Kaiser Sub Links Red Cross to Hospital Ships
Milton Bronner reports on German submarine attacks on hospital ships and how Red Cross nurses face risk at sea. A nursing sister recounts the torpedoing of the British hospital ship Astur off the Serbian front and the rescue of 900 sick cases, underscoring the sacred status of hospital ships.
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Milton Bronner
New York
Red Cross
Stars and Stripes
Teast
Field
Astur
Dan
Lemon Juice Freckles Remedy Ad
Squeeze juice from two lemons into a bottle of three ounces of orchard white lotion. Massage onto freckled skin and tan areas to fade blemishes. Grocer lemons and drugstores offer the ingredients for a cheap cost.
Night Submarine Attack On Red Cross Transport
The ship sailed toward England with Red Cross markings and many sick and wounded aboard. A German submarine fired a torpedo at midnight, damaging the rudder and engine room, blowing out lights, but the crew and nurses avoided panic and lowered lifeboats. One boat capsized, and the submarine did not rescue the nurses.
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Bay of Biscay
England
Bucket Brigade of Women Saves Town
Frederick Maryland June 1 Unionville a town of about 200 population 14 miles from this city was saved from destruction by fire by 50 women who kept the flames from spreading while the neighborhood gathered after alarm via telephone girls. Armed with washtubs boilers buckets and anything that would hold water the women climbed ladders and dashed water on the fire while only two men remained in the village.
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Frederick
Unionville
Farma
Bride and Groom to Travel Far to Marry
Curtis Gambel of Malone New York plans a 5000 mile journey from Petrograd to Yokohama to wed Hazel Abbott of Hudson. Miss Abbott travels a 10000 mile route to Japan for the marriage alone, reflecting a lengthy transcontinental romance.
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Malone
N. Y
C Curtis Gambel
Petrograd
Yokohama
Japan
Mian Hazel Abbott
Hudson
Miss Abbott
Cleared after long delay in Columbia death penalty case
Joseph Beard, a farmer, made a deathbed confession that exonerates William Purvis who escaped hanging 25 years ago when the scaffold trap failed. Purvis had been convicted of murder and lived under the cloud of the near execution until now.
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Columbia
Mise
Joseph Beard
William Purvis
Shoes at Low Prices at Schermer's Stock Show
Schermer's Shoe stock is immense and mostly down at the old level with some prices higher than a year ago. Leaders include Good strong Work Shoes McKay Weinbrenner Endicott Johnson chrome tans at 3.50. Goodyear welt and Union made models remain affordable with several at four to six dollars. Jefferson Cruiser Goodyear welt remains at a reduced price.
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Carl Schermer
Schermer
Yesler
McKay
Weinbrenner
Endicott-Johnson
Goodyear Welt
John Meier
Jefferson
Jefferson Welt
Felder
Monarch
Beacon
Howard & Foster
Crossett
Washington Dry Sox
Engineers Convene to Boost War Munition Output
Cincinnati hosts a joint convention of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the National Machine Tool Builders Association. More than 8,000 members discuss shifting up to eighty percent of U S machine tool plants to munition production under wartime demand.
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Cincinnati
Uncle Sam
Germany
United States
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
National Machine Tool Builders’ Association
Absent-Minded Suitor Arrested Over Threats in Clarksburg
Felix Gentle, wealthy merchant, was arrested on a charge of threatening Miss Ethel McComba who claimed she would marry him after he spent large sums on her including 500 for a trousseau. On the wedding day he said he could not find his bride to be.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Felix Gentle
Ethel McComba
Gentle
Misa McComba
Engagement complicates truth in confession re marriage
A fragment recalls a woman calmly describing a past engagement and a double bind. She reveals she was already married when another man saw her with her husband, raising questions about the engagement’s validity and the social consequences of the discovery.
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Combs
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Star
Avis Rowe
Martha E. Hlavacek
Washington Boulevard Hospital
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J. W. Juarcka
Rowe
Hlavecek
Geneva Red Cross
Bucket Brigade of Women Saves Town
Seattle
Lester
Carl, Schermer
First Ave
Westlake Public Market
Times Square
Westlake
6Th & Virginia
Noble Grocery CO
Lustard
Hershey's Cocoa
Gerrish Bros
Fremont
Guittard’s Chocolate
Ile
Elliott
Ake
Mountain View
Ralston's
Fcard
Fuss’ Market
Ghirardelli’s
Empson's
Lipton's
Ise
Interlaken Dairy Corner
Sixth Ave
Virginia
U.S
The
Robert H. Fernald
Fred A. Geier
Spencer Miller
Herman Schneider
Ira N. Hollis
D. S. Jacobus
Florida Fruit and Table CO
Westlake Fruit & Vegetable CO
A. Otto
Burbank
Sunkist
Stong
Tongs Grocery
Westlake Maket
Pine Street Market
Corner Market
Postal Savings Bank
Sam
Pike and Union Sts
Oregon
Central Meat CO
Bando
Bing
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