Wounded Tell Of Victories Amid Close Combat
Andrew Dumas of Burke NY recalls bayonet charges and hand to hand fighting as American troops push through Verdun sectors. Burt Dales of St. Clairsville Ohio recounts surrounding Germans and capturing prisoners after a rapid American advance. N W Afflerbatch of Wood River Nebraska describes helping down a German plane with rifle and machine gun fire as Marines in reserve take aim.
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Adelph Stein
St Chir Street
Lawrentr
Hind Tate
Burt Ho Dales
St. Clairsville
Thinneart
William Robert Smoker
May Street
Philadelphia
Smoker
Shorts
N. W. AfMlerbaugh
Wood River
Neb
Afflerbatch
Courtesy in Business Success
Article advises young professionals to practice affability and courtesy in all dealings. It stresses listening to colleagues, avoiding fixed opinions, and seeking others’ input before expressing views. Emphasizes prudent judgment gains from collective insight and confidence in intelligent advice.
Deity Hurries to Finish Work in Japan Tale
A garbled historical clipping describes a creature in Yevo Japan rushing to complete work amid chaotic events. Deputies of creation are referenced, with scattered mentions of divine tasks and a stormy mess of details.
Japan Aid Plan For War Needy Children
Messages printed in Japan outline a plan by the Japan Kindergarten union to aid overseas children. The president of the United Nations wartime children preservation group and Miss Fanniehelle Curtis of New York sign messages pledging international welfare effort. The twelfth Karuizawa meeting unanimously urged each union kindergarten to present the scheme to its children before Thanksgiving. Funds collected will go to the Red Cross kindergarten unit.
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Rearten Unden
Ametie
Unten Vod
International Committee
Oon
France
Fanniehelle Curtis
New York
Japan
Japan Kindergarten Union
Karuizawa
The
Red Cross
Keep On Recruiting For Merchant Marines
United States Shipping Board pledges to expand its recruiting for peace fleets. Chairman Edward N. Hurley says the service will increase output from 4,000 apprentices monthly and enroll men aged 18 to 35 at six hundred drug store stations nationwide.
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United States Shipping Board
Edward N. Hurley
Mr. Hurley
Boston
New York
Norfolk
New Orleans
San Francises
Segitle
Cleveland
Shipping Board
Great
Merchant Marine
Peace Fleet
Shipping
KILLED 20 WINS CLEMENCY IN WAR RECORD NOTES
Fragmentary report shows a soldier freed from a court martial under clemency rules after evidence tied his case to prior engagements. Major General Scott reviews the record at Camp es where details of a participating unit and alleged affiliations are mentioned along with a formally prepared certificate.
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Triport
Singh
Yerson
Cnet
Jobin Detelerts
Udal
Italy
Genral Scott
Caimp
Campes
Deroberts
Niger
Dereberts
Organize Hut for Comfort of Soldiers
Well known English women contribute to soldiers comfort with Lady Beaverbrook among the donors. The Beaver hut is shown with Miss H. Fitz Randolph who organized and equipped the hut.
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Lady Beaverbrook
H. Fitz Randolph
Why U Boats Are Not Sunk
A narration on the elusive hunt for submarines from Scribner's Magazine writer R. W. Neeser. Seaplanes sweep vast seas like the Mediterranean and Adriatic, yet many flights fail to spot a single periscope.
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R. W. Neeser
Scribner’s Magazine
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Channel
Bay of Biscay
Barrel Hoops Aid Soldiers In Barbed Wire Defense
The French have devised a fence using immense barrel hoops with barbed wire strung between. Hoops attach to a wooden form six hoops per fence section, enabling each entanglement unit to roll as a solid module. Sections are moved at night and hidden behind natural sand formations to evade enemy advance.
Newt Cavenaugh Visits Kansas City for Free Elevator Ride
Uncle Newt Cavenaugh, a Kamloops mountaineer, arrives in Kansas City and seeks a night's shelter at a hotel. Clerk Rodney offers him a room and, in a twist, Newt insists the elevator ride is on him, pulling a coin from his pocket.
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Newt” Cavenaugh
Kamloops
Canada
Kansas City
Rodney
Mehlbach
Uncle Newt
Rod
How Veldt Sores Were Healed
Septic veldt sores in Palestine mirror Sinai cases. A single doctor there, a Ceptic in Upper Egypt, cures quickly by cutting the sore from the body and applying his own ointment. Most sores heal in about two weeks.
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Palestine
Sinai
Upper
Egypt
Billy Sunday Slang Creeping Into Frontline Sermons
A British Weekly writer notes Billy Sunday style slang entering Anglican padres at the front. The truce of trench sermons uses familiar language that soldiers reportedly approve, mirroring the home church speak.
Oldest Hancock County Farmer Regains Active Status
Granddad Mosler, eighty four, claims to be the oldest active farm hand in Hancock County Ohio and perhaps the state. He reports finishing corn shocks and setting lines, and during summer he cleared 25 acres of road hay using a harvester.
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Ohio
Granddad” Mosler
Hancock County
Heck
Scots Take 10 Jazz
In Evanston Illinois K J Hollinshead reports Scots sailors in Scotland enjoy navy jazz bands and dancing. A Y M C A leader organized a ballroom in a second hand shop room after cleaning it, introducing Scots girls for dances as the ship’s jazz band played American rags and sparked a series of events.
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Evanston
K. J. Hollinshead
Scotland
Jack
Tod
Hollins
Belgian Orphan Francois Gulecleux Finds Path to U.S. School
Ten year old Francois Gulecleux, a Belgian refugee who survived the Brest hospital and years of life on the streets, was adopted by American sailors who funded his schooling in the United States. He will attend the boys' school at Germantown, Pennsylvania.
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Francois Gulecleux
United States
Francois
Brest
Germantown
Europe
Globe-Democrat
Daily Globe-Democrat
Globe-Demograt
THE
Globe Printing CO
ST. Louis, Mo
Dummy cure for speeders in Larimer avenue play area
Children in Larimer avenue use a dummy to simulate speeding accidents. A chauffeur, seeing a pretend body, halts in fear and is shaken by the realization that the scene is not real. The stunt aims to scare drivers into slowing down through the block underlined by the kids’ cries.
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Pittsburgh
Larimer Avenue
Ibs
Railroad Timetable Eastbound and Westbound Arrivals Listed
Eastbound trains No. 1d4 12:21 a m No. 6 4:45 a m No. 806 7:25 a m No. 148 12:01 p m No. 26 4:38 p m No. 144 7:49 p m. Westbound trains No. 135 2:28 a m No. 807 7:00 a m No. 27 9:58 a m No. 21 1:05 p m No. 837 7:49 p m.
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P. G. C. & ,St. L. Railway
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