Patriot Greek Makes Ready to Fight Bodies
Spokane Washington James L Dorgan a subject of Greece is in a training camp preparing to fight for Uncle Sam against the Germans Four years ago he came from Athens with little English He graduated from public and high schools while studying he worked in a newspaper office and saved 600 He owns a Liberty bond and bought War Savings stamps
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Spokane
Wash
James L. Dorgan
Greece
Uncle Sam
Athens
Sailors Eat Seaweed After Sinking Of Augvald in Atlantic
The Norwegian steamer Augvald, 2008 tons, bound from a French port to Baltimore, was sunk by a German submarine. Eleven of 27 crew were rescued after 11 days adrift in two lifeboats, many subsisting on seaweed and rainwater. Three were lost, others unaccounted for. rescued men were nursed aboard a transatlantic liner and brought to port in exhausted but improving condition.
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Augvald
Baltimore
Ocean
Hner
Egge
Local and Personal News Highlight Sidney Area
Lee Cox of Denver visits friends in town while Bert Bates of Lodgepole stops by. Jack Boyle returns to Lodgepole work after a visit in Sidney. Mr and Mrs Joseph Swenson travel from Colorado. C P Lovalh of Sidney Draw shops in town. Doctors Barger and Zwink settle in Stewitts building. A S Hardy and family vacation in northwestern Wyoming. Miss Besse Crist returns home to Chadron for vacation. Brewer theatre construction resumes after steel shipment delay. Mrs D P Evans and two children return from Missouri to Cheyenne. Mrs Summier returns home after summer with Slater, Missouri family. Mrs Gus Buckingham and son visit Mrs Annie Hart in town. Miss Staci McRae heads to Denver then Colorado Springs before work return. Mrs H F Freytag of Shelton joins husband. Freytag manages Trans-Mississippi Grain. Carl Trognitz returns from Denver hospital with nurse. friends wish rapid recovery. F I Knaub’s boy injured by auto on Lincoln Way. bruises minor. Co A Hill investigates telegraph change to Sidney rural route. Empty stock car on westbound train fire at Sidney. car destroyed. Frank Yportrey resigns from Farmers Union warehouse. joins PD R Campbell. J C Schulenberg temporarily in charge at Farmers Union store.
French Cities Grow as War Immigration Surges
Paris exodus and wartime refugees boost secondary cities. Marseilles rises from about 600,000 to over 1,000,000, Lyons grows from 530,000 to 740,000, Bordeaux reaches 325,000, with suburbs up from 88,520 to 120,855. Havre climbs from 136,159 to 159,000 plus 30,000 foreign garrison and 80,000 refugees.
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Paris
France
Marseilles
Lyons
Bordeaux
Havre
Granddad and family welcome young veteran enlistee
James A House of Clinton Mont enlists in the engineers' replacement company after visiting relatives in Spokane. He has a son in service and three daughters at home, yet remains physically fit and youthful at 44, qualifying for military service.
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Spokane
Wash
James A House
Clinton
Mont
Mr. House
Uncle Sam
Engineers
Missoula
Tree bought for six fifty by Indiana veneer firm
Edinburg Indiana Walnut tree purchased by W T Thompson Veneer company from Wabash College Crawfordsville for 650 dollars. Tree located on campus with native forest growths. Body to be cut into airplane stock and stump to veneer piano cases. Thompson calls it the finest of its kind in Indiana.
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Edinburg
Ind
W. T. Thompson Veneer Company
Wabash College
Crawfordsville
W. T. Thompson
Indiana
Outing on the Lawrence Fork Yields Huge Trout Tale
Mr and Mrs C S Brown and Mr and Mrs E R Kratz enjoyed an outing on the Lawrence Fork early this week. They caught a trout so large the water receded after landing it, making the stream unusable for irrigation for days. Emil von Bergen of Carpenter Paper Co sends a note from William Bay Wisconsin with a picture of a cool shady grove and the lake where the big fish was caught.
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C. S. Brown
E.R. Kratz
Lawrence Fork
Emil von Bergen
Carpenter Paper Co
William Bay
Lake Geneva
Wis
Water warm in banana belt as family returns home
The speaker notes the water is fine and temperatures near 100 in the banana belt. Mrs. J. A. Simones returns from Omaha with her six year old daughter who had seven weeks of treatment at St Kathrine Hospital for severe measles complications but is improving quickly. Mr. Simones, tending farm interests in Kimball county, has also returned to Sidney.
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J. A. Simones
Omaha
St. Catherine Hospital
Mr. Simones
Kimball County
Sidney
What Catarrh Is and How to Cure It with Scott Emulsion
Science links nasal catarrh to general body weakness and warns local snuffs and vapors irritate with little benefit. To cure catarrh treat the cause by nourishing blood with Scott's Emulsion, a medicinal food and building tonic free from harmful drugs. It has helped thousands. Try it. Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N.J.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfeld,n.j
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Furer Grocery Company
Sidney, Nebr
Nebraska Telephone Company
Save Food Bay War Savings Stampa and Liberty Bonds
America
Standard Oil ,Company
Nebraska
Lee Cox
Denver
Bert Bates
Lodgepole
Jack Boyle
Joseph Swenson
Colorado
Drs. Barger
Zwink
Stewitts
A. S. Hardy
Wyoming
Besse Crist
Cheyenne Trading Company
Chadron
Brewer Theatre
D P Evans
Cheyenne
Marlless
Gus Buckingham
Mrs. Buckingham
Annie Hart
Staci McRae
Colorado Springs
H. F. Freytag
Shelton
Freyteg
Trans-Mississippi Grain Company
Carl Trognitz
Knaub
Iad
Lincoln Way
Co. A. Hill
North Divide
Cantry
Gurley
Frank Yportrey
Farmers Union
R. Campbell
J. C. Schulenberg
Engineers’ Corps
United States Army
United States
Charles H. Sloan
House of Representatives
Northwest
North
South
Department of Agriculture
Congress
House
Committee
Rose St
North of Pacific Hotel
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