Local Notes Include Trips and Family News
Local residents report trips to Omaha Bridgeport and Denver. Allen Atkins of Bridgeport marries in Alabama. Casselman family travels to Denver and Kansas. Ethel Bangert ill with diphtheria in Cheyenne. improving under nurse care. Public Library thanks United Workmen for fifty classical volumes. Dertha Ledbetter takes a bank position via Senator Bushee. Reel family sells land at a profit and eye new location.
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Ethel Bangert
Emerick
Cheyenne
Order of United Workman
Dickens
Scott
Enlistment Call for Quartermaster Corps Clerks and Tradesmen
The Quartermaster Reserve Corps seeks about 3000 men in the neighborhood for clerical and skilled trades work including blacksmiths farriers wheelwrights and wagons masters. Age 18 to 45 eligible if not yet examined by a local board and physically fit. Promotions rapid in non commissioned ranks. a training camp is planned near Jacksonville Florida. information and blanks available from Captain Ralph B Innis Q M U S A Room 555 Federal Building Chicago. Sidney Lumber Co offers loan.
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Itc
Jacksonville
Florida
Quartermaster Corps
Ralph B. Innis
Federal Building
Chicago
Denver Monkey Hugger Runs Loose in City
A playful yet troublesome monkey roams Denver streets near Twelfth avenue and Detroit street. The bumbling beast hugged a female pedestrian, sparked a citywide hunt by Capitol Hill patrols, and fled into Montclair's yards and trees. Residents fear more monkey mischief until capture.
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Twelfth Avenue
Detroit Street
Denver Post
Capitol Hill
Montelur
Queston
City Park
Jione
Montclair
Eighth Avenue
Claigton Street
Sinha
G. A. Clason
Wiese
Willies the British Tanks in 1910s Narrative
In 1910 an enemy agent could misread lines about British tanks known as Willies. Col Swinton notes in World's Work how the term Willie evolved as a code for telegrams, describing early tank concepts as a child and parent pair. The article mentions their designation and painted message "With Care To Petrograd" to mislead observers.
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Kengland
Weites Col
Swinton
Petrograd
Food Wastes Could Feed Hogs and Save Grain
United States Department of Agriculture promotes using farm and town wastes to feed hogs. Dairy wastes and by products from canneries bakeries and fisheries offer rapid growth and good returns. Orchard windfalls and kitchen scraps can support hog nutrition with proper limits to avoid waste.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Nake
Lim
Nickel's Worth of Sleep Brings Gentle Bribe Tale
A little girl Thelma awakes from a nap and cries until an aunt offers a nickel to sleep longer. Thelma wonders aloud if a nickel buys rest, then muses that her father would try for a nickel’s worth too.
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Thelma
Aunty
England Needs Standardization Says Cambridge Professor
England needs standardization as a modern emergency method, says Catlin who is standardizing the American airplane. He cites English terms and university phrases such as full term, May week, general admission day, ordinary degree, and notes the English approach differs from German submarine standardization.
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England
Jjoward Kk. Catlin
Cambridge
Telegraph
Long Flights of Birds Travel Across Continents
A bird rings show remarkable journeys. A swallow ringed in Lancashire reappeared seven months later in Crabamestowe South Africa, 600 miles away. A lesser black backed gull ringed at the Farne Islands reached St Louis Senegal eight months later, and a London ringed blackbird showed up in Moscow weeks later. The note emphasizes birds travel far beyond expectations.
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AouUbryeh
Southport Eeu
Witherby
Uwesthern
Lend
FE Witherby
Hiss
Lancashire
Crabamestowe
Northumberland
St. Louis
Senegal
London
Moscow
State University offers winter session to aid war effort
The State University at Lincoln announces a December to spring program to help students assist with crops and still complete a year of regular coursework. Most first year and demand courses will be offered with emphasis on engineering and agriculture. The session targets high school graduates for the College of Agriculture and all eighth graders eligible for the School of Agriculture.
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State University At Lincoln
College of Agriculture
School of Agriculture
Matching Them Up. Marjorie Encounters Married People
Little Marjorie finds herself among married couples and struggles to recall the husbands. In a chat with a man named Jandy she asks what the new item is that patches up to you.
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Marjorie
Jandy
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Denver
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E V Metz
Frank Stafford
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Ed Mitchell
Oscar Harris
Mr. Mitchell
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Merrell-Soule Co
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Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield
the State University
My Place
Peetz
Colo
Crook
Kentucky
John Deere
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B. F. Goodrich Company
Akron
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Silvertown
Toy
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