Biggest Holiday Shopping Trade Seen After War End
Chicago reports point to the largest holiday shopping season in U S history as restrictions on platinum jewelry gold and silver gifts and additional clerks are lifted. Merchants stocked up expecting brisk demand and shoppers rush to buy gifts with the end of the war bringing a spirit of generosity and no empty stockings.
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Chicago
United States
Santa Claus
Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Council of National Defense
Anaway
Council of Defense
Big Tree's Scrap Of Paper and His Explanation
In a rural tone Big Tree reports a rumored end to the war as a talk at Turkey Ford spreads word that Sig Wats and Star Young say peace may come. Injun people are skeptical of white civilization and the idea of schooling while soldiers and gifts are discussed amid war fatigue.
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Big Tree
Big-Tree
Star Young
Gentmans Oltia
Treaty Ghosts and the Laughing Movers
A fragment from a bygone tale shows Big Tree recalling an old treaty with the Injuns and Uncle Sam pressuring removal. The dialogue hints at weariness with treaties and continued pressure to relocate, leaving only scraps and pay—pa as the result.
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Big Tree
Navy aircraft program praised as conforming to regular practice
Washington reports Rear Admiral David W. Taylor says naval aircraft work followed standard naval methods with civilian assistance, yielding successful production and minimal changes. He notes American designs improved by British input, balloon and parachute tests, and the Philadelphia aircraft factory expanding from 1000 to four times capacity. The Squantum plant at Mass. will remain as a permanent naval adjunct.
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Washington, D. C
Navy
David W. Taylor
Pubic
Navy Department
Taylor
Admiral Taylor
Construction Corps
Naval Aircraft Factory
Philadelphia
Squantum
Mass
Diamonds Increase in Value Result of War
The National Council of Defense reports a wartime shift in civilian diamond sales. Small stones rise while stones over half a carat fall, due to a 100 percent price rise and buyers spending fixed sums to acquire smaller diamonds.
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Chicago
National Council of Defense
New Mode of Travel Over Snow in Alaska
Cordova dispatch reports B B Griffin an electrician for the Alaska Engineering commission has started Kauloping a motor sled with an adrpline engine and propeller. He covered 14 miles in 28 minutes over open country signaling a new winter transport sport in Alaska.
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Alaska
Cordova
B. B. Griffin
Alaskan Engineering Commision
Griffin
Camp Dick Originated by son-in-Law General J. C. Thompson Graduates 25,000
Dallas Tex Den 10 More than 25000 flyers have won their wings at Camp Dick the greatest aviation concentration camp in the United States since last January This was revealed for the first time in figures made available by the end of the war Camp Dick served as the morale center for aviators transitioning between development stages Men came from Princeton Cornell and the Texas Illinois and California universities The camp was designed to maintain military atmosphere and keep up studies while awaiting assignment It housed flying cadets officers and enlisted personnel under Col B B Steever and now Capt Ormsby McCammon Colonel Steever is the father in law of General and Mrs John Charles Thompson of 2015 Capitol Avenue Dallas Col Steever originated Camp Dick and is described as its founder
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Dallas
Tex
Den
Camp Dick
United States
Princeton
Cornell
Texas
Illinois
California
EB. Z. Steever
John Charles Thompson
Capitol Avenue
This City
With Our Boys in France Baths and Barber Shops
Miss Gertrude Orr reports from France on everyday life of American soldiers. The piece notes soldiers visiting baths and barber shops as part of Red Cross observations in the war zone.
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France
Mountain Division
The
American Red Cross
Gertrude Orr
Denver
Red Cross
Red Cross Bath and Barber Facilities Grow at Bases
A Red Cross report from American hospital representative A. R. C. describes new bath houses and barber shops at bases 31 and 32 and bases 22 and 36. In one month 6150 baths were provided to officers nurses enlisted men convalescents and French patients, with two professional French backers directing the program and a building donated for operations.
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Polly
Redrom Hospital
Home and Hospital Service Bureau
Red Cross
Insane Interurban Car Transfers Patients City to State Asylums
Cook county authorities built a special design interurban car to move insane patients from the psychopathic hospital in Chicago directly to state institutions. The vehicle aims to minimize inconvenience and publicity, with both interior and exterior views documented.
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Cook County
Psychopathic Hospital
Chicago
Break Your Best Eel in Demand Seeks Top Price
A note notes a highly desired eel variety in strong demand with market value around $1.20. The brief item highlights scarcity and popular interest in the species among buyers and vendors.
Complexion to the Ween Mild Yet Positive Life Pills
Outwardly the car resembles Chicago surface-line vehicles but with wire reinforced glass windows and inner heavy screens. Inside the coach is split into two compartments for men and women with reversible seats and folding upper and lower Werths for invalid patients.
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Chanics Magazine
Chicago
Card of Thanks for flowers and kindness after bereavement
The writer expresses gratitude to friends and especially Mr. McCloud and his Union Pacific shop workers for beautiful flower offerings and kindness following the death of the husband.
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Mr. McCloud
Union Pacific
VPA
Atapaan
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