US Ordnance Achieves Early Guns Output Before Armistice
Assistant Secretary Crowell toured Aberdeen proving ground showing American gun and tank production. The War Department outlined a plan to produce 2,000 guns monthly while continuing Allied shipments, with 500 guns per month already in operation and full-scale production targeted by June next year.
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Washington
Navy
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Crowell
New Proving Ground
Aberdeen
United States
France
Great Britain
Shipping Board
Proving Ground
Erican
Hot Water and Limestone Phosphate Morning Purge
A promotional item urges drinking hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels of previous day waste and toxins. It claims improved digestion appetite and overall well being with a quarter pound costing little for biliousness constipation stomach trouble or rheumatism.
Governors Inspect Naval Academy Conference Highlights
State governors at Annapolis inspected the U S Naval Academy with Rear Admiral Eberle guiding tours. They toured cadet barracks gym pools and the mess hall as they discuss labor education and land policy and the future of the national guard after demobilization.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Baltimore
Baltimore Press Club
National Guard
Navy Academy
Edward W. Eberle
Drals
Naval Training Academy
Navy to investigate Fort Mifflin magazine explosion
The Navy Department orders an investigation to determine the cause of the Fort Mifflin munitions magazine explosion near Philadelphia that killed two men and injured several others. Separate item notes Buffalo port closes as the steamer W Grant Morden arrives with grain, elevating total afloat and in elevators to 62,955,000 bushels.
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NAVY
Washington
Navy Department
Fort Mifflin
Phila
Grant Morden
Christmas program and charity drive announced in U B church
The Senior and Junior Christian Endeavor societies meet Sunday at 7 PM in the U B church. A community chores program follows at the BE church Saturday at 7:30 PM, and volunteers will help decorate the Christmas tree for French orphans. The France orphans committee, led by Miss Mary Stahl, reports eleven children adopted.
Influenza Strikes Denver Area Residents and Officers
Dempster Fleming Theodore Frey and Vale Wright return from training camps as flu spreads in Denver. Victims include Mrs Gertrude Du Vall and Frank, Mrs M Porter and Fawn, Frank Young, Mrs Wm Ferrill and daughter, Mrs Enoch Lyon and two in Gard ner home. Brown ing Chapter No 262 officers elected led by W M Mrs Liz Sharp and others. Mrs Bertha Cappis Hampton and husband ill in Champaign TIil a sister Miss Nettia summoned and also ill. Walter Nicloy family all affected.
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Denver
Dempster Fleming
Theodore Frey
Vale Wright
Gertrude du Vall
Frank
M. Porter
Fawn
Frank Young
Ferrill
Enoch Lyon
Gardner
Browning
Lizz Sharp
W. M
Isaac Mouldin
Hampton
Walter Nicloy
McPher son family fall ill during Missouri funeral visit
Mr and Mrs H McPherson fall ill after untimely misfortune while in Missouri for the funeral of Mrs Jane Saeger of West Point. Ramseys hosted guests as Gertrude Clark suffers from tonsillitis during the visit.
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H. McPherson
Missouri
Jane Saeger
West Point
H Gertrude Clark
Richfield Illinois Neighborhood Notes
Isaac Campbell visited relatives in Kingston Tuesday. Mrs. Dennis Ryan was very sick last week. Dr. Davidson of Kingston attended. T. P. Moore and son of Hull visited his father A. J. Moore Sunday. Rev. H. H. Fletcher of Plainville preached here Sunday. Henry Schwartz and family of Payson visited John Brown and family Sunday. Mabel and Nellie Pierson visited relatives in Kingston last week. Mrs. Polly Holeman, in Barry aiding T. O. Moore’s family with flu, returned home Friday. Miss Lucile Hendricks of Kingston attended meeting here Sunday. Uncle Jack Moore is slowly improving. Alex Cooper of Payson passed through here Thursday. Elijah Ryan of Liberty was a caller here Saturday.
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Isaac Campbell
Kingston
Dennis Ryan
Dr. Davidson
T. P. Moore and Sone
Hull
A. J. Moore
H. H. Fletcher
Plainville
Henry Schwartz
Payson
John Brown
Mabel
Nellie Pierson
Polly Holeman
Barry
T. O. Moore
Lucile Hendricks
Jack Moore
Alex Cooper
J. Pierson
Elijah Ryan
Liberty
The Man Who Bows to the Inevitable
A terse adage on resignation notes that acceptance of fate often comes not from courtesy but from practical inevitability. The saying hints at stoic behavior and realism shaping reactions to unavoidable outcomes.
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Ordnance Department
Misissippi
Green Wagg
Galesburg
Perry Kuhlman
Camp Grant
Loren Call
Alva George
Blue Grass
Florence Henne
Walter Hampshire
al Lease
Quincey
Ella Lile
Waters’ Corner
Leo Britton
Troy Fusselman
Stanley Mann
Orville Copeland
Albert Larrimore
Feye
Clarence Linthicum
Raymond Lightle
Mary of
Delphia
Buffalo
Richfield, Ill
Quincy
Lewis Shoe Store
Blue
Wine
Oxford
Louis
Val
Weilers
Manan
WLU
Micely
Aizes
Lucher Shoes
Gunmetal Blucher
Maine St
Red Cross
Quincy, Ill
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