Americans Earn Croix de Guerre for Ambulance Service Work
William Gorham Rice Jr recounts American ambulance drivers in the French sector earning Croix de Guerre honors after heroic night and day evacuations. He details the deadly July bombardments, rescue runs under gas, and the deaths of Gailey and Hamilton, whose coffins bore war crosses and flags.
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Sec
William Gorham Rice, Jr
Albany
William Gorham Rice
State Ivil Service
New York
Rice
Hamilton
Guiley
Gilbert Demorest
Bernard Peyton
Princeton
Rowland
Gailey
Woodbridge
Rothermel
Myself
Gatley
Piatt
Andrew
Paris
Beaurieux
Rothermet
Smuggling of Swiss Food Products Threatens Nation
Swiss authorities struggle to curb food smuggling to Germany and other neighbors. Frontiers guards make few arrests. smugglers pay small fines while profits reach thousands monthly. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung cites organized networks earning up to 10,000 dollars monthly.
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Switzerland
Germany
France
Italy
Rhine
Lake of Constance
Neue Zuericher Zeitung
Republic
Bold Rescue Saves Man from Rampant Farm Bull
Alfred Brown, 60, was knocked down and rolled by a furious county bull at Farnhurst Delaware. He clung to the animal's neck to avoid goring, while Robert McFarlin jumped in, seized the ring in the bull's nose, and forced submission. The bull, recently bought for the county farm, had been sick. Brown entered the field to treat the animal and was leaning over it when it charged.
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Gailey
Hamilton
Brancardiers
Tie
Rowland
Harvard
Farnhurst
Del
Alfred Brown
Robert McFarlin
Brown
McFarlin
Women in Banks Making Good in Wall Street
Twenty thousand women have found employment in Wall Street banks since the war began and are described as slower but more careful than men. They compensate for fewer hires with a reduced error rate and improved accuracy in banking roles.
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Wall Street
No Idle Moments for Women at Westchester Horse Show
Women judge classes at the Twenty fourth Westchester County horse show in New Jersey while knitting for soldiers. Mrs James P Silo sits with a Red Cross knitting bag during a brief interval, showing patriotic duty beyond social duties.
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Patriotic Society
James P. Silo
Westchester County
N. J
Red Cross
Cruelty of Germans Amazes Even Turks
Dr. Thomas Davison Christie, veteran American observer and former Tarsus resident, says Turkish officers report Germans instructing them to treat war with no mercy. He cites Armenian massacres as approved or planned by German officials and notes Turks would welcome peace. Christie notes his departure from Tarsus in 1915 and eventual move to the United States.
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Pasadena
Cal
Thomas Davison Christie
St. Paul's College
Tarsus
Asia Minor
Ottoman Empire
Christie
Turkey
Berlin
Doctor Christie
Constantinople
United States
Spectator Believes Bridge Rescue Is Movie Stunt
A man with cork legs fell from a bridge over Wheeling Creek into the Ohio River backwater near Bridgeport Ohio. His head was in mud and his legs floated away. Rescuers pulled him out semiconscious and alive.
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Bridgeport
Wheeling Creek
Ohio River
Modern Moses Left in Kansas City Hotel Drawer
A woman registered as Mrs. Carl Anderson of Chicago left a baby in a bureau drawer at a Kansas City hotel. The infant was found sleeping by a chambermaid after being misplaced instead of placed in bulrushes.
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Moses
Kansas City
Carl Anderson
Chicago
Army of Farmers Wins Warlike Harvest Record in U S
The nation faces a food surge as the Agriculture Department reports record corn 3.248 billion bushels and potatoes 462.6 million, with broad gains across crops. Farmers mobilized 6 million strong, many sacrificing finances, while backyard gardens and public safety groups expanded supplies for wartime needs.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Europe
America
Carl Vrooman
Boston
Committee of Public Safety
New England States
Atlanta
Southern Food Producers’ Association
South
Vrooman
Houston
St. Louis
New England
College
Fighting For Humanity On European Battlefield
A French ambulance man carries a wounded soldier through a rain of fire on the Verdun front. The piece highlights unarmed rescuers who advance with combat troops into deadly danger, embodying the true fighters for humanity amid the maelstrom of battle.
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No Man’s Land
Verdun
Indicts Woman's Fashions in Frederick County
The Frederick county grand jury recommends a curfew for Frederick and that children be barred from the three moving picture theaters. It also urges modest dress among young women and suggests Dame Fashion face legal scrutiny.
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Frederick
Kaiser Plot to War on Great Britain Revealed
Alexander Fiswolsky, ex Russian ambassador, confirms a secret Kaiser Czar alliance against Britain. He cites a 1905 fall date and disputes prior reports, detailing a Germany France Russia pact and a Copenhagen interview where Wilhelm proposed allying against Japan as part of the plan.
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Alexander Fiswolsky
France
Denmark
Czar
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
England
Copenhagen
Wilhelm
Japan
Preparation For World Peace Begins In America
Col. House directs the early work to prepare a basis for negotiations. He will organize a committee of distinguished American scientists, economists and historians to gather data for discussion at a future peace conference. This marks the start of America's war endgame planning.
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America
Col. House
Wilson
United States
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