World’s Largest Government Shell Plant In New Jersey
The article details a massive shell loading facility in New Jersey as part of four comparable plants, employing over 5,000 workers and handling 52,000 shells daily. It describes building size, air and water purification, and the extensive operations to produce and assemble ammunition for the war effort. It also covers mobile water trains for soldiers, labor shortages, recruitment drives, and related war production news.
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Committee On Public Information
Washington
New Jersey
Iluns
France
Army Medical Department
Connecticut
Maryland
United States Employment Service
British Pilots Trap German Flyers In Aerial Battle
An air conflict near the front pits two British leaders against a Halberstadt decoy and German scouts who bite their own trap as other enemy planes join the melee. British pilots aid both sides accidentally, destroying several German craft before the engagement ends.
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Stephen Potter
United States Naval Reserve Force
Navy Department
Royal Air Force
Potter
Armertcan
Hinder Light
Iis
Teuton
France
Halberstadt
French food minister signals measures to curb meat prices
Paris reports M. Victor Boret will present cabinet plans to stabilize meat costs and prevent supply shortages. A London commission report opposed the English meat card. France may favor a monthly meat card while expanding bread and fish supplies. Potatoes remain plentiful and macaroni production is to rise.
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Paris
M. Victor Boret
London
England
France
M. Boret
Food Ministry
United States
Missionary as Guide Book in China Travel
In Tokyo I met Carl Crow who advised visiting missionaries to learn China. Tyler Dennet recalls Crow’s claim that missionaries know the country best, noting that while temples and bazaars reveal culture, they mainly offer background and orientation.
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Tokyo
Carl Crow
Tyler Dennet
Asia
China
Crow
German Aircraft Crashed In Battle Skids and Flames
The retreating German planes were driven apart in a clash leaving four machines crumpled on the ground and another aflame. Observers could not tell if the crews were panic stricken or simply overwhelmed.
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Anothe
Red Cross Feeds Alsatians Sheltered in France
The American Red Cross shipped 13,200 pounds of condensed milk and flour, 1,100 pounds of sugar, 6,000 pounds of dried peas, 2,200 pounds of rice, and 3,200 pounds of tinned meat to feed 3,000 Alsatians in nineteen French villages for ten months. They had fled battles on the Alsace frontier and lost all possessions.
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Washington
Alsace
American Red Cross
Poets honor war heroes with ambulances donated in Italy
Four heroes from the war will be honored as their names are inscribed on ambulances donated by the American poets ambulances in Italy. Curtis Seaman Read John Kipling Antonio Resnati and Commander Rizzo are named. The ambulances are the final batch of 110 funded by the committee led by Robert Underwood Johnson.
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New York
Italy
Robert Underwood Johnson
Curtis Seaman Read
New York City
France
John Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Antonio Resnati
Mineola
N. Y
Rizzo
Fists Prepare to Meet Hun Mailed Fist in Training
Denver vaudeville brothers Hyle Fist and Arthur Fist have enlisted in the regular army and are in training in the same company at Fort Logan. The pair follows their act with service as two male Fists ready to fight the German threat.
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Denver
Colo
Hyle Fist
Arthur Fist
Fort Logan
Love notes cause arrest in Omaha spy twist
A Omaha businesswoman secretly coded telegrams to her husband, a soldier stationed in the south. The coded message led to his arrest as a spy when the guard misread the telegram. She arrived to find him in custody, then revealed the ruse and he was released.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Notable Enlistments in U S Marine Corps Featured
Kansas City reports William Jennings Bryan George Dewey and John Hopkins joining the Marine corps with Lieutenant Hornbotsel directing. Bryan hails from Waxahachie Texas weighs 133 pounds Dewey from Niobrara Nebraska Hopkins says he can fight and wants to enlist. The piece also touches on cameo-cutting and the missionary's role in cross cultural understanding.
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Kansas City
William Jennings Bryan
George Dewey
John Hopkins
United States Marine Corps
Hornbotsel
Woodrow Wilson
Bryan
Waxahachie
Tex
Dewey
Niobrara
Neb
Admiral Dewey
Marine Corps
Hopkins
Medical College
French Troops Take Villages Narta and Gramshi
French forces reported to have captured the villages of Narta and Gramshi as Allied operations press the enemy across Albania. Austrian morale described as extremely bad with widespread surrenders during ongoing front actions along the Marne and in the Balkans.
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France
Flanbers
Marne
Corcy
Macedonia
Albania
Doiran
Saloniki
Narta
Gramshi
Heroes in Monster Parade for Bastille Day in Paris
Paris hosted a grand Bastille Day parade with entente allies and American troops from the First and Second divisions marching. The U S units, long in France and bearing two service stripes, took part in historic battles and were greeted with flowers as President Poincare reviewed the procession with General Pershing.
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Paris
United States Army
Cantigny
Chateau-Thierry
France
Poincare
John J. Pershing
United States
Peace Save by the Sword Says Gen Lloyd
Maj. Gen. John Biddle among guests at the Anglo-French dinner in London hosted by the Alsace Lorraine Patriotic League. General Sir Francis Lloyd declares there can be no peace negotiations and only peace by the sword, noting the arrival of an indescribable asset across the western waves.
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London
John Biddle
United Kingdom
Total American Deaths Reach 4673 Across Services
Washington reports 4673 total American deaths to date with 4100 Army and 573 Marines. The weekly tally shows 647 new overseas casualties, up from 703 last week, including 291 lost at sea and deaths from action wounds disease and accidents.
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Washington
Army
Marine Corps
Government Control of Tobacco Possible in United States
Washington explores government control of the tobacco industry as Allied and American military demands rise. Rationing of the population is considered possible, while an industries board investigates requirements and conservation needs domestically.
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Washington
United States
These Industries Board
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