Mount Vernon Draws Peaceful Visitors Amid War Era
Mount Vernon remains calm as war looms, yet the site sees record visitor numbers since April 1917 with 50 000 new residents in Washington to aid the government at war. Envoys from allied nations visit aboard the Mayflower on multiple trips to wreath Washington's tomb. The Mayflower ferried Balfour Joffre the Italian mission Belgian Russian and Japanese missions. A federate reunion nearly set a daily visitor record with about 7000 attendees.
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Mount Vernon
America
Washington
United States
Balfour
Marshal Joffre
Health That Makes Wealth and the Value of Energy
The article argues real health goes beyond basic function to include nervous energy enabling new thoughts, plans, and enterprises. It emphasizes working endurance and especially the quality of effort over sheer hours, noting energy concentrates effort and improves performance beyond the average, citing Hugo Masters in Physical Culture.
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Hugo Masters
Fear Recurrence of Plague Warns of Rat Extermination
Government experts urge rat extermination as a wartime measure to save food with annual losses estimated at 200 million dollars. A full grown rat consumes more food than a baby and poses a health threat. The plague spread by rats in Europe and Asia and via ships to the Pacific coast led to costly control campaigns. The disease reappears from Asia’s crowded cities. war, famine and poverty may trigger a renewed outbreak.
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Europe
Asia
Pacific
Orient
Turks Seek British Aid From Palestine Frontlines
Val entine Robinson of New York in the Herald reports from the engineers corps in Palestine describing a pause after a desert scene as Turks were driven off and a flag of truce ferried in. Turkish officers sought a doctor, two majors stayed as hostages, Devens volunteered to fetch aid and returned with two wounded regimental comrades.
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Valentine Robinson
Wall Street
New York
The
Herald
Engineers’ Corps
Palestine
Devens
Traction Co Schedule Changes Put East Bound Trains on New Times
Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction announces effective February 1 1917 a revised east bound timetable with morning departures at 6 00 7 25 8 15 8 55 10 15 and late afternoon and night trains including 12 15 1 20 2 15 3 20 4 24 5 28 and 7 20 p m limited service. Stops noted at Greencastle and Highlander.
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Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Co
P. M
Greencastle
Highlander
Amateur sportsman shies at 3000-yard rifle offer
In Indianapolis a young man entered a sporting goods store asking to view guns. The salesman showed many models from a .22 to a pump gun, but none pleased him. He refused a high-power rifle claiming he must stay much closer than 3,000 yards.
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Indianapolis
Increasing Use of Rare Metals Prompts Steel Advances
Maj. William A. Mensch of San Diego notes wartime industrial push boosts use of tungsten, vanadium and molybdenum in steel. He says molybdenum, though common in Europe, has limited U S adoption. The article highlights these metals as leaders in strengthened alloys during the war effort.
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William A. Mensch
San Diego
Cal
Record Breaker for Mineral Production in 1916
The total value of the nations mineral production in 1916 surpassed 3.47 billion dollars, rising 1.076 billion or 45 percent from 1915’s 2.394 billion, and beating the 1913 peak by over 1 billion, per the Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.
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Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Monon Route time schedule for Chicago and Northwest
Monon Route Chicago and Northwest timetable lists north and south bound trains with numbers, destinations, and arrival times. It notes daily operation, limited passenger service on freights, Pullman sleepers on night trains and parlor dining cars on day trains, with a prompt to contact for full time cards, fares, and through car information.
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Chicago
Lafayette
Accom
Louisville & Fr
French Lick
Pullman
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