Eyes of the Army praise from the air and on the Somme
The London Sunday Herald prints letters from pilots calling the air war superb and brave. Descriptions of raids, bomb runs, and dogfights near Templeux, Peronne, and Cheung reveal the courage, skill, and stamina of airmen in the battle over German forces.
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Berlin
Salmond
Atemer
Somme
London Sunday Herald
Tod
Tem- Pleux
Peronne
Jumpeila
Sher
Alaska’s Share in Winning the War Conference Note
Mrs. Alien Shattuck of Juneau Alaska traveled to Washington to attend a food administration conference with home economics directors from several states. She described Alaska’s efforts in food conservation and how it has spread there.
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Alaska
United States Food Administration
Washington
Europe
Alien Shattuck
Juneau
Food Administration
Boy Scout Wins War Service Medal in Liberty Town Drive
Wallace F. Mabee of Eastport Maine, a fifteen year old scout, is shown receiving a bronze War Service Medal from President Wilson. The award honors his Liberty Bond drive efforts in 1917, where he sold 16 bonds totaling $2,000, outperforming peers and earning the coveted badge for the Boy Scouts of America.
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Wallace F. Mahee
Eastport
Wilson
Goddess of Liberty
Evers
U. S. Treasury Department
Wallace F. Mabee
Boy Scouts of America
Thrift stamp plan for junk dealers in Marshfield
Thrift stamps will be paid to residents who sell old bottles rags iron rubber and other junk. Junk dealers in Marshfield pay full price only if no objection is raised. otherwise they offer half price. The plan, originated by David Schwertz, a German Jew, has been adopted by locals as the Junk Dealers' Trust.
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David Schwertz
Junk Dealers’ Trust
University for Yankee Soldiers Organizes in France
The American YMCA secretary has begun forming a university for American soldiers in France. It aims to boost front line efficiency and prepare men for postwar vocational life with educators from Yale, Harvard, and other institutions guiding a program across 500 YMCA huts. French officials back the project as strengthening Franco-American ties.
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Persh- Jog
B. C. Carter
Young Men's Christian Association
France
Army
United States Army
Department of Education
Pershing
Irrance
America
Mon
Sieur Petit Dutalils
Office National Des Universities Ecoles Francaises
England
Germany
Duty
Biology
Harvard University
Carter
New University
Suffragists in War Work Unite in Civic Service
Mrs James Lees Laidlaw, vice chairman of the New York State Woman Suffrage Party, outlines wartime duties as the group shifts from suffrage triumph to national service. The article notes a hospital unit sent abroad, a naval fund-raiser at Madison Square Garden, and women in engineering roles, plus food conservation, war savings, university citizenship extension, political education, Americanization efforts, and rural development through the National Security League. It invites rural women to contact the organization at 203 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
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James Lees Laidlaw
New York
Madison Square Garden
France
Norman Delt. Whitehouse
Rink and
Peat Than
Rural Problems Committee
National Security League
Woman Suffrage Party
Fifth Avenue
New Fork Eity
Certificates Boost Army Education Benefits After War
The program aims to provide soldiers with industrial vocational and other educational opportunities to aid their postwar reconstruction. Certificates will be issued to those who utilized the education offered, usable for credits at American institutions and assist in gaining business advancement.
Pig Kept In Bath Room Sparked City Safety Probe
Oklahoma City public safety commissioner Mark Kessler reported a family was found keeping a large pig and rearing it in the bath room of their flat, replacing the old song about pigs in the porch with one about pigs in the bath room.
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Porlor
Mark Kessler
Public Safety of
Oklahoma City
Food Administration issues price limits for Wood County
The U S Food Administration of Wood County lists maximum retail prices and rules for staple foods. Restrictions include 25 pounds flour per city customer, 49 pounds per any sale, sugar limits of 5 pounds city and 10 pounds country per sale, and 1 1/2 pounds of wheat products per week per person plus substitutes rules. Prosecutions possible for evading 50 50 substitutes. residents urged to conserve wheat until harvest.
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City
E. C
Ria
Cholera Morbus Remedy Endorsed by Indiana Householder
Mrs. Charles Engeert of Huntington Indiana urges keeping Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy at home for cholera morbus. She recalls two children sick in summer 1912 receiving immediate relief after use. A day off work cannot be recovered.
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Chamberlain
Charles Engeert
Huntington
Ind
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