Bland Takes Ride in Italian Aircraft
Congressman Bland writes from Washington about the U S effort to build a strong air squadron. He describes a demonstration flight in an Italian plane at nearly 10 000 feet with three engines two pilots and a mechanician and notes several local district youths in aviation service. The piece ties aviation to wartime goals amid local anecdotes and humor.
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Washington, D. C
Bob White
Sullivan
Indiana
Bob
Earth
Aviation Service
State Council of Defense Tightens War Effort Controls
The state council demands county councils of defense justify nonessential public improvements to aid the war. If not justified, support may be withheld by War Industries Board and Securities Board. Counties are classified by wealth. a corn planting resolution and seed corn shipments are noted, along with an Americanization committee appointment.
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Sally Hawkins
Perkins
Bill Blithers
Hubbard
Ed Bascombe
Adam
Dick Bledsoe
Si Plum
New Orleans
Church House
Peratina Fish
Deacon Ebbersole
Love Ann Long
Doc McFadden
Arminta Jones
Gosport Yesterdy
Sons of Rest
Rev. Perkins
Old Satan
Eli Perkins
Jim Slivers
Federal Securities Board
War Industries Board
The
Securities Board
State Council
War Boards
State Board of Accounts
Marion County
Ohio
Union
Indiana
Ernest Thornburg
Indiana Corn Growers’ Association
T. A. Coleman
Food Production and Conservation Committee
Express
New Jersey
John H. Holliday
Indianapolis
Holliday
National Army
Divorce Debated as Threat to Nation and Society
A historical excerpt cites Theodore Roosevelt calling easy divorce a danger to the nation and society. It notes his 1905 push for Census Bureau statistics on marriage and divorce and his view that marriage foundations social order. The text discusses concerns that lax divorce laws weaken sanctity of marriage.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Census Bureau
Congress
Roosevelt
More. di
Astronomically Speaking
Local column from the Atlanta Constitution notes playful wordplay about stars and the sun, contrasting night and day in a light commentary on astronomy themes.
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Atlanta Constitution
Worse Than War The Tuberculosis Crisis in France
Pierre Hamp warns that in postwar France 4,000,000 of 38,000,000 may die from tuberculosis and 460,020 new cases have appeared since war began. Soldiers wounded receive pensions, while consumptives struggle for aid without proof of service. Red Cross help is essential to prevent further spread and care for discharged patients.
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Pierre Hamp
France
American Red Cross
Red Cross Rolling Canteen Feeds Fatigued French Troops
The Red Cross supplied a million hot drinks to French poilus in six months as they faced siege trenches and mud. Rolling canteens, backed by Military Sanitary Service, deliver bouillon coffee and chocolate at one cent per drink, forty francs per thousand. Crews work under shellfire with gas masks, providing comfort and a sense of friendship to tired soldiers.
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Red Cross
France
Kipling
Eugene
Hale
United States
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Cloverdale
St Plum
Sally Haskins
Rep. Bland
U. S
You,s Sincerely
Oscar E. Bland
Japan
William Fox
Sherman Theatre
State Council OF Defense
Che Brad
Yastey Glereareasy
Munson
Sam
Our National Bank Is A Member of
Federal Reserve System
the National Bank
Vuchoi
General Insurance
Milton ZiInx
Bichisad
O. H
Burke, Graysville
Ind
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Chiropractic
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D. C
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