Pershing Entered Army Path From Lincoln School Days
A Nebraska newspaper recounts General John J. Pershing turning from a teacher plan to a military career after sisterly guidance led to West Point. It covers his quiet but ambitious boyhood, early duties at the University of Nebraska, and a famed strict yet respected method under trainer Old Jack Best.
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Lincoln, Neb
John J. Pershing
United States Army
France
General Pershing
Mrs. Butler
Miss May Pershing
Lincoln
Butler
Missouri State Normal School
Kirksville
West Point Military Academy
Young Pershing
West Point
John
Miles
New Mexico
Geronimo
Pershing
University of Nebraska
Jack Best
University
Mr. Best
Jack
Increase in Crime Tied to War Economy in Cities
New York reports crime up 20 percent in six months as the war boosts property values and theft incentives. Commissioner Woods and District Attorney Swann link the rise to economic conditions, noting property crimes rise while violence declines due to gang suppression.
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New York
United States
Woods
New York City
Swann
Deathbed tale reveals Lobert not German born
In St Louis, Charles Lobert learns from his sister Emma in Saginaw that his birth place was Brazil, not Germany. The secret changes his status as an alleged alien enemy and affects his naturalization and polling questions. He served in the Spanish American War and was rejected for the United States Guards due to German citizenship.
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St. Louis
Charles Lobert
Emma Lobert
Saginaw
Mich
Germany
Lobert
United States Guards
Brazil
Camp Mills Sentry Salute Ends With Dismissal
A noncommissioned officer at Camp Mills on Long Island returned a salute to a new recruit who mistook him for a higher officer. The next morning the NCO was summoned by his colonel and asked why he saluted when not entitled. The NCO replied I always return everything I am not entitled to. He was dismissed.
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Camp Mills
L. I
Aberdeen woman crafts coat of arms from 25000 stamps
Mrs. Sarah Erickson of Aberdeen Washington has built a government coat of arms using 25000 canceled stamps from 13 administrations gathered over 25 years. The design features an American eagle and five spears with a shield. three stamps are from the George Washington era. An offer of 2200 dollars was refused as she continues adding stamps with Liberty and E Pluribus Unum.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Sarah Erickson
George Washington
Odge
Erickson
Tribute by French General to three American soldiers
General Bordeaux honors Corporal Gresham, Private Enright, and Private Hay of the Sixteenth Infantry with a joint funeral in Bathelmont. The ceremony includes improvised altar, church service, American flag, volleys, taps, minute guns, and a demand to leave their remains in France with inscriptions affirming justice and liberty.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Pershing
United States
William L. Siberv
Bordeaux
Bathelemont
Gresham
Enright
Hay
Sixteenth Infantry
Bathelmont
United States Infantry
France
Europe
United States Republic
America
Government seeks vast nurse expansion for army corps
Washington reports a plan to grow the army nurse corps from about 3,800 to 37,500, an increase near 1,000 percent, to meet duties at domestic hospitals and overseas. The Lakewood hotel in New Jersey will be leased as a general hospital to house a reserve of 100 nurses, with changes to accommodate them once turnover occurs.
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Washington
Army Nurse Corps
Medical Department
United States
General Medical Board
Council of National Defense
Lakewood Hotel
Lakewood
N. J
War Department
What? Bake beans sans pork in Boston
Boston housewives resist meatless days by insisting baked beans require pork. They argue porkless beans are impossible and will persist until someone invents a porkless recipe, with pork graces remaining on Saturday tables.
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Boston
Adams Kin Enlists for Service in United States Navy
Mrs. Clara Doss Burrows urges her only son Earl Gardner Doss to enlist. The youth is at Mare Island Marine training station. He is descended from Eli jah Adams connected with the Mohawks tea party and from Gardner Adams a cousin of John Quincy Adams who served in the War of 1812.
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Denver
Colo
Clara Doss Burrows
Adams
Earl Gardner Doss
Sam
Mare Island Marine Corps Training Station
Young Doss
Elijah Adams
Boston Harbor
Gardner Adams
John Quincy Adams
Burrows
Wild Geese Break Glass at Two Rivers Lighthouse
A severe Lake Michigan storm brought a large flock of wild geese to Two Rivers Wisconsin. The geese, more than 300 strong, were drawn to the Tain River Point lighthouse and shattered the tower glass by impact. One goose weighing over five pounds caused the damage.
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Wis
Lake Michigan
Tain River Point
Spy in Paris and Berlin Exposed Through American Tales
A Chicago News correspondent in Berne recounts sightings of a German U boat captain in Paris and a Berlin spy network through incidents involving an American girl in Leipsic. Anecdotes underline espionage reach and risk during wartime.
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Leipsic
Chicago News
Berne
Switzerland
Paris
von Hutten
North Sea
Red Cross Institutes Train Women for Civilian Relief Work
Washington reports the American Red Cross inaugurates civilian relief with scientific training for women. A six week home science course, guided by Porter Lee, aims to prepare workers to assist families of soldiers and sailors, linking them to community resources and addressing postwar reconstruction needs.
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Washington
Fd Cross
Red Cross
Walter S$. Ufford
District of Columbia Civilian Relief Department
The
Porter Lee
New York School of Philanthropy
Ufferd
Ufford
Inventor of the Tank Sir William Tritton Foretells War Change
Sir William Tritton, inventor of the British tank, says in a recent interview that the tank has come to stay and will play a dominant role in modern warfare. He is pictured at work in his office.
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William Tritton
First of the giant government warehouses completed
Washington January 24 The first of a score of gigantic government warehouses is finished and will ease Atlantic freight congestion especially in New York. Each warehouse is about half a mile long and 200 yards wide and can hold over 2 000 freight cars. Systematic rail access and gaps will speed shipments overseas. Three terminals with multiple warehouses are under Brigadier General Little's cantonment construction bureau.
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Washington
Atlantic Seaboard
New York
Little
Bureau of Cantonment Construction
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