Turko-Russian Front Expands As Russians Push From Erzerum
Russian forces press the Turkish line on both flanks from Erzerum toward Trebizond and Diarbekr, aided by a combat fleet along the Black Sea coast. Turkish troops along the Mush and Koph routes yield ground amid snow, shortages, and encirclement risks as the Baghdad railway looms distant.
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Black Sea
Petrograd
London
Erzerum
Trebizond
Koph
Mush
Achlat
Lake van
Diarbekr
Bagdad
Syria
Trzerum
Olui
Deve-Boina
Widje
Gumish Khaneh
Ninth
Pleonexia and the cost of wealth in urban life
Dr. Alfred W. Martin at Ford Hall warned that grasping wealth undercuts American citizenship and spurs a money aristocracy. He coined pleonexia to describe this disease and urged a focus on love, truth, and personal progress over money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred W. Martin
Ethical Culture Meeting House
New York City
Ford Hall
Croesus
Radcliffe Not Known In Society In Miss Gilman Novel
Dorothy Foster Gilman 1913 novel The Bloom of Youth draws on Radcliffe Harvard society Back Bay life and a young Harvard socialist Henry Evans. The story follows Leslie Wyman daughter of Back Bay mother Adeline, her romance with Evans and Radcliffe social clashes amid Harvard and Cambridge.
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Dorothy Foster Gilman
Radcliffe
Hemenway
Edmund Trowbridge Dana
Jessie Halliday
England
Longfellow
Back
Harvard
Dana
Post
Ned Dana
Harrow-on the-Hill
Henry Evans
Hester Higgs
Look Highlesby-on-the-Poke
Miss Gilman
Back Bay
Boston
Cambridge
Harvard College
Kane
Copley Plaza
Leslie Wyman
Adeline Wyman
Somerset
Allison
Leslie
Somerset Henry Evans
Hartley Evans
Evans
King’s Chapel
Young Evans
Boston Common
Herbert
Harvard Square
Opposed 10 Soldiering in Schools at New Preparedness Meet
Resolutions opposing extending military training in schools were adopted with one dissent at the New Preparedness mass meeting in Faneuil Hall. The Massachusetts branch of the Women's Peace Party endorsed a League of Nations for world peace and a Monroe Doctrine for the world.
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League of Nations
Faneuil Hall
Massachusetts
Women’s Peace Party
Meeting Rejects Military Training in Schools Debate
A lone dissenter Sinclair Kennedy of the National Security League voted No on three resolutions opposing military drill in schools. The gathering featured Harvard's Bliss Perry and Swarthmore’s William Hull discussing pacifism, deterrence, and the Monroe Doctrine as speakers urged a balanced approach to national defense and education.
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Sinclair Kennedy
National Security League
Post
Bliss Perry
Harvard
Hamilton Holt
New York
the Independent
William I. Hull
Swarthmore College
Russia
Switzerland
Massachusetts Commission On Military Training and Reserve
National Educational Association
Perry
Thomas Mott Osborne
Sing Sing
Henry Ford
Wilson
ORRINE Advertisement Offers Home Treatment Trial
A drug advertises ORRINE as a risk free home treatment for alcohol excess, with a money back promise if no results. It promotes two forms No 1 powder and No 2 pills, costs $1 per box, and notes discreet administration. Booklet available from ORRINE CO Washington DC and sold by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
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Orrine CO
Wash
D. C.hor
Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores
Butter Card Plan Tightens Berlin Butter Supply
Berlin authorities extend rationing to butter with a weekly limit of a quarter of a pound per person to be paid with the bread card. The measure follows a bread card system that has been in place for nearly a year. Officials foresee the need to boost swine production, noting scarce showings at Berlin and Hamburg markets and a December census of over two million swine.
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Witde
Widje
Berlin
London
Greater Berlin
Empire
Hamburg
Germany
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Sprné
ALL Turk Army
Bagdad Railway
Dr. Martin
LO. Sun
BY Paul Waitt
Dorothy F. Gilman
United States
Fletcher
Badger
Japan
Hudson Maxim
America
Ludens
Dooce Brothers
Boylston Street
Foster St. Worcester
Henshaw Motor Co
Boylston St
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