Beicheprey Battle Report Highlights Heavy Allied Losses
The Beicheprey fight ends in an Allied victory amid heavy American casualties, with Pershing reporting 200 plus American losses and 300 to 400 German dead or captured. French and American forces regain Leicheprey after a fierce counterattack, while Berlin claims 183 American prisoners and 25 machine guns.
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Beicheprey
War Department
Pershing
France
Renneres Forest
Toul
Leicheprey
Teuton
Sceicheprey
Paris
Scicheprey
Ottawa
Ont
Reuter
Whuzebrouck
Amiens
Noyon
London
Arras
Albert
Givenchy
Festubert
Lys
War Office
Givenchy-St. Venant
Kemmel
Givenchy-Les-la-Bassee
St. Venant
la Bassee Canal
Avis
US must supply force to crush Germany now
Secretary Baker returns from Europe with a stark report to President Wilson and the War Council. He urges extraordinary American mobilization to rush troops and munitions to Europe, arguing Britain and France cannot halt the German advance without U.S. strength and speed. Baker praises American troops in France and notes high morale and health as he pledges faster coordination between the War Department and the army.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Germany
Baker
Europe
War Council
White House
Great Britain
France
All America
America
War Department
Wilson
Daniels
Baruch
War Industries Board
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
McCormick
War Trade Board
Doctor Garfield
Mrr. Hoover
John Skelton Williams
Picardy
Flanders
Americans and True Democracy
George E. Bowen argues Americans must fund the war effort through liberty bonds as a test of democracy. He asserts true American aristocracy is of heart and mind, not wealth, and calls on citizens to lend their dollars to defeat Prussianism and aid humanity.
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George E. Bowen
The
Vigilantes
America
Navy
Dolar
Bond Buying Slogan Echoes Across the Sea
The verse urges readers to purchase bonds as a solution for reaching distant targets. It contrasts belated efforts with buying bonds, framing financial defense as a direct and simple remedy.
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Strickland Gillilan
First Colonial General Hospital Charter Date Noted
On February 7 1751 the first general hospital in the colonies was chartered in Philadelphia as the Pennsylvania state hospital. Joshua Crosby served as the first president and Benjamin Franklin, its first clerk, helped push its founding. In 1769 Thomas Bond gave America's first clinical instruction there.
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Colonial General Hospital
Pennsylvania State Hospital
Philadelphia
Joshua Crosby
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Bond
America
How to Avoid Backache and Nervousness
Providence reader Mrs. Adeline B. Lynch credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her backache nervousness and headaches after trying many medicines. The ad urges women with similar symptoms to seek the remedy and contact Lydia E. Pinkham Med Co for advice.
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Providence, R. J
Lydia E. Pinkham
Adeline B. Lynch
Plain St
Providence
R.I
New German Heart Diagnostic Uses Smoke Ring Patterns
A German study proposes a novel heart disease test using two small flames and a paper tape. A sensitive transmitter measures vibrations from the heartbeat and a tuning fork, creating smoke rings that reflect heartbeat abnormalities for diagnosis.
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Germany
The Last to Use Them Garden Tools Quarrel
A brief odd exchange reveals neighborly tension over shared garden tools as one resident waits while others finish using the yard implements. No further details are provided.
Wife's cooking blamed for many husbands' dyspepsia
A humorous remark notes that many men suffer indigestion from trusting their wives' cooking. The quip suggests marital kitchen dynamics as a source of digestive woes.
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Villers-Bretonneux
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Roberg
Ypres
Tans
Bethune
St. Mihiel
Givenchy-La Bassee Canal
Flanders Battle
Robecq
Lys Battle Front
Riex du Vinage Farm
West Front
Italian High War Commission
Foch
Army of Maneuver
Italy
U.S
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