Ask No Quarter in Fights With Hun U-Boats
London dispatch recounts daring anti submarine exploits by British tramp steamers. Skippers and gun crews held off two U boats in hours long duels, with smoke screens, rapid maneuvers, and repairs under fire. Engineers and stokers kept the boilers burning as ships outsailed and outgunned the enemy, earning Admiralty praise.
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London
Admiralty
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Albion
Heim
Irebox
Fritz
Conners
Cary
Batt
Germany Prepares Land Settlements for Returning Soldiers
A European analysis outlines Germany and Britain debating postwar demobilization and civilian reintegration. Herr Utsch argues home colonization offers the best path for disabled veterans, with settlements near villages and towns to provide affordable housing and farming work funded by war profits. A separate piece warns of revolutionary ideas simmering in the German army and the potential upheaval after the war.
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London
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Germany
Herr Utsch
Deutsche Landwirtschaftliche Presse
Flerr Utsch
D. Stelling
Selection of Orchard Site and Peach Growing Advice
The United States Department of Agriculture emphasizes location and site as crucial for peach orchards. Well drained soils, avoidance of heavy clays and alkali, moderate fertility, and elevated sites reduce frost risk, while proximity to water can offset elevation effects by moderating temperatures and delaying blossoms.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Meher
Lafayette’s enduring debt and role in American liberty
General Pershing cited Lafayette at the Lafayette tomb as a symbol of America’s debt to France. The article traces Lafayette’s youth, escape to America, major generalship under Washington, Brandywine wound, Yorktown victory, and pivotal French aid that sustained the revolution, stressing Franco-American friendship and shared ideals of liberty.
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General Pershing
America
France
Lafayette
United States
Yorktown
Thomas Nelson
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
Rochambeau
York
de Grasse
England
Duminion
Canada
Republic
West
Spain
Charleston
Congress
Philadelphia
Paris
Franklin
Daria
Jonathon
Atlantic
Uberty
Marquis
Brandywine
Valley Forge
Great Britain
Neailles
Marquise
Benedict Arnold
Virginia
Cornwallis
Richmond
Pennsylvania
de Utla
Cornwaille
Albemarle
Triutoph
Ple
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Marquis de Noailles
St. James
Senate
Two Noses Describe Outer Widths on Heads
Fragmentary notes describe two noses and the two large outer widths of each head. Details are limited, but the observation focuses on facial features and proportional dimensions rather than full context.
Inventions and Tech Notes From Early 20th Century Wire
The piece notes that news can be sent twice daily by wire. It describes a New Jersey farmer’s two wheeled cart that automatically sounds and unloads corn stalks. It mentions French production of cast iron shells at a million per day and metallic sodium hardening lead, leading to brittleness in some alloys.
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New Jersey
France
German Tanker Gut Hell Floated After Five Years Aground
Five large woolen mufflers aided lifting the German tanker Gut Hell from the muddy Mississippi bottom near Baton Rouge after five years. The vessel was towed to a bank for examination and found to have machinery in better shape than expected.
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Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Tys Popular Mechanics Magazine
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