Adventurers' Club member recalls wartime dental misadventure
Don Aspinwall of Rochelle Park New Jersey recounts a World War I episode in France where a brutal trench scene was rivaled by a chaotic dental attempt. An English medic and a Yorkshire orderly manipulated a gas-knife and a revolver in a botched tooth extraction, leaving Don bewildered yet alive after a misapplied anesthetic and a blow to the head.
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France
Don Ospinwall
Rochelle Park
N. J
Don
Villers Cotteret
Guemans
Wright
Don Aspinwall
Pon
Paris
Don Wal
Jerry
Bronx
Nan
Yorkshire
Dan Dodn
Tere
Red
Kiel
York
Engan
Yank
Western Newspaper Union
Europe adopts war fashions to keep normal life going
Police in London wear steel helmets and gas masks during air raid scares. Sandwich men patrol with air raid gear while public phone booths are sandbagged and guarded conversations are urged to protect civilians.
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Europe
London Police
London
Locusts and Cicadas: Seventeen Year Tremor Across US
A Tribune correspondent reports on cicadas and locusts, detailing the seventeen year cycle of the periodical cicadas and six differences from the shorter one. Overlaps in territories occur as broods range from 1 to 17 for the seventeen year race and 18 to 30 for the one year race. The bands are absent in the western United States, with cicadas mainly in wooded Atlantic-to-Mansas regions.
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Lee
Sand Gupa
Ae Sen
Tribune
Raman Kmtt
United States
Atlantic Coast
Kansas
Notable Naval Figure Advocates Caution On Zone Belt
Admiral Emory Land, a key naval figure and cousin of Charles Lindbergh, warns that a safety belt around the zone may be a nice idea but will hinge on proper implementation if others intrude. His technic al view underscores submarine design expertise and his long career, including leading the construction corps in World War I, shapes his stance on naval safety and policy.
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New York
Emory
Land
Chsittman
Batitime Commission
Admiral Land
Charles Lindbergh
Hasty Regrets and a Missing Boy in Trousers
A mother sends Jimmy to mend torn trousers after climbing trees. Upstairs she finds only the trousers and discovers the cellar door ajar. She calls him to come down and asks if he is playing with the gas meter while naked. A stern masculine voice replies from below that he is reading the gas meter.
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Jimmy
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