Red Cross Man Wounded At Soissons Returns To Cheer
Paris report follows Private Jean Fournan of New York city as he bears a cross-shaped shrapnel scar on his back and recovers at American Military Hospital No. 1. His tale includes other wounded soldiers like Corporal Heill and Sergeant Kelly who raid food carts while convalescing, keeping up humor and appetite among ward 238.
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Paris
Jean Fournan
New York City
American Military Hospital No. 1
Red Cross
Fournan
Soissons
Fismes
France
Frank Heill
Columbus
Texas
Heill
Bowie
Corporal Heill
Webb la Pointe
Sheboygan
Wis
David Ritton
No. 1
Kelly
St. Joseph
Mich
Ritton
Philippines
Mexican
Fere-en-Tardenois
Camp Mills
Champagne
Chateau Thierry
Titled Persons Yield to Yanks Aix Is Rest and Recreation Center
Aix les Bains in France becomes a rest center for the American Expeditionary Force where soldiers take priority over European titled nobility. A count, duke, or prince may be accommodated only if space allows, while American doughboys use the casino floor, dancing, and Y M C A services first. The article notes that American soldiers outrank royalty in entertainment and lodging, with dukes paying higher prices than soldiers for theater seats and rooms reserved for uniformed troops.
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Aix
Walter Kellogg Towers
Aix-les-Bains
France
Europe
Cits
Hotel de l'Europe
Boniface
Daddy” Lecer
America
Mountaineer Resents War Call as He Joins Army
In Uniontown Pennsylvania Jacob Harris, a mountaineer visiting town after four years, expresses readiness to serve saying he belongs at the front with his old shooting iron. Police discover he has no registration card. Harris is inducted into service immediately.
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Uniontown
Jacob Harris
Tlarris
Harris
Western Mining and Oil News Summary of Ore Shipments
Western Mining and Oil News notes Henrietta mine shipping daily a car load of high grade gold ore to Mayer. Jerome Verde ships twenty five tons daily. ore grade improves each shift. Gadsden drift 1200 reveals strong water flow and oxidized muck. Denver metal market prices list bar silver and copper among others.
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Henrietta
Gadsden
Jerome Verde
Doctors Called Without Cause Promoted in Influenza Care
Surgeon General Blue urges home care for influenza patients to ease physician and nurse shortages. He advises bed rest, clear rooms, light diet, cleanliness, gauze masks for attendants, proper disposal of used materials, and teaching fever thermometer use. If in doubt, call a doctor.
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Blue
Washington
United States Public Health Service
Mining Activity and ore Shipments Across Colorado Mines
Reports show a 4000 pound air compressor installed on Dry Creek near Hayden, Ward optioning Lois mine, Stumpff striking rich ore in Deadwood, and Boston property resuming production. Ore shipments include 36 cars from Tombay to Durango, 60 cars to Pueblo and Durango smelters from Smuggler-Union, plus Boulder Black Diamond at full capacity. Silver drift by Hoosier Dike. Congo Chief drift planned. silver exporters face tighter federal reserve rules as gold demand falls.
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Sam Stumpff
Deadwood Leasing Pool
New Boston
Stratton-Cripple Creek Company
Durango
Tombay
Pueblo
Giles
Ward
S. H. Corfield
Allied Gold Mining Company
Congo Chief
Caribou
United States
Federal Reserve Board
Copper ore tonnage rises as Butte & Superior alters wartime smelting
Copper ore shipments for Anaconda are climbing toward normal. September refined copper output is pegged at 170 million pounds, compared with 175 million in August and 165 million in September 1917. Butte & Superior adopts a new wartime smelting arrangement as previous concentrate treatment contracts are suspended due to rising costs.
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Anaconda
Butte & Superior
Mining boom expands western ore output and smelting
Gallup coal mines show greatly increased output due to a speed up campaign. The Great Eagle fluorspar mine near Lordsburg now yields 200 tons per week. Ramah reports excitement from oil seepage within twenty miles. Red Rock's Great Eagle fluorspar mine ships four cars weekly. Oaks company dismantles Deep Down mill Mogollon as ore bins are rebuilt for a new surface tramway to Socorro mill. Eight electric smelting furnaces operate west of the Mississippi, with three more under construction, signaling rising western ore smelting activity.
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Gallup
Great Eagle
Great Eagle Fluorspar
Red
Rock
The
Oaks Company
Socorro Mill
Mississippi
Test well on Midway dome abandoned after deep drilling
Reports say the Midway dome test well abandoned after reaching a great depth. Drilled by the Texas Company it achieved a depth of 3 780 feet. Midwest Oil Company holds half of section 26 in Salt Creek field where Midwest Refining and Reed companies recently completed a well producing 7000 barrels daily, with Wildril offset to that well.
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Midway Dome
Texas Company
Midwest Oil Company
Salt Creek
Midwest Refining Company
Reed Companies
Wildrill
Late Market Quotations From Denver Metal and Coffee Prices
Denver metal prices show varied bids with Tungsten concentrates at 25.00 and 8.50 for other items. New York coffee futures steady with Rio No 7 January at 8.95 and March at 9.25. Chicago live stock quotes list hogs and cattle prices including butchers at 18.00 to 18.50 and beef cattle ranges from 14.35 to 14.40 for good to prime. Sheep prices show lambs at 15.50 to 15.75 and ewes around 10.00 to 10.25, with other grades noted.
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Denver
Ares
New York
Rio No. 7
Chicago
Colorado
Upland
Prairie Hay
Nebraska
Timothy
South Park
Gunnison Valley
Colo
Tock Ig
Lima
ORION
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Yank
Siberia
Harbin
Mountaineer
Western Mining and Oil
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Arizona
Dry Creek
Hayden
A. M. Beam
Lois Mine
Northwest
Rinehart
Hoosier Dike Mining Company
Summmerville
Joplin
Miami
Rowena
Longfellow
Springdale
Boulder County
Montana
New Mexico
Wyoming
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Denver Market
Linseed
Duluth
Minn
Tee
Murrait
Wales
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