Salvage Efforts Rise to Meet Submarine Losses
British salvage operations expand beyond new shipbuilding to saving, lifting and restoring damaged vessels. Since 1915 the Admiralty salvage section has recovered hundreds of ships, with 147 saved in early 1918 alone. Divers, pumps, and portable gear enable salvage in varied seas, while weather and cargo dangers shape the arduous process.
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England
Ferraby
Admiralty
Liverpool Salvage Association
United Kingdom
Admiralty Salvage Section
F. W. Young
Campa
Atlantic
Naasmyth
Intricate Torpedo Design Described With Gyroscope Details
The article explains a torpedo’s two part hull with a fish shaped body housing a compressed air system a balance chamber engine space and a vacuum buoyancy chamber. It notes the gyroscope in the engine chamber guiding its path and claims the propellers and rudders are at the rear outside the hull. It ends with a quote about the Bonaparte family admiring a statue resembling their mother Queen Caroline in Naples.
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Nero
Bonaparte
Madame Mere
Naples
Caroline
Wonderful resemblance among historic and literary figures
The article notes striking resemblances between Dion Boucicault and Sir Kenelm Digby, Montagu Williams and Charles II, and Byron and J L Motley. It adds Charles MacFarlane’s account of meeting Shelley in Naples in 1820 and viewing a statue of Agrippina in the Royal Bourbon museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dion Boucicault
Kenelm Digby
Golfier
Montagu Williams
Charles II
Peter Lely
Byron
J. L. Motley
Dutch Republic
Charles MacFarlane
Shelley
Royal Burbon Museum
Naples
Agrippina
Commodus tragedy by Gen. Lew Wallace never staged
The untaken drama Commodus by General Lew Wallace centers on Maternus an escaped slave who leads a rebellion against Rome and seeks the throne but is betrayed and killed. Lawrence Barrett praised it as the best English drama since Richelieu though it was printed but never produced.
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Lew Wallace
Commodus
Maternus
Rome
Lawrence Barrett
General Wallace
Richelieu
Boston Globe
Opera manager laments tricks of trapeze acts
The manager of the opera house jokes that trapeze performers are funny because they always act up. The sheriff of the room asks, “ole Smart Alec,” in a light exchange about the exhibition.
Fare to the fair mirrors ride to the fair
A young woman asks at the ticket window the fare to the fair and is told the fare is the same as to the homely. The exchange plays on appearance and value with a light humorous tone.
Four hour Cupid foiled by late telegram in Indianapolis
Miss Tillie Nelson of Rochester Minnesota planned to meet Private Alfred A. Fuller at Indianapolis Union Station but a late telegram delayed her arrival. Canteen workers aided the couple uncovering a license, a Greenfield mayor officiated, and the newlyweds were escorted to the Greenfield hotel.
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Ndianapolis
Pertu
Indianapolis
Tillie Nelson
Rochester
Miss Nelson
Fuller
Era
Lincoln
Will Hough
Greenfield
Hough
Hancock County
War era home help shake up on Chicago's North Shore
A U S federal official proposes replacing traditional male house staff with women in wealthy Lake Forest Highland Park Glencoe and nearby towns to boost war efficiency. Director Hervey C Coulson seeks a ruling from state chief Charles A Munroe as residents weigh sacrifices for the war effort.
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North Shore
Federal Employment Bureau
Hervey C. Coulson
United States Employment Service
Waukegan
Chicago
Lake Forest
Highland Park
Glencoe
Charles A. Munroe
Federal Employment Service
Army
Navy
Miss Lulu Tate Met for Patriot Prank at Justice HQ
Fifteen year old Lulu Tate was stopped by federal agents after posing as a Pershing patriot. She wore a khaki outfit and fatigue hat, used a costuming fee to charge against a refuser of savings stamps, and entertained sailors and jackies on a staged “investigation.” Earlier reports note an elopement with a soldier under a false name.
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Ouisville
Lulu Tate
Department of Justice
Lulu
Pershing
Jackies
Evelyn de Vere
Not Bold Burglar But Lovesick Waiter Tries Inwood Rescue
Inwood NY Charles Pons, a 21 year old waiter of 319 West Fiftieth street, scaled a wall at Dyckman street and River road to reach his wife Mary Dillon’s home. He claimed to be freeing her before he must report to camp. Police and Magistrate Corrigan heard his case.
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Rooklyn
Charles Pons
West Fiftieth Street
Inwood
Magdalene Home
Dyckman Street
River Road
Mary Dillon
Pons
Corrigan
Washington Heights
Senta
Charlotte
France
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Huga Tide
Dan Cupid
Thas
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