davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-15
Pajamas

5 styles of Billie Burke
One-Piece Pajamas, made
of white or pink battste.
Attractive styles - some
quite manniSh, others
with dainty touches of
ribbon and
: IT,: VA" W.T. ~: $l.o8
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-15

Fiber silk socks. in black, white, pink,
sky tan and Belgian blue. Fancy socks in
neat stripes and dainty tops.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-15
Nigh t cow ms of

pink batiste, sleeve
less models, with
deep yoke Of wash
satin, trimmed in
dainty o. no
ribbons. - 10
Special
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
$40 PER CAPITA WANTED
FOR THRIFT STAMPS

st. Louis.-Festus ]. Wade, d.
rector Of the War Savings Commit
tee for Missouri. has announced the
quota Of each county and the large cit
les in the state in the sale Of War
Savings Certificates The quota for
the state IS $71,0O0,OV0; for st. Louis,
S16, 100000; Kansas City and Jackson
County, $1,000, 900. The largest amount
any one individual can hold is $1,000.
Every person should buy as many
War Savings Stamps as his or her
earnings will permit. Everyone should
at least own $40 of these securities.
Director Wade has appointed a
county chairman and two. vice-chail
men in each county, who in turn will
organize their county and appoint
township ohairmen, community chair
men and school district chairmen.
Letters have been sent to all local
chairmen, asking them to push the
campaign for subscriptions during the
! month of January.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
ALL He WAS AFRAID OF.

David McNutt is as Scotch as his
name and he lives at 803s Roanoke
street. He appeared at the Fifteenth
district, passed the physical test fly
ing and then walked into the pres
ence of the chairman.
He hesitated for a time, until
finally the draft official said:
"Well, what do you wantr'
'I'm an alien," said Davie.
'Don't you want to fight for Uncle
Sam ?" asked the official.
"Sure, 1 dop he shouted back. 81
didn't think / was going to get a
chance. Philadelphia Ledger.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
BIC CORN CROP
is NOW MOVING
More Than 5000 Million Bushels
Raised in 1917-Gives
Big Surplus.
SAVES WORLD FOOD SITUATION
America Beginning Greatest Corn Con-
sumption In History, Using Cereal
IN Many Delicious Dishes.

Corn, Americas greatest cereal crop,
L. now moving rapidly to market.
More than 5000 million bushels
80 bushels for every man, woman and
child In Amerlca-wers raised In 1917.
It was a mighty crop. The actual in
crease Is about 500 million bushels
And this extra store Of grain In COM
ing on to the market In the nick Of
/, time, since the American wheat sur
| plus has been sent to help feed famine
threatened Europe.
Just as 1t happened In the Colonial
days, the War Of the Revolution. and
the Civil War, corn has actually be.
come the nations mainstay.
In the entire list Of Americas food
commodities there Is no item that 10
better than corn. In buildings, bread,
corn pone, and as hominy combined
with meat or eggs, corn Is without q
peer. Housewives are fast learning
the large number Of delicious dishes
that may be made with corn and their
families are benefiting by an increas-
ed use Of the cereal. Corn, more than
any other cereal, contains all Of the
elements essential to maintaining life
and health.
In order that the fighting men
abroad and In the army camps at home
, may be fed, and in order that actual
famine may be kept from the nations
associated with America in the war,
the citizens of America are finding
! corn products delicious and palatable
on "wheatless days. and glory In the
fact that "wheatless days" here mean
more wheat for the war worn allied
nations in Europe.
England, France and Italy must DO
fed from Americas great storehOuse.
They will get some cOrn-especially
Italy-but most Of their grain ship
ments must be wheat. Their ability
to use corn is small compared to the
facilities they have for using wheat.
And it is the opinion OF officials in
Washington that the present Is no time
| to try and change the eaAdg habits Of
Europe.
Americas greatest use of corn will
| be in the form of corn bread and corn
meal, mixed with wheat in the making
of leavened bread.
Mixed with 80 per cent. wheat -four,
corn meal can be used in bread max
ing, producing a loaf more nutritious
| than bread baked with wheat alone.
1t Is a fact corn millers will verify
that dozens of the large American bak-
ers have been successfully using corn
flour In bread making for several
years.
Hominy grits, served at breakfast
with a poached egg, or eaten at any
other meal with meats or gravy, 10 an.
other use of corn that will become un'
usually popular during the war.
Corn syrup to sweeten corn cakes
and corn oil for use In all kinds OF
cooking, are two more products that
are already welcomed in thousands Of
American homes.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
Bailey TTurner
ATTcRMEY-AT-LAW
Will Practice in all Courts.
Monroe City, Missouri
For the War.

What are you doing?
Is our country better off because
you belong to it now?
Do you observe meatless day?
Do YOU observe wheatless day?
Have you bought any Thrift
Stamps?
There is not a child in this coun-
try who is able to walk who cannot
help his country little in this its
greatest crisis. If you did not buy
Liberty Bonds, you should buy
Thrift Stamps. No one in Monroe
but what can save quarter to buy
a stamp. And do not think one
stamp is not acceptable.
Buying Thrift Stamps is not do.
mating money, it is keeping it your
self and getting paid keeping it.
Do not think Thrift Stamps are
for children only! The Govern
ment has asked for two billion dol
lars in Thrift Stampsl This would
be a mountain for the little tots
There is nothing juvenile or imma
ture about the program. The big
gest banker in New York City ha
resigned to work for a dollar yea
to direct the sale of Thrift Stamps
1t is not beneath your dignity t
help.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
Are You
Going
South?

To the Land of Winter Sun
shine, where cold is forgotten
and summer pleasures mock the
calendar? GolfiDg, bathing. mo-
toring-all the exercises and rec
reation you crave, all the rest
you seek. The next best thing
to getting there is the pleasure
OF going there-if you take a
Burlineton-planned trip. Wheth-
er Florida every winter is year.
ly custom, or you're experiencing
it as new joy-Burlington Serv!
ice will add to the pleasure OF
the trip.
To keep well is your first and
! most important duty, The best
way to do this is to get away
from zero temperature, billiards
and slush.
Let's talk over your Winter
health, rest and pleasure plans.
Low round trip Winter Excursion
Tickets now on sale to Florida.
West Indies, Gulf Coasts points,
Central and South America, and
Texas.
Let me help you plan a perfect
Winter tour.
s. B. THIEHoFF,
Tiki Agent the Pleasant Way to Travel
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
Gets More For Wheat.

The farmer is receiving more for
his wheat today and the consumer
is paying less for bread than in
1915. This is shown by the follow
ing statistics given out recently by
F. B. Mumford, federal food admin
istrator for Missouri.
The farmer today is receiving
1903 per cent more for wheat than
he did on an average in 1916" said
Dean Mumford. And the consum-
er is paying thirty per cent less for
bread. To put it another way. out
of one dollar the consumer pays
for bread, the farmer gets forty-two
cents. Before the Food Admins
tration stabilized the price of wheat
and bread he received only twenty
two cents. This is a gain for the
farmer of twenty cents on every
dollar spent by the consumer for
bread, due to the work of the
Food Administration.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

Arrangements have been made
for some relaxation of the restric-
tions on the export of foodstuffs to
Cuba. whose people are greatly de-
dependent upon the United States
for their food supply. Among the
exports which may be licensed in
limited quantities are condensed
milk, butter and cheese. pork and
pork products, beef and beef prod
ucts, and dried fruits.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

When men called under the Sc
lective-service law reach the can
tonments they are given, so far as
practicable, their choices of army
service. Infantry is most often pre-
ferred, artillery second, engineer
divisions are third in popularity and
uuartermasters work fourth.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

With the new issue of SIS baby
bonds everybody can start in to
saving for Uncle Sam without hav-
ing to worry over his bank account.
These bear an interest rate of 442
per cent and give a chance to the
humblest of us to invest in some
really profitable patriotism.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

The kaiser is reported to be rum
ming short of man power This
country should him 1T to the
extent of about half million of
his subjects for whom we have abb
solutely no need.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

Investigations so far made by the
committee on classifications of per-
sonnet in the army, which has the
matter in charge. prove that only 2
per cent of the men attempt to Sc
cure nonhazardous positions.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25

Mr.. Umbrella-Say, that's all a
fake that everyone will swipe UNI
brella. I've been hangin' around for
o month waitin' fer some one to kid
nap me.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
TIRED, NERVOUS
HOUSEWIFE
TOOK VINOL
Now She is Strong and Well

Berkeley, CALI was nervous.
irritable, no appetite, could not sleep,
and was always tired, so my house,
work was a great effort. After many
other medicines had failed Vinol
built me up and made me strong. Z
have good appetite and sleep welk
Every nervous, weak, ailing womam
should try it."-Mrs. N. EdmundS.
aIoz Dwight Way, Berkeley, Cal.
We ask every nervous, weak, run
down, ailing woman in this town to
try this cod liver and iron tonic On
our guarantee to return their money
II It fails to help them.
L. M. WOOD
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
APPROPRIATE DECORATION.

ct see Miss Kitty is wearing the
willow"
'Then I'll bet it is pussy willow
she's such a cat"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
IMMORTAL DISTINCTION.

stella-How many times were you
Engaged this summer1'
Bella-They weren't engagements
Just Celebrations.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
LESSER EVIL.

"Did Bill claim exemption beA
cause he was married."
"No; that was the reason he en-
listed"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1918-01-25
NATURAL PROCEEDING.

"The baby offered stout resist
Gnce to his BATH"
'cBut just look what fat baby it
ao
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES
ELECTS new MANAGERS

Rear Admiral Willard II. Brownson
and Judge J. Wilmer Latimer. presl-
dent of the Juvenile Protective Asso-
citation, today assumed duties as mem
bers of the board OF managers OF the
Associated Charities. They were elect
ed at meeting yesterday.
The board adopted a report from Its
executive committee recommending
that the Board OF Children's Guard
ians be made the public agency for
the administration OF the proposed
mothers pensions, a bill for which Is
now before the committee on the Dis
trict OF Columbia. The recommends
tion points out that the Board of
ChiIdren's Guardians is the public
child welfare agency OF the District
now charged with the support OF de-
pendent and neglected children com
mitted to its care by the Juvenile
Court. The necessity, therefore, for
the creation OF a new public commits
sion is not apparent.
Reports from the District workers
OF the society for the month OF Jan.
uary showed SAT families befriended
during that period. 305 of these re-
quired financial assistance, which was
given to the amount of S2.i91.14; 100
volunteers gave personal service dur
ing the month; S42l.65 was deposited
in small savings.
The Washington times., 1918-02-14

to goods In stores in Georgetown and
Washington, which were flooded be-
fore they could be moved. damage to
the streets where the running water
tore up the paving and damage in the
hotels and to places OF business in
Easements, totally submerged.
A flood caused by breaking ice in
the river occurred early in February,
1881. when the water reached a level
of 81 feet above the high water mark.
Damage to shipping along the water
front was greater than in 1889 be-
cause OF scores OF small craft being
crushed by the ice. but the damage
in the city proper was light.
First Flood In 1877.
Washington's first recorded flood
was in November &c, 1877. II was
disastrous in the Cumberland valley,
but by the time 1t reached Washing
ton conditions were such that it
drained off rapidly, and only reached
height OF two and one-half feet
above the mean high water mark.
At o'clock on the afternoon OF No
vember % five spans OF the Cumber-
land valley bridge passed down the
river and carried scores of small
craft away. In the wake OF this
came the wreckage of farm houses,
small bridges, barrels OF flour, oil,
farm products OF every kind. At Lit
tie Falls the river and canal were
all one, and as far as the eye could
see 1t was a raging torrent of water.
Rowboats were used in Georgetown
streets, but the water never got very
high in Washington streets.
Seven schOoners anchored in the
channel off Georgetown were swept
away and wrecked. No trains were
permitted to cross river bridges from
or to the city and even the larger
ships did not venture to navigate the
river.
Four persons lost their lives by
drowning in the valley above Wash
inGton.
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
OFFICER RESCUES
THREE FROM ICE
INMAD POTOMAC

To the baseball training received at
F, VilIanova College by Lieut. Thomas
! Gerald o'MalIey, now stationed with
the Fiftleth United States infantry at
Potomac Park, Capt. Ernest Davis of
the tuEboat Selectman and two
members OF his crew today owe their
lives. William r. Mills, 1898 Union
I street southwest, and John Mills. 1924
| Thirty-siXth street northwest were
the two men rescued with Captain
Davis. Davis lives at 1913 N street
northwest.
$50 Feet Over Ice.
Lieutenant O'Malley early this morn
ing crawled out $50 feet over the ice
and seething water on an extension
fire ladder which members of No.
truck company had rg.ced there,
hooked" his foot in the last rung
of the ladder as he had been taught to
''hook bases" at college, and with one
hand on a block OF ice caught the
stern of an open boat in which the
men were drifting and pulled them
to safety.
The men had been marooned on the
Selectman since yesterday afternoon,
and when the ice floes carried II to
the highway bridge it was wrecked
against that structure. When the tug
started to turn over on its side the
men took to an open boat.
81 heard the crash while / was in
bed" said Lieutenant O'Malley to a
Times reporter today, land knew
something had happened. 1 dressed,
and with a number of other soldiers
ran to the river bank. The men were
too far from shore to be rescued
then, so we followed the boat as It
drifted downstream. knew some one
would have to go out to them and
take rope eventually because II they
ever got past the inlet Of the Anacos-
tia river they would have been drift
ing yet
o'Nalley was reluctant to tell
about his part in the affair other
than to say that IL they had been
another foot farther out in the
stream he couldn't have gotten them.
81 thought the affair had been for
gotten by this time" he said.
Details of Rescue.
From others at the camp the de-
tails OF the rescue were obtained.
o'Mslley is a modest young officer
a red-haired Irishman with a ight-
ing jaw.
He is a native OF Avoca, Luzerne
county. Pa, twenty-five years old.
and graduated from Villanova last
June. He was commissioned a sec
ond Lieutenant in the army and sent
to the service school at Fort Leaven-
worth. In August. 1917, he was as
signed to the Fiftieth infantry at
Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. c.. which
on December 81 was transferred to
Potomac Park.
oMalley was considered one OF the
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
TWO NEAR DEATH
IN ICY WATERS
AS SGORGE BREAKS

Two men narrowly escaped death
from crushing ice when big gorge
broke above the Aqueduct bridge
shortly before 1 o'clock today. I
Daniel Reynolds, working in a boat
house to save canoes from wreck,
heard the grinding ice rushing down
stream, and realizing that his only
safety lay in getting out of the house
in a second, jumped onto a large foe
that was rushing past.
Thomas Latimer, a member of the
engineering force of Capt. J. T.sThoI.
man. who was working near by,
reached out to help him, lost his bal
Ance. and fell into the water. Reyn-
olds pulled him on the ice, and they
were swept down stream 200 feet.
Realizing that they would be caught
and crushed, they both went over
board and swan a short distance
until a line was thrown to them.
They were carried to the office of
Captain Tholman and Supplied with
dry clothes. They were not injured
except for their plunge in the icy
waters.
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
SNONDEN GIVEN
DEATH PENALTY
IN INBRANDONCASE

BALTIMORE, Nov. 14-John Snow
den has been sentenced to be hanged
for the alleged murder OF Mrs. Lot
tie. May Brandon. OF Warrington, Au-
gust 8.
Before passing sentence Judge Dun
can at Towson asked snowden II he
had anything to say.
, He answered '@Tes, sir. I am not
guilty" snowden was taken from the
TOwson Jail to the Annapolis Jail.
Attorney c. Gus 0rason, Of Tow
son. who. with Attorneys A Thso-
dore Brady. OF Annapolis. and Charles
s. Williams, colored. Of Washington,
defended snowden, announced that an
appeal would be taken to the court
Of appeals for new trial. He also
said that 81 a new trial was granted
= request would be made for removal.
In reviewing the trial, Judge Dun
can said there was bad management
on the part Of some persons out OF
the State in working on the case,
but when real detectives got on the
job the truth came out. He said
the verdict Of murder in the frst de-
gree was reached by twelve men who
were conscientious in the discharge
OF their duty and knowing them as ne
did he felt that II there had been
any question Of q doubt they would
not have given such q verdict
In conclusion, Judge Duncan said
there was but one verdict according
to the testimony. The verdict follow
ed arguments for q new trial on the
part OF counsel for Snowden and an
swers by States Attorney Green, Of
Anne Arundel county. and States At
torney Hartman, of Baltimore county.
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
MAJOR PERKINS HEADS
RED CROSS NFRANCE

| PARIS. Feb. 14-SIa5or James H
Perkins has formally assumed control
OF the American Red Cross work in
Paris, relieving Major GraysOn II. p.
Murphy, American Red Cross commis-
sioner to Europe since last May, who
has reported to- General Pershing for
duty with the American expeditionsry
forces.
The record made by the Red Cross
under Major Murphy has been a nota-
BILE feature OF American participstion
in the war to date. He arrived in
France on June 13. 1917, with star
OF seventeen persons Today the total
personnel In France IL 2.357. OF whleh
.325 are paid workers and 1880 vol
unteers. The. plans. either accom-
pltshed under Major Murphy or ar
ranged by the Red Cross. for the work
in France and Belgium to Nay l., 1913.
call for the expenditure Of 1S6OO0.o 600
francs =
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
PEN7NSYL VANIA
AVENUE DEEPLY
FLOODED IN 1889

Washington has been visited by
three floods in which some portion OF
the city's streets were covered with
water and hundreds of thousands OF
dollars in damage caused shipping
along the water front and to property.
The worst flood in history was on
Sunday, June ., 1859. when the water
reached a level OF four and one-half
feet above the mean high water mark
and the city streets were practically
submerged. While the city was be-
ing canvassed TO send first aid to the
Johnstown flood sufferers the water
in the Potomac began to rise rapidly
on Saturday night and reached its
crest at about noon Sunday.
BoathOuse Wrecked.
The first damage recorded was
when the AnalOstan boathouse was
parted from it's moorings and thrown
against the Long bridge and wrecked.
The river was a raging torrent of
muddy water, literally boiling with
upper country, houses. timbers, and
small craft II struck the city al
most by surprise, caught several
schooners anchored in midstream
and threw them against bridges
to be torn to pieces. II cast
one large schooner out OF the channel
and dragged 1t through shOal water,
finally stranding it near the Monu.
ment.
Pennsylvania avenue was flooded
from Second to Seventh street, and
all OF the streets running south from
the Avenue, between the Botanic Gar
den and the Treasury, were literally
canals. People navigated the streets
in improvised gondolas. or on RATS.
Church bells tolled for the morning
leave the streets, or the vantage
points near the river front for wor-
ship, and where services were held
only a few OF the faithful attended.
Hotels Flooded.
The St. James and the American
House were flooded on the first floor,
but, nothing daunted, provided small
boats to get their guests into the
lobby and to q landing on the stair
way where IL was dry. New arrivals
were rowed to the desk, where they
registered, rowed to the stairway, and
then ushered to their rooms. De-
parting guests were rowed from the
hotel to dry land some Dlocks away
or transferred 10 vehicles awaiting
outside.
Practically everything afloat in the
river was washed away and wharves
were wrecked. In only a few In
stances was any craft salvaged after
IL was caught in the raging torrent.
The river front in Georgetown was
swept clean to the banks. Thousands
Of tons of coal at the wharves. lum-
Der and general freight merchandise
was swept away. One wharf on which
was 5000 tons OF coal for winship and
Meredith, was swept away and not as
much as one ton OF coal was salyaged
after the waters receded.
Long Bridge Strained.
The Long Bridge was strained to
the breaking point and probably
would have been swept away had 1t
not been for the foresight OF railroad
officials in weighing il down with a
solid train OF heavily-loaded coal cars.
No official estimate was available
of the damage to the city. but unOf-
ficiaI estimates placed it at around
5000, 900, exclusive of the damage to
the water front. This was damage
The Washington times., 1918-02-14
If You Want to See the
Ice FlOes in the Gorge,
Go to the Virginia Side

Hundreds OF automobilists who
went TO Great Falls via the Con-
duit road to see the fee come
over the gorge were "stung."
The little ~cable-suspended
bridge extending from the Mary
land shore to the island at the
Falls. has been badly damaged by
the foes, making passage to the
island impossible. River men
refused to attempt TO cross the
torrent in boats.
Visitors gathered all day yes
terday near the club house at the
end OF Conduit road and gRzed at
the great foes rushing down the
river. They could hear the roar
OF the ice crashing down the
gorge.
II you want to see the Falls.
go to the Virginia side.