Nelsonville News Highlights Courthouse Local Notes
Cameo gun on Nelsonville streets last Friday prompts reward return to Helen Mulligan. Local society notes guests include Miss Chrissina King and others visiting Logan and Columbus. Eastern Star installs officers. war news from Miller and Tom Wilson letters. Accident at Floodwood power plant injures Christy Nagel, 30, to Sciotoville. Discharges and visitors across families reported in Nelsonville area.
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Nelsonville
Helen Mulligan
Chrissina King
Nelle Mathewson
Pearl Davis
Pearl McHart
Logan
Alice Mulligan
Columbus
Thomas Mulligan
Stella Cappel
J. M. Hyde
Christy Nagel
Floodwood
C. W. Cable
Sciotoville
Ohio
Private Vercoe Writes From Belgium in November Letter
Private Cephas Vercoe of the 135th M G Bn writes his parents in Sunnyside Drive about the war news from Belgium dated November 13. He reports the German front may have fallen back and describes frost in the morning and the humor of Belgian villagers confused by American GIs.
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Cephas Vercoe
C. C
M. G. Bu
Belgium
James Vercoe
Sunnyside Drive
Vercoe
Edna Gould
Poston
Corp. B. F. Cline
Hedq. Co
France
Seldon Carsey
Jesse Carsey
War Postcards and Letters From Soldiers in Europe
Local residents share postcards stamped by Germans and letters home from relatives abroad. Notes describe armistice celebrations in Belgium and France, living conditions at fronts, and the joy of peace as servicemen report from France Belgium and Italy with vivid scenes and personal details.
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James Wade
Millfield
Lurene Weede
Madane
France
Italy
Major Wheeler
Lieut. Bennett
Chambery
Nalian
Commando Militare
Italian Reception for American Staff Near Modano
The narrator recalls a warm welcome from Italians including British, Anzacs, and French and Italian officers. After meals the Comando Militare arrived, everyone cheered for the American, and shopkeepers closed for celebrations. Plans include Turin, Paris, possible Rome Christmas return, and a potential canteen leadership in Modano.
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Comando Militare
Signorita Americano
Italy
Turin
Paris
Rome
Red Cross
Modano
Dijon
Corn Will Win Democracys War Mainstay In Nations Crisis
America's great corn crop exceeding 3,000,000,000 bushels will save the world's food situation as surplus wheat is sent to famine threatened Europe. U S food administration officials emphasize the crop's role in meeting global demand during the crisis.
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United States
Europe
America
United States Food Administration
Valley Forge
Corn as Nation's main stay amid war and warning
An obituary notes Walter Bean, born 1897 in Guysville Ohio, died in action in the Argonne September 25 1918. It lauds corn as a vital wartime staple and details its rising use in bread and cooking, while recounting wartime shortages and the broader role of corn products. The piece ends with a lengthy patriotic poem and memories of Bean’s service.
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Walter Bean
Adison Bean
Athens
Ruth
Dana Mansfield
Chillicothe
Ohio
Wilson R. Bean
France
Dorcey R. Bean
Rainbow Division
Merwin
Canaanville
Snipers Foiled by Two Pennsylvania Hunters in France
Two Pennsylvania privates Harry Meeks and J C Titterington led a rifle sweep against German snipers in Roncheres. They spotted and killed multiple enemies, clearing three belfry nests and forcing a white flag, then toppled a machine gun nest in another church.
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Paris
Roncheres
Bowie
Pennsylvania
Harry Meeks
J. C. Titterington
Meeks
Titterington
Meeha
HATED YELLOW PAINT ON SIGNS IN NEWARK STORY
A Newark resident objects to yellow signs after a painter Joe Neis added a yellow streak to A L Norton’s board. After a phone call, the painter erased the streak and replaced it with blue, following the request to avoid yellow.
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Newark
Perryton
A. L. Norton
Joe Neis
Neis
Felt ban on shoes and felt products in wartime
The War Industries Board ordered discontinuation of felt used for box toe shoes felt heel pads and inner soles as soon as current supplies run out. It urged reports on wool felts and jackets used for paper and suggested steps to maximize service and prevent waste.
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War Industries Board
Washington
Card of Thanks and Bereavement Notice from Mansfield family
Expressions of gratitude for sympathy after the loss of a son and brother. The verses honor a deceased boy from Athens county noted as the first on the honor roll. The Mansfield family asks for prayers and commemorates their child with flowers and blessings.
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Tle
Athens County
BE. Mansfield
D. C. Mansfield
King Alphonso grows beard amid illness
King Alphonso of Spain has recovered from Spanish influenza and, confined to the palace, decided to grow a beard. The latest image shows the beard not yet fully formed and still in progress.
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Alphonso
Spain
No Royal Road to Food Conservation Says U S Food Administration
The U S Food Administration urges voluntary nationwide action to save and substitute food across all homes and industries. It stresses equal burden sharing among 20 million kitchens and 2 million businesses. It notes a Norwegian plant under construction to produce 4600 tons of aluminum yearly.
Bavarian leaders push dissolution of soldiers council
Liberal and Centrist figures in Bavaria demand dissolving the Bavarian soldiers and workmen's council. They advocate the temporary reinstatement of the old Bavarian assembly as the sole path to avert allied occupation of Munich.
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Munich
Bavaria
Judge Mack Heads Jews Congress In Philadelphia
Judge Julian W. Mack of Chicago was elected president of the first American Jewish Congress held on the American continent. One speaker called the congress among the most momentous epochs in Jewish life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Julian W. Mack
Chicago
Fire destroys large plant at Scott Fertilizer Co.
A morning fire at the Scott Fertilizer Company plant along Elk river caused extensive damage. The acid plant suffered severe losses estimated at 260,900 dollars. Fire units from Newark Delaware and Chesapeake City Maryland helped quell the blaze as it threatened to engulf nearby parts of Elkton.
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Elkton
Scott Fertilizer Company
Elk River
Newark
Del
Chesaneak City
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