Americans Stand Fast At Somme Hospital Frontline Aid
A detailed portrait notes four American Red Cross surgeons and six drivers who remained at a forward evacuation hospital behind British lines during the Somme offensive. They treated ninety percent serious wounds, transported patients to Paris, assisted refugees, dug graves, and kept operating while German guns roared nearby.
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Washington
America
Red Cross
Red Cros
Paris
Brothers Refuse Draft Exam Prefer Death to Exposure
William and Christian Hong, brothers from Pittsburgh, tell U S Commissioner Knox they would rather die than be examined. They faced charges of dodging the draft by not presenting themselves for physical examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
William
Christian Hong
United States
Knox
Pickled Cabbage Named Patriotic Food In Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh officials drop hyphen in sauerkraut name to present as pickled cabbage on the patriotic foods list. The move aims to boost consumption by Anglicizing the term and encouraging more people to eat it.
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Pittsburgh
Red Cross farm program boosts convalescents and food supply
American Red Cross runs ten truck farms at base hospitals in France to give convalescents recreation and work, with trained supervision and seed. Farms range from eight to one hundred acres, many tractor equipped, producing vegetables for hospital kitchens and aiding local food supply.
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Pyemis
Red Cross
France
American Red Cross
America
Salt Wood Ships Preserve Wood with Brine Seepage
In Seattle C C Morrow head of Ellettray Shipbuilding reveals wooden ships under construction use 20 tons of rock salt per vessel. Salt poured between frames above waterline tamped firm turns any seepage into brine, preserving the wood rather than damaging it. Citizens, surprised, inspect the storehouse containing 120 tons of salt.
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Seattle
Wash
C. C. Morrow
Ellettray Shipbuilding Company
Seattleé
Railroad Avenue
Morrow
Mr. Morrow
Foch on Offensive Strategy and Decisive Attacks
General Foch argues in The Field that modern warfare ends only through destroying the enemy’s forces by an offensive battle. He calls for mass, surprise, and speed with a prepared reserve bludgeon kept for a decisive attack to overthrow the adversary and secure victory.
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London
Foch
The
Kield
First Consolation Cigarette for Wounded Soldier
Wounded soldiers seek small comforts as comrades offer support. A cigarette is noted as the first consolation to soothe nerves amid recovery and ongoing wartime strain.
Miner Binns Walks 113 Miles to Prove Fitness
Tom Binns, 22, of Elkins West Virginia, a miner, previously failed to enlist due to flat feet. After nine attempts, he finally joined the naval reserves. To demonstrate his endurance, he walked 113 miles, claiming nine is his lucky number.
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Elkins
W. Va
Tom Binns
United States
Naval Reserves
Binns
Washington youths enlist in beet sugar drive
Pullman youths and girls join Washington juvenile clubs in a patriotic movement to raise sugar beets for storage and spring 1919 use, with beet seed planned for spring 1920, aiming to avert a potential sugar famine.
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Pullman
Wash
Washington
Watch Wearing Apparel Question Roils Wichita Court
Wichita furniture dealer John Lewis seeks legal guidance on whether a watch qualifies as apparel in a dispute over attachments. Lewis argues the watch is adornment and cites the Century Dictionary to support the claim, as he faces multiple lawsuits and a 50 cent attachment.
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Wichita
Kan
John Lewis
Lewis
Little Girl Seeks Miracle For Maine Capital
In Seymour, Thomas A. Mott relates a tale of a pupil who prayed to make Boston the capital of Maine after a school exam. The child had written the phrase on her paper and wished to correct it, prompting a mother’s question and a moral about belief and accuracy.
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Thomas A. Mott
Seymour
Boston
Maine
Indianapolis
Belgian Queen Visits Frontline Hospitals
A cablegram reports the Belgian queen visiting battlefield hospitals to comfort wounded soldiers and boost morale. She urged ambition among troops and helped organize a symphony orchestra for entertainment. Paul Ginisty of Petit Parisian visited a front school sheltering 600 war victims, with gas masks on every bed and age-appropriate routines for the children.
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Belgium
Paul Ginisty
Petit Parisian
Wistar Institute Drives U S Science Leadership Abroad
Father Charles B. Moulinier notes that scientific activity concentrates in the United States and will likely continue with sufficient funding. South America, China, and Japan seek leadership while Buenos Aires hosts a 5000-student medical school. The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia funds and disseminates medical journals to China, Japan, and South America and advances dye research rivaling Gruebler of Germany. A Philadelphia youth’s private chemistry work prompted Wistar to provide resources and place him at the institute to pursue this pivotal research.
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United States
Charles B. Moulinier
Marquette University School of Medicine
Marquette Tribune
South America
China
Japan
Buenos Aires
Wistar Institute of Anatomy
Philadelphia
Gruebler
Germany
Wistar
Institute
White Clothes Shine with Red Cross Ball Blue Ad
Ad copy notes Red Cross Ball Blue makes white clothes whiter and claims availability from all grocers including Ady, highlighting pride in brightening laundry.
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Ady
Conscription of Wealth Opposed by Monetary Times
The Monetary Times of Toronto insists that conscription or confiscation of wealth must be abandoned in North America. It argues the western world needs an investment capital fund to be built after the war.
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Liberty Novelty
MFG. CO
Free Press
Detroit
Mich
Monetary Times
Toronto
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U.S. Marines
United States and Science
Bear
Shreveport
Meridian
Miss
Frank W. Clover
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