14 Cent Meals At Eagle Hut In London For American Troops
American soldiers in London find Eagle Hut offers economical meals from 14 to 25 cents. Breakfast and supper cost 14 cents. a shilling dinner includes broths, stews, potatoes and pudding. The Hut, run by Mrs. Arthur Coke, serves American pancakes with maple syrup, and feeds 2,000 to 2,800 fighters daily.
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Dickens
Thackeray
King
Eagle Hut
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King George
Queen Mary
National
Monel
Arthur Coke
West-end
Camp Mess
United States
England
Leaky Roof Tale From Saint Louis Soldier in France
A letter from St Louis native Louis P. Clark with the American expeditionary forces in Voila reveals his improvised fix for a leaky roof. He used a bucket, a raft, and an alarm clock to empty water at 2 a.m., earning praise from French observers as Americans learn fast.
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St. Louis
Louis P. Clark
Wétoop
Vella Ces
Bible Anthology Dominates Literary Thought, Detroit Notes
The Detroit News quotes Yale’s Prof. William Lyon Phelps arguing the Bible is the greatest book, superior in narrative, poetry, and wisdom to other writers and influent on figures like Bunyan, Lincoln, and Kent. It credits the Bible with shaping English literature and education.
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Yale University
Phelps
Job
Hume
Gibbon
Rose
Kipling
de Maupassant
O. Henry
Bunyan
Lincoln
Kent
Detroit News
Twins Tip the Scale of Sugar Shortage Joy
A Bayswater constable celebrates a newborn twin boy, joking that each baby adds one more sugar ration during wartime shortages. The exchange unfolds in a library as the nurse confirms the sex and the man expresses relief and humor at the wartime rationing twist.
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Normar
Thwaites
British Intelligence Department
Bayswater
Marble Arch
Old English Furniture Survives in Britain Through Post Exhibition Trade
An Indianapolis News report asserts that the 1851 London Great Exhibition and railway growth spurred squire and wife migration, triggering a taste for new furnishings. Returning nobles sold old items to secondhand shops, later reaching poorer families and small provincial homes.
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Britain
London
England
Indianapolis News
Allies in position for grand coup on southern front
The report sketches a strategic move with Albert and Mont Didier as pivots and a push toward Laon. It suggests a Franco allied effort to drive the German forces back, potentially forcing a breakthrough by Foch and widening Allied leverage on the eastern front.
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Albert
Montdider
Foch
Laon
Women in Fourth District Target Bigger Liberty Bond Share
Cleveland, in the fourth federal district covering Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and parts of West Virginia and Kentucky, plans a larger role in the upcoming Liberty Loan campaign starting September 28. Mrs. Frank Muhlhauser, district women’s committee chair, says they aim to raise their district’s sales from 24 to above the national level and to increase bond buyers from 18 million to 25 million, focusing on small investors.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Liberty Loan
Frank Muhlhauser
Cleveland
Artificial Landscapes for Soldiers Training
The article notes that most young men come from cities and towns so few soldiers grasp real distances. Due to cantonments lacking true scenery, artificial landscapes are created to help troops practice navigating terrain as they might in France or on the road to Berlin.
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Ndure
France
Berlin
Shells for Buttons in New Zealand Waters
The Department of Internal Affairs notes that Trochus niloticus does not occur in New Zealand. Other shells such as paua, Haliotis iris, and toitol, Ostraea sulcata, found on rocky coasts near low tide, could be used for button manufacture but are not yet exploited. They are abundant and easily gathered along sandy beaches around the islands, with no established costs or markets yet.
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Department of Internal Affairs
Wellington
Queensland
South Sea Islands
New Zealand
Scientific American
The Reckless Girl Speech by Mamie Colvin
Mrs. Mamie Colvin, New York's prohibition candidate for Congress, argues that both liquor and a woman's recklessness can lead to divorce. She recalls a divorced acquaintance warned of a double life, but the girl replied that a single life would be worse if she did not marry him.
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Mamie Colvin
New York
How to Remove a Splinter With Steam
Popular Mechanics Magazine recommends a wide mouthed bottle filled with hot water. Hold the injured hand over the bottle to draw the flesh down and expose the splinter. After removal apply the usual antiseptic solution for safe healing.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
First War Stamp Bank Built in Oklahoma City
The first U.S. building erected as a war savings stamp bank rises in Oklahoma City Oklahoma all timber and furniture donated by local firms workers paid in baby bonds The bank occupies a downtown site and will exclusively sell war savings and thrift stamps Inaugural project to promote thrift and wartime finance captures broad civic support across the city.
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First War Stamp Bank
United States
War Savings Stamp Bank
Oklahoma City
Oklo
Slacker Boy Dies as Hero in France
Dayton reports John Rong of Montgomery county listed among U S casualties in France. Officials sought Rong who was labeled a slacker but the record shows he died as a hero. Relatives found his Montgomery county and Rome Italy addresses on the casualty list. Rong enlisted without notifying his draft board.
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Dayton
United States
John Rong
Montgomery County
Rong
France
Rome
Italy
Big sphagnum moss order for Seattle Red Cross
Seattle expects to produce 250000 sphagnum moss surgical dressings by September 1. The city is asked to supply half of the Northwest allotment. Moss is gathered from swamps along the Columbia River near its mouth, dried and prepared for dressings.
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Seattle
Wash
Seattle Red Cross
Northwest
Columbia River
First Lay Off in 65 Years at Graton Firm
Worcester also notes Henry Clay Graton founder of Graton & Knight Manufacturing took a rare lay off to celebrate his eighty eighth birthday with a twelve hour automobile ride. The firm began sixty five years ago and he has worked 312 days each year, with some Sundays.
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Worcester
Mass
Henry Clay Graton
Birmingham meeting on use of waste tin and by products
A Midlands conference in Birmingham, led by the lord mayor, discussed waste utilization. Birmingham collects 600 tons of old tins yearly, sold at 1500 dollars per ton, and 35000 dollars was earned from recovered waste paper. Waste materials from slaughter houses and condemned fish and meat are turned into manure and other by products.
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Midlands
Birmingham
Rational War Salvage Council
Corporation
New Eastern Battle Front Forms Against Huns
Rising specter in the east signals a new front forming against Germany with Allied forces and Japan aiding. The development could force Germany to shift large troops from the Western Front or risk losing gains gained through trickery and double dealing diplomacy.
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Specter
Germany
Russia
Japan
Guam Progress in Americanization and Militia Parade
The Guam News Letter reported by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer notes growing Americanism under Capt. Roy C. Smith. Washington’s birthday events raised about 1270.55 for the Red Cross with large Liberty bond subscriptions. Guam’s militia held its first parade as universal military training begins, with 1000 militiamen and khaki uniforms.
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Pacific
Guam
Red Cross
Smlith
United States Army
Origin of Turks Traced From Noah in Osmanli History
Osmanli historians claim the original Turk was Noah's grandson and that nine people rode the ark home to Mount Arrat after flood-born Turk, eldest son of Japhet, joined eight in the voyage. A fourth generation descendant, Alindje Khan, had twins Tartar Khan and Mogul Khan, linking Turks and Mongols by birth and era.
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Mount Arrat
Japhet
Turk
Alindje Khan
Tartar-Khan
Mogul-Khan
Tartar
Mogul
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