O'Ryan Outlines Training Plans for Twenty-seventh Division
Major General O'Ryan at Camp Wadsworth Spartanburg SC outlines training that prioritizes morale and manpower. He argues discipline, initiative, and Spartan will win the war, with physical fitness and teamwork as essentials and calls for military pedagogy to teach officers better instruction methods.
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O’ryan
Camp Wadsworth
Spartanburg
S. C
New York
Twenty-seventh Division
Napoleon
O'Styan
Plattsburg
German War Mobilization Totals 11.5 Million Yet 14 Million Mobilizable
The article presents vast figures on Germany’s wartime manpower and losses. It lists mobilized trained men, Ersatz reserves, landsturm contingents, and later classes from 1914 to 1920, totaling 10.6 million called up with 11.5 million additional exempted or uncalled, and situates total mobilizable resources around 14 million with 200,000 abroad and 2.1 million exempted due to disability.
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Germany
Dr Sun Yat Sen Commands Army In New Chinese Revolt
Dr Sun Yat Sen is reported to lead rebel forces in a fresh Chinese revolt. The movement seeks to challenge the existing government and establish influence in key regions.
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Sun Yat Sen
Edgewater Creche Opens Year Round for Convalescent Babies
The Memorial Home of the Edgewater Creche in New Jersey opens year round to care for convalescent babies under two, prioritizing soldiers’ children with aid extended to allied nations. Founded by Charles Kellogg, it serves babies from America, France, Russia and Italy among others, moving from Bartholdi Creche site near Edgewater to six and a quarter acres at Broad and Van Nostrand avenues.
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New York
Fife
Hudson
Englewood Country Club
Palisades
Edgewater Creche
Edgewater
N. J
Broad
van Nostrand Avenues
Englewood
Creche
New York City
America
France
Russia
Italy
The Elderly Patriot by Lurana Sheldon
A New York Times reader reflects on aging and resilience during wartime. The speaker recalls youth, rebirth, and renewed vigor found through wartime duty, contrasting past ease with present resolve.
Tragic Drowning Near Town as Youths Rescue Attempt Fails
A Montgomery youth, Tin 3 I Foye, about 13, drowned in a clay-pit pool after friends failed to rescue him. Two older boys and a younger helper tried to save him until Robert Fisher, 15, dived in and found the body. The city fire department and two bystanders revived him briefly but he died after twenty minutes.
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D. Rex Mont
Anil
Montgomery
Robert Fisher
Old Man Seeks Hunting License at 80
H. H. Harmon of Bluffs, eighty, declared he will not stop hunting after seventy years. He sought a hunting license before City Clerk Davenport, having failed at Jacksonville and Petersburg and other nearer towns, then went to Springfield as forms had not yet been distributed.
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Chicago
George
H. H. Harmon
Bluffs
Davenport
Harmon
Jacksonville
Petersburg
Springfield
Queen Elizabeth Belgian Heroine Flies Over German Lines
The report highlights a Belgian heroine flying above German lines during wartime action. The account emphasizes her daring courage and the bold mission she undertook behind enemy positions.
Tree Seal Test and a Money Claim
A young man entrusts an old man with a hundred dinars. On return the old man denies the deposit, is brought before a cadi, and a tree is summoned with a seal. The youth fails to bring the tree, the old man concedes the money was deposited, and the judge rules the money is the young man’s.
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Iwan
Adopt a Baby Wolf Near Naples
The Proper brothers on a farm six miles west of Naples in Ontario County found a baby gray wolf pup in a hollow log. They took it home and are raising it on a bottle while a search for the rest of the wolf family continues.
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Rochester
N. Y
Naples
Ontario County
Song of the Defenders marching to liberty and peace
The piece invokes soldiers marching to bugle and drum through peril and trenches in France. It proclaims dedication to freedom and enduring struggle, promising victory over ravagers and a future of peace and light, attributed to Marion Couthony Smith in the New York Times.
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France
Marion Couthony Smith
New York Times
GIVES CORK LEG AS SECURITY FOR LOAN
A chartel mortgage in Durham County records a $50 loan secured by an artificial leg valued at $100. Lawyer R O Everett states intent to reclaim the leg if the borrower fails to redeem the claim. The loan financed the cork leg with repayment due within fifty two weeks.
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Raleigh
N. C
Office of the Register of Deeds
Durham County
R. O. Everett
Durham
Women Best Liars Say Omaha Judge Police Court
Omaha police court judge J M Fitzgerald declares women are better liars than men while noting they lie under oath. He says women’s faces reveal nothing and they stay resolute in stories, whereas men show hesitation and color changes during deception.
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Omaha
Alice
J. M. Fitzgerald
Form Regiment of Women Volunteers for France
San Antonio Texas reports an organized group of women in Texas and Oklahoma offering to form a 1500 strong regiment to go to France or serve in trenches. They are wives of soldiers in the regular army national guard and men enlisting in the national army. They aim to train and replace men on guard duty patrol and scout work if the war department accepts a women unit.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
France
Regular Army
National Guard
National Army
War Department
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