Floods Wipe Out North China Crops and Homes
A report from H. H. Lowry of Peking outlines devastating floods in northern China with over 6,500,000 acres inundated and 60,000 refugees aided by Red Cross and missionaries. The pneumonia plague spreads from Mongolia to southern provinces, with near 100 percent mortality among reported cases.
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China
H. H. Lowry
Peking
American Red Cross
Lowry
Methodist Episcopal Church
Tientsin
Red Cross
Mongolia
Pro German Letters Debate by American Women
Caroline Ticknor argues that pro German letters to soldiers sap morale. Mrs. Rhinehart cites a camp study showing one in five letters depress soldiers. The author urges American women to avoid gloomy content and keep letters uplifting to support troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army of America
Hoover
Daily Press
England
France
Belgium
TIZ Foot Relief Ad Highlights Quick Comfort
A vintage ad touts a 25 cent box of Tiz to ease tired sore swollen feet. It promises instant pain relief from callouses bunions and burning, claiming feet glow with comfort and shoes become easy to wear.
Divorce petition filed in Athens County Ohio case No 116066
Dora Ethel McClain unknown residence is named in a divorce and child custody petition filed by Ernest Roy McClain in the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County Ohio. The case will be heard on or after June 6, 1918, with R D Williams as attorney for the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Ethel McClain
the Plains
Athens County
Ohio
Ernest Roy McClain
Court of Common Pleas
R. D. Williams
Ohio rural carriers vie for War Savings prize
In Columbus on May 16, the Ohio War Savings Committee announced a contest among rural mail carriers to sell the most War Savings Stamps between May 20 and July 20. Walnut Crest Farms offers the 20,000 pound bull calf Walnot Crest Ray Apple Sadie as the $2000 prize to the top seller, to be awarded publicly by Columbus postmaster S. A. Kinnear. The program notes staff duties to promote stamps while not interfering with regular carrier work. The rest discusses various superstitions in Japan and notes the cost of family living in the U S rising since 1900.
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Columbus
Ohio
Walnut Crest
Walnut Crest Farms
Middlefield
Ohio War Savings Committee
A. W. Green
S. A. Kinnear
Post Office
Peace League Meets to Talk of World War
Philadelphia May 16 The League to Enforce Peace opens a two day convention at Witherspoon Hall chaired by former President Taft to discuss political and economic aspects of the war. Speakers include George Wharton Pepper Taft Lyman Abbott and Charles E Hughes with sessions on liberty democracy and safeguarding the future. Also reports new Chinese plants including the jujube tree adaptable to the United States.
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Philadelphia
League To
Witherspoon Hall
Taft
League
George Wharton Pepper
Mr. Taft
America
Edward A. Filene
A. Lawrence Lowell
Stephen A. Wise
Germany
Richard Heath Dabney
W. Morgan Shuster
John Spargo
Anna Howard Shaw
Charles B. Elliott
Robert McElroy
Academy of Music
Charles E. Hughes
Lyman Abbott
Oscar 8. Straus
Leo S. Rowe
Franklin H. Giddings
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Promise Bond in 1886
Frank J Cheney sworn as senior partner of F J Cheney Co. in Toledo Ohio pledges 100 dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary public A W Gleason witnessed on December 6 1886. Ads claim medicine acts through the blood on mucous surfaces. Hall's Family for constipation also referenced.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Cas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J
A. W. Gleason
Bea
Mall
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Athens
Milton
Milton Anas
Theatre
Franklyn
Berlin
WM. S. Hart
Thos. H. Ince
Evelyn Nesbit
Russell Thaw
Julius Steger
Joseph A. Golden
Columbia
Margery Wilson
C. Gardner Sullivan
Triangle
Komedy
Alice Joyce
New York Harbor
Pro-German Letters
By Caroline Ticknor
The
Vigilantes
T.w
Japan
United States Bureau of Labor Statistica
Ever
Kitchen
Uncle Sam
Kerr How
Kere Hardware Co
Peace League
Department of Agriculture
United States
Hamilton County Drys
E. E. Kirkpatrick
Cincinnati
Anti-Saloon League
Ohio Home Rule Assn
L. H. Gibson
Mgr
Pure Air Tonight Theatre
Thos. H. Ince‘’S
Paramount
Maguerite
Miss Clark
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