Army morale drives by YMCA and YWCA support units
The YMCA and allied War Council organize comprehensive welfare for U S servicemen, placing trained secretaries at camps to promote fitness, morals, and mental welfare. Pershing praises the effort as boosting soldier morality and fighting strength while preventing dissolute influence and protecting enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Army
Gils
National War Work Council of the
United States
General Pershing
National War Council
Y. M. OG
YM. C.A
H W. A. McCarl
Western Department
New National Dishes Ata Banquet and Worker Rights
At a Bishee meeting of Ata aminers, the superintendent of a large firm described a bid to organize workers underground. A speaker argued against allowing Mexicans in the union citing economic equality gaps, while others pressed for inclusion and debated labor rights amid tense conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ata Aminers
Bishee
Belor Hide
Chile
Killarney
Torperot
Teton Topics Highlights Local Social Movements
Mrs Norman F Bladen returns from Jackson to visit her daughter Monica recovering from appendicitis at St John s hospital A barn dance at Paul Lyons barn last Saturday night draws praise with attendees from J Y ranch and Bay BC Loretta Sensenbach stays with Mrs Bryant Meare at the Sun Star ranch Mr Biadon plans a hill trip with a J ranch pack outfit
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman F. Bladen
Jackson
Monica
St. John's Hospital
Paul Lyon
J Y Ranch
Bay BC
Loretta Sensenbach
Mrs. Bryant Meare
Sun Star Ranch
Mrs. Riley
Jean Burt
H. H. Menor Ranch
Benson
Elizabeth
Sylvia
Miss Mears
Jackson's Lake
Vivian
Maud Smith
Sheffield Ranch
Seed wheat sales and local notices from diverse Idaho and Wyoming towns
Seed wheat at 83.00 per cwl by Sam McBride with details of local travel, lodging, and meals. Lost pony description and reward. Various notices on flour price reductions, post office changes, yard sales, and local errands. Names include Miss Emma Wallace, Bar BC ranch, Le van, and Charlie Miller with multiple ranch visits and staff movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam McBride
Statue La Frileuse by Houdon Sells for 170000
An American art collector paid 170000 for Houdon’s bronze statue La Frileuse The Shivering Girl dated 1787 bearing the sculptor s signature The work was shown in Paris 1787 passed through royal German and British owners and now resides in private hands with a marble version in Montpellier France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houdon
Paris
Prussia
Germany
Charles Dilke
Richard Wallace
Sir Murray Scott
Infants Food to Shells: WWI Munitions Shift Across Industries
An article notes how during Lloyd George's wartime ministry effort many diverse manufacturers retooled to produce munitions. Firms from infant food, music gear, advertising, watchmaking, baking machinery, jewelry, phonographs, sheep shearing, cream separators, candlemaking, flour mills, tobacco, siphon products, and sporting goods all pivoted to shell parts and related components.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd George
England
Ministry of Munitions
Glixier
Sporting Randa
French colonial possessions and population figures outlined
The report surveys French colonial holdings including Algeria and Indochina with areas near 4 million square miles and populations exceeding 40 million. It notes European numbers around 2 million and a focus on cotton and rubber growth, despite difficulties, with improvements in administration and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester , Guardian
Cochin China
Alttmeter
Algeria
Taole
Bibliomania and the folly of rare book collecting
Stanley K. Wilson notes in the New York Sun that collectors pay astronomical sums for flawed or mispaginated editions. He cites cases from a senator’s shelf to a woman buying deluxe Dickens, revealing how errors or late editions fetch higher prices and drive feverish collecting despite obvious defects.
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Wil
Stanley K. Wilson
New York Sun
Stanley EK. Wilson
New York
Poisonous Snakes and the Gila Monster Tale
A reader offers notes on venomous snakes including the diamond head feature and shedding phase lasting seven days. It mentions the Gila monster found near the Giln river in Arizona and New Mexico, described as a large lizard with monkey-like feet, with conflicting claims about venom. It cites breath as potentially fatal and notes captivity feeding every six weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giln
Arizona
New Mexico
World Wide Magazine
Funston's Artillery Legend at Vera Cruz Landing
Gen Funston carried a 45 caliber plate from waist to knee in campaigns. At Vera Cruz he arrived to greet by Admirals Fletcher and Badger and staff in white with swords. The British consul asked jokingly if Funston was the Chinaman at the head or an American artillery regiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Funston
Vera Cruz
Fletcher
Badger
Digestibility of Cheese and Its Digestive Factors
Investigation into cheese digestion shows fat cheeses dissolve quickly due to casein nitrogenous parts separated by fat, enabling the stomach to attack a large surface. Cheese texture or hardness seems not to affect digestion and there is no link between dispersibility and water content in cheese.
The Schoolgirl Mind and Adult Thought Compared
An excerpt contrasts a schoolgirl mind with adult reasoning, noting the former moves like a grasshopper through seasons, doubts axioms, eschews creed, and relies on intuitions similar to electric flow. The prose critiques fixed logic and highlights youthful perception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wales
Joe Gt D. Sedgwick
Origin of the Bilhouetta Joke in Finance Folklore
A late eighteenth century French tale links a frugal finance minister, Bilhouette, with a painter who uses black to save colors. The anecdote claims the minister inspired the name Bilhouette as a joke about economical art. The piece preserves a village anecdote and a humorous etymology.
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France
Misuleter
Dinance
Bileppe de Bilhouette
Muddled Excerpt Sparks Town Talk About Voter Graft
Fragmentary chatter blames a white man for courting voters with silver dollars and whiskey in a tense town scene. A Brother Bogus voice rails about schemes and section politics, hinting at intimidation while referencing local names and a restless crowd.
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Brother Bogus
They Always Are Brooks Speaists and the Ter Ao Wracking
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Brooke and overtime but offers unclear names and events. The readable bits point to a sports or local note with an overtime element and speaker references, though specifics remain obscured.
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Dackson
Tole Courier
Waser
Wiliver
Poulishoh QV Rioy
Wiraeeretteis
Piietestad
Yaentis Antonie Net
Susscerion Wari
Y.M.C A
U.S
Home Bakery
C.H
A.B. Reed
Ford Car Owners
Westert Soupor
Bik
Wyoming
J. H. and
Edgar E. Bailey
Joe Woolard
Jackson, Wyo
Teton Topics
Mr. Biadon
George Ross
Montana
Kelly
5. K
Alne
Emma Wallace
Levon
Teton Valley Power & Milling Co
Origas
Idaho
Betty Moffat
Lea Luquer
Charlie Miller
Shawback Ranch
Charles Fox and Crew
Bar BC
J Y
Leonard Altenried
Roy Nipper
Dr. Brockmeyer
W. D. Menor
N. EB. Smith
Jim
Charlie
Ollie, Smith
Sam Smith
Wood Lucas Place
Wmn. Svelmire's Bay
Fall River Basin
Shroulder
BUDD
Big Piney
Wye
Cheney
Halph Cheney
Jackson Harness Co
Victor
Newhouse
Hopentier Ail Exprem
Seth Tie
Curtis
King of
Charlies Wort
Eastman Kodaks
And
Kodak Supplies
Abbie and Imbrie
Jackson Drug Co
the Elk Cigar Store
J. R. Jones
Jackson Itory
Joe Novak
Lewis Curtis
Reus
Driggs, Idaho
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