Life in the Trenches Captain Vickers Lecture
A Briton who served with the Seaforth Highlanders and faced frontline duty in France recounts his wartime experiences in a lecture titled Life in the Trenches. The speaker, Captain Vickers, emphasizes discipline, daily trench life, patrols, raids, gas and liquid fire use, and the aim to train American soldiers for combat.
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America
France
Scateh
Seaforth Highlanders
Tle
Tan
Vickers
Ife
Ain
Bes of America
Pleisure of Being Needed
In a domestic scene Mrs. Jessup and Mrs. Crane discuss Miss Hustacia who sacrificed her savings to care for others, making tea parties and giving to the needy while feeling unused. Lauretta King laments losing Miss Hustacia and Cranes vows to visit and enlist her help for tasks, highlighting Miss Hustacia’s inner heartbreak.
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Hustacia
Mrs. Crane
Jessup
Stacia
Mrs. Jessup
Ellen
Desirable Wife Found in Forest Settlement Tale
A Chicago Tribune writer recounts a rustic matchmaking tale in a forest settlement 20 miles from a city. A mill worker and his hosts trick a city woman into marriage after a staged courtship, ending with the couple living together happily while a cow becomes the promised gift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Mr. Homesteader
South African Shoe Trade Faces Competition From Overseas Firms
Consul General George N. Murphy reports in Cape Town that many South African boot and shoe makers produce high quality footwear but rely on imports for popular products. Foreign producers flood the market via importing merchants, limiting local plant expansion. Large U.S. shipments supplement dwindling overseas supplies, shaping a tilt toward high grade, small-quantity local outputs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Province
George N. Murphy
Cape Town
United States
Trains Schedule and Local Lodge Meetings In Lititz
Train departures to Reading Philadelphia Lancaster and Columbia on weekdays and Sundays noted. Local fraternal and civic groups such as Organization Record Lititz Lodge and G A R hold regular meetings at Rudy's Hall and other local halls with specific days and times.
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Lititz
Reading
Philadelphia
Lancaster
Columbia
Leimmoon
Star Temple
Ladies of the G. H
Hady’s
Washington
P. O
Rothsville
Swan ‘Hotel
Luita Springs
Warwick School Board
Warwick House
Lilite Agricultural Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Court Lititz
Rudvs Hall
Stavens
Brebst’s
M. I
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Ast
COSAL
Atlantic
Pittsburgh
Atlan Ian
Life In the
Leslie Vickers OS
Leslie Vickers
Long & CO
Lititz, PA
D. A. Long
D.D.S. Lititz, PA
Warren A. Wood
Main and Cedar Sts
Edmund A. Devine
E. Main Street
9 Inc
Joseph B. Wissier
Fehl Building
Duke Street
Lititz PA
Hershey & Gibbel Conveyancers, Scriveners Real Estate and Insurance
Ind
Geo. L. Keath
Justice of the Peace
Brunnerville
Howard S. Young
East Orange St
Ina
E. B. Beck
Mrs. Beck
S. Broap Sr
Lrtitz Bell
John Long
East Main Street
Lrtitz
Hassler
Penna
J. Fred Essig
Lawrence K-Grosh
P.O
Spruce Villa Farm
J. Clayton Brubaker
W. M. Grube
Lititz Springs
Hlaefner’s
N. Queen St
W. C. Grube
Hershey, Leaman & Co
Frank E. Schnerer
Real Estate and Insurance
Spruce ST
Lititz Ind
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
L.N. Moyer, Draggist
E. Main St
Record’ Printery
H. P. Gingrich & Co
Pennsylvania
Liberty New Belmont
Kreider’s Hardware Store
Main St
W.H. Muth & CO
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