Americans Help Repulse Teutons On French Front
American engineers working with British railways near Gouzeaucourt escaped German encirclement by lying in shell holes then joined the battle. They fought bravely beside Tommies, earning high praise from British commanders. Many volunteered for patrols under heavy shellfire. several were captured and escaped to rejoin forces.
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London
Gouzeaucourt
New York
Driv
Prince
Rupprecht
Byn
Cambrai
la Vacquerie
Nuumbers
Masnieres
Les Rues Vertes
Mrs. DeSaulles Acquitted In Long Island Murder Trial
In Mineola New York a jury found Blanca DeSaulles not guilty after a trial over the August murder of her divorced husband John L DeSaulles former Yale football star and clubman at his home near Westbury Long Island The verdict came in one hour and forty three minutes and she expressed happiness through her attorney Henry A Uterhart about the outcome
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Mineola
N. Y
Supreme Court
Blanca DeSaulles
John L. DeSaulles
Yate
Westbury
Long Island
Wage boost adds 35 cents a ton to anthracite coal price
President Wilson authorized a general 35 cent per ton rise at the mines to fund a wage increase for anthracite miners. Yaqui deportation orders require all tribes in Sonora to assemble in Hermosillo on December 5. Henry Marcus Leipsiger, 65, is named head at New York. Rail unions press for about 40 percent wage hikes. The remains of William McGraw were found in Hot Springs attic where electricians were working in a building once a clubhouse.
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Wilson
Sceno- Tra
Hermosillo
Henry Marcus Leipsiger
New York
William McGraw
Hox.Ark
Hot Springs
Council of National Defense
Baker
Daniels
Lane
Trouston
Redtiedld
McAdoo
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
L[oover
Gaffeld
Wilfard
War Industries Home
Gifford
Chicago
Germany
Mr. Hoover
Austria
Congress
Gregory
War coverages from Paris meeting and Italy to Cambrai
Interallied conference opens in Paris as Bolshevik peace talks with Germany appear in play. Italy's frontline defense holds, British and French forces reinforce the Piave sector. Cambrai battles intensify with tank and infantry exchanges. Government reshuffles push toward centralized war control.
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Paris
Russia
Edward W. Pickard
Germany
Petrograd
Lenine
Trotzky
Robert Cecil
Alles
United States
Russian Constituent Assembly
Milyoukoff
Europe
Southeastern Union
Don
Lower Volga
Turkestan
Siberia
Kaledines
Russian Empire
Kremlin
Italy
Te Hervic
Piave
Venice
Brenta
Adriatic
F. B. Maurice
British War Office
Cambrai
Byng
Jupe Brecht
Bourlon Wood
Fontaine
Pershing
U. S. Supreme War Council
Marshall vows purge of pro German sentiment in U S
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall told crowds in Washington that the war would be worth all costs and would yield pure Americanism. He said within a year pro Germanism would be weeded out in every community after arriving in the capital following a swing around the Western circuit.
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Marshall
Circle
Washington
United States
Scouts at Fort Sheridan Organize Training Camp Duty
Nearly four thousand candidates arrived for training at Fort Sheridan and were met by disciplined scouts. The boys worked from seven in the morning until nine at night, directing trains, guiding candidates to registration, and serving as orderlies at multiple offices. The unit even housed a scout house in officers row.
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Fort Sheridan
Keeley
Officers’ Row
Scouts Put Keighley on the Map Through Ads and Ration Cut
The town of Keighley England with 42 000 people reduced bread to 3 7 pounds per head from 4 00 as posters and press ads and pamphlets mobilized citizens in a living lesson against U boats. Boy scouts joined the war on waste reporting finds from rubbish heaps and none of a tin can or cloth is wasted.
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Keighley
England
United Kingdom
Scouting Spirit Emphasized by Wilson and McAdoo
The piece urges Boy Scouts of America to guard against negative influences while praising merit. It argues the heroic acts and good deeds reflect both organization and the spirit of scouting. It cites President Wilson's words and Secretary McAdoo's commendation as supportive context.
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Boy Scouts of America
Wilson
Boy Scouts Aid, Find Lost Woman After War Meeting
At Farneil hall Boston a war meeting of nurses from the Spanish-American War era included help from a Harwich Vermont boy scout squad. The scouts used forestry skills to track and locate a woman who had wandered into woods, finding her cold and exposed beside a rock ledge.
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Farneil Hall
Boston
Boy Scouts
Harwich
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Herbert C. O. Pluier
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Gasparri
Papal
Ireland
Switzerland
Swiss Federal Council
Verdun
Verdun Front
France
Moeuvres
Bourton
Berlin Post
Flanders
Eboya
National Council of the Boy Scouts of America
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