Athens Chamber of Commerce War Effort Dominates May Meeting
The Athena Chamber of Commerce outlines wartime activities and plans including War Chest drives, public health and education initiatives, housing surveys, road improvements, and efforts to attract southern industrial plants to Athens. Officers elected include President James Ginnan and Vice President W W Daggett as the group reports on finances and national war policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City
Stedman
J. R. Lostro
Athens
Lostro
James Ginnan
W. W. Daggett
W. A. Carpenter
C. M. Copeland
Frank S. Roach
Ginnan
War Chest
Leopold
Chamber of Commerce
Washington
United States Chamber of Commerce
National Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries
Ohio Commercial Secretaries Association
Athens County War Relief Association
Thrift Stamp Organization
Public Health Nurse
Federated Boards of Trade of
Ohio
Chamber
Athens-Pomeroy
Athens-Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Kanawha
Michigan
Hamley Run
New York Times
America
War Relief Association
Thrift Stamp
Liberty Loan
Allied forces halt German advance before Amiens in 1918
The narrative notes that German invasion was delayed and only on March 23 did they cross the Somme. French troops held positions, exhausted British were relieved, allowing a battle before Noyon that disrupted German plans for Russianization of the Allies. French air support helped check the German advance during the Amiens battle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Somme
Noyon
France to Ban Meat on Three Days Weekly Beginning Today
Paris reports that starting now France will observe three meatless days each week. Sale delivery and serving of fresh and canned salted meats is prohibited on Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
United Press
France
Letter From France Describes Daily Life in April 1918
In a missive dated April 20 1918 from Somewhere in France General Pershing writes home about meals seven hours ahead of home time, receiving boxes from father, and plans to write to Clyde. He notes boys gathered around a stove frying potatoes and sends love to his sisters, brothers, and father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Papa
Clyde
Riley
Advertised Letters May 14 1918 List
Dr. C. H. Andrews Edward Burdette James F. Carpenter Mrs Mae Evans T Eakin Mildred Garberich Mrs Mary Harvey Mrs James Hunter Willie Kirkendall Sadie Ray Lyons Mary Plants R E Riley Mrs Stella Stanley Lenora Sprague Mrs Roy Shaffer Clifford Sams unclaimed letters to be sent to The Dead Letter Office May 26 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Andrews
Edward Burdette
James F. Carpenter
Mae Evans
T. Eakin
Mildred Garberich
Mary Harvey
James Hunter
Willie Kirkendall
Sadie Ray Lyons
Mary Plants
R. E. Riley
Stella Stanley
Lenora Sprague
Roy Shaffer
Clifford Sams
British mounted troops push Turks after Kirkut capture
London May 14 official war office statement says British mounted troops pursued the Turks twenty miles north after capturing Kirkut in Mesopotamia. On May 11 the Turks were driven across the Lesser Zab at Altyn Kupri, sixty miles southeast of Kosul.
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London
Kirkut
Mesopotamia
War Office
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Athena Chamber of Commerce
Ordnance Department
Civic
Liberty
Food and Fuel Commission
Camp Sherman
William G. Shepherd
Bentley Ball
Pure Arr Theatre
Mary Garden
Goldwyn
Garden
Marguerite Clark
Columbia
WM. S. Hart
Uncle Sam
Alice Joyce
Zephyr
Ginghams
Renfrew
BATES
Foulardine
Maude Willard
Guysville
General Pershing
Wsa
Athena
Milton
Milton Anas
Photoplay Theatre
Delightful
Emmy Wehlen
Franklyn Farnum
Richard Harding Davis
Thos. H., Ince
H. Ince
Heaven
Earth
Majestic Theatre
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