The Saddest Place in London Casualties Room
London reporters describe the War Office casualties inquiry department in Cockspur Street. Families crowd the small room daily for news of loved ones as clerks recite lists with little information, amid hope and heartbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Casualties Dept
Wilbur
Forrest
United Press
New York
Cockspur Street
Cunard Steamship Company
Lusitania
War Office
Whitehall
France
Flanders
Tome
Inquirer
Vacation Dilemma for Busy Families
The article outlines how families choose a vacation spot by balancing desires for fishing golf rest dancing boating and roughing it. It suggests elimination based on distance proximity to work, commuting options, and a mix of attractions from Long Island shores to Jersey lakes, stressing discussion and consensus to avoid a costly unsatisfactory summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island
Sound
Ocean
Jersey
Little Stories of the Big War Headlines
Cunard sent expensive cut flowers on a government steamer to the Lusitania disaster site and scattered them over victims’ watery graves. Princess Zenia of Montenegro enters Naples hospital to prepare for nursing the wounded. Hale and Healthy End and nearby towns dispatch all eligible men to war. A Sheffield cutlery maker reports collecting 60,000 razors from private individuals for the troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Cunard Company
Lusitania
Rome
Zenia of
Montenegro
Italy
Naples
London
Hale
Healthy End
Aldershot
Sheffield
Lord Kitchener
Tthem
New Cotton Industry Develops With Paradiochlorobenzene
Washington reports a new cotton industry may emerge in Southwestern states outside the cotton belt aided by dry climate and phosphate use. The Bureau notes a novel insecticide paradiochlorobenzene, non flamable and inexpensive, kills moths and other pests while being safe for humans, with fumigation done via exposed receptacles. The Crop Estimates Bureau also records the death of veteran volunteer Smith McWilliams of Galena Ohio, among long-serving correspondents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Plant Industry
New York
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Smith McWilliams
Galena
Ohio
Department
United States
McWilliams
Nnyber
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McMullen Bros
Palm Beach
Butterick School OF Dressmaking
Singer Sewing Machine Co
THE
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Brooke Boyle
Union
Cumberiané
Bathin
SUI
Devonshire Cloth
Panama
Bangkok
Pkins
Hopkins
Cumberland Elks
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