and a French estimate of German losses in the western front battle between 275 000 and 800 000. The Illinois vote closes 200 saloons and boosts women’s suffrage.
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Lincolnshire Airdome
England
Illinois
Pleardy
Washington
Iowa items mix war needs and local notes from 1918
Coal shortages worry fuel administrator Charles Webster as Iowa buyers resist spring stockpiling. Reports cite drives to curb wheat losses from barberry and rust, labor shortages in railcar shipments, and Red Cross fundraising in West Liberty. Other items note university staff changes, local health, a Liberty Loan victory, and a proposed Iowa flag design representing the state’s 1919 legislature.
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Charles Webster
Arch W. McFarland
Waterloo
Webster
Iowa
Camp Dodge
New National Army
Omaha
Missouri Valley
Harley Fraizer
Logan
Harrison County
West Liberty
Red Cross
J. L. Peters
Clarence Dykstra
The
State University
University of Kansas
Dykstra
English River
Washington County
United States
Atlantic
Iowa University
Currier Hall
Rolf Arenholz
Grundy Center
Grundy County
Rockwell Ory Reformatory
Anamosa
W. B. Baird
Dunlap
St. Bernard’s Hospital
Council Bluffs
Virgil Harrold
Nica
Shenandoah
Louisiana Purchase
Dixie Cornell
Gebhardt
Giants of the Sky and Italian Bomb Machines
The article describes the largest war planes as bomb dropping machines prioritizing load capacity over speed. It notes Italians specialize in big bomb aircraft like Caproni models carrying three guns and substantial explosives. Enormous planes are rare, typically escorted by fast fighters and flown at night with searchlight bombs to locate targets.
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Quartermaster Corps
Philippines
Lorraine
Quartermaster General's Department
Air Service
Naval Service
Navy
Rafey
Parachute Reference Appears in St Nicholas Tale
A fragment from a St Nicholas page mentions a parachute and a character named Bond amid a textual exchange. The unreadable OCR leaves only scattered names and objects, offering a glimpse of a toy or story era reference.
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Stussel
Bond
St. Nicholas
Its Use, I See Where Nations Eat A Food Substitute
A fragment comments on nations using food substitutes to feed imagination, noting a quote about a fictitious substitute. The text is incomplete and lacks clear events or entities to identify a full news item.
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Corps of Engineers
Pioneer Engineers
Ordnance Department
Congress
United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Germany
Austria
Qwmergency Fleet Corporation
Liberty
Treasury
Muarch
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Hast St. Louis
Ill
Board of Education
America
Food Administration
San Francisco
Renn Meoney
Wilson
W. S. Chapman
Chicago
New York
Nebraska
Lincoln
House
Senate
Berlin
Bund der Landwierts
Junker
Liberty Loan
Pershing
War Department
Baker
Near East
Wisconsin
Victor L. Berger
Irvine Lenroot
Joseph Davis
Lenroot
Massachusetts
Union
A. V. Grammer
A. B. Cele
St. Paul, Neb
Lulu Vogt
Elba
Ese
Industrial Workers of the World
Quebec
Canada
Thompson
Montgomery
Stoddard
Missouri
White Star Line
Celtic
Railway Wage Commission
Kansas City
United States Navy Department
Daniels
Thomas J. Mooney
Stephens
Californian
National Food Administration
State Department
Bulgaria
Foch
Marne
King
Utah
New Jersey
Federal Treasury
Lafe Young
Iowan
Western States
Crowder
California
Thomas 7. Mooney
Hawkeye State. News
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