Nurses Needed for Immediate Service in Red Cross Campaign
The American Red Cross urges trained nurses to enlist for wartime service in the United States and France. Enrollment starts now with five thousand needed by June 1 and around twenty-five thousand by year’s end. Requirements include a two-year nursing program, state registration where required, age at least twenty-one, and a medical exam. service may be domestic or abroad, with travel expenses covered when ordered.
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American Red Cross
United States
France
Longfellow
Howe
Red Cross
Department of Nursing
Washington, D. C
Red Cross Nursing Service
War and Navy Departments
Glamorous Negligees Redefine Night Attire Across Cultures
Fashion notes celebrate negligees replacing night dresses with trousers and silk garments. Descriptions praise tropical color palettes, oriental-inspired fabrics, and georgette jackets. The piece lauds bold combinations of turquoise blues, greens, golds, and floral prints, urging bold, world-spanning lingerie style.
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Japan
China
Persia
Turkey
Heaven
Wear White Shoes for Summer Fashion Patriotism
A fashion note extols white footwear as essential for a patriotic summer look. It recommends white buckskin canvas and duck shoes for day wear and white washable kid for evening, pairing with organdie and light silks, plus white galoshes for cool evenings.
Silk hexagonal mesh well with silver coin border
A wide, pretty black hexagonal mesh well draped around a small flower-wreathed turban. The border features a row of silvery gray coin spots the size of five cents along the long edge and a double row at each end, creating graceful drapery as it’s fastened.
Silk blouse with collar and cuffs of scarlet
A white silk poplin blouse features a tiny scarlet collar and cuffs with flare plaited white ruffies. Another satin blouse shows a front simulated button placket and a touch of blue embroidery.
All Had Tragic History Sunk Grand Duchess Carolina Fate
Washington Post recounts a string of maritime misfortune tied to Plant Line ships. The Grand Duchess, renamed Carolina, survived acts of war and escorts before finally being sunk by a German U-boat, closing a long line of wrecks tied to General Miles’s Cuba Puerto Rico operations.
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Brooks Amiss
Baltimore
Washington
Willard
Washington Post
Carolina
Plant Line
Boston
Halifax
Charleston
D. C
Wisconsin
Porto Rico
Miles
AtCharleston
Yale
Paris
Roy. Stone
Cuba
Guanica
Cherokee
Ponce
Richard Harding Davis
Navy
Miles Party
States
Holland-American Line
Atlantic
Diary of a New Yorker Crushed by Crowds and Vehicles
A humorous diary notes a day in New York with repeated crushes in subways elevators restaurants and on streets. The entries depict urban overrun causing numerous near misses and incidents culminating in a late parade and return home to rest in a folding bed.
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Rose
New York Sun
Save Vessels From Sinking With New Disk and Buckets
A Popular Mechanics feature describes a laminated steel disk with rubberized canvas cone buckets designed to seal a ship’s hull after torpedoing or collision. The end cone lowers into the hull breach, flows with water, and the assembly advances to cover the opening as water pressure holds the disk in place.
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Popular Mechanics
Improved Soldering Process With Fuel Gas Flame Drive
A Schoop metal-spraying method claims effective soldering without a compressed air jet. The fuel gas under pressure provides the driving force to spread solder on surfaces. A small feeding mechanism continuously delivers wire solder into the flame. The process is convenient rapid and inexpensive.
Women targeted for technical training during wartime
At a joint Birmingham and Atlanta ASME meeting resolutions urged colleges and technical schools nationwide to offer special technical instruction for women and girls so they can fill roles left by men called into military service.
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Birmingham
Atlanta
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Birmingham Age-Herald
Dream Brings Grandmother Home and Fortune Found
Mrs. Hill, lonely on her 73rd birthday, dreams of a bank collapse. After letters from three granddaughters urging care, she reunites with Marion and George on a farm. The dream leads to a hidden safe with four thousand dollars, paid by love rather than money, ending loneliness.
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Mrs. Hill
Laura
Bertha
Marion
Jane
Leslie & Marsh Banking Corporation
Leslie
Grandma
George
Grandma Hill
No more baseball during the war decree shocks sailors
Sailors aboard a ship learn that Senate bill 270,321 bans strikes during the war after the joker shows a newspaper. The incident unfolds as the crew, eager for baseball, confronts the unexpected wartime restriction. W. A. McCarthy of the U S 8S Arizona is listed as an absentee.
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Senate
W. A. McCarthy
U. S
Arizona
Wrights Indian Vegetable Pills Advert
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills contain only vegetable ingredients. They act gently as a tonic and purgative. Adv.
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Wright
Not Militarized Yet
A wartime reminiscence describes riding a wooded road with a superior observing the landscape. The intelligence officer dreams of a future, then notes mistletoe overhead and longs for his Mary in an old-fashioned country buggy.
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Mary
Gossip as Smoke from Dirty Pipes Criticized
A sharp critique notes gossip as mere smoke from dirty tobacco pipes, reflecting the bad taste of the smoker and proving nothing of substance.
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George Eliot
GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules for kidney relief
Century old remedy advertised as safe gentle cleanse for kidneys liver and urinary tract. Claims include not a patent medicine, direct import from Holland, three sizes sealed packages and money back guarantee. Uses include backache nervousness and urinary issues with strong emphasis on preventative benefits.
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Haarlem
Pew Discovery
EATONIC Tablets Promise Quick Stomach Relief in Heat
An advertiser touts EATONIC tablets as a remedy for hot weather stomach and bowel troubles. It claims the product cleanses harmful juices, cools the stomach, and eliminates symptoms after meals, with a money back guarantee and a mail order offer from Katonic Remedy in Chicago.
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Eatonic
Katonic Remedy
Chicago
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Ick
Absorbine, JR
W. F. Young
P.D. F
Temple
Springfield
Mass
Ogwaga
King Roofing & Paint
Third Street
Cincinnati
Mage Wes
Cutie
Watson E.coleman
Washington, D.C
Cleveland
Renan
Canada
Manitoba
Sameera
Alberta
Ottawa
Sta. Bidg
Columbus
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