Curious trench journals and their odd titles in WWI
The article lists and explains quirky front line publications such as the Pow-Wow and Lead-Swinger. It notes Pip-Squeaks referring to a German shell, Hangar Herald for airmen, Gaspar for soldiers at the base, and Dickey Scrapings for the Artists' Rifles cooks, illustrating officer and enlisted humor at the front.
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Twentieth Battalion Royal
Fuslliers
West Riding Field Ambulance
Tommy
Gaspar
Dickey
Order of the Cooks of the Artists’ Rifles
Save Cake Sixteen Years
William and Mrs. Rice of 156 Rondo Street St Paul kept a Christmas pudding baked for their son John Rice who went to the Boer War and never returned The last word from John came in 1899 on a postal card and he was never listed among the dead or wounded The pudding remains unopened in a bureau awaiting his return.
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William Rice
Rondo Street
St. Paul
John Rice
Go Trawling in Lagoons on Rarotonga Islands
The New York Evening Journal reports a Rarotonga fishing method where communities seal lagoon breaks with coral barriers. Thousands assist in spreading utu nut poison to stupefy fish then drive them with spears as gobbing cries pierce the shore. Some divers later hunt the reef for still-moving fish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rarotonga
South Pacific Ocean
New York Evening Journal
Shakespearean Names for New CPR Stations
The Canadian Pacific line through the Hope mountains names stations after Shakespearean characters. Othello and Lear sit near the Coquahalla River canyon, Jessica Portia and Romeo with Juliet separated by Coquahalla Summit at 3,300 feet.
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Kettle Valley Railway
Canadian Pacific
Hope Mountains
Coquahalla River
Othello
Lear
Jessica
Portia
Romeo
Juliet
Coquahalla
May Be Longest European War
The article compares potential and historical European conflicts noting that if fighting continues into autumn 1916 it would exceed all great European wars since Napoleon. It cites quick Balkan wars, the Serbo Bulgarian and Turco Greek wars, Crimean, Franco Prussian, Russo Japanese, Turco Italian, Boer, and American Civil wars for context.
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Europe
Paris
Earned Rapid Promotion of General Petain
General Petain rose from colonel in the Thirty third Infantry at Arras to army corps commander and then to head of a principal army. He has led celebrated operations, earning rapid promotion and high esteem for strategy and coolness under fire.
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France
Petain
Arras
Brooklyn Man Baronet Ties to Historic Esk Line
The Brooklyn figure P. Hl. Graham & Co. chartered the steamship Winner, with ties to Sir Robert James Stuart Graham the tenth Esk baronet. His son Montrose Stuart Graham and Percival Harris Graham are also named shippers based in Brooklyn and Bay Ridge. The Esk baronetcy dates to 1629 with historic ties to Edge Hill and a former British ambassador to France.
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P. Hl. Graham & Co
Battery Place
New York
Graham
Robert James Stuart Graham
Issk
Eliza J. Burn
Brooklyn
Montrose Stuart Graham
Percival Harris Graham
Bay Ridge
Esk
Edgehill
France
James JJ
Upholder of Spontaneous Life Dead
The death of Dr. Henry Charlton Bastian ends a lineage linked to Pasteur Darwin and Huxley. He challenged accepted dogma, arguing life can arise spontaneously as a form of energy, denying Pasteur’s life from life theory and claiming proof of abiogenesis from inorganic matter.
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Henry Charlton Bastian
Great
Scientific School
Pasteur
Darwin
Huxley
London ‘Times
Doctor Bastian
Science
Bastian
Parole System Endorsed by District of Columbia Board
The annual report endorses parole and indeterminate sentences for prisoners. It criticizes the short-sentence system for commitments of ten, fifteen, or thirty days, arguing little reform occurs. Under the recommended plan, prisoners face a maximum two year term with parole possible for good conduct before expiry.
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District of Columbia Board of Charities
Worth While Vice Commission Skepticism in Town
A visitor asks about a vice commission and an old resident says the town has never had one. The discussion touches on whether the community is progressive and whether unpaid citizens serve as a form of municipal advertising.
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King Buck
Big Timber
Fawn
Big Buck Big Timber Rose DE Cigars
Has. Keppler, Prop
White Beaver
Columbus State Bank
W. H. Conrad
Col
Rufus Kelly
Jjohne Logan
H. L. Telford
Empire Cream’ Separators
Iowa
Steel Gates
Oliver Typewriters
Springdale, Montana
The
Labor Record
New Orleans
Central Trades and Labor Council of Louisiana
Anti-Saloon League
China
India
United States
Gompers
Ady
Montana Commercith
South Pacific Islands
Brooklyn Man
Nyal
Nyals
Sweet Grass County
J. A. Lowry & Company
Grand Hotel
Bray
H. M. Allen & Co. Incorporated
Bear Creek
Wyoming
Coal Big Timber
Montana
Chas
W. Campbell Brownlee
Gcser Priory
J. J. Gallagher
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