Impressive Service Honors Birmingham War Volunteers
A large service at the M. E. Church in Birmingham featured a flag placing for local boys who have joined the armed forces. The program included Rev. Fowler’s address and a roll of stars naming many service members at camps and theaters across the country.
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M. E. Church
Birmingham
Fowler
Seret
Ora Williams
Officers Training School
San Antonio
Texas
Rex Workman
Camp Cody
Erming
N. M. Seret
Clyde L. Simmons
Deming
College news limits intercollegiate debating at Par e0na
College officials report likely cancellation of intercollegiate debate at Par e0na due to material shortages. Only one team remains as four veterans departed with Hospital Unit A and lingering absences halted plans for a triangular debate with Parsons Penn and Wesleyan. President Montgomery travels in the southern part of the state for a few days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quere
College
Parsons
Penn
Wesleyan
Fone
Montgomery
Western Fey
Fire at Indiana Reformatory Near Destruction
A major blaze at the Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville caused widespread damage estimated up to 7000000. Two of three cell houses the trade school administration and chapel were destroyed. 1285 prisoners were moved without incident and the army quartermaster department provided emergency aid and temporary cooking equipment.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Indiana
Army Quartermaster’s Department
Quartermaster’s
Army
Seizure Rumors Denied by U S Food Administration
The government has never considered seizing household foodstuffs nor suggested such a policy for the future. Officials deny rumors spread by pro German propagandists and grafters. In 1918 home canning and preserving will expand, with foods saved owned by the housewives.
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United States Food Administration
Washington
Subs Sunk Fast As Built
Representative Miller, after a France trip, said German submarines are being destroyed as quickly as Germany can build them. He praised Vice Admiral Sims for destroyer convoy methods and urged naval control of American shipping. He noted no Americans served on the two transports he crossed on. Miller said submarine kills in ten months tripled those in the prior two and a half years.
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Washington
Miller
France
House
Germany
Ife
Sims
Shipping Board
Atlantic
London Demands Release of Two British Airmen
The Daily Mail reports the government will notify Germany of reprisals unless the two British airmen imprisoned by a German court martial for dropping propaganda pamphlets are released immediately.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Germany
German front forces mass as spring offensive looms
The German deploys between 180 and 190 divisions on the western front in anticipation of a spring attack. In Bloomington Illinois a Justice Department investigator probes how shards of glass ended up in a sack of cornmeal bought by a Marion family, the imprint tracing to a Decatur distributer.
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Bloomington
Jil
W. H. Kerrick
Department of Justice
Maron, Til
Decatur Distributing
Threat by Hindenburg in Berlin Food Crisis
Vagine dispatch reports Field Marshal von Hindenburg hosted editors from 80 German newspapers in Berlin to discuss Germanys looming food shortage. The editor party says by next May no food remains, while Hindenburg predicts action in Paris by April 11 as troops prepare for a major western battle.
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Kaiser
Paris
Germany
Berlin
von Hindenburg
von Slindenburg
Deutsche Tages-Zeitung
West
Hindenburg
Ice floes threaten downstream Mississippi crossing
Forty miles of ice floes released by a gorge break at Richardson's Landing start moving toward the Mississippi River. River men here report the mass of floes will travel downstream, creating hazards for shipping and navigation along the waterway.
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Memphis
Tenn
Richardson's Landing
Mississippi River
Train wreck in flames near Clinton injures several
A passenger train collided with a freight train on the Milwaukee railroad north of Clinton Iowa. The wreckage is in flames and a number of people are reported injured.
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Milwaukee Road
Clinton
Ofl
Milwaukee Railroad
For Rent Three Room House and More Listings
Three room house at 609 W Van Buren for rent contact 1214. Store room occupied by Gaumer Bros listed at 954. Thirty acre stock pasture for rent with phone 9612. Offer to mail Landology details for farm lands to Editor Landology Skidmore Land Co 330 Skidmore Bidg Marinette Wis.
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W. van Buren
Gaumer Bros
Thoma & Thoma
Landology
Skidmore Land Co
Skidmore Bidg
Marinette, Wis
Wanted help and notices page reveals chores and ads
A jumble of short classified ads seeks kitchen help and farm work, with various phones and addresses. Listings include a West Side restaurant call, a second hand store, a farm job by the year, lost items, personal solicitations, sewing at home, renting rooms, housework, a small movable house, and a teamster position at Power coal yard.
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West Side
Banta’s
West Kirkwood St
Wm. F. Schaefer
Burlington Street
Power Coal Yard
A. Power
For Sale Farm Goods and Property Listings
Public sale of household goods at 302 West Stone Street on Saturday February 9 at 1 30 p m features an oak bedroom suite rugs bookcase desk and more Mrs Buck's goods Auctioneers T Allender 965 For sale good Jersey cow heifer listings and contact numbers 1723 16383 961 An 80 acre and a 160 acre property available with possession March 1 See H B Wisecarver 964 New five room modern house with address box 118 940 Honey buggy nearly new 9710 942 Farm lands and Landology magazine listing Three See eee
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loren White
West Stone Street
Montgomery
Landology
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets Promote Liver Bowel Action
Olive Tablets a vegetable compound with olive oil were developed by Dr Edwards after years of study. Marketed as a calomel substitute, they supposedly clear yellow skin and poor appetite by stimulating bile and bowels with no dangerous after effects. Millions of boxes sold yearly at 10 and 25 cents.
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Pi Edwards
Dr. Edwards
Edwards
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Priv. Veyr
Anderson
Hieming
N. M
Emery Shaffer
Clarence Burden
Deming, N. M
Bertie Graham
Laurence Roth
Officers Training
Camp Riley
Kansas
Harry Nelson
Claude Calhoun
D.C
Joe Norris
Ft. BicPherson
Wm. Johnson
Stanley Watts
Wt. McPherson
Walter Hearne
Aero
Ellington Field
Houston
Ray Hearne
First War
Quantilo
Cora Hearne
Red Cross
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Orrin Roberts
French Motor Battery
Camp Dodge
Charles Daley
Aviation Corps
Virtrinia
Orp
Fred Hootman
Meming
Clifton Anderson
Navy
Portland
Chester Wilson
Manati
Cuba
Benjamin Holmes
Hoy Anderson
Harl Byers
Menning
Esselton Freeman
Wireless Electrical School
Mare Island
Cal
Wm. Stout
Signal Service
Jike
Arkansas
Porter Forbes
Great Lakes
Chicago
College News
Reformatory
Representative Miller
Admiral Sims
Pelople
Golumn
West Broadway
East Burlington Street
Snyder & Co
City Hall
Madam Kosmos
D. L. Kosmos
Louisville, Ky
Cael
Metro Picture Corp
Ethel Barrymore
Metro
Sessue Hayakawa
the Call OF the East
Pepe
En Jee
Reduso
B. Inform Style
Weingarten Bros., Inc
New York
J. Engel
Fairfield
Scheffel
Music
James Hughes
A. F. Carlson
Goeke’s
Rena Po
Fett Ran
Lou
Cies
U. S
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