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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1915
Page
2
Edward B. Clark recounts a motor journey through Sommeilles Hurion Glennes and surrounding depopulated French villages. He notes ruined churches graves silent streets scorched interiors and the eerie permanence of war’s scars while quoting locals and officers and observing incendiary destruction versus artillery.
A theory links seismic activity to wobbling of the earth’s axis, suggesting polar variations trigger quakes. Italy’s Abruzzi disaster, including Avezzano’s destruction, casualties near 40,000 and property losses exceeding 60 million, is cited as evidence of axis-driven crustal stresses and sudden upheaval.
Prof Albert B Faust of Cornell reports 32,243,382 Americans born abroad or with foreign born ancestors, 35 percent of the white population. Germans 8.28 million, Irish 4.50 million, English Scots and Welsh 3.23 million. Canada, Austria Hungary, Russia, Italy, and Scandinavia contribute major shares. Other nations total about 1.18 million.
A metal wedge door device is praised as a simple, effective tool to seal a door from the outside. The article notes it not only wedges the door but also mounts a small bell behind the wedge to ring when triggered. It highlights a mechanism of short points under the device to grip the carpet and hold the wedge in place.
A garbled OCR fragment shows jagged text about a vietin damping from 9 chaly and dashing up ap ley, with no clear event, dates, or identifiable entities to establish meaning or context. The readable bits offer no concrete people, places, or organizations to anchor a news item.
A NatGeo style survey outlines Istria’s coast and inland features from Trieste to Fiume, noting Istria’s 1910 trade through ports, shipyards, and fisheries, its population mix of Serbo Croats Italians Slovenes and Germans, and Pola as a major Austro Hungarian naval base with a guarded harbor and dockyards. It describes Fiume as Hungary’s water outlet with modern quays and breakwaters, and details Trent as a Tyrolean border county with scenic valleys and historic palaces.
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