Busy Navy Surgeon General Braisted Leads Medical Corps
Washington May 24 A profile of Dr William C Braisted Surgeon General of the United States Navy notes his expanded patient base due to wartime duties His leadership guides the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery overseeing medical stores hospitals and medical schools He earned honors including the Order of Bolivar and a Mikado decoration
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Washington, D. C
William C. Braisted
United States Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Navy
Marine Corps
Braisted
Toledo
Rixey
Public Health Service
Naval
Puerto Cabello
Bolivar
Emperor of Papan
Association of Military Surgeons
Medical Department
University of Michigan
Columbia University
Bellevue Hospital
New York City
Detroit
Naval Service
Naval Medical School
Washington
Medical
Rosevelt
White House
Atlantic Fleet
Spring series between Chicago Americans and Pittsburgh Nation may be abandoned
A proposed Panama Canal exhibition series between the Chicago Americans and the Pittsburgh Nation, planned to feature teams training at opposite ends of the canal, may be scrapped due to the war. The plan envisioned a string of exhibition games along the waterway.
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Chicago Americans
Pittsburgh Nationals
Panama
Spies Nabbed in Geneva Hotel in Major Break Probed
Police uncover a nest of German and Austrian spies at a Geneva hotel. Eight arrests are reported including a Frankfurter Zeitung correspondent. Several compromising documents have been seized as the investigation widens.
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Geneva
Frankfurter Zeitung
Berlin Welcomes Arrivals Of Tarnowski and Verdy Du Vern
Count Tarnowski von Tarnow the recalled Austrian ambassador to the United States and Dr. Friedrich Verdy Du Vern the dismissed German minister to Cuba arrived in Berlin on Tuesday officials announced.
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Vossische Zeitung
Tarnowski von Tarnow
United States
Friedrich Verdy du Vern
Cuba
Berlin
Opium Raid Reveals Wealthy Gotham Drug Users
Special Correspondent reports in New York on a blue capped messenger signaling an opium parlor raid. Two opulent women, a liveried escort, and plainclothes police traced a car through parks to a sedate apartment house, uncovering a well equipped opium den.
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The
Dispatch
New York
Rush
Broadway
Gotham
Mathewson Mann Dinner Discusses Koran Not War
Christy Mathewson and Louis Mann dined together and talked of metaphysics and the Koran rather than baseball or the war. Afterward they drove to a country place and played checkers, both regarded as experts. George Williams, a shy New Yorker, received a bronze miniature Statue of Liberty at a dinner.
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Christy Mathewson
Louis Mann
Mann
Mathewson
George Williams
Greater
New York
Williams
Staten Island
Liberty
M. Bartholdi
Humble Jersey Artist Finds Hope in Advertising Job
An artist living in a hillside shack in Jersey spoke of poverty and sacred art. He has a wife and three children and once earned 96 dollars last year. He now plans comic drawings for weekly humorist publications when offered and recently secured a art department job at 20 dollars weekly through a local dentist and contact.
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Jersey
Gets-It corn remedy advertised with testimonials
An old advertisement extols Gets-It as the easiest corn remover. It promises quick relief with 2 or 3 drops that dry and let a shoe be worn again while the core loosens and is removed painlessly. Sold for 26 cents, with multiple local drugstores listed as sellers and distributors.
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B. Lawrence & Co
R. R. Bellamy
Smith Drug Store
Southside Drug Co
Elvington's Pharmacy
Harding’s Pharmacy
Green's Drug Store
Mission Pharmacy
Leonard's Chance Monday Night Rematch Looms
United Press reports Benny Leonard and Freddie Welsh square off in New York next Monday night. Leonard, famed lightweight, seeks another shot at Welsh after earlier battles. Welsh has previously defeated Leonard amid close bouts in Washington Park, Brooklyn, with Leonard seeking redemption.
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United Press
New York
Benny Leonard
Freddie
Welsh
Leonard
Washington Park
Brooklyn
Untitled note on a borrower's $5 offer refused
A brief fragment reports a borrower offering $5 to someone viewed as having a high calling. The recipient showed no interest and refused the offer, noting it would interfere with his spiritual duties.
Big NY Dinner Wears Informal Clothes Stirring Crowds
Otto Katn and Charles E. Hughes attended a large New York dinner in informal attire, sparking notable excitement and public chatter about the casual dress choice.
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Otto Katn
Charles E. Hughes
New York
Farris Bakery Promotes Honey Bread as Staff of Life
The ad from Farris' Bakery touts "Honey Bread" and its time saving kitchen value. It lists contact as phone 626 and notes "SAVES Hours in the Kitchen" with the caption Farriss' Hot Supper Rolls. Also mentions 4-19-1m and the Motte School of Shorthand and Typewriting run by Leon L. Motte at 507 South Fifth Street with phone 1924-W.
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Farris
Life
Farris’ Bakery
Motte
Leon L. Motte
South Fifth Street
Sterling Furniture Co
South Front Street
EH. H. Sneed
Dixie
Liberty
Wilmington
Globe Baking Company
Carolina
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McIntyre
Leonard's Chance
Fred Welsh
Ring
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Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Sds
Postal Telegraph
R. B. Moore
3Rd and
Castle Streets
J. D. Bender
Care Dispatch
Cook
North 2Nd Street
P. Wildeboer
East Wilmington
Charles Finkelstein
Sou
Front’ Street
South 5Th
B. Haar
Care Peoples’ Supply Co
North Fourth Street
Swift Fertilizer Works
Northeast River
Henry Hall
Castle Street
Columbia Grafonola
Mozart
Michael Angelo
Shakespeare
Fair Shoe Shop
Fourth Street
Rapid Shoe Repair Co
N. Front
Modern Shoe Repair Co
Gordon's Newes
Shands Grocery
Ivor Johnson
Queen City Cycle Co
Market Street
Harriss
Harriss Typewriting and Advertising Company
Little P. K
Royal Theatre
Building
National Press Bureau
Buffalo
N. Y
H. J. McCartney
Front St
Foltz & Kendrick
California
Bear Produce & Merchandise Co
L. Mazer
S. 5Th St
Philadelphia
W. B. Gooper & Co
Wilmington, N. C
W. B. Thorpe & CO
Ann Streets
United States War Bonds
the Peoples Savings Bank
Murghison National Bank
Lumina
Tide Water Power Co
NEW York Life
L. Dickinson
Princess Building
Ottumwa
Cape Fear
HOW. CO
Atlanta
Thomas Grocery Company
Ath
Campoel Streets
Norry
American Bank & Trust
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