Whitlock's Deportation Report Recounts Belgian Suffering
The United States Foreign Service summary documents the deportations and forced labor of Belgians by German occupation from 1914 to 1916. It details refusals to work, mass transports, court-martial sentences, burdensome fines, and various German coercive measures aimed at stifling Belgian relief efforts.
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Itun
Committee On Public Information
Belgium
Vernon Kellogg
Atlantic Monthly
Whitlock
State Department
United States of America
Brussels
Secretary of State
Washington
Comite National
Owever
America
Ivka
von Bissing
Antwerp
Cardinal Mercier
Baron von Heiningen
General von Huene
Germany
Luttre
Nivelles
Mons
Charleroi
Malines
Menin
Harlebekeler-Courtrai
Bisseghem
Lokeren
Harlebeke
M. Lenoir
Belgian Red Cross
National Aid and Food Committee
Von Mackensen’s Origins Stir Controversy in Britain
Readable fragments claim the famed German general was born north of the Tweed and once a Scot named Mackenzie who joined the German army. The British tale says a Scotland lad left home seeking adventure and later became a general after adopting the name Von Mackensen as war broke out.
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Linjor
the Tweed
England
Iland
von ¢Kensen
Asia
Roumania
Serbia
Mackenzie
Scotland
von Mackensen
The Temple Life Seen Through Indian Gates
A travel writer describes the Madras temple complex with crowds swarming the painted columns and shrines. He contrasts Hindu grandeur with Greek myth, notes the temple’s sensory life from the elephants to oil stained idols, and observes caste rituals as widows feed Brahmans on the floor.
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Egypt
Parthenon
Ife
Ganesha
India
Apes That Resemble Men in Borneo Study by Shelford
A New York Evening Post summary notes Robert W. Shelford’s A Naturalist In Borneo. The work details orang utan or gibbon, macaque, and gibbon behavior in Sarawak under Rajah Brooke rule. Shelford describes gibbons’ dawn calls, macaques’ coconut-shucking training, and the apes’ tree top life, with notes on pet keeping.
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Sarawak
Borneo
Brooke
New York Evening Post
Robert W. ©. Shelford
Shelford
Rajah Brooke
Malas
Mr. Shelford
Matas
Gibbon
Gee
Haw
Ways with Chicken From Old Fowl Recipes
A collection of traditional chicken dishes including ragout and chicken pie, with instructions for using leftovers, making soups, corn bread, and desserts. The section emphasizes versatile uses of fowl, from stews to salads, and notes meal planning tips and leftover handling.
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Bishop Williams
Costly Joke at Hotel Over Water Supply
A new hotel manager attempted to outdo a rival by serving mountain stream water to twenty railroad men during their visit. When dinner arrived the water bottles contained minnows, revealing a practical joke that ruined his reputation.
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T. W. IK
Chicago Herald
Cuticura Heals Sore Hands Ad Offers Free Sample
A brief advertisement touts Cuticura products for healing sore hands. Soak hands in Cuticura Soap, dry, then rub Cuticura Ointment, removing excess with tissue. A free sample with book is offered by mail to requestor with a postcard to Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
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Dept. L
Boston
Met Him Face to Face About Votes for Women
A man who voted against women's suffrage defends his stance to a cowardly acquaintance. He boasts that his wife supports the cause and even served as a watcher at his polling place, reflecting on a world he says is deteriorating in New York Post.
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New York Post
Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Deafness Claims
Readers are told catarrhal deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and that only a constitutional remedy can cure it. The ad pledges a hundred dollar reward for any cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Medicine, and notes the product is sold by all druggists with free circulars.
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Hall's
Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Minds as vehicles in a wry exchange
A playful dialogue contrasts minds to vehicles with a wife noting minds run noisily when unloaded and the husband retorting that hers is a flower while his is a truck, highlighting self-deprecating humor.
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Doctor Dearmer
Manchester
Guardian
Vishnu
Shiva
Shiva Sundareswar
Gopur
King of
Siam
Cuticura
Fletcher
Tableta Bessata Oe
David Roberts
Meliee
Aia
David Robart
Waukesha
Manasote
Manatee County
Aeuns
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