The Golden Brown Rose of Ona and Carlton Esmond
Tone Wonderly tends a golden brown rose as Carlton Esmond lies recovering after a polo accident. A nurse preserves the bud that inspires his recovery and memory of a girl named Ona. Months later, at a flower show, a rose matches his memory and he reunites with Ona who had prayed for his recovery.
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Tone
Ione
Carlton Esmond
Bellevue Hospital
Yale
Esmond
Jane
Esmord
Carlton
Ona
Carl
Edmonh
Iane
Haunted Islands of Chirikof and Its Ghostly Legends
Alaska natives and Indian navigators call Chirikof Island a land of ghosts. The fogbound, uninhabited isle near Kodiak supposedly once banished Russians chained for breaking czarist edicts. Locals say restless souls wander the shore, their chains clanking in endless lament.
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Chirikof Island
North Pacific
Kodiak
Alaska
Chirikof
Two Artillerymen Outsmart Pepper Regimental Commander
Synopsis recalls Arthur Guy Empey who after the Lusitania sinking travels from Jersey City to England to enlist in the British Army. He trains in London and France then enters front trenches, experiences gunfire, trench digging, observation posts, and the constant threat to life as comrades fall and a chaplain aids wounded men.
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Arthur Guy Empey
Jersey City
England
London
France
Empey
Chaplain
No Man's Land
The Tap Code and Old Pepper’s Guns in War Tale
In a wartime dugout, Wilson recounts a bold plan with Cassell to mislead German observers by transmitting target data to trigger artillery fire. The ruse succeeds, causing chaos for Old Pepper and Fritz as the battery guns unleash four direct hits. The captain later discovers no orders came from him, but the ruse works, and the crew avoids punishment while enjoying the fireworks.
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Fritz
Cassell
T . Cassell
Bowies
Old Pepper
Wilson
Pepper
England
Olar
Yank
Lanterns and Fireworks Light Chinese Nights
In China a long standing love of lanterns and fireworks fills cities ports and rivers at night. Lanterns appear at doors pendants pagoda corners and shop fronts while bright clusters illuminate homes of the rich and the poor and travel with travelers aboard ships and carriages.
First Springs Used on Railways Record
The first railway suspension records begin with George Stephenson's September 1816 patent. The Agenoria, built by Foster and Rastrick in 1820, was the first locomotive to use steel laminated springs on its leading wheels and now resides in the South Kensington museum in London.
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George Stephenson
Agenoria
Foster and Rastrick
South Kensington Museum
London
Hanging Pictures Properly to Hide Wires
Advice urges minimal wire visibility by avoiding exposed cords and ensuring pictures rest flat against the wall as true decorations. Emphasizes careful placement and secure hanging to maintain a clean, uncluttered wall appearance.
Work or fight order defines nonproductive occupations
Washington June 24 new regulations issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder define nonproductive work under the draft. They exempt department store executives and skilled workers, but classify shop clerks, travel and automobile salesmen, chauffeurs, and hotel or club attendants as nonproductive unless specific conditions apply. Local boards may postpone actions to place men in productive jobs and will withdraw deferments if found idle.
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Washington
General Crowder
Crowder
Federal Employment Service
Hhot
Austrian cabinet resigns amid bread riots and strikes
London June 24. Dr von Seydler the Austrian premier left Vienna to submit his cabinet's resignation to Emperor Charles after bitter conflict over the hunger offensive and food promises. New bread riots erupt in Favoriten and Brigittenau. More than 150000 munition workers strike in Vienna.
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London
von Seydler
Vienna
Charles
Echange
Zurich
Italy
Germany
Austria
Favoriten
Brigittenau
Authority to train foreign troops under army bill amendment
The Senate military committee added an amendment to a 12 billion dollar army appropriation bill authorizing the war department to train in the United States and provide equipment to troops of any allied nation engaged against Germany and Austria. The eight Central and South American nations now severed from Germany could supply about 2.75 million men.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
War Department
Senate Military Committee
Busch III Reclassified From 2A to 1A by Draft Board
St Louis June 24 Adolphus Busch III son of August A Busch millionaire brewer has been reclassified from class 2 A to class 1 A by his draft board. He has a wife and children.
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A. Busch III
St. Louis
Adolphus Busch III
August A. Busch
Curtiss Airplane Strike Ends in Buffalo
Buffalo June 24 strike at three Curtiss plants ends. Andrew T. McNamara of the International Machinists' union announced the cessation of the work stoppage.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation
Andrew T. McNamara
International Machinists’ Union
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New Rose
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Seydler
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