Germans Run Like Rabbits Defy British Dispatches in France
British reports from occupied sectors describe retreating German troops as panicking and evasive. A colonel cites civilians and prisoners seeing little resistance while others warn against overgeneralizing. Instances include Germans hiding in dugouts, surrenders, self-inflicted shelling confusion, and panic measures such as using paper for machine gun belts.
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France
Perry Robinson
Liemt
Beaucourt
Robinson
Judendorff
Germany
Electrifying U.S. Railways Proposed Amid Fuel Shortage
As fuel shortages and rising operating costs strain railroads a plan reemerges to electrify all lines. The government could undertake the project due to its vast scale and long-term returns, with installation costs high but fuel use cut in half and reduced wear. Property along rights of way could be repurposed for housing since electric railways resemble streetcars in impact.
Electrifying Railroads Seen as Likely Future Power Source
The article argues electricity could power all railroads by tapping water and other natural sources. It cites New York Central traction chief E. B. Katte, noting transmission losses cut to 2 percent in terminals and under 10 percent long distance. It suggests rail electrification could lower costs and reshape U.S. transport.
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New York
America
E. B. Katte
New York Central Railroad
Home Life at the Front in World War I Era Reflections
A columnist contrasts soldiers in France with home comforts, noting how modern troops experience minimal war hardships yet maintain optimism. Readers picture doughboys enjoying chocolate, soda pop, home papers, and entertainment while battle rages, with services presented as universal and shared.
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States
Charlie
France
Soldiers find comfort at battlefronts despite gruelling war
The article notes soldiers move through front lines to “blights” with home comforts and surplus. Chaplains are brave, comradeship strong, and even amid the fiercest fighting, home life influences persist. It contrasts past campaigns with current perseverance of modern soldiers against Handom.
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Washington
Valley Forge
Hannibal
Alps
Napoleon
Moscow
Cuba
Philippines
Handom
Good Behavior Counts Across Draft Age Gap
A Kansas City woman presses to have her husband reclassified after he claimed he supported her with $50 monthly. The draft board placed him in class one, the piece notes the looming universal draft to age 45 and hints at wives testing husbands, plus quips about war, Holland politics, and postwar government spending.
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Kansas City
Draft Board
Sam
Sherman
Somebody's Birthday in a Museful Praise
A dated verse wishes happiness to those celebrating birthdays. The speaker prays for kindness, joy, and comfort for all, invoking Lethe’s gates and the doors to Peace and Rest as life’s felicities are hoped for. The piece ends with a tribute to John Kendrick Bangs.
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Tohn Kendrick Thangs
Germans Fight to Buy Time on French Front
Despatch from Aug 30 reports violent fighting on General Mengin's front as German counter attacks seek to slow the Allied advance. French and American units push toward Chaulnes and Noyon while German retreats threaten a broader withdrawal before winter.
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London Times
San Antonio
Philadelphia Punky Ledger
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Mengin
Debeny
Himebert
Vilelage
Chaulies
Chaulnes
Cui
Noyen
Haniyori
Aoroa
Tol
Noxon
Nesle Twa Highy
Ham Oid Chaumy
Qise
Hindenburg
Mareial
New Military Police Corps Formed in American Expeditionary Forces
An Aug 31 field report from the American Expeditionary Forces notes the creation of the Military Police Corps to handle duties formerly assigned to various units. The corps will include three lieutenants, eleven marines, and eighty eight captains, with its own training depot.
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Fervice
Military Police Corps
Aneriea
Leutenant Caton
Pea
Vaudeville bill features Six Musical Noises and film
Royal Chamber presents an unusual vaudeville bill headlined by Six Musical Noises and featuring George Newton trick work, Abbott and Mills comedy, Brown and Carstons xylophones, and the feature photoplay No Man's Land with Bert Lytell. The program closes Sunday with more acts and films.
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Cook
Teud
George Newton
Bert Lytell
No Man’s Land
Louis Joseph Vance
Jrown
Carstons
Princess
Brown and Carstons
Abbott and Mills
Victoria Korn
Hoops of Steel
Henry B. Walthall
Gaumont News
Jewel Showcases Three Film Stars in Featured Program
The Jewel offers a photoplay program headlined by Charlie Chaplin Douglas Fairbanks and Warren Kerrigan with Fairbanks in Down to Kerrigan and Chaplin in two red productions. The Jewel has shifted to exclusive pictures for one week earning praise from patrons. Robert Warwick headlines at the Grand in Mad Lover while a new program arrives tomorrow promising high class entertainment.
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Charlie Chaplin
Douglas Fairbanks
Warren Kerrigan
Fairbanks
Kerrigan
Chaplin
Jewel
Paramount, Artcraft and
World Productions
Robert Warwick
Robert W K
Grand
Noble Potvogrvad Letters From Bolshevik Commander
A Minsk newspaper prints a letter claimed to be from a Bolshevik regiment commander to his wife Agripina Ivanovin. The missive boasts of noble blood and orders her to display status, with a request for funds to buy a coat and head feather and to avoid village women except official wives.
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Potvogrvad
Minskoye Slovo
Agripina Ivanovin
War era wit and miscellany lift from St Louis paper
A chaotic mix of wartime quips and odd items notes draft talk mixed with cultural jabs. References to Germany Foch and British war gear sit beside comic verse about lovers, barber thefts and stray barber shop gags. Mentions Boston New York beans and a New Orleans dispatch style.
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