War Pigeons Trained Tight for Front Line Service
United Press report outlines how American pigeons are conditioned for frontline work in France. Birds are trained in stages from home cote to front lines, then released to map routes home while battling gas, shells, hawks, and nerves.
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United Press
France
Matt
Germany
Pigeon Corps
Lorraine
Cantigny
Marne
St. Mihiel
Unite States
French
Cotes
Sam
Inventor Patents Protective Dress Accessory
An inventor has patented a ready made dress for women featuring a protective detachable element to be removed at sale. The device safeguards purchasers from possible infection by someone who may have tried on the garment.
Get Rid of That Persistent Cough in Weak Lungs
Warns cough as a warning for weak lungs and promotes Eckman’s Alterative as a remedy and tonic. Claims no alcohol or habit forming drugs with twenty years of use. Bottles priced 80 cents to 1.50 dollars available at druggists or from Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
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Eckman
Eckman Laboratory
Philadelphia
Nervous Breakdown Cure Promoted by Vegetable Compound
A Newark woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending a three year nervous breakdown and daily headaches after medical care failed. Her success is cited as proof the remedy tackles root causes and restores health. Other notices list wartime injuries and prisoners including Arthur Ralston and John O Rooker with places such as Steubenville Chillicothe Cleveland and Cincinnati.
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Newark
N. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Age Kelly
14Th St., Newark
Miss Kelly
Former Actress Cora Neilson Endorses Nerv Worth
Cora Neilson a former Waite Comedy and Buffalo Bill Company actress who left the stage to care for her sick mother in Findlay Ohio recounts a serious nerve and stomach ailment after a grip two years ago. She says Nerv Worth helped her walk better and ease pain and plans to take more bottles, offering to vouch for the tonic to skeptics.
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Frederick Blankner
M.D
Blankner
Athens County
Athens
Dr. Blankner
Miss Neilson
Waite Comedy Company
Buffalo Bill Company
Findlay
Nery-Worth
Sattler Drug Store
McKee
Aelia Neryo Worth
War Department Casualty List Totals By Category
Washington reports 618 casualties in today’s War Department listing. Killed in action 21, died of wounds 11, died of disease 6, wounded severely 96, wounded slightly 169, missing in action 13, died in aeroplane accidents 6, and other deaths remain unlisted. Chicans in the lists were:
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Washington
War Department
Chicans
Property Transfers Across Towns and Coal Holdings
A series of real estate deeds list transfers including Julia M. Burford to E B Young for several lots valued at 100 and 1200 dollars, William T. Hickman to Burford for two lots, and York Township transfers to Joseph Miller. Coal holdings move from Maple Hocking Coal Co to Consolidated Fuel Co with multiple acre values and buildings on leased land. Additional transfers include Mary McMillen to Joseph Miller and L D Spears to Jacob Kirkendall for a 150 by 255 foot lot valued at 345 dollars.
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Julia M. Burford
E. B. Young
Carson J. Saunders
Charles A. Green
Side
W. Side
William T. Hickman
Alex Nelson
Charles McManaway
York Township
Mary McMillen
Joseph Miller
Bessemer
Maple Hocking Coal Co
Consolidated Fuel Co
Vale
Happy S. S
L. D. Spears
Jacob Kirkendall
Letters From Men In Service From France Clarence Tipton writes home
In a France dispatch Clarence Tipton assures his mother he is well. He describes a market town with mules and oxen hauling goods, no buggy traffic, and Sunday shops open constantly. He notes French wine is sour without sugar and remarks the mild climate.
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Clarence Tipton
France
Ohio
Lodi Board of Health Closes Schools and Public Gatherings
The Lodi Township Board of Health orders closure of schools and all public gatherings until further notice. Parents urged to keep children near home. By order of Board of Health. Joseph Shuler, Pres. Portugal mines less coal than any other European nation about 22 000 tons produced annually.
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Lodi Township
Portugal
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Hubert M. Cabis
Hobert M. Cable
William Blackburn
Lancaster St
Hobart M. Cable
Misa Eva Martin
East State St
Missa Eva Martin
Karl Carpenter
Hobert M. Cable Pianos
Hobert M. Cable Co
Fulwider’s Restaurant
OPERA
Lydi E. Pinkham
Steve Herman
Steubenville
Arthur Ralston
St. Paris
John O. Rooker
Chillicothe
John J. Novack
Cleveland
Guy Boomhower
Paynesville
Earl Walter Shaw
Williamsburg
Walter Bloemker
Cincinnati
Lester B. Shultz
Greenville
William Abe Shirer
Dayton
Corp
Joseph Chasson
Charles Curtis Flood
South Solon
The
Vinci
the Comfort Powder Co
Boston
Masa
Cora Neilson
Nerv Worth
Nelsonville
Stedco
Andy All
Ream Heese
Brooks & Hibbard
East State
Fannell
EAGLE
Polka Dots
Scott
Sloan
Preys
Ament
United States
the Security Savings Bank
Athens, Ohio
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