Pershing Offers American Troops to Foch in Great Battle
General Pershing recounts March 1918 debates as German pressure mounts on the British and French lines. He describes meeting Foch, offering five American divisions, and the urgent push to coordinate Allied defense while Secretary Baker navigates shipping and troop deployment amid dire frontline losses.
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Balonvillers
Menoher
A. Werrel
Fifty-first Artillery Regiment
Paris
Kernan
Langfitt
Atterbury
Camp de Mailly
Seacoast
Coe
Edwards
Chemin Des Dames
Maud@huy
Judge Advocate General
Bradley
Paderewski
Baker
Brest
U. S
Maud’hay
Maud’huy
West
France
Oise
Scarpe
la Fere
Arras
Gough
Fifth Army
Third Army
Byng
Marne
Yser
Verdun
Petain
Compiegne
I Corps
Amiens
Marshal Haig
Doullens
Foch
Lord Northcliffe
Figa
Carporetto
Fayole
Bordeaux
M. Clemenceau
General Foch
Pershing
Sixth Regiment of Engineers
London
Chaumont
Secretary of War
General Bliss
War Council
Paul Cravath
General Petain
Supreme War Council
Wilson
Washington
Department
RE Conti
Science Recognizes Truth in Spiritualism Says Traveler
A traveler recalls a Peru tale where a sick friend was saved by an Indian medicine man. A Lima physician doubted the healer until a leaf caused a nosebleed that could not be stopped, then a second leaf stopped the bleeding. The medicine man began treatment and quickly cured the patient.
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Peru
Lima
Remembering Old Fashioned Bootjacks and Boots
Recollection recalls long leather boots and homemade bootjacks common in grandfather’s day. Simple notched boards with a bunker eased removal, though tight or wet boots remained stubborn. In New England fishing families rubber boots still see bootjacks in use today.
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New England
Rector and Wife Air Pilots In Silver Wedding
Rev John Pyddoke rector of Pleasley England and his wife qualified for pilot licenses on their silver wedding anniversary. They tested at Tollerton airdrome and one test required a 2000 foot climb and landing within 150 yards of a spot. The couple both passed their tests with ease and were inspired by Mrs Pyddoke first flying lesson two years earlier.
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John Puddoke
Pleasley
England
Tollerton
The Pathfinder Comic Strip Banter
A brief captioned gag from The Pathfinder features a humorous exchange as a wife taunts her husband about not having a rag at marriage while he counters with having plenty now. The light domestic cue exchanges reflect vintage humor and wordplay.
Beauty Creams On the Farm
A humorous farm vignette features Farmer Corntessel noting the boys stay willingly though they act as summer boarders. The narrator muses on immortality and laments public forgetfulness of real lettuce and champs contrasted with tasteless bleached varieties.
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Corntessel
ITT Waveset Hairdressing Sample Offer
An advert from Harry E. Apple of the Opportunity Department at 260 Fifth Ave New York promotes ITT Waveset hairdressing. It claims universal use and 100 percent agents with a free sample making a full pint.
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Harry E. Apple
Opportunity Dept
Fifth Ave
New York
Men as Great Gossips Say Justice Coulter in Belfast
Justice Alfred H. Coulter returned to Belfast after travels in the British Isles and declared that men are as great gossipers as women. He said men also gossip and can talk the heads off women, challenging the notion that only women gossip. If fortune's wheel doesn't wheel, pump up the tire.
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British Isles
Alfred H. Coulter
Belfast
Ireland
Shaving Cream Slar Finds Hollywood Amusing
Roland Pertwee, a novelist dramatist, says Hollywood amuses him as he recalls offering stories to stars who demand terms mid reading. A source recalls advice to ignore big office men who once were tailors and now press for quick favors as a reflex.
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Slar
Roland Pertwee
Hollywood
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Kilner
Red Cross
Gieyres
Charles J. Symmonds
Salvation Army Lassies
Plough
Vuelack Neal Co
Daisy Fly
Flie
Enijent al
Harold Somers
Brooklyn, WN. Y
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Pennsylvania
East Third
Lewistown
London Daily Herald
Macao
Portugal
China
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Kong
Collier’s Magazine
Roy
Wally Tein
Min Lanfrrn
Barnatita Atom Hee
Whaler Arnold
Carolina Crest
Charles A. Berry
L. Fairbairn Man
North Carolina
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