Fred Hubbell Writes Home From France in 1918
A wartime letter from Forest Allery France December 7 1918 describes being in a "stone-pipe gang" and awaiting duty. He notes weight gain in hospital, possible return to his outfit in Germany, or shipment with 175000 others, and missing mail while in France. He mentions capturing officers and souvenirs left behind in the Argonne drive.
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Allery
France
Jess
Stone-Pipe Gang
Germany
Powers
Philly
Fred
Argonne Drive
Fred Hubbell
Harry Hayworth Heads Crawfordsville Licht Plant
Harry Hayworth named superintendent of the Crawfordsville Light and Power Company after leaving military service. He served as a Signal Corps instructor at Camp Taylor and Camp Mead and has thirteen years of electrical executive experience.
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Harry Hayworth
James N. Hayworth
Francesville
F. BE. Nolan
H. W. Bledsoe
Crawfordsville
Public Sale Set by George Pott in Hanging Grove Township
George Pott of Hanging Grove Township plans a public sale on Wednesday February 5 at his new 220 acre farm near South Bend. Sale includes 8 horses 11 cattle 17 hogs and farm equipment and supplies. Also noted are mentions of Groceries deliveries to Mallons and Mrs George Hansell visiting Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs Lafe Smoyer spending time with relatives in Indianapolis.
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Lafe Smoyer
Indianapolis
George Pott
Hanging Grove Township
Francesville
South Bend
Foreign Language Protest Spurs Indiana School Proposal
The piece urges Indiana to prohibit foreign language use in schools and push full Americanization. It argues German instruction should be elective, cites Manitoba's shift to English instruction, and warns that widespread multilingual schooling creates foreigners rather than integrated citizens.
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Indiana
Manitoba
United States
Europe
Canada
Frankfort Machine Shops Destroyed in Costly Fire
A fire caused by an overheated furnace wiped out the Model Machine Works garage in Frankfort early Monday, with an estimated $200000 loss. One hundred ten vehicles were lost as firefighters battled flames hampered by a burst water main and gasoline explosions. The Central Union Telephone office next to the site suffered only minor fire and water damage.
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Model Machine Works
Frankfort
Central Union Telephone Office
Grim postwar outlook weighs on Wilson return
The article warns that transitions from wartime to peacetime commerce threaten a national crisis. Unemployment rises, 100000+ in Chicago out of work, and industry struggles with war-contract liquidations and dead stock. Taxes rise, a $5 billion loan looms, and foreign credit risks loom as deficits widen. Congress and the administration must act quickly to avoid panic.
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Prsident Wilson
Europe
Paris
I Tribune
Washington
Chicago
United States
Congress
Administration
Indiana House Passes Sign Prohibition Bill 45
The Indiana House of Representatives approved House Bill No. 45 by a unanimous vote to ban signs resembling railroad crossing signals from being displayed away from rail crossings. It targets thousands of cross arm ads placed on highways that misled travelers into mistaking them for railroad warnings, especially at night.
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Indiana General Assembly
Indiana
Popular Couple Weds at Reynolds Church
Miss Cora Shumaker and Frank Sheetz married this morning at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Reynolds with Rev. Schmidt officiating. They are noted young locals, she the daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Shumaker and he the son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Scheetz of the Francenville area. A crowd and celebration followed the ceremony.
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Cora Shumaker
Frank Sheetz
St. Joseph Catholic ‘Church
Reynolds
Schmidt
Fred ‘Shumaker
Lawrence
Scheetz
Francenville
War letters reveal front line fear and sacrifice
A soldier recounts life aboard ship and on the Western Front, describing drills, gas attacks, and losses. He recalls comrades wounded or dying, the danger of bombardment, and the shock of shipboard alarms, reflecting on the strain and grit of war.
Local Merchants Urged to Fight Mail Order Threats
The piece urges Francesville merchants to advertise aggressively in the local paper to meet new trade demands. It warns that consolidation of farmers into larger trading groups and mail order competition threaten small town commerce and urges buying locally to keep money in the community.
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Cal
Francesville
Chicago
Indianapolis
Famed Towanda Oil Offer Turns Down Four Million
Peder Paulson of Butler County Kansas declined a four million dollar offer for one half of his one eighth interest in the Towanda oil lease. The Kansas farmer, who settled in the early seventies, saw the offer as staggering but calculated carefully and kept his land.
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Peder Paulson
Kansas
Butler County
Paulson
Mr. Paulson
Towanda
Ban On Near Beer Lifted by President
The Tite food administration reports President Wilson signed a Paris proclamation January 23 removing near beer production restrictions. The proclamation awaits U S seal before taking effect. It ends wartime shutdown of beer and malt beverages though no details on other intoxicants are given.
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Tite Food Administration
Wilson
Paris
United States
State Department
Waste and Wastefulness in North Carolina Camp Projects
The armistice ends World War I and reveals three North Carolina cantonments with millions spent on water, sewage, lighting, roads, and buildings. Fayetteville is chosen for a new camp while Sevier, Greene, and Wadsworth face dismantling. critics call the spending wasteful and politically influenced as the War Department touts savings.
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North Carolina
Payett Eville
N. C
Fayetteville
Congress
Wilson
Paris
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Senate
War Department
Rota
North
Caroling
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Forest
C’ville Licht Plant
Mallon’s
Farmers Elevator
Pany
George Hansell
Ette, M
Balata
Bud
Daddy
Amny
Equlars
Alfred Vail
Pei
Janlny
States
Thomas Hamblin
Monticello
Fanton Waste
Ming
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