Aerial Mail Routes Targeted as War Ends Spark Debate
The piece notes the Post Office using airplanes to carry mail between Washington Philadelphia and New York starting May 15 with first class mail only and one round trip daily. It highlights congressional support and a push toward a permanent service while contrasting German war actions and calls to crush the Fatherland.
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United States
Postoffice Department
Washington
Phildelphia
New York
Congress
Post Office Department
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Bellum
Poland
Russia
Hadenburg
Picardy
Flanders
Tirpitz
Kaiser
Spee Ae
Mothers Day Notes and Proposals in Wartime Spirit
A compact column blends observations on Mothers Day, public drinking, rural patriotism, and Russia news. It urges enforcement of auto license tag laws, quips about names and charges, and concludes with a jab about energy for gardens and rising living costs.
From Other Viewpoints In The War Era
A collection of witty wartime quips from various papers. The Pittsburgh Gazette Times notes servicemen avoid a mirror and hat salesmen this spring. The Punxsutawney Split jabs Czernin and Austria Hungary. The Cleveland Plain Dealer praises Italian veterans in France. The Springfield Republican jokes about sauerkraut and Alsace culinary fame.
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Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
France
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Wheat sale urged by Howard Heinz to Pennsylvania farmers
Federal Food Administrator Howard Heinz appeals to Pennsylvania farmers to market all available wheat by May 26 to aid England and France. He urges every farmer to act as a Minute Man, notes local buying arrangements with millers and warehousemen, and asks farmers to report any disposal difficulties to county officials for prompt relief.
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Howard Heinz
England
France
Pennsylvania
County Park Bureau
Typical American Gives Graphic Description of Life in the Trenches
Sergeant Floyd M. Clark recalls his World War I service with the Twenty second and Thirty fifth regiments. He shares experiences from training to frontline trenches near France, including a dugout life, a muffled shelling routine, and a notable gas attack. He describes his comrade Duck Smith, trench hardships, a near hit during wagon loading, and foot surgery after a shrapnel wound.
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Floyd M. Clark
France
Fort McHenry
General Pershing
Fort Slocum
New York
Galveston
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Duck’ Smith
Merle C. Smith
Duboise
Pittsburg
Duck
Palaman
Fritzies
Europe
Twenty-second
Duke
Fritzie
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Weer Ene Ee
B. G. Lindenstein, Inc
Aero Sentetive
East 16Th St
New York City
Sundar
Boronen
Porto Rico
Mexico
Param Andwallan
Philippine Inlands
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International Postal AC
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East
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Czernin
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Hungary
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Strasburg
Alsace
Springfield Republican
Salerfield
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Gettysburg
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Habler
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