Landry’s Dinner and a Night of Tales in New York
Landry and Sybil attend Janet’s dinner with Miss Halsey and Mr. Gregory. Janet’s travel stories and photos enchant the group as Landry contemplates his role as physician to the wealthy while balancing care for the poor, revealing tensions between money and mercy.
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Janet
Starr
Anteher
Miss Halsey
Mr. Gregory
Naples
Vesuvius
Europe
Rome
Venice
Switzerland
Ives
Versailles
Landry
Warren
Margaret
Sybil
Old Italian Palaces Reopened as Hospitals for Refugees
March 2 report notes centuries of neglect ending as grand palaces in Italy become refugee shelters and soldier hospitals. Caserta’s Versailles of Italy barracks Austrian prisoners. Quirinal palace and private rooms donated for refugee children. St Anselm Monastery on Avetine Hill loaned by the Catholic Church. American Red Cross backs purpose built housing for refugees over converting palaces.
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Italy
Sollier
Caserta
Naples
Versailles
Victor Emanuel
Elena
Quirinal
Rome
Pope Benedict
St. Anselm
Avetine Hill
American Red Cross
Amateur Gardeners Seek More Paris Plot Space
Amateur gardeners around Paris fortifications see high demand for plots this season. Applications will be accepted in writing with priority to large or needy families. Families with five or more children may receive two plots of about a hundred yards square each.
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Paris
Special Rates Promised for Veterans Reunions
Washington March 2 Director General Meleoo announced that Confederate veterans will receive special train rates for their Tulsa Oklahoma reunion and Grand Army of the Republic in Portland Oregon. Rail congestion and wartime transport concerns had raised the possibility of denied facilities, but the situation appears to be improving and McAdoo later promised train facilities and rates of one cent a mile.
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Washington
Direetor
Meleoo
Confederate Veterans
Tulsa
Oka
Grand Army of the Republic
Portland
Ore
McAdoo
Five more bodies recovered from Cherokee sinking
Washington reports that five more men from the navy tug Cherokee were found after the ship foundered. They were picked up by passing vessels and sent to the hospital at Cape May New Jersey. Two bodies remain unidentified.
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Washington
Cape May
N. J
Mail Order Cough Remedy Trial Offer Promoted
A cutout slip offers a trial package from Foley and Co for Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup along with Foley Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. Submit name and address with five cents to 2835 Sheffield Ave Chicago Illinois.
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Foley and Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
Mann Drug Co
Germans After Ore Fields of France
Amsterdam reports German industrial circles press for Naboth’s vineyard ore basins Briey and Longwy to offset limited iron ore and postwar import doubts. Prof K Hager warns Germany has 66 years of ore at current output and proposes foreign ore acquisition tariffs export limits state monopoly on old iron and reduced domestic consumption to save resources.
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Germany
French
Briey
Longwy
K. Hager
Munich
Ludwig
Bavaria
England
Hager
China
Hardships Endured By Tommies in the March on Jerusalem
A letter from a priest describes dire conditions of British forces in Palestine before Jerusalem fell. He recalls a hot November day when a Beer Sheba camel convoy failed to reach troops, water shortages, a burial service, and sniper fire that tore at lips as shells whistled past, ending with scant water arriving that evening.
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Jerusalem
London
Palestine
Beersheba
Holy
Portraits of Dante and Petrarch Found in Italian Church
In Rimini, Italy, frescoes from the 14th century depicting Dante and Petrarch in youth were uncovered in the church of St. Augustine. The works, created by Giotto students, were whitewashed in 1630 after the Black Death and will be preserved to settle debates over the poets’ youthful appearances.
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Rimini
Italy
Dante
Petrarch
St. Augustine
Giotto
Scarcely Plane Enough Wh when is a man not a man
Brief Boys' Life note asks a playful riddle about shaving and identity, noting humor in a lighthearted cartoon style. It mentions a question about when a man is not a man and hints at a joke or comic strip setup.
Rail Schedule Report from C and Y Railway 1917
November 28 1917 timetable shows northbound No 22 leaving daily with stops at High Rock Denton High Point Thomasville Gordontown and others. Times listed 12 45 1 20 4 05 3 28 with caveat arrivals and departures not guaranteed and subject to change without notice.
Certificate of Dissolution for High Point Furniture Show Rooms Inc
The certificate records the voluntary dissolution of High Point Furniture Show Rooms Inc a North Carolina corporation. It notes unanimous stockholder consent filed December 28 1917 with the secretary of state J Bryan Grimes certifying the dissolution and official seal dated Raleigh December 28 1917.
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State
North Carolina
High Point Furniture Show Rooms Inc
Broad Str
High Point
Guilford
G. Lambert
Carolina
I. J. Bryan Grimes
State of North
Raleigh
A. D
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Mrs. Hyde
Ested
Dae
Landrys
Atlantic Store, Inc
France
Naboth
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Tom of
The
Dustrial
Belle
Nancy
Baltimore
W. Arthur Barber Printing
West Wigton Street
North Main
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Elwood Hotel
Winston
Winston, Zinzemdorf Hotel
Guilford Hotel
Shad
Dunbar’ & Hutchins
C.& Y. R. Railway CO
High Rock
Denton
Thomasville
Cid
Gordontown
Eoseee
A. M Ly
Gordontown Cid Ee
Centon
Department of State
Gilmer Bros. Company
Jsev
J. A. Hart Drug
Kahn Tailoring Co
Kahn Tailoring Company
Indianapolis
Geo. A. Bryant
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