Government strengthens war risk system for families and service members
The 1917 war risk insurance acts create family allowances, automatic death and disability benefits, and government life insurance for soldiers and sailors. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance expanded to eight buildings, over 120000 square feet, with 3300 staff in two shifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James 4
Collins Strom
Sam
United States
Bureau
Bureau of War-Risk Insurance
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Life Insurance
Washington
Betty Ingraham
Third Street
Platt City
Ala
Osmond Kelly Ingraham
U. S. S. Cassin
Ingraham
America
Army
Bureau of Warfisk Insurance
Government War Risk Insurance Campaign Expands
The War Risk Insurance Bureau reports millions of service cards and payments as a nationwide education drive boosts coverage. Secretary McAdoo condemns claim agents. insurance claims are paid promptly to dependents of fallen service members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
McAdoo
Uncle Sam
Coast Guard
Army
Navy
War-Risk Insurance Bureau
Washington
Bluejackets
Rensury
Congress
Bureau
la Au. Veasia
Tie Heart
Pdente Bint
Indiana Pensions And War Tactics In 1919 Report
The Indiana notes list pensions granted to numerous individuals across cities such as Shelburn, Indianapolis, Batesville, Valparaiso, Muncie, and Richmond. It also covers draft calls with 2000 men to Purdue or Indianapolis training, grain and wheat outlooks, and fiscal allocations for coal and Red Cross drives, alongside local civic actions in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Andrew J. Lampert
Shelburn
Roy Fred Green
Indianapolis
Emiline Ashby
Lyles
Eliza Wiseman
Batesville
Anna M. Rehder
Valparaiso
Mary HE
Moran
Indianapoli
Maury E. Gray
Todianapolis
Ficlen M. Fowler
Crown Point
Elizabeth C. Fry
Muncie
Elizabeth Casebeer
Orland
Eliza J. Cooksey
Greensburg
Carrie Carpenter
Fort Wayne
Mary C. Brittain
Harlan
Barbara Bender
South Hend
Margaret Alves
Milan
Mary FP. Alford
Loogoctee
Mary Cox
Hillisburg
Catherine C. Dyer
Elkhart
Susan and Harbaugh
Hudson
Sarah
Mote
Kokomo
Albina Purdy
Lowell
Luranin Rover
Argos
Mary A. Totsoreh
Ambia
Elizabeth Wintrowd
Converse
Hester A. Walmer
Bourbon
Amanda Seery
Richmond
Aar
Purdue University
Robert C. Bultzell
J. Delbey Crawfis
Indiana School For the Deaf
Indiana
Greencastle
DePauw University
Huntington
Jeffersonville
Clark County
S. E B. Bally
Charlestown
Boliy
Boonville
B. F. Shaver Canning Company
Frankfort
Clinton County
County Food Administration
Conconila College
Allen County
Lafayette
Shelby County
Russell G. East
Purdue Extension Department
The
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Watson
Indiana Grain Dealers’ Association
Indiana Corn Growers’ Association
Indiana Wheat Men
Grain Corporation
Ernest Thornburg
Shelbyville
Iindiana
State Fuel Administration
Philadelphia
Stanley Wyckoff
Eastern
Seaboard
United States Grain Corporation
Wyskoff
Atlantic
Petersburg
Pike County
Fred Alexander
Michigan City
Arthur P. Snyder
John C. Miller
Farle C. Calvert
Theodore Last
Alexander Spychalski
H. L. Crumpacker
Sesson
Grand Jury
M. J. Kenefick
Red Cross
Charles F. Coffin
Gary
American Coal and Supply Company
Chicago
Hammond
Whiting
Indiana Harbor
Lake County
Indianaapolis
Charles Warren Fairbanks
Capitol
Goodrich
Ralston
Durbin
J. B. Keating
J. N. Carey
W.T. Matott
George B. Dockwood
Washington
A. F E. Hert
Louisville
Bishop McDovnell
Eich Presiden
DePauw Univer
Mrs Boyd Avoids Operation in Canton Advice
Canton Ohio reader recounts relief from female troubles after Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound advised by doctors to avoid surgery. Letter from E E Boyd of Canton cites recovery and urges others with similar issues to try the remedy before hospital procedures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Ohio
Lydia
Ema Mente Bory
St. N. E
Lex Pinkham
Lydia FE
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn, Mast
Lence
Wanted to Buy Acc. any fine stock seized
Fragmented classified note shows a Wanted to Buy section about dry goods and stock, with an address at 18a Central Ave. The text repeats and is garbled, mentioning L. Guia and central avenue, plus a quoted line about education from a Boston Transcript item not linked to the main sale notice.
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Cloutin
Acc
L. Guia
Central Ave
Cinetoneti
Old Kidney Remedy Ads and Quips From 1900s Paper
An old newspaper fragment advertises Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder ills with testimonials from a druggist. It promotes sample requests by post and mentions large and small bottle prices plus competing quips and a Cuticura skin treatment ad. It also notes a stray line about Swedish colonization of the South Western Islands owned by France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
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