Building a World War I Aircraft Boom
The piece outlines the scale of wartime aircraft production, comparing U S efforts to England’s. It details the immense supply needs, the many steps in engine and airframe manufacture, and the advantage of standardized parts. It also touches on Russia’s role and Kerensky’s influence in the wider alliance context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
England
United States
America
Ireland
Galicia
Russia
Kerensky
Civil War Death Toll Comparisons In Wartime Figures
A writer notes wartime mortality estimates, citing 7,000,000 military deaths and larger totals including Armenian massacres and hunger in Poland and Palestine. Comparisons reach Taiping rebellion losses of 30,000,000, while advances in medicine and sanitation reduce excess deaths. The piece ends with a quip about comic opera needing a naval lieutenant hero.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erman
Poland
Palestine
Paris
Vladivostok
China
The Same Boy Revisited by Luke McLuke and Others
A reflection on how a freckled boy with a bandaged toe has grown into a capable, cooperative youth. He works on a farm, supports himself financially, joins the Y M C A, and participates in clean-up campaigns while maintaining courtesy and direct talk with elders. The piece contrasts past individualism with present communal effort and notes broader social shifts including Russia and women’s suffrage debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wat
Luke McLuke
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Luke
Dad
Grandfather Frog's Eyes in an Animal Tale
In Thornton Burgess's children's story Grandfather Frog sits on a lily pad and chats with Peter Rabbit. Peter notices Grandfather Frog's eyes now lie flat against his head, a curious change that sparks observation and a cautious retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandfather Frog
Thornton W. Burgess
Peter
Whitetail
Old Whitetail
Mr. Toad
Smiling Pool
The Tangled Web of Dishonesty and Its Consequences
A moral meditation on honesty versus deceit. Dishonesty brings immediate trouble and long term guilt, while honesty aligns with divine wisdom. The passage uses vivid imagery of webs, spiders, and proverbs to warn about deceit's growing harms. The message emphasizes confessing wrongs to end worry and restore trust.
Free mails for American soldiers in France
The French government grants American troops free use of the French mails allowing letters and postcards home at no charge. Britain may offer reciprocal postal terms. Soldiers welcome the arrival of a large tobacco shipment while Y M C A units near the base plan rapid expansion to provide amusement. The Red Cross has shipped baseball gear and plans moving picture machines and films for the men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Associated Press
America
United States Expeditionary Forces
Great Britain
Red Cross
War Gardens Fight Plant Lice With Sticky Remedies
The garden maker should wage war on plant lice attacking vegetables and fruit trees. Smother them with a sticky coating. kerosene emulsion or soap spray help, but tobacco preparations sold for a quarter are best. Nicotine kills lice. Dining room workers at large hotels require daily manicuring for sanitation.
Local Gossip From Vacation Friday Day
ENEVIEVE HICKS returns from the measles as gatherings brew. Gen reports a dreamlike romance poem pinned on her window sill claiming “To A Fare Made With Meesles.” Lilac Grimes and Maude Muldinkey doubt Gen’s tale, call it her writing. Fatty Bellowes visits village pale, plans Baptist Sunday school scene. new sexton Mister Blinky Hammond rumored to unsettle parishioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enevieve Hicks
Gen
Lilac Grimes
Maude Muldinkey
Maude
Fatty
Fatty Bellowes
Baptist
Ex Brigham
Baptist Church
Blinky ‘Hammond
Cocchi Son Gives Valuable Evidence in Murder Case
New York July 28 Arturo Cocchi son of Alfredo Cocchi provides new testimony in Ruth Cruger murder case. He says he was in his father's shop the day of the death and heard men talking in the cellar through a floor hole. He noted the timing as the day after Lincoln's birthday and reports his father not in the shop when he arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Cruger
Arturo Cocchi
Cocchi
Miss Cruger
Lincoln
Papa
Arturo
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Quincy Whig Athe Whig Co
Alcorn & Heneel
Marbridge Building
New York
Peoples Gas
Chicago
Quincy
Ea Pea
Ale Sa Ee Sete
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Keremzhy
Massachusetts
Wellal
Rome
Nantucket
Dichanesty
By Webster
Fongre
H. T. Webster
ERVY
Spotty the Turtle
Spotty
Peter Rabbit
Wis
Lee
Price
Franklin Co
Springfield Hillnois
Missouri
Riverside Coal Co
J. L. Frese
Prop
Paul Westy
Frank Mosar
Alfredo Cocchi
Guy Nations
Hampshire ST
Jacobs’ Jewelry Store
Sa Gg
Aa Heen Nerd BN Safet Re Service
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