Red Cross Aid for Soldiers and Families Details Service
The Red Cross offers field directors in camps to aid soldiers with family worries health paperwork and letters home. Home service has aided 202,302 families and spent 2,054,827 by mid 1918 with 20,696 workers. Canteen units convalescent houses and communications keep families informed and reassured.
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Fall Suits Flaunt Sturdy Lines and Warm Browns
New fall college girl suits emphasize sturdiness and easy lines with dark browns blues greens and grays. Browns and mixtures dominate with military echoes, semifitting coats belt waists tall collars patch pockets bone buttons and velvet turn overs. The featured double breasted model shows a dark mix with a brown velvet collar and matching belt buckle.
Fall Fur Trim Shortage Influences New Suit Styles
In the new fall line the absence of fur is noted due to high fur prices and women wearing long stoles capes and fur over their outfits. Observers expect this trend to continue into fall and winter as manufacturers consider conservation of materials.
Colored Felt Hats Brighten Summer Millinery Trend
Milliners unveil colored felt hats as straw substitutes for summer. They come in brilliant and neutral tones and are adorned with lush flowers, marking the advent of the trimmed hat that milliners have eagerly desired.
New Waistcoats With Slip-On Fronts And Frills
The article describes the latest waistcoats worn with street suits. These slip-on vests feature no front closing and showcase tucks frills and rifling effects on the front for decorative appeal.
The Efficiency Man and the Beauty Parlor Romance
In a Reed's store a shopgirl named Charlotte rejects the slick promises of an efficiency lecturer. She tests new honesty with customers, quits the talk, and after a breakthrough, Avery Baker, the efficiency man, proposes marriage. The tale ends with a sober note on outcomes and morals.
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Reed’s
Charlotte Day
Charlotte
Mrs. Peabody
Armstrong
Mrs. Armstrong
Avery Baker
Avery
Latin and Hebrew Revival Amid Classical Tongues
The passage notes Hebrew’s return to living use after long medieval neglect and argues for Latin as a parallel. It credits the Roman Catholic Church with preserving Latin through Europe’s barbarism and notes Latin kept international communication possible when Greek and Homer faded from common knowledge.
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Europe
Wasted Knowledge Exchange Over Domestic Science
Dialogue notes Jibway's trouble hiring a cook and explains that education alone does not guarantee practical use. The Birmingham Age-Herald quips that many people fail to apply their schooling after graduation.
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Jibway
Birmingham Age-Herald
Roman Wall Remains Stand Across Northern England
Hundreds of miles of Roman walls survive in England with sections dating over seventeen hundred years old. The best example runs from near Newcastle to near Carlisle across Northumberland, where the facing stones remain largely intact, illustrating Roman builders’ skill.
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England
Northumberland
Newcastle
Carlisle
Eat Fresh Fish and Save Meats
A wartime plea argues fish from seas lakes and ponds offer unlimited meat while saving grain used to feed cattle. It urges families to create small ponds for fish and promotes frog legs as a supplemental meat source to conserve food for war needs.
Fish for Your Section
Native fish lists by region cover New England Middle Atlantic South Atlantic Pacific Coast Mississippi Valley Great Lakes and Gulf. Species include alewife cod flounder halibut mackerel shad salmon perch bass catfish carp sturgeon drumfish pike tilefish bluefish croaker and others.
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New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
More Sheep Needed to Boost Wool and Mutton Output
The article argues for expanding sheep husbandry in the United States, focusing on Eastern and Southern states. It urges state and local action against dog killings, better breeding and range management, restocking farm lands, increased use of forage crops, formation of sheep and lamb clubs, parasite control, protection from predators, and markets with lambs ready at 70 to 80 pounds to minimize grain and enable larger flocks.
Feed for Next Winter Planned in Early Fall
Far sighted farmers are urged to secure winter feed in September and October to avoid spoilage risks and winter delays when demand outstrips supply.
Velvet bean grazing potential in cattle fields
The velvet bean can be used for grazing in fields with various livestock, particularly cattle, offering a forage option for pastures.
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