Paris to Welcome American University Club for War Volunteers
Plans move forward to establish an American University Club in Paris to serve American college men in France. Yale’s Professor Nettleton and Harvard’s Roger Pierce spearhead efforts with broad support from New Haven and other campuses. Existing groups include Harvard ambulance volunteers and students from Cornell Princeton Williams and Yale, plus many in Pershing’s expeditionary force and reserve training camps awaiting national service.
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Paris
United States
Nettleton
Yale
New Haven
Roger Pierce
Harvard
France
Verdun
Somme
Champagne
American Ambulance Field Service
Cornell
Princeton
Williams
Dartmouth
General Pershing
National Army
Caring for Dogs Blue Cross Fund Aid Appeal
A statement by Mrs. Elphinstone Maitland of New York describes the Blue Cross fund’s work in nursing sick or wounded war dogs used on European battlefields to locate wounded men. It notes the French minister of war supports care in kennels or at the front and urges gifts to aid both dogs and soldiers.
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Blue Cross Fund
Europe
Elphinstone Maitland
East Ninety-third Street
New York City
The
Blue Cross
New War Hospital Donated in London for American Officers
The American Red Cross opens an orthopedic hospital in London funded by William Salomon of New York. It is the first of its kind for officers and will provide treatment for injuries and deformities from wounds.
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American Red Cross
London
William Salomon
New York
Canadians Win Charity Baseball Match at Queen's Club
The Canadian military team and a London Americans side played a second benefit game at Queen's Club for widows and orphans of Canadian soldiers. Notables like Earl Grey and Mr Balfour attended as patrons. the Lord Mayor pitched the first ball. Canada won eight to four amid lively crowd banter and a disputed second-base call. The two matches raised over 200 pounds for the fund.
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London
Queen's Club
London Morning Post
Earl Grey
Duke and Duchess of Devonshire
Balfour
Robert P. Skinnan
United States
Canada
Queen's
Man of Sandusky Gives All to Allied War Effort
Andrew Francis Patrick Mahon a 67 year old hotel porter and shoe shiner in Sandusky Ohio donates daily Red Cross receipts and meals cost to aid the war. He plans to buy Liberty Bonds and has already subscribed $1000 in a stepson’s name, saying Uncle Sam must win.
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Andrew Francis Patrick Mahon
Sandusky, Ohio
Mahon
Sam Cos
Red Cross
Red Cross Committee
Sam
Uncle Sam
Miners Plant Terrific Explosives Behind Messines Ridge
Two hundred expert miners from Newcastle and Cardiff were drafted nearly a year ago to plant a massive explosion that blew Messines Ridge. They worked over six months to dig a mile and a half beneath the ridge, creating nineteen mine chambers under fortified German positions. Twenty five tons of high explosives were packed into elevator like pits after long galleries, with electric wires laid in place. The Germans slept above the inferno for months unaware of their fate.
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London
Newcastle
Cardiff
Messines Ridge
Marines test new telescopic sight for Springfield rifle
The Quartermaster department tests a telescopic sight for the Springfield rifle with plans to adopt it for Marines. Designed to be detachable, it targets long range so Marines in France could engage the enemy at about a mile away.
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Quartermaster Department
U. S. Marine Corps
France
Red Cross Workers Granted Assimilated Military Ranks
The War Department permits Red Cross representatives in foreign war zones to wear assimilated military ranks and uniforms. Officials receive commissions, warrants and identity certificates. ranks span from major general to private with Greek cross insignia, to reflect trust and cooperation with U S forces.
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War Department
American Red Cross
Congress
American National Red Cross
Red Cross
United States
Germany
Red Cross Offerale
Army Medical Corps
Red Cross Organization
Army
War Council
London Doll Factory Owner Seeks Exemption From Army
A London man who ran a doll factory before the war faced a military tribunal asking for exemption from conscription. He argued his sixty workers would lose jobs and German trade would reclaim the market if he were drafted. The tribunal postponed his summons for three months.
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London
England
Germany
Germans Boast of Frightful New Explosive Cast as War Tactic
A New York City businessman returning from Europe claims Germany possesses a secret explosive held in reserve to be used as a last resort. He describes a bomb capable of a 2000 foot radius and suggests ten planes could destroy a city quickly. He cites shortages and wartime measures in Germany, including seized church bells and conscription of food, as context for potential drastic action.
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New York City
Holland
Germany
United States
Hase
Red Cross Founded by Roman Pontiff
A writer clarifies that Camillus de Lellis founded a nurses order in Rome about 320 years ago, aided by a papal brief dated June 26, 1586. References include life works on St. Camillus by Cicatelli, the Oratory of St Philip Neri, and Catholic encyclopedias. feast day is July 14.
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Rome
Camillus de Lellis
New York Evening Post
Red Cross
Father Cicatelli
Camillus
Benedict XIV
St. Camillus
Congregation of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri
London
Edward Dunigan & Brother
Fulton Street
New York
Benziger Brothers
Catholic Encyclopaedia
Alban Butler
Sells Newspapers to Serve Country Hero Boy Links Bond Drive
Master Holliday Henry Hayley of Bronte Texas sold newspapers and saved 25 dollars to aid his father Postmaster W L Hayley in buying a Liberty Bond. Named for grandfathers who fought in the Confederate army he plans to join the United States Navy when old enough.
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Master Holliday Henry Hayley
Bronte
Texas
W.L. Hayley
Master Holliday
United States Navy
American Tars and the Naval Auxiliary Merchant Marine
The Marine News argues that fifty years of neglect have left American ships with foreign crews while Americans avoid seafaring careers. It notes New York and Massachusetts run nautical schools producing about 100 graduates yearly, as federal support remains minimal.
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The
Marine News
New York
Massachusetts
Naval Auxiliary Merchant Marine
Kaiser’s Soliloquy: The World Beneath His Foot
Poem by Frederic Rowland Marvin declares the Kaiser’s claim to global rule and vengeance against England France Belgium and the United States. It asserts unyielding power the sword the flag and a world under one tyranny with no mercy or love.
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Great Caesar
Caesar of the World
Frederic Rowland Marvin
Princeton President Explains War Aims To Seniors
Dr. John Grier Hibben, Princeton University president, delivering a baccalaureate sermon to the senior class in training for officers, declared the United States' war just and a fight to end war itself. He urged that democracy rests on right and justice, not brute force, and asserted that right must prevail over evil.
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Princeton University
John Grier Hibben
Germany
Norway Bread May Go to Twelve Cents
The U S consul in Bergen reports wartime costs have surged for flour wages and fuel with bread prices expected to rise to 10 to 12 cents per pound. Rye flour costs jumped from 4 30 to 16 and coal leaped to 53 per ton while bakers wages rose from 8 to 12 per week.
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United States
Bergen
Norway
State Department
Liberty Loan of Two Billion Dollars Highlights
World class financing notes the Liberty Loan of two billion dollars with no Uncle Sam commissions. It claims the loan is the biggest ever, at eight and a half percent, and that subscriptions match the Civil War era debt. It was marketed at par and now sells above the Kaiser’s fifty six percent.
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Uncle Sam
Kaiser
Christian Science Churches Raise War Relief Funds Over 300000
The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston reports more than 300000 raised since the European war began. Funds aid women and children in Europe and are extended to all needy, with distributions in Armenia Serbia Poland Lithuania Belgium Russia Italy Switzerland Holland France Germany Canada and Australia. Aid reaches via committees or U S State Department channels without fund administration costs.
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Christian Science Churches
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Mass
Europe
Christian Science Monitor
Armenia
Serbia
Poland
Lithuania
Belgium
Russia
Italy
Switzerland
Holland
France
Germany
Canada
Australia
State Department
Washington
Norway imposes metal export embargo starting May 1 1917
The Norwegian government bans export of pig iron ingots for axles large forgings iron and steel for bolts and rivets iron bars hoops beams angle iron other rolled iron shapes iron plates with or without covering iron pipes and fittings of wrought iron cast iron or steel retort graphite carbon electrodes electrode carbon for industrial use and electrode refuse.
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Christiania
Norway
State Department
Soldier armor concept for attack preparation described
The War Department reportedly plans a protective suit for soldiers. Bids seek helmets of alloy steel 15-100ths of an inch thick capable of stopping rifle bullets. Body armor uses thin spring steel plates sewn in a canvas sack and strapped over the shoulders and waist.
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United States
War Department
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