Pershing Recounts A E F Struggles From French Advance
General Pershing describes Allied operations in 1917 with French gains at Fort Malmai ton and the Ailette, Belgian and Italian setbacks, and the Bordeaux docks delay. He notes supply bottlenecks, Russian brigades at Cornay, and the Rapallo meetings that shaped the supreme war council. Lloyd George advocates unity, Wilson approves, while French and British aims diverge.
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Paris
Mr. Lloyd George
Caporetto
Italy
France
Lloyd George
NATO
Western Front
Supreme War Council
Great Britain
Wilson
Rapallo
Dog Dies in Flames Saving Babies From Fire
Laddie the dog sacrificed his life to shield two Eckley children Marjorie and Jackie as fire trapped them. Fireman rescue efforts followed as Jackie escaped blinded by smoke and Marjorie later died from injuries. The dog died under the child to shield her.
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Chicago
Benjamin Eckley
Laddie
Eckleys
Marjorie
Jackie
Gilbert Beranek
Eckley
Beranek
Gang foes take ex cop for ride in Newark
The former Newark patrolman Adam Dresch, expelled ten years earlier, was found dead in the Passaic River at Commercial Street Newark. Police tie his killing to rackets and a recent murder of Phil Rossi in Belleville, with links to narcotics and hijacking. Dresch had a criminal history including robbery, multiple arrests, and a 1924 warehouse robbery conviction.
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Newark
N. J
Adam Dresch
Passaic
Commercial Street
Phil
Rossi
A. C
Belleville
Little Augie” Pisano
Jersey
Dresch
Brooklyn
New York
John Benson
Freehold
Benson
Vannie” Higgins
Meanest Man Is Charged With Swindling Jobless in Pittsburgh
H. Lake of Indiana Pa. is jailed by Pittsburgh detectives for running a mythical employ ment bureau called the Mutual Aid society He charged unemployed workers 1 for insured unemployment for a year He had 14 cash receipts and 40 letters ready When arrested he admitted no such society existed and that he had operated only a week. held pending investigation.
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Pittsburgh
Lake
Indiana
Central Police Station
Murray Edlis
Robert Best
Frank R. Boyd
Mutual Aid Society
Boy Lives After Heart Is Removed and Replaced
A ten year old boy in Los Angeles survived after a surgeon removed his heart to extract a fractured rib segment from a bicycle accident. The rib was pierced by bike handlebars and the heart was later reinserted and resumed beating.
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Los Angeles
Isrib
Luis Valdez
Plough Powders Featured In Round Red Box And Flowers Tin
A catalog style note promotes Ploughs Exquisite Face Powder in a round red box and Ploughs Same of Flowers powder presented as a special option. The copy highlights product styling and placement in the display.
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Plough
Unknown Electrical Charge Across the World
Dr. C H Gish of the Carnegie Institution reports to the American Geophysical Union on a global electrical phenomenon occurring between 6 and 8 p m eastern time. The earths electrical charge rises during these hours with a still elusive cause. Atmospheric electricity studies confirm the charge and its fluctuations and hint at a universal time pattern.
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American Geophysical Union
C. H. Gish
Carnegie Institution
Doctor Gish
The Answer Is His Wife Blinks Jinks Plans Your Home Garden
The dialogue hints at a home garden plan with carrots and spinach already planted. It shows a light, playful exchange about who manages the garden and what’s been sown.
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Jinks
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General Pershing
Gen
John J. Pershing
North American Newspaper Alliance
Fort Malmaiton
Ailette
Nivelle
Compiegne
Petain
Richard N. Blatchford
Mason M. Patrick
Charles R
Pacific Coast
Bordeaux
Gievres
C. J. Symmonds
Symmonds
Cornay
Russia
Ming
United States
M. Painleve
America
England
Eadh
Baker
Alsace Lorraine
Europe
Chapter
Vosges
Sixteenth Infantry
James B. Gresham
Thomas F. Enright
Merle D. Hay
Ammunition Question Rcute
Washington
Seaboard
J. B. Gresham
Enright and
Hay
Wilmington
N. C
Rinso
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