Farmers warned of German error threaten meat scarcity
Reports from Chicago stockyards warn that US farmers risk repeating Germanys wartime slaughter of immature stock. A mass rush to market unfinished hogs and light cattle could reduce meat supplies for years, while a plan in Cook County aims to boost farm crops with labor from schools and immigrant communities and to place city vagrants on 1900 acre tracts to grow food.
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United States
Germany
Chicago
Cook County
Gewehke
Ate Board of Education
Sehboola
James A Patten
Bridewell
Jedses
Ganlesers
Compallixi
Ruth Law Advocates Advanced Flying School for Air Combat
Washington report quotes Ruth Law former nonstop record holder on the need for an advanced flying school in the United States. She describes loop the loop vertical dives and other stunts as essential skills for modern aerial combat practiced at Pau France where aviators master tactics to deceive opponents and regain control from a plunging state.
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Washington
Ruth Law
Miss Law
Pan
Portrait of Arthur Balfour as a World Statesman
Washington describes Arthur James Balfour in detail noting his height of five feet ten and three quarters inches weight around 155 pounds and slender athletic build at sixty nine. The piece highlights his long face gray hair keen blue eyes infectious smile eloquent voice and refined dress and mentions his outdoor manner and hobbies including cycling golf and reading philosophy with multilingual abilities and a reputed sense of humor.
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Washington
Arthur James Balfour
Grnewy
Balfour
Ireland
Mr. Balfour
United States
Foreign Affairs
No More Canned Beans War Time Curb Limits Cans
The War Can Committee ordered a sixty day or longer restriction on tin cans for all but perishables and essential foods. Canned beans and soups will be diverted to troops and essential producers, with American soldiers in France relying on canned goods due to cooking limits. Packagers of nonfood items and many toilet products receive no cans during the shortage.
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War Can Committee
France
Kindness Prompts Kidney Pill Endorsement
Mrs Montgomery of 402 Smith St recounts back and kidney trouble improved by Dean's Kidney Pills. She urges others to try the same remedy, praising its merit and noting the price of 60 cents at all dealers from Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Children urged to garden under wartime education drive
The U S Bureau of Education asks school boards to appoint garden teachers for every 100 children ages nine to fifteen. The program mobilizes youths to grow food during the war, aiming to produce several million dollars in value and teach two hours daily in gardening.
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United States Bureau of Education
Schoo Boards
Bareen
MUST TILL THE SOIL
German prisoners at Fort McPherson will tilled soils to boost food production under plan to compensate them per international law. A land strip will be provided locally to feed prisoners and U S soldiers if possible. They no longer salute Old Glory and stay in quarters after war declaration.
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Atlanta
Fort McPherson
United States
Take Twenty Submarines Seized by British Forces
A British war mission member in Washington says twenty German submarines and crews were captured by the British on April 10. He notes the men were nearly starved and their surrender was reluctant. He adds Britain has far more submarines than Americans realize and describes the rough conditions faced by submarine commanders.
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British War Commission
Washington
England
America
Minister narrowly escapes shooting in city reform clash
Free Methodist Reverend Arthur C. Palmer of Palmer, West Virginia, says a Bible he carried under his arm foiled a death threat by a would be assassin. He turned over threatening letters to police after receiving warnings to stop his reform efforts. The minister was shot at but survives after the ambush.
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Followatee
W. Va
Arthur Co. Palmer
Palmer
What French Have Done In One Week Of Drive
In one week the French offensive from Soissons to Auberive netted over 100 captured guns, about 20 000 prisoners, and control of twenty villages and fifty square miles. German losses, estimated at 100 000 killed and wounded or prisoners, forced a large redeployment of twenty divisions from strategic reserves to steady the front in France.
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Soissons
Auberive
France
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Clark County
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