Inured to All Hardships With the American Armies in France
The article praises American doughboys in France noting remarkable physical transformation due to training, diet, and rigid daily routine. It highlights stronger bodies, improved habits, and comprehensive hospital care that restores or improves health, with doctors, dentists, and medical examinations ensuring soldiers return in better condition.
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France
States
William Jones
Sam
William
Bill
Uncle Sam
Code Sam
Bible's influence on English literature praised by Yale professor
Detroit News reports Prof. William Lyon Phelps of Yale argues the Bible is the greatest book, outshining modern writers in style and insight. He cites Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Bunyan, noting Lincoln valued the Bible and Shakespeare.
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William Lyon Phelps
Yale University
Phelps
Job
Hume
Gibbon
Rose
Kipling
de Maupassant
O. Henry
Bunyan
Lincoln
Kent
Detroit News
Twin baby twins brighten Bayswater sugar woes
Capt. Norman Thwaites notes sugar shortages bite overseas. A Bayswater constable returns home to news of one boy and one girl born in the middle of the night. The nurse confirms a boy and a girl, prompting joy at the added ration of sugar.
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Norman Thwaites
British Intelligence Department
Bayswater
Marble Arch
Fleeting Beauty in a Dragonfly Pool
Robert M. Gay muses on a dragonfly in a golden mail on a lily pad and the enduring radiance of life. He links such brief beauty to solace amid sorrow and global turmoil, arguing that nature’s constant dancing pools restore the spirit after wars and revolutions.
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Robert M. Gay
The
Atlantic Monthly
Origin of Turks Traced to Noah's Lineage and Japheth's Sons
Osmanli historians claim the Turks descend from Noah through Japheth. They allege a ninth ark occupant Turk, eldest son of Japheth, born during the flood. In the fourth generation Alindje Khan had twins Tartar Khan and Mogul Khan, linking Turks to Mongols. Wars followed like family quarrels, with Turks often prevailing as Christian eras began.
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Noah
Mount Arrat
Japhet
Turk
Alindje Khan
Song
Tartar-Khan
Mogul-Khan
Tartar
Mogul
Old Tins Inspires Birmingham Waste Utilization Conference
A Birmingham meeting of municipal and local authorities under the National War Salvage Council discussed waste use. Lord Mayor noted 400 tons of old tins collected annually, sold at 1500 per ton, and 3500 from recovered Waste paper. Food for poultry and pigs came from meat processing, with condemned fish and meat made into manures and fat used for soap.
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Audlands
Birmingham
National War Salvage Council
Corporation
Heavy artillery unit faced delays and silence at Saint Mihiel
A regiment of heavy guns in the Saint Mihiel salient failed to fire as rain and mud slowed arrival. They were told any shot would hit American infantry and thus waited in silence, angry at doughboy fast advance that left no target before Fritz withdrew.
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Saint Mihiel Salient
Salient
Fritz
Stop Wasting Paper War Time Message
A wartime appeal urges saving paper to conserve raw materials and manpower for war needs. It notes eight to nine days to make a ton of paper, four tons of resources per ton produced, and 100 000 workers in the pulp and paper sector plus related mining and chemical industries.
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Washington
Wear Them Heavier Advice To Women In Cleveland
Fuel administration men urge Cleveland women to wear heavier garments as Lacy clothes are too cold for buildings. They say women can be patriotic by foregoing dainty attire and choosing sensible garments to conserve heat.
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Fuel Administration
Cleveland
Mrs Lloyd George Opens Welsh hostel for disabled soldiers
London reports Mrs. Lloyd George, wife of the prime minister, visiting Wales to open a rural industries hostel for disabled soldiers. At Tregnant in the Vale of Clwyd workshops teach toy making, basket work, and especially furniture repair and reproduction of old Welsh designs.
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London
New Cattle Record at Kansas City Stock Yards
Kansas City stock yards report the largest cattle tally and valuation. The day’s receipts include 87 600 head plus 6 000 from the prior week, totaling about 75 000 cattle and estimated receipts around $38 000. Average price is about $30 a head, pushing the total valuation above $6 009 500.
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Kansas City
Wheat Exports Prove U S Sacrifice Kept Allied Bread Secure
The pamphlet credits American wheat conservation with keeping bread rations for Allied Europe while detailing exports from the past sixteen months. It notes 141,000,000 bushels sent to Europe and a 121,000,000 bushel home savings, with further milestones through 1918 and a forecast to exceed 237,500,000 bushels by July next year as ocean tonnage limits ease.
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Food Administration
America
Europe
Australia
Argentine
Peoples of Democracy
Lord Rhondda
Casualty totals expose shocks over WWI losses
Gen March announced 236 117 American casualties by November 11, far higher than the earlier 100000 estimate. The tally shows 63 169 dead and 179 626 wounded with widespread reporting delays. Officials acknowledge failures in gathering and notifying families.
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March
Wtm
A Memorable Achievement of the Titanic Struggle
America saved and sent 141 million bushels of wheat to Europe during a year of crop failure, a pivotal act in sustaining European harvests. The record frames this effort as a defining moment in wartime food aid and agricultural resilience.
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America
Europe
German official overestimates American threat in war speech
A German official, after war declaration, dismisses American soldiers as late arrivals and warns that the true danger lies in the United States unity and spirit. He predicts Germany's doom when 100 million minds are stirred to individual initiative.
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Germany
Europe
Beer Industry Collapse Predicted With New Dry Law
Hugh F. Fox and Jacob Ruppert predict the 729 million dollar brewing industry will fall when the bone dry law takes effect July 1. They warn only ratification of the constitutional amendment by sixteen states could avert disaster, though they doubt brewers can survive demobilization or oppose the law. Fox notes academic questions about constitutionality but says legislatures, not the people, are ratifying.
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United States
Hugh F. Fox
United States Brewers’ Association
Jacob Ruppert
New York Brewers’ Association
Fox
Ruppert
War Garden Report by Amos J Beltz
Oné War Garden report from Amos J Beltz summarizes a quarter acre plot. It lists products with rough values for potatoes corn ensilage turnips and rye pasture totaling 95.00 dollars.
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Amos
J. Beltz
Dean's Kidney Pills Advert Keeps Prominent Place
An old advertisement urges readers to treat weakened kidneys with Dean's Kidney Pills. It cites backache, urinary issues, and headaches as signals and includes Mrs. Edgar Nay of Marshall testifying to relief after three boxes. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY.
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Marshall
Dean
Nay
Edgar Nay
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
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Foley
Clyde H. Knowles
Marshall, Il
RED Cross
Keifer Drug CO
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Martinsville, Jill
Mazer
Dept. X
Philadelphia
Tote
P. C. CG. & Stl. Railway
West
AEE Tomwigre
Indianapolis
Big Four
Cairo
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