Christmas Packages for Soldiers Include Red Cross Boxes
War Department allows one Christmas parcel per man in the American Expeditionary Forces. Red Cross to supply boxes. Families of service members overseas urged to send names to Nellie Stephenson, 602 N. 8th St Marshall. Remember you get back your money when you send to the government. The piece notes a grim casualty trend among American troops and ends with a reflection on gospel living.
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War Department
American Expeditionary Forces
Red Cross
Marshall Chapter
West Union
Nellie Stephenson
Home Service Committee
N. 8Th Street
Marshall
T. W. Shipe
Ockerd
Week's Doings Highlight Social Ties Across Town
Otho Tibbs returns from Cincinnati for Sunday visit. Numerous locals and guests travel between Robinson Casey Martinsville Paris and Terre Haute for family gatherings dances and church events. Notable items include a homecoming at Willis Chapel and the death of Hila Mitchell in Findlay Ohio.
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Marshall Club
George Helman
Terre Haute
Eliza Heim
Don Winterrowd
Martinsville
Eva Schmachtenberger
Edward Garwood
Foster Martin
James Enoch
Nashville
Tenn
Mollie Greenough
Alice Greenough
Brazil
Ind
Joseph P. Haws
Westfield
Paris
Blanche Shaffner
Lee Maring
Elsie Cole
C. R. Dierlamm
Chicago
District Association
Congregational Churches
C. W. Hamand
Chrisman
Hamand
M. E
Mary and
Louise Hughes
Evansville
J. A. Morton
West Union
Jane Morton
Women’s Christian “Temperance Union
Wallace Baird
Findlay
Mitchell
Ohio Oil Co
Wilson reply to German armistice request clarifies terms
President Wilson, through Secretary Lansing, asks if the German chancellor means to accept the president’s terms and insists on the central powers’ withdrawal from invaded territories before any armistice talks. Lansing emphasizes seeking clear authority and signals firm stance on unconditional surrender.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Lansing
United States
Congress of the
Robert Lansing
Watch Trade Booms As Gold Jewelry Flows To War Markets
A Geneva review notes jewelry trade thriving amid World War disruptions. Gold watches and heavy gold chains fetch high prices in Switzerland and the Orient, funding bullion amid import restrictions. Central powers and foreign merchants profit before authorities curb the offshore flow to Constantinople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Revue Suisse d’Exportation
Geneva
Revue
Orient
Switzerland
Vienna
Turkey
Constantinople
How Big Gun Was Found
Two openings cut in parallel awnings allowed French officers to calculate the shell path from its entry through air and wind. By precise measurements to the thousandth of an inch they traced the shell back to its origin in a German long range gun in the forest of St Gobain and it was then destroyed by French artillery.
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Paris
Forest of
St. Gobain
The German General Staff and the Prussian State
The general staff is the army’s creation and Germany’s nation. Brandenburg evolved into Prussia under autocratic rulers, with the Elector and later kings exerting control. The great elector’s cabinet, tobacco parliament, and Potsdam library merged into the general staff, signaling the surrender of state to army and army to its chiefs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Principality of
Brandenburg
Prussia
Great Elector
Frederick Wiliam
Potsdam
Frederick the Great
General Staff
Stray Stories excerpt about wives of genius
A wife sighs with happiness and contrasts her contentment with the unhappiness endured by wives of men of genius. She tells Alfred she is glad he is an ordinary sort of fellow, highlighting a quiet domestic moment from Stray Stories.
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Alfred
Market Ad for Pure Bred Pigs and Sows in City
Fred Wallis market offers quality fresh and salt meats and advertises pure bred red sows with pigs from Poland China line. Located in Kohl building on East Main street with contact Wabash 95 and Farmers 37. J. H. Maurer promotes sale.
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Fred Wallis
Kohl Building
East Main Street
Wabash
Farmers
Poland
China
J. H. Maurer
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