Best Surgeons and Best Nurses United States Sent With Army to France
Washington reports the American Red Cross has built a fully enrolled nursing service for war, with graduate nurses frontline ready. It outlines strict recruitment, oath, and uniform protections, noting the U S ranks ahead in preparedness with about 12 000 enrolled nurses and modern hospital equipment for front line care.
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United States
France
Washington
American Red Cross
Army
Red Cross
Red Cros
Congress
Lmited
Inurope
Red Cross Insienia
Europe
Bullsnake Named Mascot for Portland Troops in France
Portland Oregon soldiers in Company G of the Second Washington Infantry from Aberdeen plan to bring a bullsnake mascot to France. The snake, once kept as a pet in Cascade outposts, reportedly killed a large rattler in combat and later killed another, prompting the men to seek official recognition.
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Portland
Ore
Washington State Infantry
Aberdeen
France
Teutons
Cascade Mountains
Nurse Jane DeLano Leads Red Cross Nursing Service
The passage praises Jane A. Delano for organizing Red Cross nursing service with army-like morale. It notes her background as superintendent at Bellevue Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania hospital, and her role as chairman of the national committee on Red Cross nursing service.
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American Red Cross
Army
Navy
Jane A. Delano
Miss Delano
Bellevue Hospital
New York
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
National Committee On Red Cross Nursing Service
Blister Beetle Seen as Pest and Blessing in Indiana
State entomologist Frank N. Wallace says blister beetles are now numerous across Indiana fields. They harm crops by feeding on grasshoppers, a role that helps farmers control grasshopper populations, though beetles are increasingly a pest in many areas.
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Indianapolia
Frank N. Wallace
Indiana
London schools urge chestnut gathering for war munitions
London reports that English school children will spend six weeks gathering horse chestnuts for government use in munitions. Royal Society research found chestnuts substitute grain in some processes, with each ton saved freeing half a ton for food. Authorities forecast over 800000 tons turned over this fall.
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London
England
Royal Society
Sawmills to be kept busy on government contracts
The War Department plans immediate construction of 82 hospital camps and 19 reconstruction hospitals in major cities, plus nine officers training camps in the region, with aviation camps to follow. Southern lumber firms expect millions of feet for training and reconstruction hospitals, and France troop camps will demand further supplies, signaling a boom in lumber orders into next year.
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France
Wilmington
N. C
United States
Army
National Guard
Southern Lumber Journal
Washington
War Department
Minle
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Chicago
St. Paul
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Denver
Kansas City
St. Louis
Memphis
Richmond
Atlanta
New Orleans
Thorp Hincks’ air raid warning device devised
The London Daily Chronicle reports Thorp Hincks has devised an apparatus to warn of air raids. An electric resonator on rooftops triggers a bell in buildings when struck by a pitch, and can warn large areas such as a city simultaneously and instantly.
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London Daily Chronicle
Thorp Hincks
Scientific American
Red Faces and Red Hands Treatment Ad
Disposable home remedy ad for Cuticura ointment and soap with free samples by mail. Brief anecdote about Mrs Hawkins posing as a literary figure and naming her dog Perchance after Byron’s dog in a humorous exchange.
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Cuticurn
Dept. L
Boston
Advv
Byron
Woman Teaches Seamanship After Naval School Instructor Leaves
A government navigation school in Charleston Washington DC loses an instructor and Mrs Charlotte Patten of Maine takes the helm teaching beginners in nautical science. Patten, widow of a sea captain, spent fifteen years aboard ships and later sailed with her son-in-law as captain. New Thought leaders urge telepathic messages to soldiers in France complicating censorship.
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Government Navigation School
Charleston
D. C
Charlotte 5. Patten
Maine
Patten
Loving Wives and the Tricks of Truth
A humor column notes a man loves his wife out of duty and loves his neighbor’s wife out of restraint. M. D. Spitzer sues for ten thousand dollars after choking on a tack with soup in a New York restaurant. The piece also jokes that many honest men break promises due to stuttering.
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M. D. Spitzer
New York
Labor Scarcity in Coal Region Haunts Pottsville Hire
In Pottsville Pennsylvania Jacob Schoen who manages highways advertised for men to work on the streets. The only reply he received came from an eighty two year old man underscoring the extreme labor shortage in the coal region.
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Jacob Schoen
Pottsville
The British rifle and its wartime origin
The British rifle is described as the outcome of the South African war, with a ten cartridge magazine and sights calibrated from 200 to 2,800 yards. Also noted is E. M. Deemer of Philadelphia, bedfast 12 years, who monetizes his status as a magazine agent by advertising.
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E. M. Deemer
Philadelphia
Ducks Poisoned by Lead at Great Salt Lake
The biological survey reports ducks around Great Salt Lake Utah suffering lead poisoning from swallowed shot near shooting stations and blinds. The note mentions Red Cross Bag Blue and a laundress joke, then digresses on habits and poverty as a closing aside.
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Great Salt Lake
Utah
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