New Books on War Adventure Highlight Aviation Heroes
A review roundup surveys war memoirs and fiction about aviation battles in France and the Middle East. James Norman Hall’s High Adventure, Ian Hay of the Air, and Coningsby Dawson’s Out to Win are praised for vivid scenes, humor, and firsthand war insight.
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Houghton, Mifflin
James Norman Hall
Captain Hall
Ian Hay
France
Heaven
J. B. Drew
Drew
Argogne
Dutton
C de Viorez
White Road
Lane
Philip Dana Orcutt
Leagurea Verdun
Orcutt
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
Europe
Germany
Russia
Mons
Paris
Belgium
Lippincott
King W. Lardner
Bobbs, Merrill
Western Front
Alan Bott
Palestine
Nicolai
Berlin
War Time Recipes of New England Housewives
Wartime tips from Miss Laura Belhose present a set of wheatless dessert and baking options. The excerpt lists a blueberry pudding, molasses sauce, and various doughs using barley, corn, and rye flours with shortening. It outlines mixing steps and baking methods for sheet pans and loaf forms.
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New England
Questions and Answers at the Dartmouth Street Post
A letter column features readers asking on topics from Kaiser's wife nationality to pronunciation and political trivia. It includes explanations of Transpire meaning Potsdam Berlin Potsdam significance and the vice presidency duties with brief replies.
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Augusta Victoria
Schleswig-Holstein
Prussia
Potsdam
Germany
Berlin
Brandenburg
United States
U. S. Senate
The Call of the Sea Poem For Scrap Books
Poem celebrates sea bound journeys and the sailor’s brave hearts. It speaks of ships, stars, and the ocean as a mother providing bounty and healing, promising a return to the seas and freedom from restless toil. The verses evoke long voyages, challenge, and renewal through maritime heritage and steadfast courage.
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Barbados
Deeps
Seven Seas
Quiet life versus babies in a wartime era
A reader laments the desire to avoid having children to maintain peaceful, quiet summers in upscale hotels and apartments. A respondent defends motherhood as a divine gift, and others share experiences on marriage, money worries, and balancing home life with children.
Sand color cape to coat with scarf collar and red silk lining
A narrator imagines converting a sand colored cape into a coat inspired by a smart Inn sighting. The design uses a circular shoulder line, fringe scarf collar, integrated sleeve and seamless construction revealing bright red silk lining and elbow tassel. Clara recalls another similarpiece.
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Clara
Facts and Fashions Straw Bags and Paris Suits
Straw knits and bright cross stitched bags featured with new crepe Jersey silk weave. Paris suits highlight long fitted coats and pale pink taffeta accent on leghorn straw hats. Shell pink organdie frocks, separate skirts with contrasting hems, and white smocks with cretonne details complete the seasonal wardrobe.
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Jersey
Paris
Household Hints Salt These Facts Down
Salt puts out fire in the chimney and prevents scorching on the bottom of bread or cake when used in baking tins. Salt and vinegar remove stains from discolored teacups. Salt and soda ease bee stings or spider bites when applied damp. Salt on carpets or rugs with soot helps prevent staining and ink spots lift from carpet when freshly spiked. Mrs. Walter Crosby Norridgewock Maine.
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Walter
Crosby
Norridgewock
Etiquette Notes on Dances and Military Salute
A column on proper conduct notes that handshakes are discouraged at formal dances. It states a civilian should remove his hat during the national emblem ceremony and hints a friend may be an officer out of uniform but otherwise miscast. It also remarks that a simple cloth covers a table better than a polished setup with doilies.
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John
Marion F
Brothers in ship service join merchant marine program
Among 75 young men from Eastern States who passed final physical examinations yesterday for the merchant marine training service of the United States Shipping Board were two brothers Elmer C Brasser and Clarence J Brasser of 179 Primrose street Rochester New York. They are now aboard the training ship Meade at Hast Boston.
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Merchant Marine Training Service
United States Shipping Board
Elmer C
Clarence J. Brasser
Primrose Street
Rochester
N. Y
Meade
Boston
War Time Duty Keeps Wilson at Desk and Offshore Plans
President Woodrow Wilson remains mostly at his desk delaying a vacation while missing his ocean trips aboard the yacht. Queen Mary receives gifts on silver wedding day with 600000 value. proceeds support wounded soldiers. Joffre street may be proposed in New York. Mayor Hylan seeks alderman approval. Charles Swein and Warren Johnson enlist despite exemptions. Arthur Guy Empey becomes captain. Anna Gould's son George de Castellane serves as second lieutenant in a French regiment. Mme Galli Curci involved in an auto collision with no injuries. Handley-Page predicts a $50000 Atlantic flight prize may be won. Walsh seeks rest at Virginia Hot Springs for throat trouble.
Rescue From Drowning at Mystic Lake
William J. Donovan ten years old of 58 Mystic Street Arlington went beyond his depth while bathing with companions in lower Mystic Lake Medford yesterday. John Harrnet seventeen swam out to the boy and lifted him unconscious from the water. Hartnet's son, Patrolman Jeremiah Hartnet Medford police, aided in bringing him ashore with Charles Anderson of Mystic Street Winchester who revived the unconscious boy.
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William J. Donovan
Mystic Street
Arlington
Mystic Lake
Medford
John Harrnet
Hartnet
Jeremiah Hartnet
Charles Anderson
Anderson
Winchester
Truce Reached in Scituate Water Rate Fight
Citizens of Scituate secure a temporary halt to water rate increases as Supreme Court session before Judge Loring discusses a stipulation delaying rate changes and shutoffs until August 9. Negotiations to continue to resolve the dispute are announced.
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Scituate
Scituate Water Company
Supreme Court
Loring
Victory Celebrations Sweep New England Towns
Citizens across Massachusetts and New England joined in a wave of celebration for the Allied victory in France. Proclamations by Governor McCall and Acting Mayor Collins urged observance, with bells, whistles, horns, and flags filling streets from Boston to East Weymouth and beyond.
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New England
France
McCall
Walter L. Collins
Fore River Works
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Commonwealth
Collins
John M. Casey
Casey
King’ S Chapel
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Cambridge
Hyde Park
Dorchester
Quincy
Chelsea
Berlin
Revere
Conserve and economize with new wartime dishes
A housewife recalls following Mr. Hoover’s food conservation pledge during wartime rationing. Her husband initially resists but grows pleased by savings and new dishes, including toasted war bread with tomato, herring, lettuce, and celery stuffed with cream cheese and Al Sauce, praised as economical.
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