Enlisted Youth Frederick MMer Breaks Knickers Bond
In Washington Frederick Mer, a Baltimore youth of five feet six and 160 pounds, enlisted by claiming twenty one while his mother dressed him in knickers. Despite pressure, he refused, then faced wartime enlistment rules and public mockery before being sent home.
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Freddie
Washington
Army
May
Frederick Mmer
Baltimore
Frederick
Gael
Walston
Maudiin
Fort Sixum
Portland Adopts City Law Regulating Horse Meat Sales
Fortland city council passes ordinance regulating sale of horse and other equine meat in markets. Meat must be plainly labeled with large letters and inspected by city inspectors. First market opened with beef and horse flesh priced for soup cuts and steaks, amid demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Fortland
Faiste
Connecticut Standardizes Disinfectants In War-Time Move
Governor Holcomb supports a Connecticut law championed by Rep. A. E. Austin to require labeled disinfectant receptacles. The measure aims to curb worthless products amid wartime demand and flood of inferior options.
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Hartford
Conn
Holcomb
Austin MH
Connecticut
Pr A. E Austin
State House of Representatives
Greenwich
Bible stash fails to fool burglars in Pittsburgh
Mrs. David Lyle of rond hid a $50 bill in a Bible placed on the parlor table. For months the Bible stood undisturbed until burglars entered the home. The Bible was found open with pages torn and the money missing, suggesting the burglars searched the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitesturgh
David Lyle
Rond
Be wheedled into potato cultivation in town project
Wis-Uee of the city's beck streets authorize High school boys under county farm school direction to cultivate the highway by raising potatoes. The project aims to utilize local Beck Streete Por Gardens in Opaiiska for crop production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beck
Opaiiska
Wis-—-Uee
Counel High School
County Farm
Recruits Rise From Prairie to Train at Great Lakes
Crowded Great Lakes naval training station sees ranchers, farmers, bankers, newsboys, and students drill from reveille to colors. The middle west shows robust support for naval service as young men from Chicago to Springfield prepare to join the first line of defense, many having never seen the sea.
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Great Lakes
Fil
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Prairie
Middle West
Reveille
United States Naval Training Station
Farmers’ Sons
Bankers
Springfield
Illinois
Wisconsin
What Women Like to Know About Navy Recruits
The piece notes patriotic women eager to serve, praising the open country influence on duty. It reports on Navy recruiting at the Great Lakes station, where a large tent city houses thousands of recruits awaiting training under Captain William Moffett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes Naval Station
Lake Michigan
Wailliamy al Moffett
Sturien
Aden
Whole Wheat and Home Ground Wheat Bread Formulas
Readable excerpt from Farmers' Bulletin 807 detailing Whole Wheat or Graham Bread and Home Ground Wheat Bread recipes. Includes ingredients, steps for scalding milk, preparing sponge, and rising times, with yeast types and rising expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Rookie Twins Fool Doctor
London twin brothers aged eighteen faced the recruiting board for enlistment. One was examined alone and later withdrew. The doctor refused to reexamine the second twin, insisting on seeing both together to tell them apart. Parents cannot distinguish them. they share initials and identical handwriting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Malles Rec
Bureau Rescues Fish From Flooded Mississippi Streams
Washington reports the bureau of fisheries deploys agents to flood areas along the Mississippi basin to relocate fish species back to their original streams. Species rescued include catfish, buffalo, carp, pike, sunfish, perch, bluegill, bass, crappie, gar and others to aid anglers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Fisheries
Mississippi
Agri graphs Urge Efficient Farm Practices This Year
The article urges rapid agricultural measures to boost production. It notes pork demand exceeds supply and recommends pig production for quick meat. Advice includes resting pasture until grass starts, saving glass jars for canning, and watching the next two months to gauge crop yields.
French Proverbs on Humility and Contentment
A collection of aphorisms about virtue and social behavior. It contrasts self restraint with envy and warns against pretense and exploiting others. The sayings emphasize restraint, patience, and the limits of rhetorical abundance.
Liquor Advertising Barred Under Federal Act
The act of Congress bans liquor advertising by mail in dry territory with penalties of up to 1000 dollars fine and six months imprisonment for first offenses, and a year for subsequent offenses. Readers in dry areas may have liquor ads censored from newspapers, a practice already seen in Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Georgia
Air and notice about the Board of Review hearing
A fragmented piece discusses air and sleeping porches and cites a book Night Air Is No Different Notice. It then states the Board of Review will hear complaints at the Marshall courthouse Illinois between 9am and 4pm on Mon Wed and Fri until August 1. Complaint blanks available from board members Edn Pearce Marshall W M Abraham Casey L A Shawler West Union W A By ram Martinsville.
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Rolf Golf
Hetails
Board of Review
Court House
Marshall, Ill
Sam
Edn Pearce
Marshall
W M Abraham
Casey
L. A Shawler
West Union
W A Byram
Martinsville
Union School District invites bids for new schoolhouse
Notice from Clark County Illinois district 95 invites sealed bids July 14 1917 for building a schoolhouse at a site chosen by directors. Plans at Herman Stoelting home. Lowest responsible bidder awarded at 2 pm in schoolhouse. Bond and payment rules apply. Building to be finished by September 10 1917. Right to reject bids reserved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union School
County of Clark
State of Hants
Herman Stoelting
Clark County
Ilinois
Herman W Stoelting
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by Marshall Residents
A Watson era advertisement notes backache relief through Doan's Kidney Pills with Mrs. Russell Thompson of 1114 Ash St Marshall praising the program. The notice includes probate actions for Clark County with Mary J Macke as administratrix and Graham & Snavely as attorneys, dated June 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Dean
Russell Thompson
Ash St
Doan
Mr. Thompson
Foster-Milburne
Buffalo
Guardian's Sale in Clark County Illinois 1917
Guardian for Marjorie Elliott minor announces sale of portions of the SE quarter of section 29 and adjacent parcels in town 9 13 West Clark County Illinois at the courthouse east door on August 4 1917 at 2 PM to raise funds for the minor subject to dower and homestead rights. The notice is dated July 2 1917 and lists attorney Everett Connelly. Also a separate 1917 final settlement notice in Clark County Illinois alerts heirs and distributees that executor Arthur Poorman will present final accounts on July 2 1917 and seek discharge from duties.
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State of Trinuls
Clark County
Said
EE Siu
Sero Giuardanoof
Marjorie Eliott Minor
Said Minor
Clark
Iinoistown
Mary Elliott
Eliott
Court House
Marshall
E. Sc. Slusser
Marjorie Elliott
Everett Connelly
Atty
State of Illinois
R. L. Denham
Illinois
Arthur Poorman
Trustees of Schools
Jeff Davis
Elisha Claypool
Charles Hawkins
Harmon Catcher
Notice of Final Settlement for Clark County estate
The administratrix of the estate of Wilson Harlan requests discharge from duties at the Clark County Court in Marshall Illinois. Also notices for the estates of Bessie Pearl McAllister and Charles I Macke warn creditors to present claims by the August term. Dated June 16 Samantha Thomas Administratrix Graham and Snavely Atys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie Pearl McAllister
County of
Clark
Illinois
Clark County
Marshall
A. D
Charles I, Macke
Charles H. Macke
Ninots
Estate Administrators Notice in Clark County Illinois
Notices announce the administrators of the estates of William H Blankenbeker and Joseph G Cooper both of Clark County Illinois will appear before the Clark County Court in Marshall at the September Term. Creditors must present claims for adjustment and debtors should pay promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide R. Barber
Clark
Illnois
Clark County
Marshall
Tme
Sald Esiaie
William H. Blankenbeker
County of
IlHnols
Joseph Cooper
Linois
Court House Marshall
A H Cooper
Buster the stallion’s 1917 season set at Cork farm
License renewed in January 1917. Buster, grade stallion No. 6876, will stand the 1917 season at the Cork farm one to four miles east of Block School House. He is half Percheron and half Belgian, weighs 1600 pounds, six years old, with good propogs qualities and strong bone, ready to compete with county horses. Investigate before going elsewhere.
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Buster
Our Barn
Cork Farm
Block School House
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Navy
Franklin Simon & Co
New York City
American Press Association
Wfelllam A. Mofpfett
Bureau
John Shackleton
Joseph Dunlap
Directors Dist
F. W. Greenough
Exec
Scholfield & Scholfield, Attys
Clark ‘County
Mary J. Macke
Admix
Graham & Snavely
Attys
Guardian's Sale
Wilson Harlan
Alice Reed Harlan
Administratrix
A. Poorman, Atty
Samantha Thomas
Alys
K ( Blankenbeker
Admr
Everett
Pat Joseph G Cooper de
Everett Connelly, Atty
Chas E Lee
Chas. E Lee
Wm Marvin
Connelly
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