Pershing to Decide Future Army Size in Washington
Gen Pershing heads to Washington for joint Senate House military affairs hearings to set America's future army strength. Secretary Baker may revise his suggested force to around 273000, citing domestic needs and new services added since entering the war.
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Baker
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War Department
War Secretary
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Wator Transport Corp
Chemical Warfare Service
James W. Good
Cedar Rapids
McCormick
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Medill McCormick
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of State
Treasury
World Congress to define a new laid egg in Hague
London reports the Royal Agricultural Society will send the question to the World Poultry Congress in The Hague next September. The piece notes much discussion of eggs and cites a 1918 drop in London per person consumption from 120 to 70 due to transport shortages and high prices.
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London
Royal Agricultural Society
Hague
A City Train Mystery and a Tiny Diamond
On a crowded last car trip to the city, Daisy May suspects a stranger with kind manners of stealing a pin from her bag. A search reveals the diamond pin in the conductor’s hand, but Daisy May defends her companion, trusting love over accusation as the pair’s bond grows.
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Baxter
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Miles
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Cynthia
Yours
Tack
Temmle
Delia's Home Buy Delia Rose
Delia rose from a secluded youth in a hilltop white house to domestic success. After her grandmother’s death the dilapidated homestead was sold to defray expenses and Delia moved to the city to seek livelihood.
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Delia
Twins Born After Car Ride Near Williamsport
In Williamsport, Leon Rathbun and wife Grover welcomed twins after a surprise roadside birth. A driver, startled by a newborn in the car, stopped at a farmhouse where the mother delivered a second child before an ambulance arrived. The first twin is a boy and the second a girl.
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Williamsport
Leon Rathbun
Grover
Rathbun
The Violets By Mildred White
Mollie, a country girl, struggles in the city with no job and one dollar in her purse. Unable to adapt from domestic tasks to typing work, she faces discouragement while longing to return to teaching.
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Mollie
Cooking for Cupid ends in maid seeking independent home duty
Marion confronts her mother over domestic science and independence then lands at Murphy's employment bureau. An eager applicant seeks general housework, aiming to run a small family's home rather than a specialty task. The scene blends pressure from Mrs. Harrison with Marion's resolve to shape her own future.
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Marion
Harvey
Harrison
Jane
Murphy's Employment Bureau
Lydia E Pinkham Ad Promotes Vegetable Compound
An old advertisement targets working women describing common female ailments and touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a longstanding remedy. It emphasizes the breadwinner role of women and aims to reassure readers with the product's claimed forty years of use and purported strength benefits.
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Lydia HE
Pinkham
Target Tips and Hunting The One Gun Fallacy
An old saying warns against the man with one gun but many shooters learn through experience that variety can improve skills. Readers discuss gun familiarity, switching guns, and the value of cross training across pistol rifle and shotgun shooting, with Q A on sights and equipment.
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Tess
J. J. B. Richland
Lee Val
Windsor
Cona
Mendera
North Berwick crowd swarms A J Balfour at links
Arthur J Bal four reappeared at North Berwick near his ancestral home and was mobbed by visitors. A gallery of 30 or 40 followed him from tee to tee as he faced a crowd that previously greeted him with little fanfare.
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Arthur J. Balfour
North Berwick
Scotland
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Tee
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