War Art Show At National Museum Reveals AEF Scenes
National Museum opens a permanent exhibit of nearly 500 studies by American artists in the AEF, drawn from life to depict life overseas. The wall display includes ruined French villages, frontline combat, hospital scenes, and the equipment of war with works by Wallace Morgan Ernest Peixoto Julius Andre Smith and others from New York and nearby towns.
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Washington
National Museum
Pershing
France
Army
Navy
Wallace Morgan
Ernest Peixo*to
Julius Andre Smith
Harry B. Townsend
Harvey Dunn
Walter J. Duncan
New York City
William J. Aylward
Fairport
N. Y
George M. Harding
Wynnewood
Air Mail Flight Record For May Released
United States post office air fleet logged 54 693 miles in May with New York Washington route at 88 percent efficiency and Chicago Omaha at 88 percent. Two forced landings for mechanical trouble, several due to fuel headwinds weather and new pilots straying off course.
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Washington
United States Mail
Praeger
New York-Washington
Cleveland
New York-Cleveland
Newark
Bellefonte
Uniforms by measurements reveal chest differences by region
The War Department announced that over 100000 soldiers were measured to guide better fitting uniforms. The survey, the most comprehensive for tailoring, will be shared with the clothing trade and aid stock reductions. It found western troops were the chunkiest and eastern troops the slimmest in chest size.
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Washington
War Department
Eastern Department
French War Casualties Total 1 362 872 Soldiers Killed
Official ministry of war figures place French deaths in the Great War at 1 362 872 with 361 854 fate unknown. Minister Lefevre notes reductions in service length are not feasible now while outlining army reorganization to deputies. He cites 70 000 French troops in the Near East, mostly colonial regiments.
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Paris
Ministry of War
M. Lefevre
Chamber of Deputies
Orient
Near East
Must Wed to Get Wealth in Crumpacker Will
Edgar D Crumpacker leaves 500 to Owen L Crumpacker if he marries. The Valparaiso attorney, a bachelor, also inherits a large law library and a share of the estate including Lake Michigan shoreline near Gary. His father was long time congressman from the Tenth Indiana district.
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Ind
Edgar D. Crumpacker
Owen L. Crumpacker
Crumpacker
Congress
Toolann
Lake Michigan
Gary
Senator Warren G. Harding Dictates First Campaign Speech
Republican nominee Warren G. Harding records his first speech on phonograph for the campaign. The address centers on Americanism and is intended for use in the approaching election.
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Warren G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Harding
Senate
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