Impressive Service Honors Birmingham Boys in War Effort
A Birmingham M E church service honored local servicemen inclined to the colors. Names read included Seret, Rex Workman, Clyde Simmons, Ray L. Simmons, and many others serving at Camp Cody, Dodge, San Antonio, France, and various posts. A star memorial and address by Rev. Fowler preceded the roll call listing and homefront support.
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M. E
Birmingham
Fowler
M. E. Church
Seret
Ora Williams
Officers Training School
San Antonio
Texas
Rex Workman
Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
Clyde L. Simmons
College debate team reduced amid student departures
Fiore notes a single representational debating team due to wartime manpower losses. Hospital unit commitments drained last year's debaters, leaving four veterans gone and ending plans for a triangular debate with Parsons Penn and Wesleyan. President Montgomery travels in the south for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiore
Pareersie
College
Parsons
Penn
Wesleyan
Big Fire Destroys Reformatory in Jeffersonville
A major blaze swept the Indiana reformatory in Jeffersonville, threatening total ruin. Early containment allowed 1,285 prisoners to be moved with no reported injuries, but feeding and medical care posed a major challenge. Army quartermaster and emergency aid units supplied temporary cooking gear and supplies to support operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Indiana
de Streichen
Army
Quartermaster
Seizure Rumors Denied by U S Food Officials
The government denies plans to seize household food stocks and promises no policy to commandeer preserves. Propaganda and profiteers spread rumors, while officials forecast 1918 home canning will rise, assuring housewives that saved foods remain theirs.
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United States Food Administration
Washington
Subs Sunk Fast As Built
Representative Miller told the House after visiting the front that German submarines are being destroyed as quickly as Germany can build them. He praised Vice Admiral Sims for convoy tactics and urged naval control of American shipping. He noted no Americans were aboard the two transports crossing the Atlantic. Miller said submarine losses in ten months tripled those of the prior two and a half years.
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Washington
Miller
Pranece
Germany
Sims
Shipping Board
Atlantic
Government warns Germany over British airmen release
The Daily Mail reports the government will notify Germany of reprisals unless two British airmen imprisoned after a German court-martial for dropping propaganda pamphlets are released immediately. The pilots received ten years in prison.
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London
Alail
Germany
Ater
Large Army in the West and Glass in Cornmeal Report
Reports show German forces on the western front numbering between 2,709,090 and 2,850,000 aimed at a spring offensive. A separate inquiry by Justice Department investigator W. HL Kerrick probes how glass fragments appeared in cornmeal bought by a family in Maron Hl, with Decatur distributor details referenced.
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Tso
Blomington
Kerrick
Department of Justice
Tno
Maron
Decatur
Omern
For Rent and Wanted Notices in Local Column
A collage of classified items lists rental offers and requests. Three room house at 609 W Van Buren rentals and a store room at Gaumer Bres, plus farm land subscriptions and land letters from Landology Marinette. Also several help wanted postings, lost items, and other small notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. van Buren
Gaumer Bres
Thea & Thoma
Threat by Von Hindenburg in German Conference
Travelers report a Berin conference where Field Marshal von Hindenburg met 80 German editors to discuss Germanys food shortage and a potential move to Paris by April 17. The Deutsche Tages-Zeitung warns the war’s main battle shifts west with a caution that French resistance may endure despite German strength.
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Whencne
Germany
Berin
von Hindenhburg
von Hindenburg
Paris
Deutsche Tages-Zeitung
For Sale Classified Ads and Auctions
A series of small ads lists items for sale including a public sale of Mrs Buck’s household goods at 302 West Stone Street on Feb 9 at 1 30 pm. Also entries for a Jersey cow calf a modern house on South Main a honey buggy farm lands and two vacant farms with names and contact numbers.
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Loren White
West Stone Street
Montgomery
E. A. Howard
F. W. McClain
H. B. Wisecarver
Ology
Ice floes threaten Mississippi as gorge breaks near Richardson
Forty miles of ice floes released by the gorge break at Richardson's Landing are expected to drift down the Mississippi River. River men in Memphis report the ice near Peelwood and fear obstructions as it moves downstream.
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Memphis
Tenn
Richardson's Landing
Mississippi River
Wrecked Train in Flames Crashes on Milwaukee Road
A collision between a passenger car and an oil train near Clinton, Illinois injures multiple people as wreckage burns. Emergency crews work at the scene with flames rising from the wreck.
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Milwaukee Road
Clinton
Milwaukee Railroad
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Offer Gentle Liver Aid
Purported vegetable remedy Dr Edwards Olive Tablets claim to improve yellow skin dull appetite and constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels without calomel side effects. Sold in boxes for 1d and 25c with nightly use recommended by Dr Edwards agents.
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France
Clarence Curts
Fern Lawson
N. M. Corp
Carl Nelson
Priv
Veyrl Anderson
Kieming
Emery Shaffer
Clarence Burden
Deming, N. M
Bertie Graham
Laurence Roth
Timp Riley
Kansas
Harry Nelson
Claude Calhoun
D.C
Doe Norris
Ft. WicPherson
Wm. Johnson
Ft BicPherson
Stanley Watts
Wt. McPherson
Walter Hearne
Aero
Ellington Field
Houston
Ray Hearne
Flist War
Quantilo
Cora Hearne
Red Cross
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Ind
Jrhn Roberts
French Motor Battery
Camp Dodge
Charles Daley
Aviation Corps
Virginia
Cheater Wilson
Manati
Cubs
Henjamin Holmes
Key Anderson
Tex Infernal
Harl Hivers
College News
Reformatory
Oes
Representative Miller
Admiral Sims
People’s Column
Aneer
Landology
Skidmore Land Co
Skidmore Bldg
Marinette
Wis
Banta
West Kirkwood
West Broadway
East Burlington Street
Snyder & Co
City Hall
Madam Kosmos
D. L. Kosmos
Louisville
Elba
Wm. F. Schaefer
Burlington Street
Power Coal Yard
Oce
Metro Picture Corp
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
Sessue Hayakawa
the Call OF the East
Tae
Reduso
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
Chicago
Kaiser
J. Engel
Fairfield
Scheffel
Music
James Hughes
A. F. Carlson
Goeke’s
Sfoleebetlp
Bay
Shy
the Val
Mae Re
Atime
Prc
Vaile
U. S
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