Germans Surrender to U S Troops Under Truce Flag
London correspondent reports a 50 German soldiers surrendered under a flag of truce after attacking American lines northwest of Chateau Thierry. Despite fierce bombardment and local assaults at Bouresches and Belieu wood, German forces left many dead wounded and prisoners. Zouave regiment and French artillery now operate under American command boosting French morale.
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London
Chateau Thiery
Daily Mail
France
Beliean
Bouresches
Belieau Wood
Boureches
Eterpily
Bussiares
Belleau Wood
Soldier boy writes home from Camp Merritt in 1918
Olen Bickerstaff, a serviceman from Camp Beauregard and now at Camp Merritt New Jersey, sends cheerful notes to Vidette Iuka Mississippi. He recalls travel through St. Louis Cleveland and Buffalo, describes parades, city visits, 20 hour passes to New York, Broadway parks and a club supper, and thanks Tishomingo county readers.
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Broadway
Tishomingo
Olen Bickerstaff
Letter From Camp Beauregard Soldier to Tishomingo County
A long letter from John Harper Ray of Company K 154th Infantry at Camp Beauregard La. describes loneliness, home visits, guard duties, and a hospitalized friend, with news of relatives visiting Burnsville and Iuka. The note closes with prayers, requests for mail, and local community updates including Miss Ruth Flake, Pearl Hooper, and Aunt Minerva Welch's death. A column of local notices follows with neighborhood social items and farming notes.
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Beauregard
Tishomingo County
Campeon
Tam
John A. Williams
Clayton A Crouse
Iuka
George Gilchrist
Central Hotel
Winfield
Old Mississippi
John Harper Ray
Camp
C. R. Elledge
Charles
Red Bay
Ala
Harry Graham
Zola Timbes
Corinth
Ruth Flake
Memphis
Napoleon Wilson
O. T. Holder
Mabel
Gladys Holder
Sol
Camp Pike
Burnsville
F. K. Holder
Camp Shelby
Chas. Holder
France
Holder
Mattie Carter
Dorothy Smith
Robert Smith
Klein Belue
Tishomingo
Tour Burgh
Bso
Pearl Hooper
Brannan
Mary Burns
Clifford
Alabama
Fred Floyd
Floyd
Baptist Church of
Bro. Carmack
Minerva Welch
Minerva
All Day Singing Planned In Showdown This June
Farm community reports a good rain aiding crops. Mr Budd Yarber and wife visited Mr and Mrs Edfast over the weekend. O C Ferrill will lead Salem singing class at the all day event. An entry titled A Lonely Girl is noted.
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Budd Yarber
Edfast
O. C. Ferrill
Salem
National War Savings Day urged as great wartime duty
The National War Savings Committee calls for June 28 as National War Savings Day, urging all ages to pledge to save and buy War Savings Stamps. It asks Americans to conserve labor and materials for the government and to join a nationwide effort to raise $2 billion in stamps, noting that each person would need about $20. The piece stresses sacrifice at home to support soldiers abroad and to fund the war through savings.
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National War Savings Committee
France
Europe
Congress
Scruggs Bridge bid call in Iuka Mississippi
A notice states on the first Monday of July 1918 bids are invited from the lowest responsible bidder for building a bridge across Yellow Creek called Scruggs Bridge, per plans on file with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. D L Anderson, President of Board.
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Iuka
Dachehild
Mississippi
Yellow Creek
No Loafing Order To Reshape Time Use
The forthcoming No Loafing order will alter how people allocate time between work and leisure. Officials express hope the measure will be enforced and productive activity increased. Authors urge compliance as communities anticipate the policy's impact on daily routines.
North Carolina Leads With German Goods Entering Bond Pact
North Carolina starts with societies whose entrance obligation binds members to neither buy nor use German-made goods for 10 years. The author argues every state should form associations on the same principle.
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North Carolina
Warning to Mothers About Girls in Alexandria 1918
In a June 1918 Alexandria letter the War Department commission urges caution for families with young women visiting cantonment towns. They warn of crowded housing, high costs, few legitimate jobs, and vagrancy arrests for women without support. They urge parental chaperones and offer aid via the Information Bureau at City Hall.
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Alexandria
War Department Commission On War Camp
Information Bureau
War Camp Community Service Board
Leonard Parr
Rep
War Dept. Com
Trene Shields
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U.S
Burnsville News
Luka
National War Savings
W.S
BROWN
Iuka Guaranty Bank
Guaranty Fund
State of
Micaiasipy
Weaver Manufacturing Co
Corinth, Miss
Misia Chige A
T. A. Leddin
Cotton School
Addres Memphis
Business College
Tenn
J. Yyteeter Prin
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