Three Million Feet of Spruce Monthly for Navy
Boston April 14 The navy seeks three million feet of New England spruce each month for airship use in agreement with the army. Output will rise to meet spring and summer demand as districts are set with 16 inspectors led by Fred L. Sawyer to inspect mills and material for airship purposes.
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Boston
New England
Navy Department
Army
F. M. Smith
Navy
Federal Forestry Department
Fred L. Sawyer
Naval Construction
Board of Trade
Desultory Fighting 2 Piave Front Says Rome
Rome reports desultory artillery activity along the front with intermittent fire on the Piave and Asiago plateau. Allied units in the Asiago basin repulsed enemy patrols in bursts of rifle and machine gun fire in the Lagarina valley.
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Rome
War Office
Asiago
Piave
Lagarina
Willard Scott to Speak in Bridgeport War Time Talk
Dr Willard Scott famed New England speaker will address the Bridgeport Phatts tauiqua on Ideals in War Time. He brings 15 years of platform work and humor to illustrate serious points, sharing stages with Taft Roosevelt Bryan and other notable figures. He will open at 2 30 Wednesday.
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Willard Scott
Bridgeport Phatts Tauiqua
New England
Manufacturers’ Association
Taft
Roosevelt
Bryan
Bushes
Hillis
McCall
Massachusetts
Scott
Yale Catalogue Lists Eight Bridgeport Yale Men In Service
Yale University 1917 18 catalog shows eight Bridgeport graduates and students in military service. Names include Stanley Challenger Cecil Slofkorn Maxwell Griffith and Arthur Weiss with ranks and schools noted. Catalog details war absentees training units equipment and the universitys wartime adjustments and three summer camps for field artillery officers.
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Yale University
University
Stanley Herbert Challenger
Leutenant
Fred Johnson Hayes
Cecil Richard Slofkorn
Yale College
Edward Clarke Bullard
Maxwell Lounsbury Griffith
Thomas Holmes
Chaster Russell
U. S. Ambulance
Sheffield Scientific School
Arthur Bismark Weiss
School of Law
Shefflett Scientific School
Army
Navy
Yale
Department of Military Science
War Department
IS HAPPY OVER THERE Corporal Griswold reports good health
Letters from Corporal I Li Griswold son of ex Representative Griswold Bridgeport figure in France say he is in good health and well provided for since going over he has been advanced three times and now runs a major branch of the ordnance works Chautauqua events begin April 22 with lectures concerts and entertainments ending April 26 with a concert by the Bostonia Sextet and soprano Miss Louise Reynolds
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I. Li. Griswold
L. Griswold
Bridgeport
France
Griswold
Ordnance Works
Chautauqua
Ir. Cadman
Brooklyn
Bostonia Sextet
Bastion
Louise Reynolds
Helmet of Salvation sermon on gas masks in trenches
The Rav. George M. Brown preached at the first Methodist Episcopal church linking Isaiah's Helmet of Salvation to the gas mask helmet used by soldiers. He urged trust in the mask as protection against deadly fumes and warned against distrust in danger, urging belief to be saved in time of danger.
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George M. Brown
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Yairfield Avenue
Broad Street
Sweden restricts hosiery sales by purchase card system
Stockholm April 14 The government ordered curbs on hosiery woolen and cotton yarns and Jinan textiles including underwear and children's and women's clothing. Goods may be sold only with a purchase card issued to those showing actual need. The measure aims to conserve supply and halt chain dealing driving prices up. Maximum prices set for cotton goods. Limits include four pairs stockings per person, four shirts, two underwear suits, with no cards to those at maximum.
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Stockholm
Doctor Could Not Help Her Testimony from Brooklyn Woman
Mrs. FL Peart of Woodbine Street Brooklyn suffers severe pelvic problems and inflammation. Her physician urged hospital operation, but she credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with curing her and restoring health. The testimonial urges other women to try the remedy before considering surgery and offers advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Lydia
Pinkham
FL Peart
Woodbine St
Lydia E. Dinkham
Lydia H. Pinkham
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Castoria
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Sweden
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Sykes Cormfort
Vincl
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Maas
Kondon's
Nompon Mf&. Co
Mimearous
London
Advertir
Irsons
Sam
Boots
Russia
Docsen Dry Goods Co
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