Uncle Sam Will Felt to Build Good Roads
War time piece stressing patriotic duty of Highway Industries Association to push road building as essential to national life. Cites 600 chambers and over a million workers backing urges, notes labor costs dominate road expenses and questions potential wage and living cost impacts on lowering road costs.
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Uncle Sam Will
Highway Industries
United States
Highway Industries Association
Chambers of Commerce
Boards of Trade
Road Investment and Highway Development Outlook
A business oriented study argues for expanding highway construction beyond local use, citing war related transport needs, delayed maintenance, and the shift to connected regional systems. It stresses civilian cooperation, modern pricing, and the primacy of roads in national transportation.
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United States
United Stats
Start Industry Now to Gain Economic Recovery
The speaker argues for immediate industry growth to normalize prices and accelerate road-building programs. He notes past unrest caused cut-throat competition and low wages and says delaying construction costs is worse than rising production costs. He cites the $200 million federal aid increase as a push for states to proceed.
Bulgaria's War Debt Reaches While National Wealth Lags
Bulgaria faces a financial crisis after war costs exceed 1.5 billion dollars while national wealth stands at about 2.2 billion. The prewar debt was 160 million, with 660 million owed to Germany from wartime loans. Germany halted installments and demanded cash for munitions, inflating costs and prompting calls for counter-claims to preserve solvency.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Germany
United States
England
Two Yanks Escape Death in Argonne Daylight Rescue
John J. McBennett, Knights of Columbus secretary, and Corporal Bill Hale credits a clear October 13 1918 day for their survival after four German guns nearly destroyed their car near Fleville St Juvin. An artillery officer spotted the KC chevron triggering a rescue before the barrage.
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Knights of Columbus
Iowa
John J. Mc Bennett
West Sixty-ninth Street
New York
France
Bill Hale
Stars and Stripes
A. E. F. Hale
Argonne
McBennett
Hale
K. C. Chevron
Division
Rarecourt
Fleville
St. Juvin
Father Martelle
Houndred
Seventh Engineers
St. Jovin
German Guns Hidden by KC Chevron Stopped Fire Command
In a tense encounter a patrol spotted German gun nests and moved to neutralize them. Four guns opened fire but an officer using a field glass spotted McBennett’s KC chevron and stopped the engagement before the order to fire was issued.
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K. C. Chevron
McBennett
Baby with giant feet Vir ginia Scroggins of Rockwall Tex draws attention
The two year old Virginia Scroggins has feet measuring 10 inches long and 4 inches across the instep. Doctors say her late walking is due to oversized feet. Her family notes growth from birth and projects feet reaching 54 inches by adulthood.
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Virginia Scroggins
Rockwall
Tex
Virginia
Oil enriches wounded Yank on Kansas farm
Curtis Boyle, a veteran of Canadian and American units with multiple wounds, returns to Peabody Kansas to find an oil well drilling on his farm yielding 00 barrels daily. He bought the land for 2 an acre, and now lies in Fort Riley Hospital with extensive injuries, including silver implants and missing ribs and lung.
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Junction City
Kan
Curtis Boyle
France
Peabody
Boyle
Fort Riley
Third Canadian Infantry
Plan 70 Suck Fog Out of Old London
A proposed plan by the British national physical laboratory at Teddington outlines a fog abatement system for London using conduits and sucking pipes to pull smoke through air washers. The project aims to remove soot from chimneys and reduce fog, though widespread fireplace replacement is unlikely. Turner and Yoshio Markino are noted as fog enthusiasts, with optimism across Europe.
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London
British National Physical Laboratory
Teddington
America
Turner
Yoshio Markino
Ibsen
Norway
London Struggles with Clothes Shortage After War Demobilization
In London a clothing shortage and rapid army demobilization push civilians into make shift outfits. A demobilized soldier walks Strand in derby hat lounge coat khaki breeches and puttees while others wear Norfolk jackets with khaki slacks. Service tunics appear as sports coats with altered buttons. Uniforms are treated as personal property and not required to be returned, complicating reuse.
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London
The
Strand
War Office
Refugee Professor Describes Bolshevik Tyranny in Russia
Professor Peter Struve, a Russian economist who fled Moscow, says Bolshevik rule is complete tyranny with mass executions of bishops and priests. He cites fear in Petrograd and Moscow, noting fear of any contact with Bolsheviks and contrasts with pre revolutionary order under Czars.
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London
Russia
Peter Struve
England
Moscow
Finland
Lenine
Trotzky
Struve
Petrograd
Alexander I’. Kerensky
Kazan
Neva
Professor Struve
Kothus
Vartasheff
Kerensky
Executive Commission
Neczar
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S. M. Williams
Warren Mail
Morgan Farm
Hardin
Montana
John Pierpont Morgan
Erhardt Schmitt
Harrow
Old London
Premier Lloyd George
Derby
Lloyd George
Carey Evans
Irown
Champ Clark
Washington
Clark
Henry T Rainey
Ilinois
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