Learning to Fly World War Aeroplanes At Home School
A wartime feature describes a hands on aviation education program where boys study airplane engines and components, assemble parts, and practice maintenance in a classroom workshop. Sammy, a pupil, learns to identify planes and perform repairs as the course advances. Archie Roosevelt earns a promotion recommendation as part of Pershing’s expeditionary force officers.
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Wey Oaks
Werjean
Taner
Watekage
Boche
Bo Csa
Moelines
Sammy
German Descent Farmers Flogged in Brenham During Red Cross Campaign
Six farmers of German heritage were assaulted by a Brenham committee in daylight while resisting Red Cross membership. Wagons were halted and the flogging occurred at different times as the campaign ended, reflecting local unrest during the drive.
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Brenham Tex
Red Cross
Brenham
British shipping losses rise as wartime mines claim vessels
London reports a material decrease in losses with the Admiralty stating that eleven British merchantmen of 1600 tons or more were sunk in the past week by mine or submarine, along with one merchantman under that tonnage and one fishing vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Admiralty
New Gum Remedy Promises Receding Teeth Cure
New York expert Burrell Cheniftel Co announces a 20 year search ends with pyorigy a medicated massage ointment claimed to stay in place and treat receding bleeding and loose gums. Sold in original packages for one dollar at Wilmington outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
N. Y
T. B. Elker
Burrell Cheniftel Co
New York City
Wilmington
Notice of Administration for Maria A Fosgate
The undersigned qualified as administrator of Maria A Fosgate late of New Hanover County. Creditors and all indebted parties should settle promptly. Claims must be presented at Wilmington North Carolina on or before December 4 1917 or they will be barred. Thomas W Davis administrator.
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Maria A. Fosgate
New Hanover
AH Prsons
Wilmington
North Carolina
Thomas W. Davis
New York Day by Day Chronicle of Oddities and Anecdotes
Newark dispatch recounts a bustling day in New York with sketches of social life. Samuel Pepys style diary entries note visits to the ironmonger's, a minstrel at the Friars, and plans for Bide Dudley’s stage debut. The piece describes encounters with R Brinkerhoff, a gas-powered carriage ride, and a park accident as well as a crowded evening at Claridge leading to playful debts and merriment.
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Newark
Samuel Pepys
Frank Tinney
Friars
R. Lillibridge
Claridge
Neysa McMeiz
Jean Knott
St. Louis
Weiner
Santa disrupts boy on Broadway restaurant visit
A mother and her young son dine at a self-service Broadway restaurant when a street Santa at the same table removes his hat whiskers and gloves and sits down to eat. He pays no attention to the child spoiling the boy’s meal and the Christmas illusion.
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Santa Claus
Santa
Thrift Drives New York Dining Toward Lightless Menus
The piece notes thrift rhetoric spreading from New England to New York and altering high society habits. Rich women embrace economical menus with nutrition-focused choices, cutting lavish pleasures as lightless, meatless, heatless, and wheatless days expand.
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New England
New York
La Creole hair dye promises gray coverage
An advertisement claims La Creole will restore dull or gray hair to a even dark shade and improve hair and scalp health. It guarantees satisfaction with a money back offer if results are not met. Sold by local druggists or mailed for $1.20 from Van Vleet Drug Co., Memphis.
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Jarman & Futrelle
van Vleet Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
Advt
Public Auction for Carolina Beach Lot in Wilmington NC
The trustee C. B. Griffin announces a public auction of a Carolina Beach tract in New Hanover County North Carolina. The sale takes place November 28 1917 at 11 o clock A M at the Court House door Wilmington. The property is described as Lot 2 in Block 20 Southern Section of the Carolina Beach plan as plotted by J L Betton in 1913.
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Griffin
Needhan Ft
Lloyd
Wilmington
New
Banover
North Carolina
Carolina Beach
New Hanover
Coreling Beach Avenue
Carolina Beach Avenue
Atlanta Avenue
Carlina Beach Avenue
Office of the Register of Deeds
New Hanover County
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promises Cure and Reward
In this region catarrh is described as widespread and once thought incurable. Hall's Catarrh Medicine from I J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio is promoted as a constitutional remedy that works through the blood. A hundred dollar reward is offered for any case not cured.
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Hall
I. J. Cheney & Co
Yoledo
Ohio
WY. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
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Berlin
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Justin
Human & Futrelle
Princess Street
Exelento Medicine Company
Atlanta, Ga
United States
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Royal Theatre
Winter Park
Wrightsville
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