Nomenclature problems tackled by the War Risk Bureau
War Risk Bureau index clerks uncover name confusions in insurance files from World War I. A South Carolina man listed as James Hull becomes James Cabbagestalks after deduction. many spellings and silent letters complicate records, with Miss Blue Sweater leading the search.
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WAR Risk Bureau
Washington
James Hull
McCall
South Carolina
Elia Stalks
Fannie Stalken
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Hall
Burnses
Stark
Starks
Cabbagestalks
James Cabbagestalks
Ella Cabbagestalks
Fannie Cabbagestalks
Sie
Divis Spruce
Hastings
Miss Blue Sweater
War Department
Herman Miller
Maine
California
France
Hlynack
Lynack
Navy
Hia Welfare
Andrew Good
Morth Dakota
Georgian Too Tired to Crank Up His Auto
Lawson Collier helps a neighbor whose car stalled on the road by pulling it about 50 yards with a rope. The owner says he did not want the trouble of cranking the engine.
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Atlanta
Lawson Collier
Collier
U S Loses 4480 Captured in France. Officers Count 816
War department rechecks to June 3 show 4480 Americans captured in France with 816 officers. The Twenty-eighth division suffered 18 officers and 714 men, the Twenty-sixth 19 officers and 489 men, while the Eighth division had one captive. Early in the line, Fleet losses include 10 officers and 133 men, with the Becjad division listed with 12 captives.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
France
Jine
Ove Eflean
Indiana Troops Warned to Use Force if Needed
Governor James P. Goodrich urged Indiana state troops in Hammond to uphold law and defend the nation against mob rule, warning that extreme measures could be used if disorder escalates amid strike turmoil at Standard Steel Car. In Hammond 1,700 strikers faced military guards as strikebreakers entered plants. unions urged restraint. Other notes cover civil war veterans twins from Shelbyville, price notes on foods in Indianapolis, and various local incidents.
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Indianapolis
James P. Goodrich
Hammond
Indiana
Russia
Standard Steel Car Company
Shelbyville
James P. Rowe
Samuel D. Rowe
Eaton
George F. Edenharter
Central Hospital For the Insane
Edenharter
Central Hospital
Marton
Indiana State Firemen’s Association
Elks’ Hall
Elkanah Hulley
John C. White
Alfred Houston
Sullivan
James R. Riggs
Thomas R. Marshall
Department of Agriculture
United States
Riggs
Washington, D. C
Marshall
Victor Photo Company
Griffith
Hare
Henry Plogh
Alvin Lightfoot
Vera Wray
Anderson
J. L. Fraley
Greenfield
Indiana Methodist Protestant Conference
W. W. Lineberry
Jonesboro
Stanley Wyckoff
Wight
Sugar Equilization Board
Sarpwing Leber Ontwork MG
Indianapolia
Congress
Doctor Barnard
State Highway Commission
Lincoln
Lake County
Schererville
Porter County
National Road
Vigo County
Terre Haute
Timeis
Range Line
Howard
Tipton Counties
Center Township
Howard County
North Line
Miami County
French Lick
Warrick County
Boonville
Vanderburg
Lawrence County
Bedford
Orange County
Jackson
Johnson County
Greenwood
Franklin
Standard Steel
United States Housing Corporation of
Washington
Etrikera
Ear Plant
Brown
Crawfordsville
Patrona
BE. W. Ream
W. B. Walkup
D. H. Eikenberry
Wishawaka
Anna Willson
Miss Willson
School Welfare Association of
John C. Snyder
Arthur A. McCain
Isaac C. Elston
Walter C. Forster
Atlas Hotel
Liberty Loan
J. W. Darby
First Christian Church
Forster
Rev
Darby
Darlington
Farmers’ Company
Kirkpatrick
Here
Roscoe Abbott
Pearl Stutsman
Goshen
Abbott
Goshen High School
Miss Stutaman
Nappanee
Wabash
Sweeney
Vesta Golding
Shelby County
A. R. Heiser
Clark, Wysong & Co
Marmalade Recipes and Pantry Crafts from A Lively Era
A vintage supper page offers marmalade variations from Orange and Amber to Golden, plus tomato conserve and beet dishes. It includes Egg and Sardine cream, Drop Cookies, Spanish Ragout, Newport Pound Cake, Mustard Pickles, and pickle ideas with vinegar and horseradish leaves for winter storage.
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Newport
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Met‘all
Miss Blue
North Dakota
Thunder
Andrew Good Thunder
Bureau
Thousaand
Smiths
Aloysius
Ignatz
John
Bartholdt
Otto Anbel
Minden
Neb
Windyslanus Charles Zyzes
Munry Street
Rome
U. S
Eighth Army
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