Mrs. Vincent Astor Tours Devastated Front in France
Mrs. Vincent Astor returned from a two day trip to the war ravaged region evacuated by the Germans along the Hindenburg line. She faced aerial battle, shell bursts, and anti aircraft fire near observation posts at Coucy La Fere and St Quentin. She viewed Prince Hitel Friedrich’s post near Noyon and gathered souvenirs from German uniforms and insignia left behind.
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Paris
Vincent Astor
Hindenburg Line
Coucy la Fere
St. Quentin
Mrs. Astor
France
Prince Hitel Friedrich
Noyon
Record duck flight on Klondike flats near Jackson gulch
Dawson Y. T.-Ed Doran of South Dawson shot 26 ducks in 12 shots during a dawn flight on the Klondike flats near Jackson gulch. Starting with seventeen shells he fired five shots at indistinct forms, then landed seventeen ducks with seven remaining. He finished with five shots, killing nineteen and wounding seven or eight more as dusk settled. He claims it was the greatest flight he ever saw and would have beaten Jack Lee’s fifty two ducks in under an hour with more shells.
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Doran
Jack Lee
Jack
Klondike
Man Seeks Damages For Loss Of His Dog Hero
Los Angeles file: Harry Marks, owner of Hero a valued $20,000 dog held as family support for himself and his invalid wife, asks the Los Angeles labor board for compensation under the law after Hero was killed while performing duties.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Hero
Harry Marks
Los Angeles Labor Board
Marks
Everybody Should Do His Part In The War
An editorial urges Americans to pursue perfection in wartime effort. It argues that casual talk of getting along is false and mistakes cost lives. Readers are called to high efficiency, acknowledging that delays or indecision harm soldiers and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Porter Emerson Browne
The
Vigilantes
United States of America
Banishing Egg Shampoos Proposed to Save Eggs
South Bend barber J D Kimerer proposes a wartime ban on egg shampoos for men to save 93,600,000 eggs yearly at three shampoos per barber weekly. He cites 300,000 barbers and estimates women also use eggs, with a hairdresser noting about 50,000,000 eggs used annually.
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South Bend
Ind
J. D. Kimerer
National
Sloover
Kimerer
United States
Transplanting bone saves Grady man arm in Oklahoma
Jim Herring of Grady faced a malignant bone loss in his forearm after injuring his arm. A surgeon transplanted ten inches of bone from his leg to his forearm, restoring structure and using a silver plate in the leg. The arm is expected to regain full function as healing continues.
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Ringling
Okla
Jim Herring
Stockman
Grady
Herring
Wreck of Express Averted by Hats Odd Hero
Greenwich Connecticut Mrs M F Bowen Christian Science reader buys a hat that reportedly saved an express train near Port Chester. The hat blew off on a platform, the conductor warned, and the hat was later found by a bootblack after a split rail was reported. The express was diverted to another track.
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Greenwich
Conn
New Haven
Port Chester
War aid plan urged by Indianapolis medical society
The Indianapolis Medical Society proposes that one third of fees from Marion county physicians who stay in war service be set aside for the returning absent doctors or their families. The move aims for national adoption. The society has 336 members with at least fifty expected to be called soon and more to follow.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Medical Society
Marion County
Jsmitice
Unusual Relics Found in Pueblo Ruins Near Aztec
Earl Morris led twenty five workers to excavate Pueblo ruins at Aztec in San Juan county where the American Museum of Natural History catalogued sixty rare pottery pieces and over 20 000 carved stone heads. They unearthed turquoise beads mosaics shell ornaments corn grains beans pumpkin seeds pine cones cotton fibers sandals and even a seated skeleton indicating decapitation in an underground communal dwelling.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Earl Morris
Pueblo
Aztec
San Juan County
American Museum of Natural History
Tallest World War I Recruit From Ozark
John F. Haley, 23, a farmer near Ozark in Christian County Missouri, stands six feet four and a half inches and had to bow at the recruiting station door. He says his brother is two inches taller and will enlist within days, still helping their father with planting.
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Springfield
John F. Haley
Ozark
Christian County
United States Army
Judge Devises Novel Punishment For Wife Beaters
Kansas City court imposes a hundred days on the rock pile for George Martin while patrolmen escorting him must stop at the Missouri river and duck the prisoner three times on the way to the farm. The sentence stems from Martin’s beating of his wife who could not silence the baby.
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Kansas City
Herrod
City Court
George Martin
Missouri River
Martin
Divorce costs rise in Stark County legal fees
Stark county divorces now cost more as the County Bar association raises fees to cope with wartime prices. Uncontested divorces increase from 25 to 35 dollars while contested cases rise to 50 dollars, affecting both spouses seeking marital liberty.
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Canton
Stark County
County Bar Association
Lions Come Down From Hills To Kill Burros Near Mill Spring
In Mentone California two mountain lions descended near the Edison power plant at Mill Spring and killed two burros. One jack was torn apart while the other fought back before succumbing. The incident highlights wildlife pressure near human developments and the high cost of living driving predators toward novel food sources.
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San Francisco
Mentone
Cal
Edison
Mill Spring
Bees Make Home In Wall At Dr. Wilson House
In St. Louis, a three year swarm resided in a brick wall cavity at Dr. Allen Wilson’s Wagoner place. The bees have caused no harm or honey consumption, and he does not plan removal. The hollow extends into the wall a foot and entered via a bricklayer hole near an iron brace.
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St. Louis
Allen Wilson
Wagoner Place
Wilson
Charles P Taft II Enlists In Army At Yale
Charles P Taft II son of William Howard Taft and a Yale junior enlisted in the artillery branch of the regular army with nine other undergraduates. The group will report to Fort Myer Virginia and includes John M Anderson Jr Robert T Cairns George H Ennis Jr John E Fasick Francis T McNamara Cyril B Mosher Albert H Stackpole H B Porter Carl M Thomas.
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New Haven
Conn
Charles P. Taft 2d
William Howard Taft
Yale College
Artillery
Regular Army
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
University
Fort Myer
Taft
John M. Anderson, Jr
Cincinnati
Robert T. Cairns
Overbrook
George H. Ennis, Jr
Derby
John E. Fasick
Altoona
Francis T. McNamara
Clinton
Mass
Cyril B. Mosher
East Greenwich
R. I
Albert H. Stackpole
Harrisburg
H. 8
Porter
Higganum
Conun
Carl M. Thomas
St. Louis
Soy Beans As Forage Across Southern Regions
Soy beans can be grown across humid and semihumid southern areas and the southern corn belt. They offer valuable forage value and hold promise as a useful cash crop and oil seed source for oil mills, especially in boll weevil regions.
DROWNS BATHING TOY AT CLAREMONT BOAT CLUB
Virginia Peterson three and one half years old toppled from a float off the Claremont Boat club and drowned while attempting a first deep water bath for her Teddy bear. Robert Harris recovered the body but resuscitation failed. The child lived with her mother at the boat club where she worked as a maid.
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New York
Virginia Peterson
Claremont Boat Club
One
Hundred and Eighth Street
North River
Trapping the Ants
A quick home remedy traps ants by using a soaked sugar dusted sponge. Place the sponge on the infestation and let ants swarm onto it then submerge the sponge to drown them. Repeat until all ants are destroyed.
Notice For Publication Final Five Year Proof Land Claim
Charlie H. Atkinson of Leavenworth Washington files for Final Five Year proof to establish his homestead claim on unsurveyed Township 29 North Range 16 East Willamette Meridian. Witnesses L S Chambers Gust Burgrin Richard Chambers Joseph Stafford. Wenatchee Washington September 8 1917. Ben Spear Register.
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Township 22
Willamette
Wenatchee Canal
Comany
Wenatchee
Chelan County
Washington
Bert McManus
Chelan Oo
E. E. Stowell
Department of the Interior
U.S. Land Office
Waterville Wash
Charlie H. Atkinson
Leavenworth
East
Willamette Meridian
Ludington
United States
Wenatchee Washington
L. S. Chambers
Peshastin
Wash
Gust Burgrin
Richard Chambers
Joseph Stafford
Ben Spear
Register First
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ALL Best Grocers
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Barbers Say
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Charles P. Taft
Yale
Child
Floa
Nell
Sherit
Superior Court of the
Hull
Festus H. McMullen
Alice C. McMullen
Pearl P. Holcomb
Carolyn
A. D
Sam
State of
Superior Court
County of
Chelan
Martha J. Williams
Richard I. Williams
W.F. Whitney
Commercial Bank Bldg
Wenatchee Wash
Stephen Winchester
O. B. Brown
EF. L. Baker
N. M. Sorensen
Halbert Black
Wenatchee, Wash
God
Victor Hugo
E. J. Widby
M.D
W. W. Elmer
Leavenworth, Wash
G. W. Hoxley
J. Stinlson Judah
Leavenworth Hospital
Attorneys AT Law
A.N. Corbin
Sam R. Sumner
Columbia Valley Bank Bldg
Burt J. Williams
Central Building
Chelan Co
Reeves & Reeves
D. B. Hughes
J. A. Adams
Fred Kemp
Halbert Block
Crollard & Crollard Lawyers
Lewis J. Nelson
Elliott Block
John E. Porter
Attorney At Law Notary Public
Columbia Valley Bank
Undertakers
Leavenworth, Undertaking Co
Amanda C. Towne
Cascade Undertaking Co
John Kuelbs
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