Theater Gas Attack Scene From Merriman Narrative
The play ends in chaos as gas floods the stage box amid a mass breakout. Claud Tyars and Oswin Grace defend women, breaking a door and guiding Helen and Agnes through a dangerous escape while police and firemen intervene. Post event, Helen and Agnes cope with injuries, while Easton suspects Helen’s feelings for Tyars.
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Helen
Tyars
Claud Tyars
Earth
Grace
Easton
Tyar
Aegnes Winter
Wang
Phen
Matthew Mark Easton
Oswin Grace
Helen Grace
Agnes
Agnes Winter
Miss Winter
Oswin
Brook Street
Morality and politics in modern society and women
Juliet V. Strauss argues that moral criticism is essential as passivity allows immorality to grow. She laments fashioning of values by majority opinion and urges speaking out to counter immoral trends in entertainment, family life, and religion, noting women's political roles and home life balance.
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Seral
Women’s political awakening spreads in England
The piece notes many English women vote under husbands or fathers but a growing minority acts independently. It cites female political societies forming in major towns, sending representatives to a national council, and focusing on shop girl labor, wage equality, and child welfare. The movement frames itself as a peace-oriented, reform-driven force.
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England
Women’s National Council
Russian Revolution Might Reshape World Says Stead
W. T. Stead argues the Russian upheaval could reshape the century world like the French did before. He foresees Poland’s fate, a possible revival of Poland, and a Russia shedding militarism and tariffs to spur global recovery akin to U S progress after the Civil War.
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W. T. Stead
Poland
Germany
Russia
Austria
Community of Nations
United States
Live Up To Your Pose by William Wesley
A columnist argues people should live up to their idealized self image. He suggests framing a pleasant photograph to display at home as a daily reminder to act at their best and avoid social and personal frictions. The piece posits that self-conduct mirrors the photographed self and urges consistent improvement.
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William Wesley
Lusitania on the stocks and soon to cross Atlantic
The Lusitania, built on the Tyne, costs 6 1/2 million dollars and is expected to sail Liverpool to New York in about four and a half days. It will have 8 150 total capacity and four propellers driven by turbines, with 25 boilers and 192 furnaces. The article also notes a Franklin bicentennial medal presentation and quotes David Graham Phillips on social themes.
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Tyne
Liverpool
New York
Queenstown
Germany
British Mercantile Marine
Philadelphia
Republic of France
Command of
Congress
France
Benjamin Franklin
Augustus
Louis St. Gaudens
Franklin
Immigrant inflow and outflow study drawn by Herald
The New York Herald analyzes annual migration and money flows showing 1,062,054 immigrants arrived in the year ending June 30, bringing about 19.6 million dollars. Meanwhile rich Americans spent over 400 million abroad, creating a large balance against the United States.
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Europe
New York
False weights found in ruins of the oldest exhumed city
The fragment suggests that false weights were discovered within ruins described as the oldest city to be exhumed. It implies further consumption of such weights as earth sinks toward the sun and skies fold like a scroll, hinting at ancient records and statutes supporting recurring deceit across eras.
Attack Imminent Amid Reports of Delayed Reporters
An aide reports the enemy in great confusion and urges an assault as a great general notes reporters and moving picture men are delayed and will not arrive for two hours. The exchange captures wartime urgency and commotion.
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Moving Picture
Man who stayed too long inspires quip in convent clash
In a Catholic Standard and Times piece, Miss Patience Gonne is recalled by Al as a joke on conundrums. The line hints at a man who has stayed too long. A remark about nominees who think they would run like wolves ends with a convention loss claim.
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Miss Winter
Helen
Claude Tyars
Tyar
Oswin
Qswin
Brook Street
Tyars
Claud Tyars
Patience Gonne
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H. S. Merriman
Twara
Martial
Tyara
Barker
Miss Grace
Morgarten
Laupen
Tastings
Bouvines
Courtrai
John
Winterthur
Macmillan’s
Chicago
Jack Beacon
Boston
Dick Lakeside
Milman
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Juliet V. Strauss
Edith S. Crossman
Kaiser Wilhelm
Lusitania
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tran
David Graham Philips
Reader Magazine
ST. Paul's
Aserica
Denny
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