Wounded Doughboy Saved By Rapid American Army Care
April 25 dispatch from the Front describes Private Jones wounded in No Man’s Land and evacuated through first aid posts, ambulance teams, and eight operating rooms. He reaches a large evacuation hospital, then a hospital train with luxuries, cooks, and nurses, before final transfer to a base hospital. The piece praises U S medical care and the soldiers’ resolve to rejoin the fight.
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Jones
No Man's Land
Private Jones
No Man‘s Land
Toul
Uncle Sam
Soldiers to Plant August Camp Dix War Garden
Camp Dix New Jersey prepares a 400 acre kitchen garden for 48 000 soldiers. Linet Col Edward Tompkins orders the setup with plows seeds fertilizer and all tools supplied by the national garden commission. Additional notes report 13 000 Chinese laborers sent to France with wages and recruitment plans for more workers.
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Camp Dix
N. J
Edmond ‘Tompkins
Quartermaster’s Department
National Garden Commission
Washington
Straightway
Sam
Frace
Shun Tien Shih Pao
Shantung
Chili
Success of a New Remedy For Backache Rheumatism
Read testimonials praise Dr. Pierce’s Anuric tablets from patients in Ontario and New York. Letters claim relief from backache, kidney and bladder issues, rheumatism, and fatigue after using Anuric, with offers of trials and sample packages to show its effectiveness.
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Nore
Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Republican Birthday Celebration in Bloomington 1920
The 62nd birthday of the Republican party is celebrated in Bloomington at its birthplace. The event kicks off the 1920 campaign with speakers including former president Taft and Governor Lowden. The 1856 Bloomington convention hall served as the historic site where Lincoln figures prominently in party lore.
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Bloomington
W. H. Taft
Frank Lowden
Abraham Lincoln
Athens Woman Explains Waverly Feeble-Minded School Work
Miss Winifred V. Richmond a former Amesville student, now Assistant Psychologist at the State School for Feeble minded in Waverly Massachusetts, discusses classifications of feeble minded children and describes tests and methods used at the school during a visit to Ohio University.
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Winifred V. Richmond
Ohio University
State School For
Waverly
Mass
Athens
Teated
Richmond
Amesville
O. A
Clark University
United States
Death of Fido in Oregon Sparks Sheep Protection Law
In Portland on May 29, news reports say Oregon farmers may legally kill dogs suspected of threatening sheep. Attorney General Van Winkle states a dog showing signs of satisfaction could be deemed evidence of criminality, leading to lethal action by farmers.
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Beckham
Chamberlain
Hitchcock
Fletcher
Wadsworth
New
Sutherland
Hoke Smith
McKellar
Weeks
Sheppard
Kirby
Johnson
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Fido
van Winkle
Enlist Also Go to College Says Uncle Sam
The War Department announces a program allowing high school graduates to attend college while serving in a US Army training unit. Beginning September 1918, military instruction will be offered in colleges with 100+ students, equipment provided, and voluntary enlistment for those over 18. Active duty would await age 21 unless urgent need arises.
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War Department
U.S. Army College
Army of the
United States
Ralph Wood Enlists in Naval Aviation Service
Ralph Cranston Wood enlisted yesterday at Parkersburg in the navy aviation service. He will be 21 next January and aims to help end the Kaiser’s career, even by repairing aircraft. A musician from the Wood family near Albany, he is Ohio University junior and former teacher. His brother Ernest is at Oglethorpe OT C. Ralph expects to attend an officers training camp and starts at 416.90 dollars per month.
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Ralph Cranston Wood
Parkersburg
Navy Aviation Service
Uncle Sam
Kaiser
Kaiser Bill
Ralph
Wood
Albany
Ohio University
Ernest
Oglethorpe
O. U
House moved from Waterford to Bath in sections
In Bath Maine a Waterford man, Fred Knightly, employed at Bath shipyard, is moving his house by disassembly and shipment to Bath where it is being rebuilt. The tale highlights housing scarcity and local effort to reuse a dwelling.
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Bath
Fred Knightly
Waterford
Community notices from Wilson Chapel week end visits
Local social column lists visits and travel among residents of Wilson Chapel and nearby Amesville. Names include Mary Grandstaff Gerta Grandstaff Williams Frank Moore Myrtle Linecott Ira Bennett Faye Marquis Anna Copeland Sadie Sutton Orland Brawley and others with trips to Camp Sherman Athens Stewart and Stewart surroundings.
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Mary Grandstaff
the Plains
Gerta Grandstaff
Williams
Frank Moore
Moore
Amesville
Myrtle Linecott
O. U
Athens
Carlos Ogg
Vivian Maxine
Levi Ogg
Arthur Copeland
Faye Marquis
Ira Bennett
Willie Mickles
Garnet Phillips
Camp Sherman
Anna Copeland
Sadie Sutton
Stewart
Carl Grandstaff
Gilbert Boudinot
Luella
Mildred
Wii Marquis
Orland Brawley
Sherman
Jennie Brawley
Wells Vandyke
Guy
Vandyke
Henry Oge
Charles Brawley
Mary Brown
Branch Townsend
Nelson Colvin
Iva Robinson
John Reed
Anthony Christman
Lowell
Coolville Plans Memorial Day Program
Coolville Ohio May 29 Decoration Day ceremonies set for 2 pm Thursday featuring the Coolville Cornet Band schoolchildren singing and an address by Hon David Turner of Parkersburg The attendance of poet James Ball Naylor is hoped if travel by machine is possible Civil War veterans will decorate graves and local businesses will close for the event
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Coolville
Troy Township
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