War Garden Prizes Offered for Canned Vegetables
The National War Garden Commission will award 10,000 in thrift stamps for the best canned vegetables from war gardens. Russell T. Edwards will present the garden house at Bryant Park at 4 PM to Park Commissioner Grell, with A N Gitterman and Grell as war garden representatives. Prizes go to club exhibitions and county fairs, with thrift stamp certificates and substantial nationwide sales push.
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National War Garden Commission
Russell T. Edwards
Grell
Bryant Park
A. N Gitterman
War Gardens Committee
War Gardeners
Manhattan
Manhattan Island
Edwards
Canning Club
Commission
War Savings Committee
Washington
King George Learns to Throw Baseball at Eagles Hut
King George and Queen Mary visit the Eagle Hut in Washington and sample buckwheat cakes with maple syrup. The royal couple tour the Y M C A building, meet soldiers and sailors, and discuss American life before the King begins practicing baseball throws for an upcoming July 4 game.
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Washington i Inn
King
London
George
Queen Mary
Jes
Twemy
Queen
Aving
Eagle Hut
King and Queen
Nang Rece
Amery
Stames
Army
Navy
Theing
Arnie Latham
Lieut Ernest A Giroux Killed in Action in France
First Lieutenant Ernest A Giroux of Somerville Massachusetts member of the Lafayette Escadrille fell inside German lines on May 22 while pursuing enemy aircraft. He had left Dartmouth College as a sophomore two years earlier and served in the motor transport train before transferring to aviation duties with the famed squadron.
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Somerville
Mass
Ernest A. Giroux
Lafayette Fiscadrille
Arthur F. Healey
Red Crees
Paris
Giroux
Dartmouth Coal
France
Aviation
Escadrille
Bates son wounded in France cited for Croix de Guerre
A cable to Mr and Mrs J C Bates of Pondville Road Bronxville reports Alfred Elliot Bates of the Yale unit ambulance corps seriously wounded June 10 near Neuilly. The 22 year old Yale graduate is said to be improving and cited for the Croix de Guerre.
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Apedal
New York Times
Mount Vernon
N. Y
J. C. Bates
Pondville Road
Bronxville
France
Alfred Elliot Bates
Yale Unit Ambulance Corps
Neuilly
Bates
Major E. B. Cole Dies of Wound in France
Major Edward B. Cole of the Marine Corps died June 15 from wounds received in France. He was a Annapolis graduate, about twelve years in the Marines, and a brother of General Charles H. Cole who serves in France. He died at Brookline after a cable to his mother Mrs Charles H. Cole.
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E. B. Cole
Brookline
Mass
Edward B. Cole
Marine Corps
France
Charles H. Cole
Cole
Massachusetts
Annapolis
Marines
Y M C A Men Hurt on Tour Sector
Ira Henderson Van Emden of Mount Vernon New York was slightly wounded and Robert Grenville Armstrong former pastor of the First Congregational Church at Spencer Massachusetts is recovering from shell shock, according to cable dispatches. Both men were injuries in the Toul sector. Van Emden was struck in the face by a shell fragment.
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Ira Henderson van Emden
Mount Vernon
N. Y
Robert Grenville Armstrong
First Congregational Church
Spencer
Mass
Toul
Van
Creel to Lose Draft Age Men
Carl Byoir Associate Chairman of the Committee on Public Information said fifteen to twenty other draft age employees would sever ties with the committee Saturday night to comply with Congress and the appropriation that funds may not pay salaries to men of draft age.
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Creel
Washington
Carl Bycir
Committee On Public Information
Congressional
American Casualties Top 10 000 Mark Amid Pacific War Reports
Special to The New York Times Washington June 26 The total American Expeditionary Force casualties now exceed 10 000 with Army deaths and Marine losses disclosed. The day’s lists show 91 Marine casualties and 47 Army killed in action plus various other fates including missing in action and wounded. The roll includes many named officers and enlisted men with next of kin listed and home towns across the United States.
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Marines
Washington
War Department
Army
Barnett
Marine Corps
France
Arthur H. Lewing
George A. Ball
Robert H. Flansburg
James Bernard Scarr
Herman J. Eckardt
Lieutenant Chamberlain Dies in French Air Accident
Minneapolis reports the death of Cyrua F. Chamberlain son of local banker FR A Chamberlain and Lafayette Escadrille member killed while serving as a lieutenant in France. A Princeton graduate he recently received his commission after several air battles. Details of his death are unknown.
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Minneapolis. Minn
Cyrua F. Chamberlain
FR. A. Chamberlain
Lafayette Escadrille
Cident
France
Chamberlain
Princeton
Seven Local Men Dead in French Service War Lists
Seven men from the metropolitan district were reported dead in France by War Department casualty lists. Five died in action, two in hospital from wounds. The report includes Lieutenant Daniel J. Carney and others with details of their service, origins, and surviving families.
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France
War Department
Daniel J. Carney
Linden Street
Yonkers
N. C
Honolulu
Plattsburg
Harry Klein
Austria
Manhattan
Newark
N. J
Broome Street
Harry
Joan R. Canfield
Fairfield Avenue
Cedar Grove
Rgger J. Canfield
Marines
Corporal Canfield
No Man's Land
Nathan Korngold
East 104Th Street
Annie Korngold
Amedio R. Gialanella
East 103Th Street
Gialanella
Harry McCredie
Robert McCredie
West Sixty-seventh Street
Twenty-third Street
West New York
H . W. Herman
Ida Herman
Forayit Street
Kerman
Kovno
Russia
Philadelphia
Sth Infantry
Joseph T. Farmer
Catherine Farmer
St. Mary's
9Th Infantry
Syracuse
Farmer
Fort Slocum
Hugh Jr
Bedford Avenue
Message to American Mothers Memorial Day 1918 Hall Caine
A London auction offers a vellum collection of notices by British authors to aid the British Ambulance Committee. Hall Caine contributes a Message to American Mothers urging devotion to the sacred cause and remembrance as soldiers rest on France’s battlefields, guarded by the dead.
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New York Times
London
British Ambulance Committee
Hall Caine
Mothers of
America
France
War Risk Branch formed at Governors Island
A new War Risk Insurance Bureau branch at the Eastern Department headquarters on Governors Island will expedite claims for soldiers killed and for allotments and family allowances. Many families report delays due to improper original papers or moved addresses, hindering check delivery. writers should contact the Insurance Officer on Governors Island.
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Eastern Department
Governors Island
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Department of the East
Cardinal Lucon Urges France to Pray Across Nation
Paris June 2 Amid Cardinal Lucon letter to President Poincaré urging official public prayers for France, Premier Clemenceau says all citizens may assemble in churches but government cannot participate officially. He praises the Cardinal’s noble sentiment and endorses prayerful efforts to aid the nation.
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Havas
Cardinal Lucon
Rheims
Poincaré
France
Premierlemenceau
Clemenceau
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59Th Infantry
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