Lloyd the Coward Redeemed in Martyrdom at No Man's Land
An American soldier Albert Lloyd dies heroically after loading a German machine gun and turning its fire on the advancing troops. He had previously feared the gun and earned the nickname death by own action club but saves D company despite wounds and dies at 3:38 after the gun fires. A funeral procession with the Union Jack marks his sacrifice.
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D Company
Lloyd
No Man’s Land
Good Old Company
England
Albert Lloyd
Company D
Preparing for the Big Push in the Somme Era
In a World War I diary, the writer recounts nightly patrols and the looming Somme offensive. He describes vast Allied troop movements, artillery, and trains fueling the front. He recalls rehearsed trench maps, air reconnaissance, and the conspicuous share of American parts in British gear.
Isinglass From Fish Sounds Inventions
The article explains isinglass, made from fish swim bladders. One ton of hake yields 40 to 50 pounds of sounds which are dried soaked cut rolled into sheets and ribbons. Isinglass clarifies wine and beer and is used in cement pottery plaster textiles and waterproof fabrics.
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Popular Science Monthly
Tea Plant Shapes and Harvest on Formosa Hills
The tea plant in wild form reaches ten to twenty feet, but is dwarfed to about three feet in cultivation for easy picking. Japan tea is mainly green, with much export from Formosa island. Seed beds appear as terraced steps along hillside bases to crests, and during harvest large groups of tea-pickers, mostly women, move down the slopes.
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Japan
Formosa
Metal Prices Report from New York and St Louis
Lead at 8.05 and bar silver at 99.6 percent are listed in New York. Copper price stands at 25.62 dollars with Spelter quoted between 8.50 and 8.75 in St Louis. Tungsten concentrates from Boulder Cole range from 20.00 to 22.50 per unit for 60 percent, 12.00 to 12.50 for 25 percent, and 9.40 to 12.20 for 10 percent.
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New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Cole
Phelps Dodge and Colorado Mines Report July Copper Output
Phelps Dodge smelters produced 18,733,071 pounds of copper in July. Shattuck & Arizona Copper Co. shipped 672,024 pounds copper, 12,292 ounces silver, 104 ounces gold. Cresson Consolidated declared 10 percent dividend payable Sept 10 to stockholders of record Aug 31. Deadwood Mine leased to E C Stumpff and Denver associates for 18 months depths to 600 feet with royalty scale.
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Phelps Dodge Corporation
U. S
Wickenburg
Globe-Miami
Shattuck & Arizona Copper Company
Cresson Consolidated Mining Company
Ironton
Cripple Creek
Gold King Mining Company
el Paso Gold King
Poverty Gulch
Deadwood
United Gold Mines Company
E. C
Treasury fixes silver price. mines report rich ore at Colorado vein
The treasury fixes a maximum silver price near 1.01 per fine ounce. Butte and Superior may resume dividends after last December court injunction. Davis-Daly Copper at the Colorado mine reports seven feet ore over 15 percent copper and ten ounces silver. Hesperus at 2,500 feet reports ten feet ore at six percent copper and nine ounces silver.
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Treasury
Butte and
Superior
Davis-Daly Copper Company
Colorado
Mines and Oil Developments Reported Across Four Corners
The Mogollon Mines Co ships eight bars of bullion. Oaks company sinks Central shaft at Deep Down. Flora Vista oil show promising in Farmington. Cap Rock mountain yields high grade manganese deposit. Mesa Verde well at Aztec about 1100 feet down with signs of a productive field. Silver Glen No 4 near Magdalena sold from A C Pedersen to F D Romero after rich gold strikes. New vein of silver gold copper found on Socorro Mogollon Johnson mine four to five feet wide. developed over sixty feet, likely extensive. Connections are being run to No 1 shaft to cut the vein.
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Mogollon Mines Co
Oaks Company
Farmington
Flora Vista
Mesa Verde
Aztec
Silver Glen
Magdalena
A. C. Pedersen
F. D. Romero
Johnson
Socorro Company
Mogollon
Oil Tank Farm Work Resumes Near Glenrock
The Texas Company's oil tank farm near Glenrock restarts after months of suspension. Casper oil board's July report shows 51 new wells with 36 profitable producers, lifting Wyoming's July production to 49,800 barrels per day.
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Glenrock
Texas Company
Casper Oil Board
Wyoming
Hez and Lloyd in Turpentine Camp Feud Ends in Beating
Long ago Hezekiah Brown and Lloyd Jackson clashed in a turpentine camp. Lloyd later lured Hez to a house during a parade night where he was attacked by Lloyd and his accomplice. Anne Crump set the trap. Lloyd received 60 days in court. Anne threatens retaliation if she appears.
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Lloyd Jackson
Hezekiah Brown
Hez
Lloyd
Ann Crump
Anne
Washington
General Wood's Daughter Louisia Wood A Renown Rider
Louisia Wood, daughter of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, is a celebrated long distance rider born to ride. She set a 12 year old record and has led since, training with Fort Myer troopers and a noted for endurance, while her father contemplates a future command of American forces.
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Rennee
France
Leonard Wood
Louisia Wood
Miss Wood
Fort Myer
H. C. Hieston
Miss’ Wood
Louisaa
Wood
Hieston
March
Pershing
United States Army
Lost Draft Questionnaire Finds Its Way Back
A Washington registrant reports a lost World War I draft questionnaire. He left to work on government tasks then returned and joined the fire department. His local board searched for the document but could not locate it, yet still prepared to send him to camp when called.
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Washington
National Capital
Fire
Gratitude Sparrow That Chose Its Human
A young sparrow fell in a downtown gutter and was helped by a kind man. The bird recovered on bread and milk, learned to fly, and refused to leave its rescuer, perching on his shoulder and waiting at home for his master.
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Atwell
Great Britain
the Somme
Royal Flying Corps
United States Cavalry
Tommy
Fritz
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Arizona
Patterson- Bradley Leasing Company
Orpha
Camp Bird
Bull Hill
Cresson
American Eagle
Montana
New Mexico
Cap Rock Mountain
Hezekiah
Oilers
General Wood
War Department
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