Navy Yard Expansion Aims at $7.5 Million Work
Secretary Daniels urges Congress to grant $7,500,000 to expand the Washington navy yard gun factory. Plans include a six story machine shop and new brass foundry plus additions to power, steel forging, and optical shops. 1,000 to 1,500 expert machinists may be added. already over 500 new workers joined since wartime.
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Washington
Thie City
Congress
Daniels
Washington Navy Yard
United States
Germany
Locked dog halts city clock in 600 foot tower
A dog followed a timekeeper into a 600 foot College Hill tower in Rome Go. The keeper locked the door behind, trapping the animal for two days without water or food. The dog survived, living near the pendulum until rescued by a policeman.
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Rome
College Hill
Williamson
Earth
Numbers to be sold as Red Cross souvenirs
Washington report says the original drawing numbers used for the new national army were turned over to the Red Cross by Provost Marshal General Crowder for sale as souvenirs. Proceeds go to the Red Cross fund. The first eight and the last number will be placed in Independence Hall beside the Liberty Bell, with the bow donated by Charles R. Morris.
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Washington
National Army
Red Cross
General Crowder
Red Cross Fund
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Liberty Bell
Charles R. Morris
War Department
Family in Schoolhouse Sparks Housing Hope in Kansas
In Smith Center, Kansas a crowded housing market pushes families to seek space in a schoolhouse after a newly arrived family was allowed to rent one of six rooms. The school board may yield as more families request use of school facilities for living space. Relics of Old Indian Camp Unearthed in South Dakota. In Pierre, C E Deland found pumpkin seeds and rind buried four to eight feet underground, indicating an Indian camp about 100 years old. The soil’s windblown depth helped preserve the relics. The Indians were agriculturalists, not warriors, contrasting with later Sioux.
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Pierre
C. E. Deland
Lafayette school in old chateau to educate French boys
The Lafayette school in the old Lafayette chateau near Auverne aims to foster Anglo American French ties by educating fifty French boys who have lost fathers in battle. The program, funded by the American Fund For French Heroes, plans to expand to two hundred students and eventually endow an international center.
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Paris
England
France
United States
Lafayette
Lafayette Chateau
Chateau Chavinac
Auverne
Friends of the
American Fund For French Heroes
William Astor Chanler
We Must Fight Germany While We Have Help
Propaganda urging united American effort in World War I notes that fighting with allies is essential and warns against isolationist views. It cites Pearl Bissell drafted for France, rising wartime industry in Columbia County making wooden ship nails from locust wood, and calls for nationwide wakefulness and readiness to battle allied or alone.
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National Security League
America
League
France
Europe
Wilson
Germany
Russia
England
Columbia County
Wash
Portland
Petrified oak trunks found thirty feet underground in Fremont
In Fremont Nebraska petrified oak trunks were discovered thirty feet below the surface in sand pits. The find suggests the trees were buried centuries ago as a river channel shifted, and no living oaks remain in the Platte river valley aside from transplanted specimens.
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Fremont
Neb
Platte River
City youths’ hearing outshine country lads say Marines
Marine Corps recruiting reports suggest only about one in five country boys have ear sharpness comparable to city youths. Officers attribute quiet country life to disuse of hearing nerves, while scientists note natural parallels where lack of use dulls function, citing blind fishes in Mammoth Cave.
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Marine Corps
Mammoth Cave
War department plans soldier newspaper at American Lake cantonment
A new weekly soldiers paper is planned for American Lake and fifteen other cantonments. The issue frequency is undecided but weekly publication is expected. The paper will cover military news from the Washington bulletin and camp life for officers and enlisted men.Ownership and control of the sixteen papers are under review, with options for government subsidies or private bidders. Kent Envelope factory proposed, Zillah 700 car cold storage plant ready, Buena new school building nearly done, Libby McNeil Factory now operating in Kent.
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United States
John McGee
Henry Fairchild Osborn
Clarence Mackay
New York
Lafayette Chateau
War Department
American Lake
Washington
D. C
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Smith Center
Kan
Kansas
William Abtor Chanler
Pearl Bissell
Leavenworth
Elkhart, Ind
Irene la Rue
John la Rue
Wenatchee
Dr. Judah
Kent
Zillah
Buena
Libby McNeil
Fatty” Arbuckle
Romeo
Leavenworth Meat Market
Kodaks
Eastman
Eastman Kodaks
Wheeler’s Photo & Art Shop
C. R. Rothen & Co
MIDGE
Epworth League
F. L. Moore
Lutheran Church
Haase
Cashmere
Olympia
Wheeler’s
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