French Port Town Embraces American Influx and Signs
Fra nce Port town adopts American style as troops arrive last June. Shops display English signs and hosts English shopping terms while American breakfast and ice cream signs attract soldiers. Police and French rules curb drinking. soldiers win broad goodwill, aiding charities with fundraisers like a negro minstrel show raising over $500 for war widows.
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France
Y R Railway Schedule In Effect November 28 1917 Northbound
Schedule shows Northbound service No 22 leaving daily except Sunday at 3 28 PM with listed stations unreadable. Southbound times are obscured in text.
Selective Draft Men Above Average in Intelligence in New Army
Washington reports Maj. Granville Fortescue declares new national army includes men of higher intelligence and education than the old draft. The piece highlights diverse European and Middle Eastern origins among troops, the role of language, morale efforts, and a growing cadre of military psychologists shaping attitudes and loyalty in training.
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Washington
United States
Granville Fortescue
National Geographic Society
Amd
France
New York
317 Infantry
Brooklyn
Womanhood Loves Perfect Manhood New Medicine Points the Way
An advertisement touts Dreco, a natural herbal remedy to improve digestion and vitality. It claims to reach the disease cause, purify blood, and restore health, with quick results and widespread local usage endorsed by Ringe Prue Co. in High Point.
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Dreco
High Point
Ringe Prue Co
Man Seeks Coal But Refuses When Limited Supply Noted
A man who asks for little is quickest to protest once told that coal will not be handed over to him. The remark highlights tensions over resource allocation and entitlement in a sparsely supplied area.
Woman Described as Finely Built Uses Pills for Blood Purge
An advertisement asserts women are more finely constructed than men and monitor health with Foley's King Pills. It claims the remedy cleanses blood of impurities causing aches and pains in muscles joints backache rheumatic pain and puffiness around the eyes as marketed by Manr Drug Co.
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Petersburg
Camp Lee
159Th Brigade
Middlesex
Surry
Kent
Westmoreland
Northumberland
Northampton
Lancaster
York
Warwick
Bedford
Sussex
Richmond
Southampton
Isle of Wight
Buckingham
Bath
Halifax
Addison
Arnold
Johnson
Meredith
Division
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Cox and Poges
Padgett
Pennsyvania Company
Rell
Foley
Manr Drug Co
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