Rizzo and the Italian Torpedo Boats Sparked Heroic Feat
The 1917 action off the Dalmatian coast describes Lieut. Com. Rizzo guiding two torpedo boats into a fog bound harbor to strike Austrian battleships Wien and Szent Istvan. He sank the Wien, crippled another ship, and escaped under fire, later repeating the feat against Austrian dreadnoughts at Pola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Trieste
Italy
Com. Rizzo
Wien
Pola
Rizzo
Szent Istvan
Literary Digest
Associated Press
Dalmatian
Selve
Asinello
Premuda
Woman Doctor Led Verdun Ward Through Fire and Siege
Dr Nicole Girard Mangin, mistaken for a man and mobilized to Verdun, led a crowded field hospital through a typhoid outbreak and German shelling. With improvised gear and two soldier aides, she evacuated the gravest patients by ambulance, kept them alive with hypodermics, and earned a shrapnel scar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicole Girard-Mangin
Nicolas
Nicole
Medecin-Chef
Girard-Mangin
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Why We Save Trance and War Savings Drive Collective Wealth
The piece argues that War Savings stamps and taxes built a vast wartime economy. It notes nearly two billion dollars saved and borrowed, supporting army, navy, allies, and war industries. It praises thrift as financial safety for the future and details European savings behavior, especially in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trance
America
Treasury
Army and Navy
Shipping Board
Europe
France
Marshall Field's thrift doctrine fuels war savings effort
The piece extols Marshall Field as a model merchant and links his thrift philosophy to the war savings movement. It argues saving builds desire, plan, energy, and judgment, creating early security and national character. Children leading this change will steer future business and industry.
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Marshall Field
America
Failure of Government Control Indicts US Rail Takeover
Montreal Star analyzes the US government's wartime rail nationalization under McAdoo. It notes a deficit of about 250 million dollars and daily losses near one million, despite 220 million advanced from the treasury, continued rate hikes, and service cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Can
United States
McAdoo
Arth
Debarment Threat Shakes German Masons
A rift in world Freemasonry sees Belgium’s Grand Master Chas Magnette refuse to resume ties with German Masons. He challenged German actions in Belgium during World War I and was dismissed as stupid, jailed, and brutalized. British and French Masons likely to align with Belgian stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Brotherhood
Chas. Magnette
Belgium
Magnette
Stupia
To Disarm Germany Marshal Foch presents terms to council
Marshal Foch presented Saturday to the council of the great powers the military terms to be incorporated in a settlement to disarm Germany and shape the postwar order.
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Germany
Marshal Foch
Helgoland
Kiel Canal
Bensop
United States
Hell Gate
Cape Cod
Council of the Great Powers
Navy to bring German submarines to U S harbors
Navy orders Friday assign officers to duty with German submarines. Four or five U boats expected to cross soon. Vessels from mine planters to deep sea cruisers to be brought for technical examination and possible exhibition in U S harbors.
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Navy Department
United States
Navy
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Madilan’s
Marshall, Ill
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The
Marshall Herald
Terre Haute Daily Star
World News
Star
Herald
the Herald
Wineshall
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