Uncle Sam Feeds and Forges Navy Gear for War Sailors
A British officer notes three criticisms of U S sailors. The navy maintains a high diet cost is secondary to nourishment with a 1917 ration rising about 20 percent due to more men. Clothing scales up, with a new heavy winter outfit and extensive naval contracts listed for socks, shoes, undergarments, and uniforms.
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James H. Collins
Washington
Uncle Sam
Sam
Admiral McGowan
Navy
West Tindies
British Isles
Department of Labor
Ords
Bureau of Davigation
Steowe
Honored by Boy Scouts Medal Recipient is 12
Little Miss Pauline Henkel of New York received a United States Boy Scouts patriotic medal before 5,000 scouts at Union Square. She has sold $25,000 in Liberty bonds through canvassing, knitted for troops, and formed flag clubs in public schools.
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United States
Boy Scouts
Pauline Henkel
New York
Union Square
Americans in German Army Embodied After Citizenship Loss
Copenhagen reports a German order to employ former nationals living in Germany who lost their citizenship. Former Americans who returned and naturalized in the United States will serve with front line troops only after serving in other roles behind the lines.
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Copenhagen
Germany
United States
Sand burr causes rancher Clarence McClelland death
Sioux Falls, S D. The accidental drawing of a sand burr into the throat killed Clarence McClelland a prominent Fall River county rancher. A burr fastened to a finger led him to try to remove it with his teeth and the burr was drawn into his throat during a deep breath. He was rushed to a hospital where an operation failed to save him.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Clarence McClelland
Fall River County
Family Tree Exhibition Traces Klinger Lineage in Window
Ada Mississippi displays a family tree tracing the Klingers from 1795 to the present. Adam and Eve Klinger are listed as born in 1795 and 1796, with twelve children and 1209 descendants cited in the exhibit.
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Ada
Miss
Klinger
Adam
Eve Klinger
Recruits in Camp Roll Up Fortunes Across Texas Oklahoma
In a Texas and Oklahoma division camp, five men are valued at 500000 each, 20 can sign checks for 10000, 42 hold property worth over 10000, and one is the sole heir to a 3 million estate. Over 400 young men, all over twenty one, work their first real jobs and seem buoyant in the ranks.
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Texas
Oklahoma
British Get Honor Stripes for War Service
The War Office announces new chevron stripes for British soldiers who served overseas in the great war. A red chevron marks service dating to 1914, a blue stripe for service after that year, with an extra blue stripe for every 12 months of service. Officers and privates alike will wear the stripes.
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London
War Office
Daniel Boone vine swing astonishes mountain boys
A writer recalls Daniel Boone style grapevine swinging in western Maryland and eastern West Virginia. Boys cut vines 60 to 70 feet from tree tops and ride them downhill to launch over creeks with daring distances, proving the stunts still draw risk loving locals.
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Niksah
Alleghany Mountains
Daniel
Maryland
West Virginia
Upper
Potomac
Daniel Boone
Cats Will Guard Chickens From Rat Plagues
A historical view touts cats as valuable guardians of poultry yards. It notes rats fatally threaten chickens more than hawks or disease, and claims trained cats can deter rats and protect flocks, sometimes using a grim deterrent tale of tying a dead chicken to a cat.
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Chicken Yard
Velvet bean coffee gains niche in South
In Quitman Georgia the velvet bean, once a staple stock feed, is used to brew coffee for a hotel crowd. The hotel promoted a beverage labeled Javva after a dinner, drawing praise from traveling salesmen and one guest who claimed expertise and tried a third cup.
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Quitman
Plum of John Horner Burned at Melles Park
London reports fire destroyed part of Sir John Horner's manor at Melles Park. The event ties to the origin of the nickname Plum in a political doggerel about Little Jack Horner. The Horner family lineage shows the eldest son typically named John since medieval times.
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London
John Horner
Melles Park
Jack Horner
Glastonbury
Melles
Horner
John
Explaining the Universe by S M Crothers
An Atlantic essay by S M Crothers reflects on sudden insights that claim to explain the universe as a whole. It discusses the lure of omniscience and the paradox that such explanations can prove opposing realities.
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S. M. Crothers
Atlantic
Fragmentary Westerly Notes On Ancient Trade Routes
Reading fragments describe old economic activity and livestock in a distant era. The text mentions sheep fat and ties, agricultural references, and mentions places like Thrace and a Greek historian, with implied dates and ages.
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Privce
Lake Pragins
Thrace
Herorlotis
Spiders Ride on Flies
A London Chronicle report notes a parasite inhabiting a housefly as an immature spider that guides the fly’s movement until the insect dies or the spider feeds. The observation could advance parasitism and ninensalism studies.
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London Chronicle
Pegasus
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