Eye surgeons in France remake faces amid war wounds
Dr Louis Borsch, chief ophthalmic surgeon at Paris Grand Palais Military Hospital, describes rapid eye wound care and plastic procedures that reconstruct the eye region. He notes grafts of mucous membrane eyelid and lash reconstruction, using rib cartilage and eyebrow grafts to restore appearance and sight amid shellfire.
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Paris
France
Louis Borsch
Grand Palais
Borsch
Department of Health
Grand Palais Hospital
American Ambulance Hero Sends Warfront Letters Home
Norman Lee, eighteen, son of a newspaper man, drives an American Red Cross ambulance in France and has earned the Croix de Guerre. In his letter from near Soissons he describes gas shells, a museum of dugout life, a war cat as sniffer, bombs on rue de la Bombe, and shrapnel rain while aiding wounded amid mud and rain.
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New York
Eliot Norton
New York City
France
Norman Lee
Bocies
James
Aged Woman Teaches Knitting for Soldiers
Mrs. Amelia Brush, seventy, teaches a Sunday school class at First Methodist church in Canton to knit socks for soldiers bound for France, continuing a Civil War habit of aiding the troops.
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Canton, O
Amelia Brush
France
First Methodist Church
Kaiser replaces baby rack as carnival target
In Columbus Ohio a carnival worker has set up a target resembling Kaiser Wilhelm. Patrons can win three cigars by firing at the head with three throws. The new attraction follows a trend at street carnivals and upcoming county fairs.
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Columbus
JAPAN WOMEN TAKE MEN S JOBS IN EMPIRE
Tokyo reports women are stepping into roles formerly held by men across the empire. Four thousand women work for the railway bureau mainly as ticket sellers and cashiers, and six thousand in government tobacco factories. Wages are 10 to 25 cents a day. male clerks are increasingly replaced by women earning $5 to $15 a month. Actresses receive the highest female pay, but costly clothes leave them no wealthier overall.
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Tokyo
Europe
Japan
Railway Bureau
Metal market prices steady across commodities in New York and St Louis
Western Newspaper Union reports New York lead spot at 11 cents per pound, bar silver at 80 cents, copper casting at 28.8714, St Louis spelter at 8.8744. Boulder tungsten concentrates priced at 60 percent for 17.00 per unit with crude ores listed at 60 percent 15.00, 25 percent 9.40, 12.00 10 percent 8.70 and 10.00 per unit.
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New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Rich ore strikes and mining activity across Arizona districts
Reports describe a big ore strike at the Weaver mine in the Weaver district and five foot ore thickness at the Tel luride mine on the 350 foot level in the Oatman district. Copper Basin mine at Parker up for 600 feet of work. Dorothy May shaft sinking at Jerome averages five feet daily. Black Giant mine at Salome continues 500 foot shaft sinking despite heat. Benson ships ore to Deming NM from Ed Cajon mines. American Metals Producing Company in Black Hawk saves zinc from Gilpin and Clear Creek ores. Acacia Gold's South Burns mine yields about 250 tons valued at $26 per ton. Lottie mine work planned in Middle Cottonwood district. Excelsior mine near Frisco prep for resumption. oil excitement at La Junta and Arkansas valley. American Metals plant at Black Hawk expands ore treatment. Molybdenite ore found in Gunnison county. Good Friday tungsten ore at Boulder Falls. large ore block preps. Tonopah Placers and French Gulch Dredging report good placer season with three of four boats active. Primos Mining Company near Empire to resume molybdenum shipments after a year pause.
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Oatman
Arizona
Copper Basin
Parker
Dorothy May
Jerome
Black Giant
Salome
Benson
Deming
N. M
Ed Cajon
American Metals Producing Company
Black Hawk
Gilpin
Clear Creek County
Acacia Gold Mining Company
South Burns
Bull Hill
Chaffee County
J. W. Ady
Cripple Creek
Cottonwood
Eyvind Flood
Excelsior
Frisco
la Junta
Arkansas Valley
Hetherington
Gunnison County
Gold Brick
Good Friday
Boulder Falls
Boulder County
Tonopah Placers Company
French Gulch Dredging Company
Primos Mining Company of
Pennsylvania
Camp Boericke
Empire
New Mexico Companies Form Front in Mining and Oil Sectors
The Big Five Gold Mining and Mill ing Company files incorporation papers with the State Corporation Commission with a capitalization of 1,000,000. The Fidelity Copper Company of Silver City also lists 1,000,000 capitalization with 2,603 paid up, and the Duncan Mining and Milling Company of Steeple Rock shows 750,000 capitalization and 5,002 paid up. Toltec Oil Company executives anticipate oil in Chaves county after a 3120 foot well. Oak Company increases ore shipments from Maud property and adds burros to the haul in Mogollon. A long Farmers' Bulletin excerpt discusses home and commercial drying of fruits and vegetables as a food conservation measure.
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Big Five Gold Mining and Milling Company
State Corporation Commission
New Mexico
Robert L. Lunsford
Toltec Oil Company
Chaves County
Fidelity Copper Company
Silver City
Duncan Mining and Milling Company
Steeple Rock
Oil field notes report new wells and refinery progress
No. 7 well in Torchlight field drilled to 600 feet. Buffalo Basin dome well down 2300 feet. Greybull refinery addition progressing rapidly with three power stills in place and six crude stills forms ready. Wyoming crude oil price up 5 cents to 1.45 per barrel with Elk Basin and Grass Creek production commanding the rate.
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Torchlight
Buffalo Basin
Greybull
Wyoming
Elk Basin
Grass Creek
Dry Cauliflower Preparation and Dried Brussels Sprouts Note
To dry cauliflower, clean and divide into small bunches, blanch six minutes, and dry two to three hours at 110 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. Cauliflower darkens during drying but regains color when soaked and cooked. Dried cauliflower is good in soups and omelets. Brussels sprouts can be dried similarly with a pinch of soda in the blanching water.
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C. F. Bertelli
Cat
Tabby
War Dog
Brancardier
Sale Boche
Soissons
Norman
Poliksena Schnischkina Yavein
Defenders of Woman’s Rights
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Doctor Yavein
U.S
E. T. Tinkham
Princeton Scully
Verdun
Coon
Mining and Oil News
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Weaver
Weaver District
Colorado
Mogollon
Oaks Company
Maud
United States Department of Agriculture
Canada
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