A Bit of Home Within the Camp
A description of the YWCA hostess houses near military camps showing homelike rooms, open fires, and welcoming staff. It highlights a mother delivering a baby and reuniting with a soldier on furlough, and notes 92 hostess houses aiding soldiers and families. The piece praises the YWCA role in wartime morale and lists work in France and at Great Lakes stations.
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A W. Oo. A
John
Young Women’s Christian Association
W. C.A
France
War ‘Department
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Petrograd
Paris
Italian Aces Honor American Flyers in King Victor Emmanuel Visit
Italian front commands praise five American airmen for bravery. Lieut Alexander C Craig of New York downed a chaser after maneuvering into favorable position over Austrian territory. Lieut Harry L Holtz of Burley Idaho survived shrapnel damage and, with an Italian mechanic, secured a broken wing cable to steer their plane safely into Italian territory.
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Victor Emmanuel
Alexander C. Craig
New York
Holtz
Hie
Sinking of President Lin Com saves man nineteen hours
Frank Kepple of Advance Indiana reports surviving nineteen hours in water after the steamer President Lin Com sank. He clung to a rough box containing the casket of an American sailor who died at sea, until rescue reached him.
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Indiana
Frank
Kepple
Chestnuts Urged for Bread By Angers Doctor
Paris doctor Labesse of Angers medical school urges using chestnuts in bread to save on potatoes and wheat. He notes chestnuts once flourished in Paris markets but are now scarce, referencing an 1861 Academy demonstration recipe.
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Paris
Labesse
Angers
Academy of &Eliences
Truthful Quaker avoids sheriff by leaving home
A Quaker man in trouble is escorted to the lockup. The sheriff asks for the husband who remains unseen. The wife replies he has seen him but would not stay, having gone another way.
Sugar theft hits local corner store in late robbery
A grocer reports thieves broke into his shop last night and took three barrels of sugar among other items. An early customer asks where, and the proprietor confirms the break in at his own store. The talk turns to the thieves having sand enough to tackle a bank next time.
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E. c
Lamp Deathbed Mystery? Parlor Tale Hint
In a parlor scene three figures are present the narrator reveals the lamp has gone out leaving two and implying a hidden tension. The compact vignette centers on a quiet domestic setting with a suggestive gap hinting at a misdeed or tense ending.
An Antidote for Agents and a Book Trade Folly
A quirky fragment shows an agent selling a treatise on the Australian school system and toe dancing in a preglacial era. A character offers payment with a check to buy the book, but the book agent has vanished.
Film Manager Proposes Star Interest in Business
A film manager suggests granting a motion picture star an interest in the business. The partner replies with a broader offer to take the whole enterprise under the condition of reasonable compensation. The star would then owe herself a large salary.
Am afraid that boy will never get on in the world
Mr Grabcom laments his son failing to advance after joining the firm. He blames constant excuses and lack of progress, implying disappointment in the boy's ambition and prospects.
Dont It Jest Beat All
A narrator notes the disdain of Red a tall regiment member from Texas while he vents about French people and language barriers in a frontier town. He recalls a local storekeeper unable to understand simple words like sardines and cheese revealing cross cultural misunderstandings. The piece captures humor and tension in wartime social friction through colorful dialogue and a skeptical viewpoint.
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Red
Middle West
Panhandle
Texas
Irvin S. Cobbin
Saturday Evening Post
Allies Take Important Points in Lens and Armentieres
The article notes Lens and Armentieres as key coal and manufacturing centers in Pas de Calais. It details years of fighting since 1914, British and Canadian advances, German recapture attempts, and the use of poison gas to deny entry.
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Lens
Armentierés
Pas de Calais
Armentieres
Lys Salient
France
Paris
Great Briey
Verdun
Picardy
Field Marshal
Haig
Democrats Oppose Woman Suffrage Bill Amid War Talk
The text notes Democrats in the Senate voting against and defeating the woman suffrage bill after the president called it an essential war measure, highlighting political tensions over voting on suffrage during wartime.
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Senate
Carbon Paper Available at Herald Office
Large sheets for transferring embroidery patterns and other designs offered at the Herald Office.
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Herald Office
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Yankee
Howard Barry
Barry
University of Pennsylvania
Camp Gordon
J. R. Burnett
E. M. Duncan
the Dulaney National Bank
Harry B. Dulaney
Bert Bryan
F. W. Greenough
Edwin Booth
Machlan’s
Marshall, Ill
RED Cross Amrico
Red Cross
Keifer Drug CO
Terre Haute Star
Marshall Herald
The
Terre Haute Daily Star
Star
Herald
the Herald
Marshall
Illinois
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