Sea Cooks Trained for Difficult Task on New Merchant Fleet
The United States Shipping Board trains sea cooks for modern merchant ships with advanced refrigeration and galley systems. Apprentices learn cleanliness and safety, from keeping a clean work area to proper meat inspection, rice cooking, and managing a seven foot galley range.
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United States Shipping Board
Shipping Board
Atlantic
Pacific
Meade
Boston
Dorothy Radford
New York
Restau
Bradford
Uncle Sam
School For Sea Cooks
Jamie Nicol
Uncle Sams
Lucky
Rangoon
Calcutta
Rae
Jamie
Women as Wartime Mechanics Outpace Men in Key Tasks
A report from the national industrial conference board via the Christian Herald compiles data from 131 establishments with 835,015 men and 49,823 women. It notes 10,657 women now perform roles formerly held by men, handling drill presses, lathes, caremaking and inspection with high dexterity. Women’s output in automobile manufacture and fuse munitions plants often exceeds male performance by 25 to 50 percent.
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National Industrial Conference Board
The
Christian Herald
Single Shoes Sold in London Reflect War Sacrifices
An advertisement note shows British shoe merchants market single shoes at half price due to many crippled veterans from the western front. The ad claims wartime boots cost 26/3 per pair and 18/2 per boot, with rights or lefts for men who lost a leg.
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London
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Americans Buy Diamonds and Watches in War Economy
The Council of National Defense report shows a rise in small diamond sales and a drop in sales of half carat and larger stones. Higher prices and buyer focus on value push people to smaller stones. Watches, especially wrist models, are in strong demand due to wartime popularity.
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Council of National Defense
Senator Fudge Anecdote Sparks Listener Skepticism
A Kansas City Journal item notes Senator Fudge sharing an amusing anecdote but draws a reaction that newness matters only if it holds interest. The columnist quips he has little patience for stale tales tacked onto a U S senator.
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Fudge
United States
Kansas City Journal
Bed Dominates Tiny Russian Peasant Room
In a Russian peasant home Denis Garstin describes a room crowded with about 30 ikons and a monumental bed piled with 15 mattresses. The family and visitors eat and laugh as the elders insist guests sleep on the floor, not in the bed.
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Denis Garstin
Mr. Garstin
Czer
Czarina
Lukyan
English officers visit curb market curbside pantomime
A New York dispatch describes two English officers and an American lieutenant touring Broad Street near the subtreasury. They witness a police glee club selling tickets for a field day and a stock trading scene that looks like street entertainment. Percy Guard, famed curb broker, appears in disguise among the crowd.
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Leutenant
Broad Street
Glee Club
New York
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Henry Irving
Percy Guard
Columbus Name Keeps Echo Across Colon and Cristobal
The piece notes that the Panamanian and Canal Zone cities Colon and Cristobal honor explorer Christopher Columbus. It explains his birth name Colombo and his Spanish form Cristobal Colon, while the common English usage remains Columbus, with a monumental statue recalling his voyage at Cristobal Colon.
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Columbus
Cristobal-Colon
Colon
Republic of Panama
Cristobal
Canal Zone
Christopher Columbus
Isthmus
Asia
Hving
Colombo
Cristobal Colon
Spain
Japan Aims for Self-Sufficient Wool Supply in Ten Years
A thorough investigation in this country reviews Issa Tanimura's plan to boost sheep and wool for Japan. Japanese livestock leaders seek a seven-man wool bureau with many assistants to implement a ten year program toward self-sufficiency in wool.
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Japan
Issa Tanimura
FLED WITH YOUTH Gilded Caravans Entertained English Villages
A reflective account of the yearly traveling fair in English villages describes gilded caravans, show fronts, and the peripatetic entertainers who drew crowds with exotic acts and vivid posters. It recalls market day excitement, street processions, and the fade of charm as fairs became ordinary with time.
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Great Britain
Europe
Not Wholly German Rivers and the Rhine Boundary Question
The Rhine is not Germany’s boundary river nor its mouth in German territory, argues Charles M. Pepper. He notes the Rhine flows into the North Sea at Rotterdam, like the Scheldt, and compares German claims to Pan-German aims including Mitteleuropa while Austria’s subservience keeps the Danube from humiliation.
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Rhine
Germany
Charles M. Pepper
North Sea
Rotterdam
Holland
Scheldt
Belgium
Danube
Black Sea
Austria
Indigestion Delay After Wartime Dish
A soldier reports illness after eating a patch he believed would deter the Germans. He tells the doctor indigestion follows the patch's consumption and questions the remedy’s effect.
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Cape Horn
John Silver
Treasure Island
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