Captain’s Duty Beyond Direct Fire In French Trenches
Artillery captain in Amiens explains his main role is morale and welfare of men, not flashy attacks. He lives in a clay cave, coordinates batteries, and values leadership, discipline, and care for troops amid mud, danger, and distant German threat.
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Chicago
Traily News
Amiens
France
Albe i
Supplies for British Army In Southampton Scene
Scene at Southampton shows rush of supplies to the British Army in France. Ambulance and fodder are hoisted aboard a steamer in the busy port during wartime mobilization.
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Southampton
Eng
Kitchener
France
Red Gum for Gun Stocks Tests in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee notes Britain seeks wartime wood for gun stocks due to Circassian walnut shortages. English agents request the Memphis gun lumber association estimate dry red gum supplies in 2, 2.25 and 2.5 inch sizes. If tests succeed, most available stock could be reserved by the British government. Memphis firms brace for immediate orders.
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Memphis
Tenn
Russia
Gun Lumber Manufacturers’ Association of Memphis
Red Gun Lumber
Women as Car Conductors in Glasgow Trial
Glasgow reports women street car conductors being tried with a blue uniform edged in gold braid. If the trial squad proves efficient a considerable number may be employed at once. At present the women tare collectors work only four hours a day.
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Glasgow
Late Blooming Garden Tips and Autumn Planting Advice
Instructions on pruning annuals and saving late flowers for frost protection. Guidance covers fertilizing, watering, crocus bulb lawn planting, rose cuttings, iris planting, cosmos care, self sown seedlings for window bloom, pot hygiene, and autumn transplanting of Forsythia as well as creating window arbors with Madeira vine for indoor greenery.
Late flowering plants need careful pruning and winter care
Garden guidance advises removing withered hollyhock flowers to tidy stems and cutting seed heads from phlox to protect plant vitality. Pull all dead annuals to prevent disease, and transplant peonies in October with minimal root disturbance using prepared new sites and wheelbarrows for distant moves.
The Town of Tomorrow and a Comic Artist's Split
A separated couple unfolds a tale of ambition and distance. He supports her with a weekly allowance while pursuing drawing fame as a comic artist known as Scorn. Years later she seeks him, learns of his success, and he remains in a cynical, solitary exile in California.
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Degré
Tom
Harry
New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
California
Want Market Commission
California women seek a national marketing commission as proposed by the U S delegate in Rome. The plan calls for a president appointed by the president and a fourteen member main body plus fifteen farmers, with state and local commissions, town sales, and staggered farm produce sales.
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Want Market Commission
California
United States
International Institute of Agriculture
Rome
Chamber
Barrie and Deslys Clash Over Burlesque Venture
Miss Gaby Deslys criticizes Sir James Barrie as a strange author in his first musical burlesque venture in Paris. She jokes that his liking for certain tones signals her performance may be misread. Deslys also complains Barrie may not approve of her appearance and hair style for the show.
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Barrie
Gaby Deslys
James Barrie
James
Mile
Deslys
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