Fight on the British Front Reported by George T Bye
American and British forces push forward toward Cambrai area with rapid advance toward Brancourt and Premont. The correspondent observes air reconnaissance, road maintenance, dressing stations, wounded Yanks and Tommies, and a prisoner of war cage as 1200 captives await processing.
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George T. Bye
America
Brancourt
Premont
Beaurevoir
Third Army
Cambrai
Roisel
British Red Cross
Fourth Army
Altho
Royal Engineers
Carolina
Tommy
Memphis
Chattanooga
Chage
New York
Associated Press
Wilson
Lloyd George
Girl Proves Her Peanut Efficiency
CHICAGO October 12 A Hammond 10 cent store manager hires Lillian White a graduate of a Hammond business college to teach efficiency She counts inventory in the basement four barrels of peanuts completed one barrel counted and the boss forgets her existence until yesterday afternoon when he checks and finds her still in the basement proving efficiency only up to peanuts.
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Chicago
William Fehrman
Hammond
Lillian White
Hammond Business College
Fehrman
Lillian
Clammers Busy on Cedar River Near Nashua
In Nashua Iowa the Cedar River runs low encouraging clam digging. Producers report several tons collected in the first two days of the week and a price rise to sixty dollars per ton. Eastern button factories are driving demand while pearls and slugs are scarce. Martial law rumors in Constantinople trigger Paris market activity on Turkish securities.
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Charles City
Cedar River
Nashua
Constantinople
Paris
Get
Abram and Lot Part Ways and Return from Egypt
A devotional study on Genesis 13 1 4 14 16 tracing Abram leaving Egypt after a famine, his failure and humility, Lot choosing earthly wealth, and Abram’s bold rescue of Lot. It emphasizes God s faithfulness and the believer s need to rely on divine guidance rather than expedient human plans.
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Abram
Egypt
God
Lot
Abramn
Fragmented Faith Reflections of Belief in God and Truth
A devotional meditation speaks of the faithful finding refuge in God through belief. It invokes biblical images like the Rock of Ages and emphasizes truth as the path to freedom.
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John Brown Haddington
Assyrians in War Refugees Reach Toward British Lines
The article recounts 45000 Assyrian refugees driven from Aramia by Turks and Kurds, with about a third combatants. They face cholera, cold, hunger, and exposure as they trek toward Hamadan, while American ties and Assyrian communities in the United States reinforce war support and patriotism.
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Persia
Aramia
Iran
Hamadan
William A. Shedd
American College
Arabia
Assyria
Ahmed Shah
Turkey
Russia
United States
Canada
America
Dr. Shedd
Chicago
Philadelphia
Yonkers
New Britian
Conn
Worcester
Mass
Hertford
Boston
Los
Christian Church Bible School and Services Schedule
Bible school at 9 45. Preaching service at 11. Evening services announced later. Everybody welcome.
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Bible School
Everbody Welcome
Iowa Over the Top Shows Wealth and Prosperity
The article proclaims Iowa as a land of both millionaires and paupers in balance, the richest agricultural state, with high average prosperity. It notes Iowa’s leading corn and hog production and its farms.
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Iowa
Union
Iowa Spirit and War Effort Highlighted by Philadelphia Bulletin
The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin praises Iowa for thrift education and uprightness. It notes Iowa’s strong agricultural life and its large per capita automobile ownership. The piece emphasizes Iowa’s patriotism and its “more than its share” of men and money for the war, marking an honorable distinction.
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New England
New York
Ohio
Iowa
Altho
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Fourth of Saloons In New York Closed
New York excise officials report 2 147 saloons or 23 percent of Greater New York's total closed as licenses expired. About 300 delayed license applications were filed, with few more anticipated. Albuquerque New Mexico also moved into dry status as statewide prohibition took effect.
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New York
Greater
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico
Paper From Bark of Tree In Upper Tonkin
Natives in Indo China make paper from the bark of a small mulberry tree found along the Black river in Upper Tonkin. The village near Hanoi, named due Papier, has 2000 to 3000 inhabitants who practice this craft.
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Indo China
Due Papier
Hanoi
Black River
Upper
Tonkin
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Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
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Sodom
Richter
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Alaska
Hudson
A. E. Putnam Co
Washington, Iowa
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Mar Shimon
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