First American WWI deaths cited in battle timeline
Washington sidelight notes President Harding laying a wreath on Private Joseph W. Guyon’s coffin, but War department records identify the first US soldiers killed in World War I as Corporal James B. Gresham, Private Thomas F. Enright, and Private Merle D. Hay on November 8, 1917 in Lorraine.
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Corp
James B. Gresham
Evansville
Ind
Thomas F. En
Pittsburgh
Merle D. Hay
Glidden
Sixteenth Infantry
Bathlemont
Lorraine
Department of Meurthe-et-Moselle
C. P. Summerall
Thomas F. Enright
F Company
Sixteenth Infantry Regiment
Ten Norwegian Fellers In Congress Lead Republican Bloc
A report lists fourteen U.S. House members and two senators with Norwegian roots, led by Knute Nelson of Minnesota and Andrew Volstead of Minnesota. It notes birthplaces such as Voss and Trondhjem, careers in law, education, farming, and business, and terms served including Nelson’s three House terms and two as governor.
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Congress
Middle West
Nestor
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Voss
Bergen
House
Senate
South Dakota
Veter Norbeck
Trondhjem
Charles A. Christopherson
John M. Nelson
Wisconsin
Halvor Steenerson
M.A. Michaelson
Chicago
Kristiansand
Andrew J. Volstead
Tle
Telemarken
Public lobby group formed to aid Congress for the people
A new organization the People's Legislative Service claims to inform Congress for the benefit of the general public. Its national council includes senators representatives judges and editors and is supported by member subscriptions. It aims to resemble a lobby but represents the public as a whole.
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Congress
People’s Legislative Service
National Council of the People's Legislative Service
Hays Takes Greek Protégé Under Wing
Postmaster General Hays befriends Andrew Louchiot of Crete giving him a chance to progress. For 80 dollars monthly the 20 year old aids around the apartment and office as sprucer up, learns French, and works on a typewriter. He has taken out his first papers and seeks naturalization.
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Ostmaster
Hays
Andrew Louchiot
Crete
Hayses
Andrew
Hays Iikea
Louchiou
Jimmie Regan
New Jer
Evansville Union opposes judges' pay raise petition
Indiana news briefs report the Evansville Central Labor union passed resolutions against a petition to raise Circuit Probabe and Superior court salaries from 5700 to 7000. Commissioners will act on July 21. Other notes cover wheat yields, federal prohibition jobs, corn damage from chinch bugs, and highway plans in Indiana.
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Evansville
Mt. Vernon
Poseyville
New Harmony
Indianapolis
Prohibition
Bert Morgan
Indiana
Morgan
Muncie
Delaware County
Indiana State Highway Commission
Warren T. McCray
Lincoln City
French Lick
Nancy Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
L. N. Hines
Lake County
Springfield
Supreme Court
Washington Circuit Court
Board of Commissioners
Jackson Township
Washington County
Board of State Charities
Federal Reserve District
Miinois
Wisconsin
Terre Haute
Gary
Fort Wayne
Carr
Rushville
Owen L. Carr
Carrs Garage
Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
Civil Service Commission
Austin
Avilla
Brazil
Brownsburg
Bryant
Hamilton
Hebron
Montezuma
Oak
Charles O. Deam
State Forester
State Conservation Department
Harry S’. Dietz
Valparaiso
American Legion Post
Valparaiso University
Legion Post
the Legion
Hammond
Dyer
Schererville
Lincoln Highway Commission
Jennie Madaren
Fox
Madaren
Here
Harry Davis
Madarpa
Public Service Commission
A. B. Cronk
Commission
Noblesville
Hamilton County
Petersburg
Pike County
General Assembly
State of
Vegetarian Dishes and Simple Home Cooking Tips
Readable fragments describe vegetarian beet dishes with spinach, smothered cabbage, and rice croquettes. Instructions cover preparation, ingredients, and steps, including beets with spinach and a cheese sauce for croquettes. The piece ends with a Brooks quote on superficial living and missing depth.
A Few Choice Soups And Dishes From Old Recipes
A collection of soups and dishes including Florentine Spinach Soup Burmah Chicken Mulligataway Japanese Fish Soup and Bacon with Eggs. Each recipe lists ingredients and steps such as shredding spinach cooking with stock adding egg yolks and cream for the spinach soup and curry powder coconut milk and chicken broth for Mulligataway.
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Washington
NhoGuy Gresham Way
Fellers Bane
Hoosier News
Western Newspaper Union
Brooks
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