Coward to Hero Lloyd Breaks German Line in France
An American soldier named Lloyd saves D company in a French front fight by loading a machine gun under fire after learning the operation from a dying comrade. He dies shot through the head while directing fire, later honored as a hero who redeemed his prior fear and cowardice.
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D Company
Lloyd
No Man's Land
Good Old Company
England
Albert Lloyd
Company D
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn
Massachusetts “Tech
Preparing for the Big Push in the Great War
The narrative describes front line activity before a major offensive akin to the Somme. It notes massive inflows of troops supplies and guns, the awe of American made equipment, and detailed preparation including German trench replication. The piece follows a soldier recounting map making and a covert souvenir from France while stressing secrecy.
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Nes
Somme
Great Britain
G. S
the Somme
Royal Flying Corps
United States Cavalry
France
Tommy
Fritz
College Stuff Helps Shape Marine Engineers for Ships
The Shipping Board uses a novel training plan to prepare marine engineers from existing workers and laymen. Under Director Henry Howard, select technical colleges nationwide offer short intensive courses to citizen applicants, producing licensed engineers ready to join the merchant fleet and man new ships.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
Atlantic
Europe
Shipping Board
E. F. Miller
Tech
Miller
Tulane University
New Orleans
Armour Institute
Chicago
Case School of Applied Science
Cleveland
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Washington University
Seattle
University of California
Berkeley
New York City
Jersey
Boston
Henry Howard
Howard
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dotheboys Hall
Massachusetts “Tech
The
Shipping Board Ecruiting Service
Merc Mart
Custom House
Isinglass Made From Fish Sounds And Uses
Isinglass is produced from the sounds of swimming bladders of fish. One ton of hake yields 40 to 50 pounds of sounds, which are processed into sheets and ribbons. One ounce clarifies 200 to 500 gallons of wine and one pound clarifies 100 to 500 barrels of beer. It aids cement for glass and pottery, adhesive plaster, and waterproof textiles.
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Popular Science Monthly
Tea Plant Size and Cultivation in Japan and Formosa
The tea plant grows ten to twenty feet wild but is dwarfed to about three feet in cultivation. Japan produces mainly green tea while considerable black tea is exported, mostly from Formosa. Seeded on terraces along hill slopes, tea follows the island contours like giant steps.
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Japan
Farmosa
HUN HATES COLUMBUS HE FOUND AMERICA
Pittsburgh pa Rev Daniel L March just returned from the western front tells a story about a German prisoner angered by a doughboy joke. When asked what's the matter he says he is sore at Christopher Columbus because he discovered America.
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Pittsburgh
Daniel L. March
Pritzie
France
Fritzie
England
Belgium
Christopher Columbus
America
Substitutes for Sugar in Government Guidance
Government chemists recommend corn syrup maltose honey and high grade refiners syrup as principal substitutes for sugar in daily use. The guidance emphasizes readily available substitutes to maintain sweetness and energy without sugar.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Atwell
Hun
Columbus
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