British Byng tanks surge break German line Cambrai
Long war dispatch credits Lieut. Gen. Sir Julian Byng with a dramatic Cambrai breakthrough using tanks and surprise on the Hindenburg line between St Quentin and Lecarre. British forces advance past Mesnieres Marcoing Ribecourt Vlavrincourt Graincourt Flesquieres as air support and cavalry push forward. Allenby nears Jerusalem while Italian defense slows Austro German attacks on the Piave sector. President Wilson enacts enemy alien surveillance and blocks shipments as Russia’s crisis deepens.
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Cambrai
Julian Byng
Third Army
Ednward W. Pickard
St. Quentin
Lecarpe
Diaz
Piave River
Allenby
Palestine
Jerusalem
Aisne
Wilson
United States
Kaiser Wilhelm
Byng
Somme
Avain
Mesnieres
Marcoing
Ribecourt
Vlavrincourt
Graincourt
Flesquieres
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Bowmion Wood
Fontaine Notre Dame
Secrecsy
Avas
Hnve
Saloniki
Flanders
Italy
Juvincourt
Chemin Des Dames
Laon
Jaffa
Piave
Excellent display of patriotism by 6000 boy farmers
The piece lauds boys and girls in farm clubs from Wisconsin to the South for growing corn vegetables and livestock showing patriotism beyond military service. It highlights Heiron Block and George Ferris of Wisconsin and a world champion in Alabama with high yields and seed corn roles, plus Billy Minter of Austin Texas who earned 28.32 dollars from a 10 by 20 foot plot and projected vast annual profits.
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Wisconsin
Heiron Block
Rochester
George Ferris
Little Suamico
Wis
South
United States
South Carolina
Alabama
Billy” Minter
Austin
Tex
Billy
Big Business Amusement Plan For Neighborhood Kids
A neighborhood amusement venture run by children uses a swing as its main attraction. The owners take turns riding it while business is slow, prompting a girl to threaten telling her mother. George dismisses the complaint with a joking remark about not operating on a tell mamma plan.
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George
Mamma
Indianapolis News
Swatting the Garbage Can Campaign Yields National Waste Drop
Reports from cities across the country show food conservationists cutting household waste by six percent in New York in one month and twenty percent in other large cities. The Syracuse Journal notes the savings of 3 000 tons of food products in the metropolis, a figure that could boost nationwide gains and help cities curb living costs.
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New York
Syracuse Journal
Brown Outwits Pair Over a White Horse
In a railway carriage a chatty man recalls a tale where Black and White conspire to bilk Brown. Brown outsmarts them, taking all their money, leaving Black and White in a daze and "bine" as the outcome.
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Brown
Germans in Fort Douglass Prison Camp Shown in Photo
A Fort Douglass Utah scene shows German prisoners at a bulletin board reading translated news, illustrating the humane care and meals provided by the Federal Government at one of three large enemy camps in the United States amid ongoing German outrages.
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United States
Fort Douglass
Utah
Salt Lake City
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