Armored equipment drives and nutrition training for troops
Army and museum workshops in New York model helmets shields and breastplates for modern combat. Nutrition officers train mess sergeants and cooks to cut waste, raise efficiency, and improve dietaries while armor experts adapt medieval designs for today’s war.
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Atay
oReges
Prine
Division of Food and Nutrition
Metropolitan
B Miuseum of Art
New York
War Department
Europe
Metropolitan Museum
Daniel Tachaux
Bashford Dean
Ordnance Department
General Pershing
Army
French Offensive Advances North of Somme River
Paris dispatch reports French forces pressing north and east of Gury between the Matz and Oise rivers, threatening Lassigny and Noyon while gaining hill and forest positions. Allied lines steady with prisoners taken. Chaulnes and Roye heavily shelled as Germans anchor defenses.
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Altke
Somme
Oise
Montdidier
Picardy
Union Newa Service
Paris
Matz
Gury
Lassigny
War Office
Hoye
Noyon
Noyont- Roye-Chauines
Soigsons
Vesle
Bray
Chaulnes
Roye
Ludendorff Admits Failure Amid Massed Blows
A captured German order signed Ludendorff warns of reduced strength and urges conserving fighting power. It favors centers of resistance over continuous trenches and cautions against risky counterattacks that waste lives. Another order says regiments must defend against low flying Allied aircraft with scarce air resources.
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Bans
France
Ludendorff
Aud
U boat sinks French ship and raids inmediterranean
Reported torpedoing of the French steamer Djemnah off Bizerta to Alexandria on July 14 15 leaves 442 missing. Shortly after Australian and another steamer were torpedoed while remaining afloat. Henry H Kellogg also torpedoed off New Jersey coast with details unavailable. London reports a British torpedo boat destroyer sunk on Aug 6. Crawford bank robbery yields 7000 to 10000 in Liberty bonds and stamps.
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Washington
Treasury
McAdoo
Banatoy
William Pitt Kellogg
Louisiana
Lincoln
Kirby
Arkansas
Senate
Middle Atlantic
Coast Guard
Smith's Talland
N. C
Navy Department
Postal Service
Merce
American Railway
Ex‘press
Ner
Suceia
Petes von
Scorhans
Berle
Far
Asey
Russia
Copenhagen
Montdidier
Amsterdam
Antwerp
Mit Gatt
Belgique
Lloyd George
Adriatic
Jenine
Ehief
Leon Trotzk
Ambassacor Francis
Vologda
Archangel
Bolshevist
Foreign Office
Moscow
Zeebrugge
Admiralty
London
Novgorod
Viatka
Kazan
Samara
Arctic
Don Cossacks
Waah- Ington Park
Denver
Richard F
Outcast
Buster Brown
France
United States Steel Corporation
National ‘War Board
War Department
Colorado
Colorado’ Fuel & ‘Iron Company
Paris
Djemnah
Mediterranean
Bizerta
Alexandria
Henry
Kellogg
New Jersey
Navy
Crawford’ Bank
Crawford
Colon
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Promoted For Women’s Health
An ad extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a longtime remedy for women suffering from displacement inflammation digestion backache and other troubles. The long experience is offered for service and a friendly call to trial is issued. Nearby, a cut of a newborn inspires a lighthearted exchange between a mother and husband about the baby across the way describing a cherub-like child and a playful boast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydis E. Pinkham
Bies
Pinkie Edicine Co. J
Angela
Denver Post
Cuticora Soap and Ointment Ad Claims Duty Free Samples
A fragment promotes Cuticora Soap and Cuticora Ointment for eczema relief with free samples offered by mail from Cuticora, Boston. Prices shown 25 cents for soap and 25 and 50 cents for ointment. Also includes a farmer quip about buying books to run the farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuticora
Dept
Boston
Schwab and the German Spy Scraps Tale
A Philadelphia editor recalls Charles M Schwab in Chicago before the war outwitting a German spy. The spy hunted him as he drafted fake telegrams in a hotel library, later returning to collect torn scraps the spy had left behind. Schwab laughed at the scene and mocked the spy’s paper obsession.
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Charles M. Schwab
Philadelphia
Totoe
Spy
Bchwab
von Papen
The Way She Dressed Him
A Buffalo News item notes a visitor asking a boy what he wants to be when grown. The child replies he aims to be a man, but implies his mother prefers him to become a lady.
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Buffalo
News
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Oize
Ubeir
Bomme
Alijles
Detroit
Mich
Detroit United Railways Company
Lindesy
New Mexico
Elbert
W. Biancett
Clyde W. Armour
Tucson
Ariz
Arizona Eastern Railroad
San Francisco
United States
Railroad Administration
Wichita Women
Exis. Forest
Schwieger
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Sporting News
I. Nichiyoka
Stockton
Cal
Ameland
Admiraltty
Belmont Driving Club
Narberth
Chicago Nationals
Boston Americans
Kahn
California
Cleveland
Ohio
League of Republican Clubs
Anna Held
Peniatrono
Grossa Tong
Sydland
England
Maser
Y. M
Bureau of Supplies
Liberty
Department of Military Aeronautics
Signal Corps
O. J. May
Captain May
National War Labor Board
Iin
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mid-West
Omaha
Boches
Selves
Farmer -Corntessel
Kaiser
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