The Marines Who Won The War For France
A wartime tribute to United States Marines who turned back the German advance at Chateau Thierry and Belleau Wood. It describes their esprit de corps, relentless training at Paris Island and Mare Island, and the creed that forges fearless, hard fighting men ready to fight anywhere.
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Camfons
Paris
Germany
United States
Berlin
United States Marine Corps
Chateau Thierry
Belleau Wood
Bouresches
Bois de la Brigade de Marines
Esprit de Corps
Paris Island
US. C
Mare Island
Cal
Continental Marines
Marine Corps
France
Tripoli
Egypt
West Africa
Fiji
Islands
Sumatra
Hawaii
Mexico
China
Uruguay
Paraguay
Alaska
Panama
Formosa
Korea
Nicaragua
Cuba
Santo Domingo
Haiti
General Pershing
Navy
U. S
Flo
Quantico
Pecan Shells as Stock Feed and Notable Facts
Pecan shells contain essential protein and fat usable for ground stock feed. Tee was first cut for storage in 1805. A lake near Cambridge is mentioned and Philadelphia claims the world’s largest organ with 282 speaking stops and 18 140 pipes. A French factory uses water turbines from Oo mountain 600 feet up. Substitutes for platinum include palladium at 25 percent and other metals.
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Cambridge
Philadelphia
Oo Mountain
A Life on the Ocean Wave rises as sailor favorite
Epes Sargent wrote the words for Henry Russell who then composed the music after reading the verse. The song started as a Battery stroll inspiration and quickly became a popular sailors’ anthem sung by bands and crews.
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Sailor Boys
Epes Sargent
Henry Russell
Sargent
Battery
New York
The
Mirror
George P. Morris
Morris
Russell
Hard to Sleep in Bud Sympathy in London Front Homebound
A front line veteran, on the way from London to Yorkshire, recalls how sleep eludes him after rough service. He says he slept on cobbles, mud, sheds, and ditches, and cannot settle in a bed at home, feeling smothered by the beds.
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London
England
Yorkshire
Surnames and Irish counties noted in terse brief
The text lists the five largest Irish counties by area Cork Galway Mayo Donegal and an unrelated fragment about ferry and orange shapes. It mentions surname traceability only back to the late tenth century and includes garbled phrases. The readable data points are county names and acreages for Cork Galway Mayo Donegal and an erroneous “ferry” entry.
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Ireland
Cork
Galway
Mayo
Donegal
Ferry
Albanian Struggle for Freedom Outlasts Two Millennia
The Shkypetar people, 70,000 in the United States, and Albania’s long fight for independence are highlighted. Once a Turkish province, Albania’s 2,000-year endurance against Slavs, Greeks, and Turks is described as a hardy, unbroken lineage facing modern war and division.
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Democracy
Greece
Albania
Avlona
Turkey
Montenegro
Serbia
Shkypetar
Shkypetars
Europe
Balkans
Bismarck
Wisdow
Pfadanee
Lord Byron
Illyria
Epirus
Macedonia
Thrace
Rome
Woman's nerves strengthened by Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Winona Minnesota wife Albert Sultze recounts relief from long nerve trouble after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims forty years of use helping conditions from displacements to backache and nervous prostration, presenting it as a standard remedy for women.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Albert Sultze
Olmstead St
Cause for Gratitude from a Self Made Millionaire
A Birmingham Age Herald piece frames a self made millionaire grateful to his native town. He credits its stern citizens for shaping him after age seventeen, noting their discipline pushed him to seek opportunity in the East where he amassed wealth and avoided grocery-store clerking.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Preview
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for nasal catarrh and frequent colds. It claims the medicine acts through the blood to affect mucous surfaces and promises testimonials and free case reports from Cheney & Co in Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
Anne
Allis CA
Medicing
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
The Very Ideal Friend in Windfall's Library
Windfall jokes about hiring bookkeepers while replying to a remark about spending time with books. The exchange features Windfall and Buffalo in a playful, literary scene.
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Windfall
Buffalo
Hixpress
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Mariners
Aviona
Absorbine, JR
W. F. Young
Temple St
SprIngfeld
Maas
Ee Ek Ae
Wetson B. Coleman
Washton, D.C
Atios
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