Summer Home of Kaiser on d Corfu Revealed to French
The Achillion palace on Corfu, once Emperor William’s leisure retreat, now hosts French troops and a French governor. French nurses tend wounded soldiers among olive groves while statues, frescoes, and Greek-inspired architecture frame a view across Albania, Epirus, and the Adriatic.
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Kaiser Ond
Corfu
Island of
Associated Press
William
Achillion
Bay of Corfu
Senegal
Africa
God Fez
French Red Cross
Ulysses
Europe
North Sea
Mediterranean
Olive Grove
Albania
Greek Epirus
Italy
Adriatic
Achilles
Pennsylvania Road Lends Vice President To France
W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania railroad, has been sent to France by company management to supervise construction and operation of railroads behind the lines for troop, munitions, and supply transport. French authorities chose him as the best practical railroad man for the assignment.
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W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
France
Atterbury
Imperial ruin near summer palace echoed in art and folly
Descriptions depict a tropical garden with the Dying Achilles and a vast bronze Achilles statue, plus carved lamp posts and an imperial carriage bearing William II notes. The scene marks loss of colonies and palaces as symbols of the Emperor’s slipping grip on power.
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Greece
Achilles
Gari Melchers
Congressional
Washington
Gir
Rhodes
New York Harbor
William
Hohenzollern
Stinson Flight Halts at Porter Indiana
Chicago dated report says Miss Katherine Stinsons Chicago to New York flight lasted 41 minutes. She departed at 5 09 a m from Chicago and landed at Porter Indiana at 5 30 a m after engine trouble and collision with wires. She was unhurt.
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Chicago
Katherine Stinson
New York
Stinson
Ruth Law
Porter
Ind
Arrest Seven Slackers In Montreal Dyniming Case
Montreal police arrested seven alleged conscriptionists Saturday in connection with the dynamiting of the summer home of Lord Athelstan publisher of the Montreal Star.
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Montreal
Lord Athelstan
Montreal Star
Children in Danger as Red Cross Aids Refugees from Toul
Red Cross reports describe 750 French children displaced by bombardment near Toul. A team, including a doctor and nurses, relocated infants and refugees to a clean barracks, with medical care, proper feeding, and family grouping planned. New brick barracks will supply housing, coal, water, and beds, while Red Cross coordinates doctors, nurses and sanitation.
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Washington
Red Cross War Council
Red Crogs
France
Toul
Paris
Red Cross
Red Cross Plans Augmented Staff for Incoming Children
Supplies are provided for recreation education and children. Four to five hundred more children are expected soon, and Red Cross will expand staff to care for them. Children will stay while conditions prevent return to their homes.
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Baye
Red Cross
Weather outlook for week begins September 2
The Weather Bureau predicts a cool, generally fair week starting Sept. 2 across the Great Lakes region with possible rain on Wednesday. In the Plains and upper/middle Mississippi valley expect generally fair weather with local showers Tuesday and Wednesday and light frosts possible in northern border states later in the week.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes Region
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Refusal of Wheat Export for Holland
Amsterdam reports that permission to export wheat and flour already loaded on ships in American ports for Holland has been refused. The decision affects cargoes bound for Dutch markets and could impact supply channels and trade timing.
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Amsterdam
Holland
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Stison
Porter, Ind
Flanders
Velvet
Robert W. Powell
Rockford Life Insurance Co
Hampshire
Keck Bros
State Street
Labor
Frank O. Lowden
Trades Union
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