Qua Air Fighters Play a Fair Game
A Public Information Service summary details allied airmen in Europe, noting American aviators follow rules during combat. It highlights Magoun and other U S and Royal Air Force members, balloon observers spared, plus American losses and rescues. The piece covers wartime morale efforts in England and U S camps, and lists military manpower needs and logistics plans including trucks and mail handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee On Public Information
Washington
London
Europe
F. P. Magoun
Harvard
Royal Air Force
Magoun
Ypres Salient
England
Randolf Baker
Sammy
U S Army Equipment and Personnel Details in WWI Dispatch
The report outlines the American infantry in France carrying 200 rounds in webb belts and compares with German supplies. It notes superior American belts, 12 pound load for 220 rounds, and firing rates for Spring field rifles. It also mentions German alien registration plans, finger prints, and scout efforts to locate black walnut for aircraft and gunstocks. Brownings supplied for training camps and overseas units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aar
France
First Porto Rican laborers to work under government auspices
The first Porto Rican laborers under government auspices will start on government contracts within a month. The labor department’s employment service has already found employment for at least 100000 men as common laborers on construction jobs at Norfolk Newport News Baltimore and nearby. Plans are being made to provide suitable housing for these workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Labor
Norfolk
Newport News
Baltimore
Vicinity
Army schools of nursing open to eligible women
The War Department announced admission to the army school of nursing for women aged 21 to 35 with high school education or equivalent. Several schools will be started in chosen military hospitals with applications sent to the Army School of Nursing, Office of the Surgeon General, Washington, D. C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army School of Nursing
War Department
Surgeon General of the Army
Washington, D. C
Keeping Our Fighters Fit For War and After
Official commission on training camp activities issue details life in army and navy camps. It covers athletics mass singing social life and welfare work by the Y M C A Knights of Columbus and other organizations. Two picric acid plants at Little Rock and Brunswick cost about 7 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission On
Y. M. C. A. Knights of Columbus
Commission
Little Rock
Ark
Brunswick, Ga
War Department
Selective service evaders to face trial on return
The department of justice says men who leave the United States to evade military duty will be tried on selective service violations when they return, even if postwar. The DOJ possesses information to compile lists of men who left to avoid service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Justice
Department
New Spring Hats To Offset Gowns In Fashion Talk
New York fashion writers argue hats drive the season as reformers fight consumption of hats and gowns. The piece surveys brim shapes from high crowns to mushroom styles, outlines color trends including wheat tones turned vivid by dyes, and notes milliners pushing bold, decorative hats to complement gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Shantung
Cairo
Old South
President Urges Thrift Drive To Back War Effort
President Wilson calls on all Americans to cut nonessential purchases and join a national thrift pledge by June 28. He urges saving and buying government securities to free labor and materials for war needs, stressing that the war is a national effort not just military. He asks those who own Liberty bonds or War Savings stamps to continue, and for all to enlist in the thrift movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Secretary of the Treasury
U. S
Treasury Department
United States
Volunteer Army
Richest US Potash Vein Found Near Longmont Colorado
Geologists report a major find near Longmont Colorado as a four foot thick vein of potash crops out along a rocky fault in the foothills. Discovered by a trapper, the vein runs 95 to 100 percent potash in an assay and can be traced for about half a mile with depth still undetermined.
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Longmont
Colo
United States
Sweetheart Monument Grows at Camp Devens
At Camp Devens Massachusetts a crowd of girls adds stones to a “Rock of Love” monument for soldiers. Each girl with a sweetheart among the troops places a stone on the pile and hopes for a large love memorial before the war ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Devens
Mass
His Habit. A Surly Barber Remains Silent On the Street
A brief comic exchange notes a barber’s habit of silence toward an old acquaintance. The humor rests on the idea that years of routine shape behavior, not hostility, as the barber’s reticence is blamed on habit rather than mood.
Thogthing Origin Question in Universal Excerpt
The fragment from The Universal asks how the writer arrived at a certain thought process. It appears as a stray quoted exclamation without clear context or full sentences.
Freezone Promises Quick Corn Removal With Ease
An advertisement touts Freezone as the solution to hard and soft corns and corns between toes. It claims instant pain relief and painless removal, with a tiny bottle costing only a few cents from any drug store. It credits a Cincinnati genius for the discovery.
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Cincinnati
Adv
Anomalous Intellectuals in a Quip by a Kansas City Star Reader
A semi learned bore mocks Anatole Uppityback by claiming affinities with ancient and fictional figures. He praises a dexterous wand that can transform whales into weasels and mosques into mosquitoes, while Hector Hersh counters that tools should be planted in the dark of the moon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anatole
Aristophanes
Pumpendingle
Epicurius
Mr. Hersh
Old Hector Hersh
Kansas City Star
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F.P. Magoun
Commission On Training
Camp Lewis
Army
Motor Transport Service of
The
Post Office Department
Boy Scout
National Guard
National Army
America
Spain
McClure
Colorado
Fletcher
Croudol Company
Deslers
Express
Harold Somers
Brooklyn
N.Y
Cuticura
American Flag Mfg. CO
Easton, Pa
Mellton
Mazer
Dept. B
Phils
Watson Be ‘Qoleman
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