Famous U.S. artists serve camouflage role in first company
Washington report details Company F of the 25th Engineers, a 700-strong unit in training near Washington. Artists and sculptors, including Prix de Rome winners Barry Faulkner and Sherry Fry, earn $40 a month painting camouflage, constructing fake villages, and concealing trenches under Lieut. Homer St. Gaudens.
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U. S
First Camouflage Company
L. Harper Leech
Ced
Washington
Uncle Sam
Pri
25Th Engineers
France
Pershing
Homer St. Gaudens
Abraham Lincoln
St. Gauden
Platteburg
Maude Adama
Europe
Barry Faulkner
Sherry Fry
Company F
Cantonment
Leslie Thresher
Saturday Evening Post
Harry Thresher
Burnham Hoyt
Liberty Loan
Soldiers and Sailors club opens in New Richmond
The Sammies home opened to relieve crowded rooms, hosting about 25 men Saturday night. Formal opening is set for December 1. W. E. Stevens has leased the New Richmond Hotel on Fourth Avenue and Jackson Street and will manage it after year’s start. current manager BR. C. McCormack plans to retire from business.
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Soldiers’ and Sailors
W. EE. Stevens
Richmond
Fourth Ave
Jackson #t
BR. C. McCormack
Richard Walton
Tully
Metropolitan Theatre
Mexico
Central America
Republia
United States
Hird
Paradise
James Seeley
Caproni Captain of the Air Demonstrates Giant Biplane
Gianni Caproni, famed as Caproni and builder of the giant Caproni biplane, recently piloted a craft that carried ten people from Virginia to Long Island, marking the air machine’s record spread. The name Cap, short for Caproni, is how birds reportedly refer to him.
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Cap
Caproni
Gianni Capronia
Air
Vircinia
Long Island
Frettful Babies Need a Laxative
Advises parents to treat infant fretfulness from constipation with Dr Caldwell Syrup Pepsin a mild non gripping stimulant. Ends with offer of a free trial bottle by writing to Dr W B Caldwell 456 Washington St Monticello.
Jazz band craze grows at Moore Theatre with Tennessee Ten
The Tennessee Ten and other acts headline a week of vaudeville at Moore Theatre. Willie Weston revived wartime songs while Harriet Rempel, Winona Winter and Hazel Moran with the Rath Brothers drew strong crowds. The Armstrong Follies at the Gaiety scored a hit, and Wilkes Players presented The Silent Witness with Grace Huff and Ivan Miller starring. Orpheum opened with Master Clyfe Gates and Rose and Thorne delivering strong vaudeville acts, followed by Palace Hip and other featured numbers.
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Moore Theatre
Orpheum
Tennessee Ten
Martin Heck
Willie Weston
Joan 4'Arc
Jaza Banders
William
Kaiser
Williams
Wolfus
Mark
Harriet Rempel
Winona Winter
Hazel Moran
Rath Brothers
Gaiety Theatre
Arme «Trong Pirothers
Seattle
Billie” Bingham
Maudie Smith
Carter
Wilkes Players
Wilkes Theatre
Grace Huff
Ivan Miller
Orpheum Theatre
Clyfe Gates
Joan of Arc
Rose
Thorne
Maulby
Musette
Munette
Muros
Dresden
Walker and Burrell
Charlie Chaplin
Two Aged Sisters Starved as Police Force Entry
Chicago report details a police entry into a West Side hovel where a starving 65 year old Anna Collins and 60 year old Mary Collins lived. A naked woman sat over a dead sister and shouted at officers while neighbors fled. The body was sent to the morgue and the survivor to the county hospital. Food deliveries had been refused for two days.
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Chicago
Anna Collins
Mary
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Reese
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Palace
Ten Dark Knights
Palace Hip
Foster
Frish
Howard
Toolin
Randow
Garnella
Ariane
Arcade Bidge
Second Avenue and
Pike Street
Chest of
Plymouth
MacDougall- Southwick
Fee
Axminster
Ene
Lakewood
MacDougall-Southwick
United Press
London
Privy Council
Germany
House of Commons
Balfour
Ashington
Ameri
Joseph L. Boyce
Lawrence0
Planket
Pittsburg
Marion F. Stoddard
Infantry
Silver Springs
N. Y
Horace Foulds
Headquarters Company
Harry Foulds
Clinton Place
Newark
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