Great Lakes Leads Them All in War Ship Production
The Ninth district built more ships than any other area, delivering 163 cargo vessels in 1918 and peaking with 28 ships in a single month. By war's end the Great Lakes yards produced over half the nation’s steel ships, with rapid launches like an 8,500-ton behemoth completed in 14 days after launching. District yards spanned Detroit to Superior with 112 berths and eight-ways at multiple plants.
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Washington
Great Lakes
United States
United States Shipping Board
Limoges
Toledo Shipbuilding Company
Shipping Board
Ninth District
America
American Shipbuilding Company
Detroit
Mich
Superior
Wis
Buffalo, N. Y
Chicago, Ill
Cleve
Benton
Flight Across the Andes Sets Height Record for Chilean Pilot
The Pan American Union published Lieut Dagoberto Godoys Andes flight from Santiago to Mendoza 210 kilometers in 1 hour 28 minutes at 17300 feet. He piloted a monoplane with a 110 horsepower Le Rhone engine and described the dizzying view from the high peaks and clouds.
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Washington
Latin America
South America
Andes
Dagoberto Godoy
Chile
Pan American Union
Godoy
Santiago
Mendoza
Bulletin
Bristol
Tobacco acreage clash between Kentucky officials and university
Louisville report notes split views on tobacco policy. Commissioner Mat Cohen urges reducing acreage to protect profits, citing 1918 and current costs of up to 350 dollars per acre. University of Kentucky bulletin counters that despite abnormal markets the next year's crop outlook remains favorable due to broader demand.
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Louisville
Mat Cohen
State Commissioner of Agriculture
College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky
Europe
University Bulletin
South Carolina
Georgia
Kentucky
Cohen
Servant to Inherit Large Share in Barbey Estate
New York reports Anna K. Barbey left nearly 1 million in estate to be divided among friends and churches. The will grants her servant Dora M. Kohl 25 000 in cash 30 shares of Western Union stock a cottage and real estate at Oak Bluffs Massachusetts and one eighth of the residuary estate. The servant also to be buried beside the testatrix in Greenwood.
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New York
Anna K. Barbey
Dora M. Kohl
Western Union Telegraph
Oak Bluffs
Mass
Greenwood
Miss Barbey
Riverside Drive
Episcopal Church
Church Charity Foundation of
Long Island
Profit in City Ostriches
In El Paso Texas a stock company started an ostrich farm with over 50 birds. Fashion trends banned ostrich plumes then revived them. Birds were sold and many gifted to Washington park for exhibit. Plumes back in style and Park Commissioner Fisher plans to buy meat for zoo animals with plume sale proceeds.
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el Paso
Tex
Washington Park
Fisher
Park Zoo
Boston Woman Seeks to Drop Second Husband After Return of First
Mrs. T. M. Lucas, previously believing her first husband dead, wed again. Now the first husband has reappeared and she seeks to dissolve the second marriage. The court remains undecided on the matter.
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Boston
T. M. Lucas
Goose aged twenty nine lays eight eggs in year
Hereford area news notes Peter A. Metz of near Creamery owns a 29 year old goose with a record eight eggs laid in the year. The last egg measured 83 by 11 inches in circumference. The goose mourns after her mate Pete the gander was killed by a dog.
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Hereford
Peter A. Metz
Near Creamery
Pete
Local Soldier Receives 102 Letters in One Day
Dayton officer Lieut. Sam A. Stephens in the front sent a cablegram to his parents reporting he had received 102 letters in a single day. He wrote I am well and busy answering my mail.
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Dayton
Ohio
Sam A. Stephens
Mailless in France A Camp Funston Officer Receives 53 Letters
An army officer who crossed from Camp Funston to France last summer got no mail for months. After the armistice, 53 letters and over 100 pounds of papers arrived in one delivery. Even cyphograms had not reached him before. He wrote voluminously during the mail outage.
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Junction City
Kan
Army Postal Service
France
Camp Funston
Japanese Mines Fuel Coal Output in Asia
From mines in Japan and South Manchuria the Japanese are taking 20,000,000 tons of coal annually.
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Japan
Manchuria
Allies refuse to yield in postwar treaty debate at Versailles
German delegates press for extension to May 29 to answer the treaty terms. They cite Alsace Lorraine, occupied territories, reparations, labor and property issues, and eastern limits among their objections. The article notes shifting opinions in Germany, U S Senate scrutiny of the league covenant, and various national moves as the peace process unfolds.
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Brockdorff-Rantzau
Versailles
Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
East
Scheidemann
United States Senate
Senate
Hitchcock
Allied Replies on Reparations Refuse German Denial of War Guilt
The allies rebuke Germany's stance on responsibility and reparations. The council of four rejects claims Germany did not start the war, citing Lansing's note of November 5 1918. German requests for the responsibility report are denied as too late and inadmissible.
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Germany
Council of Four
Hun
Lansing
Commission On Responsibility
Berlin delegates shift blame for war to German people
The Berlin delegates argue that America aimed at the military autocracy, not the German people, but Wilson later realized the public largely supported their government while victories continued, shaping his stance on exertion without stint.
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Berlin
Wilson
America
Experts resign from American peace mission over treaty concerns
Several experts attached to the American delegation quit, saying the treaty is unacceptable and that their data on historical and racial matters was not read. They accuse Wilson of surrendering ideals for a league of nations and fault the Saar basin Danzig Shantung and other settlements. They question the Italian crisis resolution.
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International Woman’s Congress
Zurich
League of Nations
Wilson
Saar Basin
Danzig
Shantung
What shall be done with Turkey debated by council
The council of four discussed Turkey with President Wilson advising. Proposals ranged from moving the sultan to Asia Minor to placing Constantinople under American mandate. Indian delegates fear Muslim unrest and Britain favors keeping the sultan with spiritual powers. They accept American mandate for Armenia but doubt Americans will take Constantinople.
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Turkey
Council of Four
Wilson
America
Asia Minor
Constantinople
United States
Armenia
Polish Ukrainian clashes complicate peace talks
Continued fighting between Poles and Ukrainians troubled delegates as Ukrainians in Galicia lost ground and blamed Allied support for Poles. Paderewski could not halt hostilities and the four nations debated further aid for disobedient groups amid global Jewish protests over pogroms.
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Galicia
Paderewski
Council of Four
Wilsons Paris Message Seeks Major Domestic Reforms
President Wilson read to Congress from Paris urges labor, tax revision, foreign trade, return of telegraph lines, railroad settlement, and woman suffrage. He also suggests amending the wartime liquor ban to allow beers and wines, drawing praise from wets and stiff opposition from drys and temperance groups. Senator Sheppard counters that repealing the law would fail.
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Wilson
Paris
Congress
Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Suffrage Amendment Advances in Both Houses
The House passed a constitutional suffrage amendment by 304 to 88 with most opposition from Southern Democrats. Senate passage seems likely as pledged votes cover the needed majority. The move reflects years of persistent effort by suffragists.
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House
Senate
Aerial Flight Trio Faces Mixed Fate Over Atlantic
Three US Navy seaplanes journeyed from Newfoundland toward the Azores. One arrived safely, a second was lost near the Azores with crew rescued, and the third completed a water landing and 205 mile leg to port. Hawker and Grieve in a Sopwith sought Newfoundland to Ireland and disappeared, fate likely unknown.
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Newfoundland
Azores
Portugal
England
Hawker
Grieve
Ireland
Fighting Intensifies as British Push Against Afghan Forces
The viceroy reports Bahawalpur regency troops and all regional resources pledged to the government amid the Afghan war. In Lahore Moslem Sikh and Hindu leaders offer support. May 16 clashes at Dakka yield 130 British-Indian casualties. May 17 a hill capture with air support leaves over 100 Afghans dead and eight Afghan battalions plus guns seized.
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London
Punjab
Dakka
Khyber Pass
PhosphateTouted as Way to Fatten the Thin
An advertisement promotes organic nitro phosphate as a remedy for thinness and nervous weakness. It claims rapid weight gain and health improvements by feeding nerves and cells, with a caution that it should be used only by those seeking to put on flesh.
Curious ideas about golf from twenty years ago
The piece recalls evolving female notions of golf with humorous anecdotes. A dinner conversation references the red coat and dogs, another misinterprets caddies as stone-hunters, and a third contrasts two players as a gentleman and a common man over a ball on dirt.
Saxophone saves husband’s job in jazz cabaret tale
In Buffalo Express style dialogue a wife learns her husband, once rumored to have St. Vitus dance, learned saxophone and now works for a swell jazz orchestra in a cabaret, earning good pay. The exchange shows Mrs Diff and Mrs Biff reacting to his career change.
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Diff
Love's Labor Lost Quip Sparks Marriage Advice
In a Brooklyn Citizen snippet the anxious mother asks Clara about a remark from Mr Cummings on last night’s glove fitting. Clara says he claimed any firm making gloves so hard to button should quit the business. The a m adds to avoid pursuing that line.
Like Mother A New Baby Called An Angel
Yonkers Statesman reports a light hearted exchange about a newborn, noting remarks that the baby resembles the mother and that she "keeps her mouth going all the time without saying anything."
A Mighty Good Audience Echoed in Playtime
A story about Elizabeth who studies music and elocution, practicing diligently while her playmate Edith often waits. Their mother wonders if Edith will ever learn piano, and Elizabeth sighs that Edith may grow up as a mighty good audience.
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Elizabeth
Edith
Forbidding Countenance Terrifies Streets in Courier Journal
A Louisville Courier Journal item notes a woman with a formidable look who causes drivers and pedestrians to pause. The anecdote describes how even cars pull up as she crosses the street, highlighting local notoriety and a striking image of her presence.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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