War era aerial fighter exploits and home front notices
Fragmented wartime article notes aviators and infantrymen with references to German combat, balloon defenses, and praise for Allied airmen. Includes details on public information committees, recruitment and training, and home front efforts such as rationing and manufacturing orders for weapons and equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prem Sversister
Poames
Hombe
Megnan
Netlon
Critien
Wartime Camp Sports and Labor Demands Highlight 1918 Efforts
Wartime notes describe extensive athletic facilities at training camps including Camp Lewis with 18 baseball fields and numerous track venues, tennis courts, golf, polo, and large spectator crowds. The article also details labor needs for the war effort, truck production, postal responsibilities for expeditionary forces, and relief measures affecting soldiers and workers, with emphasis on training, housing, and welfare programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission On Training
Camp Lewis
Washington
Heeeball
Compa
Tampe
Detroit Society Nurse Returns From France Service
Miss Margery Kay, a Detroit society girl who served as an American nurse in France, says she was among the first U.S. nurses to return. She wears a civilian-style uniform chosen by each nurse for the improvised ambulance corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margery Kay
Detroit Society
France
United States
Miss Kay
Passing the Sentry on the Mexican Border Camp
A firsthand reminiscence describes nightly sentry patrols at a Mexican border camp. A captain returning late must pass multiple posts and exchanges humorous challenges, reflecting tense mood and sharp wit. Additional snippets include jokes about humorists, pine wood, and turning out a mayor with a recent purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Tone and Tone in Speech Shape Wounding or Help
A compact clashing of quotes on tone shaping meaning in speech. It notes how gentle delivery can soothe simple words while harsh tone makes sympathy seem mockery. The piece cites examples from various sources and includes a humorous miscommunication about a boned improvised joke.
Civil war veteran Dye hangs self in Urbana
State siftings passage reports multiple Ohio items including James H. Dye of Urbana who hanged himself, Donald Bennett drowned in the Ohio river at Bellaire, and various local obituaries, political moves, war efforts, and public notices across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James H. Dye
Urbana
Donald Bennett
Bellaire
Ohio
Floyd Trewx
Sarahsville
Noble County
E. B. Hopkins
Yellow Springs
Anna Saltzman
Findlay
John P. Gearin
Tippe Eangelly
Thrift pledge urged for nation to aid war effort
President Wilson calls on all Americans to pledge thrift and buy government securities by June 28 in a nationwide effort to save materials and labor for war production. He stresses that the war is a national enterprise requiring every citizen to conserve and invest, and urges continued purchase of Liberty Bonds and War Savings stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Wilson
U. S
Treasury Department
Sil
United States
Volunteer Army
Richest US Potash Vein Found in Colorado Foothills
A trapper reports a major potash vein in Colorado foothills described as the richest in the United States. The vein crops out of a rocky fault, four feet thick at the surface, traceable for nearly a half mile. Depth not yet determined. Analysis shows 25 to 100 parts per million of potash.
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Oxford College For
Ashtabula
Court
Rebecca -Williams
City of
Bellefontaine
Mary Rutan Hospital
Hocking Valley Railroad
Lancaster
Cox
Stars and Stripes
North Lewisburg
Union
Red Cross
Ohio Supreme Court
Abram W. Acier
Canton
Madison County
Lorain
Hoover
Croxton
Ruf
Fulton
J. R. Clements
Camp Sherman
Sam
State Department of Health
Harry Brown
Carrie Malone
Cleveland
Alpert Bennet
Ohio
Columbus
Western Newspaper Union
Charles E. Ganmer
Marion
Urbana
State Securities Department
Henry Farrell
Xenia
R. M. Wanamaker
C. W. Newman
Supreme Courilect
Wanamaker
Newman
Chillicothe
State Selective Services
Federal Department of Justice
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Telephone Company
Ohio War Savings Vall
War Savings
Dark County Red Cross Society
Henry Schaurer
Common Pleas Court
Greenville
Petiton
United States
Love Rock Monument fever sweeps Camp Devens cue
At Camp Devens Massachusetts girls with sweethearts in the troops add rocks to a rising Love monument. Each selects a stone along the cantonment route and carries it to the site to place on the pile. The feature is a lighthearted wartime morale stunt amid humorous quips and jokes throughout the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Devens
Devens
Mass
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PF. P. Magoun
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Owe Flyer
Soty Pee Rouge
Cot
Ainty Wren
Garmin
Bering
Wileinleia
United James
Bor Wwe
Biack
Elning
Beery Brown
Browning Rifles Suibclene
Willer
Army Divteronm
Sette Fery
Eye
Tongeney Hose
Bostatiet
Litete
James
War Department
Comunicans
Drewent
Avator Transport Service
Army
Post Office Department
Seepler
Department of Labor
Tosuon Islarers Wa Construction
Norfolk
Newport News
Hartimore
Vicinity
Wooten
Army School of Nursing
Surgeon General of the Army
Washington, D. C
Commission
M.O. A. Knights of Columbus
Wod
Planta
Little Rock
Ark
Brunswick
Rrra
Department of Justice
Food Administration
Tees
Department of Agriculture
Colorado
Edwards
Oakland
Kaiser
Cal
Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Jelty Hall
Kaiser’s
War Fund
The
Kiel
Florida Times-Union
Private Bang
Sheldon G. Smith
Perry County
Bucyrus
McCoy
Dayton
George Pues
Newark
Trinity Lutheran Church
Marysville
Henry Town
W. W
Youngstown
Dan Datis
Warren
Trvin
Earl Steere
Hear Kirkpatrick
Marion County
Vossler Grothers
Wapakoneta
Bueyrus
Ora Troyer
Harry
Osborn
Cincinnati
National Association of Party
Mahoning County
Camp Gordon
Industrial Commission
Allen County
Ohio River
East Liverpool
Libbey Glass Company
Toledo
Louis Wilson
Edward Spear
New Athens
Mary A. Link
Willam Coffman
Davisville
Jai
Jackson
John Torrey
Coalton
Harriet M. King
Columbus Council
Anthony Frazer
Murrell Crissett
Oxford
J. Reams
Fayette-Pickaway
Lane
Vaughn
United States Department of Agriculture
Abraham Weinzimmer
Sccrely
Lawrence K. Langdon
Lebanon
State
Polite Utilities Commission
Erie Railroad
Ashianis
Wilbur Evans
Charles Wolf
Clyde Boyer
John Evans
John E. Evans
Niles
Noble Woods
Henry Woods
Meander Creek
Evans
Hcense Boans
William J. Dunean
Pindlay
Supreme Court
Edward Buester
McGhee
Crestline
Benny
Draft Board
Charles Howell
Carl Keller
Scioto
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indianapolis
Unionville Center
Union County
Ohio Wesleyan University
Cornelia Cole
Wesleyan
Indaw
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