The Dick Institute was used as an Auxiliary Hospital in 1917 during World War One.

Their second child, a daughter, Poleen Wheatland (" Polly "), was born on August 12, 1917 but Dick was already in Officers Training Camp at Plattsburgh, New York, where he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Artillery.

*" Tom, Dick and Harry and Jack " ( 1917 )

During the marriage she and Dick had two sons: William Force Dick ( 1917 – 1961 ) and John Henry Dick ( 1919 – 1995 ).

* Dick Knowles ( 1917 – 2008 ), British politician

Richard Crawshaw, Baron Crawshaw of Aintree OBE, known as Dick Crawshaw ( September 25, 1917 – July 16, 1986 ) was elected as a British Labour Party Member of Parliament in 1964 but joined the SDP in 1981.

* Dick Evans ( American football ) ( born 1917 ), American football player

* Kerr Stuart Tattoo class 0-4-2ST Stanhope ( works number 2395 of 1917 ), currently used to haul passenger trains on the AVLR.

* 1910 – 1917: Philip Kerr, later British Ambassador to the United States

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, Kerr was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the army.

During World War I, the US government denied mailing privileges to all Kerr publications, alleging them to be seditious violations of the Espionage Act of 1917.

In 1917, Gilbert Vernam ( of AT & T ) invented and later patented in 1919 () a cipher based on teleprinter technology.

Frances Gardiner Davenport, Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1917. http :// www. questia. com / PM. qst? a = o & d = 23628818

Famous police and military revolvers include the Webley, the Colt Single Action Army, the Smith & Wesson Model 29, the Smith & Wesson Model 10, the Smith & Wesson 1917 and the Nagant M1895.

* November 17 – Milton Wright, American bishop United Bretheren Church, father of aviation pioneers Wilbur & Orville Wright ( d. 1917 )

By January 1901 Pupin had been paid $ 200, 000 and by 1917, when the AT & T monopoly ended and payments ceased, he had received a total of $ 455, 000.

* Second Lieutenant Robert Riddel, Military Cross, 10th Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Passchendaele, 12 October 1917

His 1917 show, Theodore & Co was a wartime hit.

File: Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad open observation car 1917. JPG | Unlike other lines with open observation cars for non first class passengers, the D & RGW operated theirs for an additional 25 cent charge.

* Arthur Lasenby Liberty ( 1843 – 1917 ), founder of Liberty & Co.

* 1917: The Bureau of Construction & Repair introduces the MK V helmet and dress, which then becomes the standard for US Navy diving until the introduction of the MK 12 in the late seventies

** George Huntington Hartford ( 1833 – 1917 ), American businessman, of A & P supermarkets

D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1917.

Stechert & Co., 1917 – 19 ).

For its October 1917 hardcover publication by A. C. McClurg & Company, the novel was retitled A Princess of Mars.

From 1903 until 1917, the Cincinnati, Bluffton and Chicago Railroad, sometimes referred to as the CB & C, ran through Pennville.

Image: Old Cabin Home & Fairview Cottage. jpg | Summer cottages on Spofford Lake in 1917

In 1917, to finally rectify the confusion, the town changed its name to Willard, after the then president of the B & O, Daniel Willard.

* 1912-1924 Baltimore & Ohio purchased the rail line servicing Gilboa in 1912 and shut it down sometime between 1917 & 1924 ( Railroad records say by 1919 but a 1922 map shows the railroad while a 1924 ODOT map does not ).

* 1917 — Rented a room in the Lamb House at the corner of Susquehanna & Pine Streets, started with 40 books

Mayo continued as president of the college, now known as Texas A & M University – Commerce, until his death in 1917 and is buried on the campus grounds.

Passenger service was finally operated on the branch line following a decision of the United States Supreme Court in Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company v. Public Service Commission of State of West Virginia, 242 U. S. 603 ( 1917 ), and continued until sometime in the 1930s.

* John Mitchel, P. S. O ' Hegarty, Maunsel & Company, Ltd 1917.

New York: Macmillan and Co, 1917. original publication 1894

* Masses Publishing Co. v. Patten ( 1917 )

When the Blaw Steel Co. acquired the Knox Welded and Pressed Steel Co. in 1917, the company became known as the Blaw-Knox Steel Construction Co., and the size of Hoboken was expanded to the whole area spanned by the Blaw-Knox mill.

The York Motor Car Co. built Pullman automobiles on North George St. from 1905 thorough 1917.

*, was purchased by the US Navy as SS Massachusetts from the Eastern Steamship Co. in 1917 ; commissioned 7 December 1917 and renamed Shawmut 7 January 1918

Sir Arthur Lasenby Liberty ( 13 August 1843 – 11 May 1917 ) was a London merchant, and the founder of Liberty & Co.

Mitsubishi's automotive origins date back as far as 1917, when the Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. introduced the Model A, Japan's first series-production automobile.

Before 1920 Johnson had gained a reputation as a pianist on the East coast on a par with Eubie Blake and Luckey Roberts and made dozens of superb player piano roll recordings for Aeolian, Perfection ( the label of the Standard Music Roll Co., Orange, NJ ), Artempo ( label of Bennett & White, Inc., Newark, NJ ), Rythmodik, and QRS during the period from 1917 – 1927.

The dictionary was transferred from its original publishers, Smith, Elder & Co., to Oxford University Press in 1917.

London: J J Keliher & Co, 1917.

The issue of due process was resolved by the United States Supreme Court in 1917 when in New York Central Railway Co. v. White it was held that an employer ’ s constitutional rights weren't affected.

When America entered the First World War in April 1917, Boeing changed the name of Pacific Aero Products Co. to Boeing Airplane Company and obtained orders from the United States Navy for 50 planes.

She was employed at the War Office from 1915 to 1917, later working as a painter at a furniture company in Suffolk, Walberswick Peasant Pottery Co., where she remained until 1930.

* Gustav Jacob ( b. 22 February 1854 ; d. 11 June 1933 ), businessman, conferred 3 December 1917: Jacob owned the firm Steingaesser & Co. On the occasion of the business ’ s 100th anniversary, he was made an honorary citizen.

His widow died of heart failure while swimming in Skerries, Co Dublin on July 9, 1917 ; his son Donagh MacDonagh became a prominent poet, playwright, songwriter and judge.

More Stalky & Co tales appeared in magazines and later in collections: " Regulus " in A Diversity of Creatures ( 1917 ); " Stalky " in Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides ( 1923 ); " The United Idolators " and " The Propagation of Knowledge " in Debits and Credits ( 1926 ); and " The Satisfaction of a Gentleman " ( with the others ) in The Complete Stalky & Co ( 1929 ).

Other hit shows of the period were Theodore & Co ( 1916 ), The Boy ( 1917 ), and Yes, Uncle!