Trone News Notes Highlights Local Visits and Harvest
Mr W J Muse and family visited High View West Virginia on Sunday. May include Mrs Kate Marple at E L Lafollette home and Mrs George Hicks visiting. Farmers finish wheat harvest and begin hay making with locals spending time in Winchester shopping.
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High View
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Ollie Marple
Dorothy Marple
Monessen
C. H. Anderson
Washington
Robert Johnson
George Hicks
Kate Marple
E. L. LaFollette
Germans Renew Offensive Near Chateau Thierry
German assault across a fifty mile front from Chateau Thierry to Dormans drives heavy fighting. Americans and French hold the line. Vaux area bombarded. Allied forces shell towns east of Rheims as Conti continues. Pershing reports increased artillery activity and moving groups in German rear areas.
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Foch
First Army
Hunter ‘Liggett
Pershing
Washington
Thann
Amerivam
Eesse
Anderson and others facing charges over pop liquor sale
A police report describes officers rounding up Anderson Willis and Sirbaugh after a man sold pop labeled as liquor. Sirbaugh admitted selling to Anderson and was allowed to leave town after refunding 3.25. Willis was discharged but Anderson was rearrested for drunkenness. his employer later stood surety and he was released.
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Wasp Uses Stone Hammer to Break Nest Entry
The article explains a Sphex wasp that drills a ground tunnel and, after laying eggs, uses a small pebble as a hammer to pack earth into the tunnel mouth. It notes other animals with tool use but reports this as a unique case of a mother wasp employing a tool to accomplish a task.
They Never Knew Luxuries The Silk Empress And Other Ironies
A Philadelphia Evening Telegraph passage considers famous figures and their era’s limits, noting how leaders artists and scientists achieved greatness without modern luxuries. It extols the Empress of China who began the silk industry and reflects on how invention and culture outpace personal comforts.
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Grant
White House
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St. Peter's Cathedral
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Cleopatra
Helen of Troy
George Eliot
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Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
World's Tallest Chimney Reaches New Japanese Height
A reinforced concrete chimney completed at Saganoseki Japan is claimed as the world’s tallest. It rises 5670 feet on a hill 430 feet above the copper smelter, discharging fumes 1000 feet above the plant. The base diameter is 42 feet, top inside diameter 26% feet, and the foundation 95 feet in diameter containing 2700 cubic yards of concrete. Four hundred tons of steel were used in construction.
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Saganoseki
Japan
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Alfred Francis and Minnie Sota in Love Mill Chorus Tale
Alfred Francis, composer, questioned chorus applicants when one girl announced her name Minnie Sota claiming to be from his native state. She revealed her real name as Skoopeyand and he quipped that her apology was ample. Walnut prized for gun stocks dates from early plantations noted for light strong wood.
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Minnie Sota
Skoopey
Mr. Francis
New York
Patriotism and Duty in War Chest Contributions
A critique contrasts a modest donor giving one hour weekly to support the War Chest with a wealthy person giving less than fifty cents weekly. It urges backing the Army in France where over a billion men fight against the German onslaught to defend American homes and the world. It emphasizes sacrifice by soldiers and stresses that citizens must do their solemn duty.
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France
United States of America
Germany
America
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