Forty-Second Division Tribute Highlights Valor in France
A message from Major General CHARLES T. MENCHER honors the Forty-Second Division for its trench service in Lorraine Champagne and the Ourcq, noting Sanderson and Ryan transfers from Montana, and praising the unit for holding sectors, defeating German forces, and earning French commendations. It urges continued training and vigilance to uphold the division’s honored record.
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Ralph Sanderson
Billy Ryan
Montana
Jesse B. Roote
Butte
Sanderson
42Nd
American Expeditionery Forces
France
Forty-Second
Lorrane
Lorwipe
Ampagne Front
Gourraud
Reims
Champagne
Marne
Chalons
Germany
Oureq
Sergy
Meurcy Ferme
Seringes
Imperial Guard
Vesle
Lorraine
Gouraud
Ourcq
1St Army Corps
Charles T. Mencher
U. S. Army
Total American Casualties Not Expected to Exceed 100000
Washington officials estimate the total casualties of the American Expeditionary Forces will not exceed 100000 including killed wounded died of wounds disease accidents and missing. Many cases remain unreported from recent heavy fighting by the First and Second American Armies and lists will take weeks to compile.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Pershing Presents Distinguished Service Medal to Marshal Joffre
General Pershing awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to Marshal Joffre in a ceremony. Pershing praised Joffre for noble character and the great task accomplished, linking the medal to shared American and allied military results. Joffre thanked Pershing, calling the award a sign of closeness to the American army and people.
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General Pershing
Wilson
Marshal Joffre
Maine
Pershing
Roosevelts Plan Visit to Son Quentin Roosevelt Grave
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt will visit the grave of their son Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt in France where he fell after his plane was shot down. Roosevelt opposed moving the body to the United States and General March approved keeping the grave as is. Pershing was instructed to honor requests of families regarding burial matters for other soldiers.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Mrs. Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt
France
Roosevelt
Peyton C. March
United States Army
March
Pershing
Next Time Never Came in Bennie’s Battle Letter
An American soldier writes his mother in California predicting battle fatigue and courage as he notes rest before a push into German lines. He vows to return but is killed, found with his rifle at a German machinegun nest, nine German soldiers dead nearby.
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California
Bennie
Germany
May Face Trial for Murder Over Extradition
The article notes William Hohenzollern is not safe from consequences of his deeds, having fled to Holland. He was indicted three times for murder in England after the Lusitania sinking and during early London air raids. It states England may requisition his extradition under ongoing indictments.
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William Hohenzollern
Holland
Lusitania
London
England
Emperor Charles Relinquishes Hungarian Throne
Copenhagen reports that Emperor Charles has stepped down and relinquished the throne of Hungary. The dispatch from Budapest confirms the action as ofNov 16, a Saturday.
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Copenhagen
Charles
Hungary
Budapest
Whit eof Lost Battalion Leader Arrives in New York
Lieut Colonel Charles M Whittlesey, famed for the lost battalion of the Seventy seventh division, reached New York last week with Lieut Hitchcock of the Lafayette flying squadron who escaped from a German prison camp last summer.
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Charles M. Whittlesey
Seventy Seventh Division
Hell
Argonne Forest
New York
Hitchcock
Lafayette Flying Squadron
Chamberlain's Tablets Benefit Letter Cited
Mrs M P Harwood of Auburn New York credits Chamberlain's Tablets with curing indigestion headache and torpid liver after two years of distress. She states two bottles corrected these disorders and led to improved well being.
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Chamberlain
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