Hellish German Prisoner Brutality Exposed in War Letters
A World War I excerpt reveals brutal German treatment of prisoners. Prisoners, including doctors and professors, are forced to work 16 hours daily unloading ore while guarded by rifles. Salt mines with extreme heat, poisonous air, and naked labor produce boils and sores. Reports recount massacres, brutal beating, and deliberate acts against civilians, with a French corporal’s escape and a warning pamphlet for American soldiers about German traps.
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Sweden
Germany
Kaliwerk
Corporat B
Switzerland
War Department
Washington
General Staff
Wooden ship building on a great scale in Maine
Rangor Maine ship builders push into large scale wooden construction with government contracts. 30,000 tons of new sailing fleet to launch by October, with more keel laying as ships vacate wartime yards. Labor shifts, hardwood frames, and high freight costs shape Maine’s bold postwar relaunch in shipbuilding.
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Rangor
Maine
Phippshurs
Rockland
Thomaston
Camden
Belfast
Sandy Point
Stockton Springs
Bangor
Machias
Milbridge
Harrington
Bis
South Atlantic
Pensacola
Boston
Humor and heroism from French hospital letters
In France a U S hospital receives letters from Mrs Weatherill recounting Mildred Williamson at work among wounded soldiers. She describes cheerful troops, urgent dressings, shifting shifts, and global surgeons, with Mem orial Day routines and a sense of frontline resilience. The report also covers Lieut Glen Howell’s account of the Schurz collision with the Florida, the sinking, and crew rescues indicating the ship’s final fate and subsequent voyage to New York.
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J. W. Weatherill
Mildred Williamson
France
Geier
Hawaiian
Glen ©. Howell
Harry C. Howell
Bayard Street
Waterloo
Lieut
Howell
Atlantic
New York
Saramacea
Venezuela
Hawaii
Schurz
Florida
Waterloo Enrolls Many Nurses for Red Cross Work
The Central Division of the Red Cross Bulletin reports Waterloo has enrolled over one third of the five site total as of July 1 1918. Waterloo accounts for 36 of the 707 enrollees in Iowa Wisconsin Illinois Nebraska and Michigan with a division quota of 2936 leaving 2229 to enroll before January 1 1919. The bulletin urges every state and chapter to ensure completion of the obligation.
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the Red Cross
Waterloo
Iawa
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Nebraska
Michigan
Chicago
Eivery
iCome Girls Lets Not Be Prudes With Boys in the Service
A letter received by Sergeant G L Brown at the army recruiting station from a soldier in France urges girls back home to write to many soldiers. It praises letters as heaven in ink and urges no prudishness, claiming women should contact as many soldiers as possible to aid the war effort.
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France
Sergt
G. £. Brown
Fron
Davenport
Widow regains Clyde name after German officer husband
New York July 12 Mrs Ethel Clyde Vollmer widow of Maj Ern est Gottfried Vollmer of the German army won court permission to resume her maiden name Clyde and also to change her two sons names. She is daughter of William P Clyde once owner of the Clyde steamship line. Major Vollmer was killed in Picardy on Sept 9 1919 and the couple wed in London Oct 14 1907. War conditions cited.
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New York
Ethel ‘Clyde Vollmer
Ernest Gottfried Vollmer
Supreme Court
Pendleton
Clyde
William P. Clyde
Clyde Steamship Line
Park Avenue
Major Vollmer
Picardy
Nassau County
St. George's
Hanover Square
London
Best Medicine for Women in Portsmouth Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised by Mrs. Lana Shaw of Portsmouth for relief from irregularities pains and weakness. Letter urges other suffering women to try the root and herb remedy and seek special advice from Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts with forty years' experience claimed.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Lana Shaw
German surname removal vote amid wartime fear
A woman petitions to resume her maiden name citing stigma against anything German during the war. Separately, a civic notice urges citizens to hold Liberty Bonds and warns against selling them early as it weakens the war effort and harms the nation.
South Africa Embraces Electric Locomotives for Haulage
In a shift toward chemical production, the country now manufactures most goods locally. Electric locomotives are increasingly adopted in South Africa for underground haulage, signaling a move to modernize mining operations and reduce reliance on other transport modes.
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South Africa
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Arteriic County
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University of the South
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Springfield
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