Germany’s Tin Money and Hunger News
Reports from German papers describe tin discs as small coins used in a village, valued at 3 cents, amid shortages with substitutes like sole leather and pomade. The piece notes growing anti England sentiment fading, calls for constitutional reform, and government warnings against hoarding money. It also cites Vorwärts on hunger and mandatory athletic drills for German boys.
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Ueh
Arbeiterstimme
Berlin
Frankfort Zeitung
Schiller
England
Germany
Vorwaerts
America
Wilson
Rheinisch Wentfaelische Zeitung
War Grafters Should Be Shot Declares War Sentiment
Joseph Hartigan commissioner of weights and measures in New York calls for immediate trial and execution of contractors who defraud the government during wartime. He likens grafting contractors to traitors and demands the death penalty for proven culprits, citing past abuses in war supply scandals and wartime suffering.
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New York
J. Herbert Duckworth
Arma
Aples
Nurses as menace to undertakers discussed at convention
Visiting nurse work in a mining town drew opposition from undertakers at the national convention. Miss Fanny F. Clements said the nurse had worked there 18 months but lost town board funding after a vote. One board member, an undertaker, argued deaths and infant funerals had fallen since her arrival.
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Cincinnati
Society For the Study and Prevention
Misa Fanny F. Clements
Washington, D. C
Canadians Train With Spring Bayonets In English Camps
In Witley Surrey Canada’s 50 000 troops are drilled to replicate front line warfare. Officers oversee trench and No Man's Land simulations with gas masks and machine guns. A new hip level bayonet attack replaces the old feint, reflecting a bold Canadian approach.
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F. W. Getty Witley
England
Canada
Ypres
Dominion
Surrey
West Front
France
Witley
Gibbet Mountain
Devil'n Punchbowl
No Man's Land
Tommy
Hramshot
Whitley
Woman shipments appendix as souvenir to friend
In St Paul on May 11 a young woman asked postal clerk Oscar Arm to register a parcel stating its value was 250 dollars. She apologized that the package was her appendix which she claimed cannot be replaced and said she was sending it as a souvenir to a friend.
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Paul, Minn
Oscar Arm
French Father and Son Die Together on Field of Battle
In Paris a father and son Edouard Rey senior 50 and Polly Edouard Rey junior 18 died fighting Germans. Edouard senior led a bombing mission against a machine gun when both were struck by bullets. Father died first then his son, who fell shortly after.
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Paris
Edouard Rey
Polly Edouard Rey, Jr
Reys
Galiard
France
Rey
U S Finds Way to Color Khaki Cloth
Army experts announce a domestic process to manufacture buff dyes from vegetable matter, allowing U S soldiers to wear khaki cloth in the same color as before. The discovery marks another step toward independence from Germany in dye supply.
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U.S
Washington
Germany
Girl Sweats Blood Puzzle Baffles Doctors
Marie Smith, 16, is in serious condition in Greenville Pennsylvania after a month of nearly daily blood loss through her skin. Doctors are puzzled by this rare affliction as blood oozes from her pores like sweat, raising concern among medical professionals.
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Greenville
Marie Smith
Sullivan cashes $1,242 potato crop payment in Greenwich
Andrew Sullivan delivered his final potato load to Greenwich on May 11. John J. Quackenbush, a produce dealer, paid him with a check for 1242 dollars. Sullivan raised his 1916 crop on five acres.
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Greenwich
N. Y
Andrew Sullivan
John J. Quackenbush
Mr. Sullivan
Farm owner nets sixfold crop value on half acre soils
A farmer kept half an acre for a higher price and realized six times the ground value for the entire potato crop. He also earned an amount exceeding the farm's assessed valuation of 130 acres. Dr. Anna C. Beebe advertises actinic light therapy for nervousness rheumatism stomach kidney and women’s disorders at 3045 Arcade Building.
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Anna C. Beebe
Couple Reconcile Remarry After Nine-Year Divorce
In Pek a Kansas on May 11 C. B. Pope and Mrs. C S Pope remarried after living together nine years without quarrelling. They had been divorced nine years earlier and this reunion marks their renewed union in the same home.
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Peka
Kan
Pope
C. S. Pope
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