Yankees Prefer Trenches to Entertainment in Clubs Abroad
A World War I era report finds American soldiers on leave in Paris and London avoiding bars and clubs. Troops prefer theaters, cinema, and light entertainment, with a suggested program of quick monologues, tableaux with girls, singing, and a final American comedy to keep soldiers out of bars and in bed at night.
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United States
Canada
Australia
Paris
London
America
Lews
Sorietias
Reading
Solifers and Sailors
Rey
Jerusalem
Porcelvis
Cineme
Trefieliee
Labor Surplus in West as Farm Hands Abound
Reports to the department show more farm workers available in the west than needed while the east and south face scarcity. Omaha Nebraska reports applicants for farm work double the available jobs, Nevada has two applicants per job, and Oklahoma shows three per job.
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Washington
Department of Later
Omaha
Neb
Nevada
Oklaoma
Love
James Stillman Dies in New York Bank Leader
James Stillman chairman of the National City Bank and a famed American banker died of heart disease in New York on March 16. He guided the bank for many years and was a prominent figure in finance.
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New York
James Stillman
The
National City Bank
United States
Train wreck injures four near Roscoe Illinois
The east bound Olympian of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad derailed at Roscoe Illinois on March 16 injuring four people. Cause of the accident is not reported.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Roscoe
California opens rural land sale on installment plan
California announces a land settlement program offering 6000 acres near Chico for bona fide settlers. Eligible buyers may put down 5 percent with rest financed up to forty years. deposits fund a revolving land settlement account. The scheme requires residence and cultivation, with support for housing and water.
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Sacramento
Cal
State of California
United States
State Water Board
Acr
Chievo
State Board of Land Settlement
William DP. Stephens
California
Federal Land Bank
Berkeley
Board of
Molestation Report Plagues Wheatland Elderly Blind Man
In Wheatland Wisconsin March 15, a longtime resident Mr Van Ortwick, an elderly blind man, reports two window smashings at his home near the Congregational church. A $5 reward is offered for the arrest of the unknown vandal.
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Wheatland
Woo
van Ortwick
Carey House
Girl Patriot Dies After Five Weeks Pose as Waterboy
Florence Kelly a 20 year old from Tennessee lived five weeks as a water boy among 3000 men at Camp Stuart Newport News disguising as a boy to join the war effort. She died after an accident in a Liberty bond parade when crushed by an army truck two days after injury. Her father in Greenville Tennessee was unable to visit.
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Norfolk
Florence Kelly
O'D
Camp Stuart
Newport News
Florence
Tennessee
France
Pershing
Memu
Earth
Greenville
Tenn
First Argentine Women Earn Civil Engineer Degrees
In Buenos Aires two young women Eliza B Bachofen and Alda Maradona become the first female civil engineers in Argentina and likely in South America. The six year program at the National University demands strict study, unusual for South American women.
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Buenos Aires
National University
Argentina
South America
Senorita
Elisa B. Bachofen
Alda Maradona
Rio Grande do Sul Pursues Independent State System of Government
The Rio Grande do Sul state operates as a republic with its own president and army within Brazil. The president, elected for five years, issues laws and decrees, while the state assembly handles taxation. Laws are drafted by the president, published in Porto Alegre, then revised after municipal feedback before final publication. All judges are appointed by the state president.
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Port Algere
Hracdl
Rio Grande Do Sul
United States of Brasil
Hus
Raszil
Porto Alegre
Supreme Court of Last Resort
Austrians Protest Short Flour Ration
A delegation of workers in Wiener Neustadt protested the Austrian food board’s cut in flour rations. They warned reductions threaten starving workers reliant on rationed food and urged officials to study conditions. The Vienna dispatch notes Vienna strikes and cites the Neue Freie Presse supporting halt of further cuts. The new weekly flour allotment drops to two pounds ten ounces for dependents.
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New York
Wiener-Neustadt
Austria
Austrian Food Board
Vienna
Ger- Infin
Food Board
Lower Austria
Neue Freie Presse
Berlin
No Chance for Her Woman Seeks Divorce in Trance Claim
A wife sues for divorce arguing she was in a trance at the time of marriage. The judge remarks that if marriage cannot lift the trance, divorce cannot either.
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Ileo
Suffering in Homes of Drafted Men Families
A report on war work in the schools shows check cards used in public schools to identify families facing hardship from the draft. Teachers quietly surveyed rooms, sending at risk cases to the Red Cross relief division, enabling rapid aid without alerting students or families. A citywide survey was completed quickly at no cost.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Relief Division
The
Red Cross
Food card scheme rolls out in Paris to ration bread sugar coal
A March 16 plan in Paris introduces a single elongated checker board style food card for bread sugar coal and gasoline. The card will cover six months with 72 coupons six per month and a space to add only the designated articles. Holders must present the card at the mayor’s office to receive ration tickets from dealers.
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Paris
Minister of Provisions
Lumberjack Regiment Now Ready to Go
Denver March 16 with the completion of the 20th engineers forest, the lumberjack regiment recruitment is discontinued. Sixtyfive recruits were listed from the Rocky Mountain district. the Signal Corps seeks about 1000 men for spruce production work for airplane stock. Enlistees will receive standard military pay plus additional operator compensation. Inquiries to Recruiting Section Air Personnel Department Signal Corps 136 K St N E Washington D C.
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Denver
Colo
20Th Engineers (Forest
Lumberjack Regiment
Rocky Mountain District
Denver Forest Office
United States Signal Corps
Air Personnel Department Signal Corps
K St
N. FE
Washington
Two Omsk Crew Members in Norfolk Trial Set Tomorrow
Two sailors from the Russian steamer Omsk were arrested after evading port officers in Norfolk Virginia. The trials of the two men and forty five others held on espionage act warrants are scheduled for tomorrow.
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Norfolk
Omsk
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