Red Star Relief Outlines War Horse Hospital Needs
Dr. W. O. Stillman explains the scale of U S horse losses and the need for vast horse supply chains, ship capacity, and dedicated animal hospitals abroad. He notes millions of horses in use, heavy monthly losses on the western front, and the high value of rescued and treated animals returning to service.
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Red Star
New York
France
W. O. Stillman
Red Star Animal Relief
Verdun
America
Europe
Society to curb seat sponging among women organized
Denver announces a new civic group the Society for the Prevention of Seat Sponging Among Women. Mrs Marie Jeanne Silvestre Thorpe leads the initiative to promote justice and proportion in women accepting seats from men who have worked long hours on street cars.
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Denver
Colo
Marie Jeanne Silvestre-Thorpe
Buffalo herd thrives at Yellowstone refuge in Cody Wyoming
The U.S. government herd at Yellowstone Park has grown from 75 animals to about 320 over 25 years. Keeper T G Frazer notes 56 calves were born in the last six months, with no deaths from within the herd.
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Cody
Wyo
United States
Yellowstone Park
Sam
T. G. Frazer
Presbyterian church screens move into Sunday services
Carlinville church approves moving pictures as a regular part of worship. A projector has been purchased and installed. Rev. Osborn, the pastor, says the aim is to reach a greater number of people with worthwhile messages.
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Carlinville
Presbyterian Church
Osborn
Parcel post to soldiers may be curtailed due to bulk
The Post Office reports parcel post to troops in France burdens the transport with vast mail volumes. In France the mail filled a train of 19 cars and 7,452 sacks for parcels, with many items purchasable at canteens. Officials note two thirds of items match Pershing canteen lists and urge action by relatives or authorities to curb excess baggage.
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Washington
France
Post Office Department
United States Army Posal Service
General Pershing
New York
Chicago
Young Men's Christian Association
Italy
Spain
Oregon Student Invents Distance Sensitive Bomb
A University of Oregon student in the ROTC battalion developed a bomb that explodes after a set fall distance. It can be hurled horizontally without exploding and is activated by a detachable timing mechanism during a fall. If tests succeed it will be handed to the war department for aviators.
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Eugene, Ore
University of Oregon
War Department
Man In Milwaukee Eats Family Food Faces Year In Jail
Frank Reich father of five in Milwaukee is sentenced to a year in the house of correction after being convicted of abandonment and for consuming the family’s food. He admitted eating the food and even a raw beef piece bought for stew, leaving the wife and children with nothing.
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Milwaukee
House of Correction
Wis
Frank Reich
Reich
Elm tree carving unearthed from 1768 Johnson Tavern site
A finely carved sign reading Refreshment for Man and Beast and dated 1768, once hung at the Johnson Tavern in Lisbon, Connecticut, was unearthed at the home of A. F. Read. The tavern sheltered Lafayette during his 1780s travels.
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Lisbon
Conn
Johnson
A. F. Read
Lafayette
Steel replaces linen wings on US fighter planes
Seventeen thousand tons of ultra thin sheet steel, believed to be the thinnest ever rolled, are being produced by a Pittsburgh steel company for the United States government. The steel wings will replace linen fabric wings on Western Front aircraft, described as thinner than ordinary paper and highly flexible, aiming to reduce bullet tear and keep pilots safe.
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Western Front
Pittsburgh Steel Companies
United States
Illiteracy in Alabama Prompt Plan to Teach Men to Read
A National Army draft survey shows one in seven Alabama men aged 21 to 31 cannot sign their names and many cannot read. The state department of education outlines a statewide plan to teach illiterates to read and write before service, with schools to be eased across the state.
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Alabama
National Army
State Department of Education
Market Report Highlights Butter Eggs and Cheese Prices
New York April 16 report shows Butter Creamery prices higher than 45 to 64 cents per pound while Eggs fresh gathered extra firsts trade around 88 to 90 cents. Cheese state held specials list 24 to 25 cents.
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New York
Market Prices Buffalo April 16
Buffalo prices list commodities including wheat corn oats flour butter cheese eggs and dressed poultry with multiple grades and per unit costs. Live poultry receipts expected next week and regional variations in prices for potatoes onions beans and other produce are noted.
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Buffalo
Bermuda
Live Cattle and Hogs Market Prices
CATTLE Sipping steers 15.50 to 16.00 per unit butcher steers 11.00 to 14.50 heifers 9.25 to 138.00 choice veals 16.75 to 17.00 fair to good 16.00 to 16.50 light veals 15.00 to 15.75. SHEEP AND LAMBS Choice lambs 21.50 to 22.00 mixed sheep 14.00 to 14.50. HOGS Yorkers 18.50 to 18.60 light Yorkers 18.25 to 18.50 heavies 18.20 to 15.40.
City Loses 20 Year Fight Over Street Railway
Washington April 17 The city of Covington Kentucky across from Cincinnati lost its 20 year battle to oust the South Covington and Cincinnati Street Railway Company from its streets after a supreme court opinion.
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Washington
Covington
Cincinnati
Supreme Court
South Covington & Cincinnati Street Railway Company
Wireless plant dismantled in Chicago by federal agents
Federal agents dismantled two wireless plants in Chicago on April 17. One station was claimed to be powerful enough to communicate with Germany and its keeper was arrested.
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Chicago
Germany
Army to raid Grays Harbor spruce forests for timber
Seattle reports a 4000 to 5000 man operation by Aircraft Spruce & Lumber to harvest virgin spruce in Grays Harbor Washington. The firm promises a $200000 bond to fulfill its U S government contract and will use hand and steam logging river power splitting portable saw mills and many motor trucks to move timber to mills.
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Seattle
Wash
Grays Harbor
Washington
Aircraft Spruce & Lumber Company
Uncle Sam
American Railroad Engineers Wounded at Cambrai
Twelve U S railroad engineers were wounded during the British Cambrai offensive in November and brought to Paris Red Cross Hospital No 2. They describe loading and assembling tanks, repairing rail links, and enduring shellfire before capture and later treatment. Charles Geiger of Chicago had his foot amputated.
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Camibrai
Red Cross
Frank Haley
East Ninety-seventh Street
New York City
Cambrai
Fritz
Charles Geiger
Chicago
Geiger
Paris
Most International Baby Born in Paris to Denver Family
The Kennedy infant, claimed as the most international baby, was born in Paris. Parents Kenneth A. Kennedy and wife went there at the outbreak of war to aid Y M C A and Red Cross work. Attendants included nurses from Armenia, France, Portugal and Italy. Maternal grandparents are in Denver and paternal relatives live in Canada.
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Denver
Paris
Kenneth A. Kennedy
Germany
Red Cross
Kennedy
Armenia
France
Portugal
Italy
Canada
Knitting Causes Death of Connelsville Woman
Mrs Beatrice Victor May of Connelsville Pennsylvania died after ceaseless knitting for soldier boys led to a nervous breakdown at age sixty two. Overwork exhausted her frame.
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Soldier Boys
Beatrice Victor May
Connellsville
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N.Y
Hudson
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C.F
Lockport
Miles Medical CO
Elkhart, Ind
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