Americans killed training in Paris area during World War I
The American war effort reports Lieut. William Chenar, Lieut. Oliver Sherwood, and Cadet George Howrk killed while training near Paris from Foggia. They were buried with military honors as casualties and officials note naval readiness to deploy troops. Reports mention General Pershing and war department updates, including injuries to General Weed and other service members.
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Teutonic War News
Mallon Sill
Paris
Foggia
Wiliam Chener
Oliver Sherwood
George Howrk
Multiple Crises and Actions Mark World Turmoil
A chaotic dispatch details a train strike called off in East St Louis and suburban railways, royal caucus results in Warrington, and a deadly crash near Granger. Reports cover a Newport explosion killing twelve, naval losses, food controls, and war measures across nations including Canada, Finland, Rhodesia, and Austria. President Wilson seeks wheat cuts while railroads purge nonessential staff and lobbyists.
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Tip East
European War Updates and Related Conflicts Report
War dispatches describe German crown treasures bombarded by British airmen near Trevex. Bolsheviks push peace terms division, while Ukrainian forces claim victory near Lutsk with Russian retreat. German raids on London and a Palermo theater report casualties, with 47 killed and 100 injured, including 14 new deaths, 17 women, and 16 children. Swedish intervention in the Finnish civil conflict is noted as troops land at Tornen. Italian forces claim 1500+ prisoners after assaults on eastern fronts. The Cunard ship Andania torpedoed off Ulster but not sunk, with survivors rescued by trawlers. Western Front actions extend south of St Quentin, and Roumanian forces are referenced in a separate exchange. An Italian report cites Teutonic bombs killing women in Treviso and Mestre.
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Lomion
Cose
Gowen
Muses
Notable Polignac Link Traced Through Virginia Figure
Mme de Courtivron, wife of a French war mission member in Washington, presented to Virginia officials a relic worn by her distinguished father Intervien Polignac, who rose to general in the Confederate army. Her popularity among those who entertained the commission has been marked.
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Atarquise de Cregal de Montfort de Pourliveon
Washington
Virginia
Polignac
Anuy
Mme. de Courtivron
Aenes de Polignac
Inventions and industry notes from distant times
A batch of notes covers patents for vision aid hair guides, a tiny dynamo meter, a sterile handle for portability, and a horse power per pound claim for a gunpowder engine. It notes British factory accidents, a novel exercise device, explosives industry shifts, a district judge’s politics in New Orleans, a Europe born turbine transformer, and literary feats from Stevenson and Hall Caine. It ends with Jamaica banana crop damage from three hurricanes and sugar industry recovery.
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Preneh
Mc Preach
Aince
New Orleans
Supreme Court
I. L. Stevenson
Hall Caine
Coleridge
Jamaica
Army and Air Service manpower demands analyzed
Howard Coffin outlines the strain of equipping the air service and remount needs, noting between 40 to 50 auxiliary personnel per front line machine would require millions of soldiers overseas. He cites current army strength, remount and veterinary corps growth, hospital admissions, and pay scales for enlisted men, highlighting transportation, supply, and manpower challenges ahead.
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Veterinary Corps
Remount Service
Uncle Sam
Wrom
Washington
Howard DB. Coffin
Aircraft Production Board
Air Service
Army
Debarkation
Calendar in Head How to Remember Months by Rigma
A short feature explains a memory based calendar for 1918 using a twelve word rhyme. Three words per line index the twelve months making it easy to recall the weekday for any date. The method aims to reduce mental arithmetic for busy people planning events.
Time Flies Fret Men Wisely So Time’s Fooled Away
Rhyme explains how initials map days of week to month start days for 1018 and 1918. It shows determining which weekdays hold the first and other dates, using examples: July 1918 Monday start implies July 4 Thursday. March 23 birthday implies March 1 Friday. December’s last word A yields Sundays on 1, 8, 15, 22 with Christmas a Wednesday.
Spoiled Children and Greeks in Turkish Territory
Fragmented reading mixes a reflective spare moment on a crowded Interurban car with a report from the University of Athens about Greek citizenship in Adrianople and surrounding Balkans. It notes the Turkish evacuation implications and notes Constantinople as a Greek city with 250,000 Greeks. The piece shifts to a travel sketch of the Vale of Llangollen and a brief overview of Turko Tartars and their diverse groups in Asiatic Russia.
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Andreade
University of Athens
Macedonia
Balkans
Turkey
Syria
Asia Minor
Europe
Vilayet
Prasipee
Adrianople
Bale Tans
Constantinople
Constantinogite
Straits
Russia
Kirghiz
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Aeris
Workington
Erie
War Department
Sooor Daniels
Waahing
Pershing
Waxhington
Jack M. Wright
New York
Annatel
Roberts
Bare
Maier
X. J
Hobert
Meningitia
Soattie
Wewtern
Forest Service
Cee Saees
Heriuben
Seon Seuliet
Rf Enenmunt
War Haker
Pearn
Leaverworth
Tod
Camp Logro
Tex
Sergt
Granville W. Shaw
Hobert McCurry
Clarence A. Brobery
Ciicago Eee
County Food Co Industrators
Lee
Ohio
Kentucky
Paducahbarna
Sioux City
Viola Borg
le Mars
Natal Lorsky
Newport
Edward L. Beach
Lent Intend
MacDonald
Leto Fiver
Ring of Canada
J. A. Wiehey
Tefurien
Mart Worth
Newark
Gere Fosles
of & Pubowrive Boat
Dorpet
Mlen AL O'Grady
Crooklyq
Santa Rowita
Mex
Frapeisen Ville
AG Amosterdam
Sovkalist
Limiliste 4
Adolph Hetwas
Verwaeds
Lenge Iie Pripestati Diel
Amsterdam
Myrlia
Rhodesia
South Africa
Guiziziviverbriden
Salisbury
Gelrs
Sfaxim Gorky
Smoloy Institue
Petrograd
Marsellien Naga
Bremen
Ankiter
Finland
Baparands
Sweden
Rel Guard
Helsingfors
Red Guard
Rikimaki
Rede
W. T. Rook
Food Control Administration
Ottawa
Vancouver
D. C
Canada
Prague
Austria
Zurich
Vienna
Trwoe
Wilson
White House
Wasington
Tt Wax
Belgium
United States
Willan G. McAdoo
Landon
Tornen
Red
Tintian
Lom
Rome War Office
Asingo
Eac
Ulster
Irish Daily Telegraph
Belfast
Ireland
Shy
North Teiah
France
St. Quentin
Neta Ee
Vexas-Most- Petrograd
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Pape No.8
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Roumania
Melean Wan
Pas
Droken
Honmaning
Gulf Coast
Thomon Wartell
Abraham Duud
Seattle
Wash
Lincoln
Springfield
Rome
Mys
Teutonic
Treviso
Mestre
Tree
Astareth
Estarte
Benatur Sorghum
Emma
Beg Ruising
Honeybug
Battalion of Death
RS Ee Crane
Scotland
Ceoil Burney
London
Howard Coffin
United States Army
Westington
Ted Stitt
United Sites
Smilage
Red Cross
Thaty
National League of Woman's Service
Uncle Eben
Minn
Pets Yates
Law
Ned Artillery
Coast Artillery
Mrn
Engineers
Ordnance
Sign Corps
Quartermaster Corps
Medical
Hergiants
Hergiants Unl Musicians of the Fist Clues
Pearten Se
Serpount
Griners
Errormaster Corps
Medical Department
Erage
Quartermaister Corps
Toaster Sienal
Post Exchange
Frankfurter Zeitung
Germain Empire
National Army
Unier
Bureau of Wareigh Insurance
Safezmrd
America
Alanka
Alaska
W. H. Seward
Arctic
Tekat
Indianapolis
Iniianspolis
Vale of
Llangollen
Stevenson
Linngotten
Dee
Wales
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