Camp Libraries to Supply Soldiers With Best Reading Matter
The American Library Association and the Library War Council organize a million dollar drive to build and stock 82 cantonment libraries. Each 40 by 120 foot facility will hold 8,000 to 10,000 books and employ trained librarians to provide comfortable reading rooms and circulating collections for soldiers.
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United States
American Library Association
Newton D. Baker
Library War Council
United
War Service Committee
Furhors
Commission On
War Department
L Brary War Council
W. J. Abbot
George Ade
Balzac
John Kendrick Bangs
James M. Barrie
Rex Beach
Hilaire Belloc
William Black
Booth Tarkington
Meredith Nicholson
Robert W. Chambers
Hall Caine
Winston Churchill
G. K. Chesterton
Wilkie Collins
Irvin Cobb
Marlon Crawford
Richard Harding Davis
Charles Dickens
W. M. Thackeray
Conan Doyle
Lord Dunsany
Jeffrey Farnel
Edna Ferber
Montague Glass
Conserving Wardrobe Textiles Through Practical Cleaning Tips
A piece urges frugal living amid material shortages and highlights tips from Beryl Dix on reusing clothing. It details wool wash with soap bark, drying and ironing methods, grease spot removal with naphtha and solvents, and careful use of dry cleaning solvents. It also notes chalks and powders to absorb grease and mentions poetic lines from Tennyson about animal sounds for color.
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Beryl Dixon
Colorado State Agricultural College
Sounds Animals Make Across The Animal World
A playful list of animal noises and the sounds attributed to many creatures. It references the idea that each species has its own distinctive sound and includes a nod to a line about Wicket Snikes as used by Tennyson.
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Tennyson
Some Observations on Human Foibles and Fortunes
A collection of aphorisms on wisdom vanity charity and friendship. The piece muses that experience rarely fools the wise while faultfinding often starts at home and vanity fuels beauty work. It notes friendships sour into enmity and that rich schemes clash with prescribed methods.
Longest Poem and Novel Cited in Curious Reading List
The text claims Spenser’s Faerie Queene as the longest poem, possibly longer than The Odyssey and The Aeneid combined, and notes a Japanese novel by Kin g Te Bukin begun in 1852 with 100 volumes, 106000 verses, 4 180 000 lines, and about 88 000 000 words, weighing roughly 10 pounds.
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Thomson
Cowper
Spenser
Otter Powin
Kiong Te Bukin
Chinese Docile Starvers Amid Famine
National Geographic Magazine notes the Chinese in famine as unusually resigned under calamity. It cites the food shortage of 1000 7 starving army of 300,000 pests camped beneath the region.
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Natianel Geographic Magazine
Eddie Cicotte Crowned Best Season Pitcher for White Sox
Eddie Cicotte, 33, born June 19, 1884 in Detroit, star pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, has delivered the season's standout performances. President Charles Comiskey credits Cicotte's mound craft as key to the team's success, despite rival clubs accusing him of unfair tactics, none proven, as he anchors Chicago's defense.
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Eddie Cicotte
Leago White Sox
Detroit
Charles Comiskey
Chicago
Cicotte
Yankee Captain Peckinpaugh Ejected for Kicking Down Glove
Roger Peckinpaugh the Yankees field captain was ejected by umpire McCormick after kicking his glove in Detroit. It marks the first ejection since his joining the American League. Peckinpaugh is praised as one of the great shortstops and had not previously been removed this season. Walter Pipp remains the only Yankee to have played every inning.
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Tsinkiangpu
Roger Peckinpaugh
Detroit
McCormick
Yankees
Peck
Walter Pipp
Baseball’s future hinges on playground development and discipline
A major league manager argues that future baseball benefits greatly when playground systems rise to a high development level. He says youths learn the national game under competent instructors and proper discipline, and that this model will raise all sports including tennis and track for the next generation.
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America
New Inventions and Discoveries Highlight Early 20th Century Ideas
The article surveys varied innovations from education to machinery and resources. It notes Peru’s curriculum expansion, a versatile desk or wall mounted electric fan, noiseless concrete floors with tar paper, and coconut oil based artificial butter in Europe. It also mentions wind shields for dual seats, a French approach to fog prevention on rivers, tool free shade roller placement, and Spain’s platinum finds surpassing the Urals.
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Peru
Spain
Ural Mountains
The New Order clarification at the stallion meeting
A fragmented exchange shows a belligerent woman asking why the man was absent at the stallion car gathering and a meek reply urging restraint and steadiness in their habit. The text presents a tense domestic tone with unclear context and unnamed parties.
Ten Million Joins Army Training Camp
Ten Million, a small outfielder from the Northwestern league who had a brief trial with St. Louis in the Nationals, quits his Seattle sporting goods business to enter an army officers training camp. He believes his leadership can shape a group of rookie soldiers in khaki.
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Ten Million
Army
St. Louis
Seattle
Wallapt
Phil Ball Unruffled by 650000 Contingencies In Federal Actions
Phil Ball owner of the Prownles shows little worry over 650000 in play tied to two players. The Baltimore Federal league action for 900000 and allied suits in the Maroans and Rickey cases involve federal league disputes with organized bell.
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Phil Det
Ball
Prownles
Tie
Baltimore Federal League
Auite
Maroans
Rickey
Federal League
Bell
Mack Praises Cardinals Young Players in Baseball
Mack lauded two Cardinals, Cruise and Hornsby, as meat-looking young players. He predicted Hornsby would rise to the same high level of excellence as Jack Barry.
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Mack
Cardinals
Cruise
Hornsby
Jack Barry
Dick Hoblitzell records as most managed player in baseball
Dick Hoblitzell, the Red Sox first baseman and veteran catcher, has the record as the most managed player in baseball. The longtime infielder has played ten major league seasons under seven managers, starting with John Ganzel in 1908 and including Clark Griffith Hank O Day Tinker Hersog and Carrigan before joining Jack Burrells setup this spring.
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Hoblitzell
Firet Sack
Red Sox
Dick Hoblitzell
Hobby
Cincinnati
John Ganzel
Clark Griffith
Hank O'Day
Griff
Tinker
O'Day
Charkey Hersog
Carrigan
Jack Burry
Legalizing Boxing Bills Headed to New York Legislature
Two bills to legalize boxing will be introduced in Albany when the New York Legislature convenes in January 2018. The move aims to regulate the sport within state law and set formal standards.
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Albany
N. Y
Apple Blossoms In The Attic And A Forgotten Love
Mrs Irons steels herself for spring cleaning in the attic with keepsakes from youth. She recalls Flora Fleming and Fred Mapleton, then confronts a visitor: her former sweetheart Fred Mapleton now comes as an agent. Her husband calls, inviting a dinner out, revealing renewed hope.
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Flora Fleming
Fred Mapleton
Fred
Emery Iron
Normandy
Emery
Polonius
Mrs. Irons
Mra. Irons
Mr. Irons
Flo
Mayfair Ton
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Eila Wheeler Wilcox
New Order
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