Big Homecoming For 160th Infantry In Los Angeles
Hundreds of thousands lined Los Angeles streets to welcome the 160th and 364th infantry divisions, with showers of blossoms and speeches. Douglas Fairbanks donated $35,000 on the Liberty Loan drives. city savings and film industry plans boost L A as a theater and movie hub. A dirigible landed on a Cleveland hotel roof with five aboard, proving air travel to cities is near at hand.
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160Th Infantry
Trinity Hotel
Los Angeles
Douglas Fairbanks
C. S. Stern
Film Theatres
United Picture Theatres of America
New York
Willian Alexander
Western Division
Universal Film Manufacturing Company
United
United States
Long Beach
Pacific Coast
Pasadena
Baraboo
America
Cleveland
James Shade
Wingfoot Lake Naval Air Station
Akron
Ralph H. Upson
Paris
Maj. C. H. Maranville
Chicago
San Francisco
Wedding Gifts And Odd Notices From A 1919 Paper
A slice of 1919 life shows June brides happiness upcoming summer, farmers stopping papers over misspellings, and a charity garden gift of 40 by 60 feet to Ethel Goodnow. A Kansas farmer and editor clash over a misspelled name, while Charles N. Goodnow provides a 40x60 foot thrift garden as a wedding present to his daughter Ethel. Also filed is Claude E. Sherrer’s railroad bound will leaving property to his mother in law, dated March 16 1919, with probate noting the unusual testament.
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Kansas
North Freedom
Baraboo
Scanlan Place
Charles N. Goodnow
Chicago
Ethel
John Fredrick Vickery
Auditorium Hotel
Miss Goodnow
Seventy Second Street
Denver
Elizabeth M. Prada
Claude E. Sherrer
L. Prada
Claude Sherrer
New Books and War Garden Titles Guide Readers
Reviews cover Mexico under Carranza and the next big problem for the United States, plus gardens and philosophy. Summaries include Mexico Under Carranza by Thomas E. Gibbon, War Garden Victorious by Charles Lathrop Pack, Wit and Wisdom by C. F. Schutz, History of Philosophy by Thomas Hunter, and The Reach Official American League Baseball Guide 1919.
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Zimmerman
Mexico
Carranza
Thomas E. Gibbon
Los Angeles
Diaz
Madero
United States
Doubleday, Page & Company
New York City
Garden City
New York
Charles Lathrop Pack
J. B. Lippincott Company
Philadelphia
Sam
Army of
National War Garden Commission
Pack
Reach
A. J. Reach Company
Eight Men Ages 61 to 90 Meet by Accident in Courthouse
Eight men with ages totaling 582 years converged at the Putman County Indiana courthouse. The group includes Uriah Gassaway 90 Elijah Grantham 89 Robert Harbinson 71 George Smith 70 Hiram W Dicks 71 Jesse Boyd 67 James Harlin 63 and Louis Phillips 61. Average age 72.
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Putman County
Ind
Uriah Gassaway
Elijah Grantham
Robert Harbinson
George Smith
Hiram W. Dicks
Jesse Boyd
James Harlin
Louis Phillips
Farmers Aid War Effort Highlighted by Col Graves
Col H B Graves head of the forest service notes farm wood tracts supplied key materials for the war. Walnut ash hickory and black locust timber were largely secured from farms to support essential war needs.
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Col. H. 8. Graves
Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
French Sugar Beet Production Rises Amid War Strain
In 1915-16 France grew 1 146 207 tons of sugar beets, increasing to 1 595 868 tons in 1916-17 as average yield per hectare rose from 18.13 to 23.14 tons, reflecting higher wartime output.
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France
Peace terms and world war quotes spark mixed views
A collage of 1920s editorial lines critiques and hopes on arms, peace, and arbitration. Headlines praise or mock leaders like Clemenceau and Rantzau while noting costs of the war and calls for lasting peace. The pieces reflect public sentiment across several cities.
Governor Philipp advances labor conciliation bill and appointees
The Wisconsin Assembly passed the Denhardt monument bill funding $15 000 for a Doty Island tribute in Neenah. Governor Philipp's labor conciliation board plan was approved in the lower house with 44 to 23, setting up a three member board with a worker, an employer, and a manufacturing expert for nonbinding findings. Lieut C L Harrington of Hurley was named to the State Conservation Commission for a term ending February 1923.
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Senate
Denhardt
James D. Doty
Wisconsin
Doty Island
Neenah
Philipp
House
Nolan
E. W. Knappe
Milwaukee
Knappe
Bartingale
Chippewa County
Finance Committee
M. E. Johnson
Metcalfe
Capitol
Assembly
Jennings
Dettinger
Jackson County
Germany
C. L. Harrington
Camp Field Writes From French Hospital
Mrs. Lewis Prothero shares her son Private J. E. Prothero’s May 11 1919 letter from Tours France describing transfer from Base Hospital No 1 to a new hospital, daily routines friendly Red Cross staff carnations ice cream and meals in bed while awaiting uniforms and recovery from typhoid fears.
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French Hospital
Lewis Prothero
Tours
France
Base Hospital No.1
Red Cross
States
United States
All Pvt. J
Ee. Prothero
May dance planned at Able man in late May
Notices report a May 29 dance at Able man. Also mention of marriage of Paul Heidrich and Miss Maria Kosch in La Valle, residence on a local farm, and social notes from Kilbourn Weekly Events.
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Ableman
Paul Heidrich
la Valle
Maria Kosch
Big Creek
Fred Kosch
America
Kilbourn
Lusby Families Reunite at Elkington Hall Memorial Day
A Lusby family reunion at Elkington hall honors six members who served in the recent war. Four served in France while two could not cross before the armistice. Sixty people shared a large dinner and supper as Circus City orchestra provided music and dancing. A previous reunion occurred five years ago with many same families attending.
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Charles Lusby
Roy Miller
Wm. Lusby
J. E. Elkington
Tom Lusby
George Lusby
Matt Lusby
J. L. Dalling
Lottie Miller
Joe Lusby
Hundreds lay flowers at Roosevelt grave in Oyster Bay
Memorial day tribute drew hundreds to Col. Theodore Roosevelt's grave in Oyster Bay. Visitors brought flowers and wreaths to honor the former president and colonel.
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Roosevelt
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
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