Lodge warns on unprepared nation amid arms debate
The import of Senator Lodge’s Jan 15 remarks urges stronger national defense while cautioning against overreaching disarmament. He argues for a balanced army and navy, reserves, and selective modernization rather than universal armament cuts.
Deficiencies of Defence a Call for National Planning
Senator Lodge denounces fragmented defense budgeting and asks for a unified council of national defence. He cites 1914 mobile army figures, shortages in reserves, militia inadequacy, and underarmed coast and harbor defenses. He urges decisive reforms and a public referendum on defense policy.
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Regular Army
United States
Coast Artillery
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Canal Zone
China
Alaska
Porto Hico
Continental
Deficiencies in U S Naval Power Highlighted by Defense Debate
A Senate defense discussion outlines shortfalls in battleships submarines scout cruisers and aeroplanes toward 1914 goals. It compares US progress with Britain Germany France and Japan and calls for a national defence council and stronger armed forces.
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Bristol
France
Russia
Great Britain
Belgium
Servia
Germany
Austria
United States
Europe
Daniels
Council of Defence
The Girl Who Found the Bluebird Review
A critical review of Georgette Blancs The Girl Who Found the Bluebird published by Dodd Mead New York. The piece lauds Madam Maeterlinck and Helen Keller highlighting vitality hope and insight into the blind girl's world while noting the book should become a classic and praising the author for understanding and sensitivity.
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Georgette Blanc
Dodd, Mead & Co
New York
Helen Keller
Madam Maeterlinck
Helen Keliger
Ms. Macy
Adam Maeterninck
Helen Kaller
Madam Macternick
Georgette i Xe
Dodd, Mead Co
The Hero of the Mutiny by Escott Lynn
A brisk book review highlights The Hero of the Mutiny detailing the mutiny onset the siege of Cawnpore and the march to relieve Lucknow. It praises vivid descriptions and likens the tale to a manly adventure for boys with battles and skirmishes featured.
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Escott Lynn
Cawnpore
Lucknow
Tappincott Company
Bellamy by Elinor Mordaunt review notes strong character arc
The Bellamy novel set in a Manchester area mill town and London follows Walter Bellamy from millhand to owner. The reviewer praises the vivid character drawing especially Bellamy and Jane plain Jane, while criticizing some methods but admiring the author’s force and potential.
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Bellamy
Elinor Mordgant
John Lane Co
New York
Walter Bellamy
Walter
Manchester
England
London
Jane
Francis Gale
Indian Scout Talks by Charles A. Fastman review
A juvenile focused review of Indian Scout Talks by Charles A Fastman Quiyesa. The book targets readers aged 10 to 15 and presents chapters on Home With Nature Indian Methods of Physical Training and sections on wild animals canoe building blood trails and Indian signalling. It aims to correct misconceptions about Indians and highlights chapters on Indian names gesture language wigwam etiquette and more.
Deutschland Uber Alles and Germany Speaks Referenced
The excerpt reviews Carlyle and Chapman on a Prussian stone inscription about ending wars, quotes von Disfurth and Harden on German superiority, and satirizes Prussian apologists. It contrasts Goethe and Kaiser claims with Eckermann's 1827 notes on a proposed US canal and global power ideas.
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Frederick the Great
John Jay Chapman
Putnam
Chapman
Germany
Adolf Lassen
University of Berlin
Europe
Maximilian Harden
Goethe
Schiller
Antwerp
Alva
Eckermann
United States
Mexican Gulf
Pacific Ocean
England
Suez
Saul
Endor
Deutschland Uber Alles compilation analysis
A bibliographic note on a work titled Deutschland Uber Alles compiled and analyzed by John Jay Chapman. Published in New York by G. P. Putnam's Sons. The fragment references content likely from an academic or literary overview. No further context provided.
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John Jay Chapman
New York
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Tic
London Times Book of the Navy available from Old Corner Book Store
The London Times Book of the Navy by The Old Corner Book Store offers a rapid survey of British naval history with illustrations of battleships fleet commanders personnel and a complete schedule of ratings for dreadnoughts battleships cruisers destroyers and submarines. Aimed at readers wanting an English wartime naval perspective it costs 50 cents.
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London Times Book of the Navy
London Times
Private Affairs by Charles McEvoy reviewed
A calm portrait of a typical middle class English home in Private Affairs. The book focuses on domestic life and character studies rather than plot, conveying moods and ambitions through intimate scenes and introspection, with attention to the daughters and family dynamics. Myrtle’s stage breakthrough, while notable, is treated as a rare high point in an otherwise ordinary tale.
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Charles McEvoy
Myrtle
The Oil Conquest of the World by Frederick A. Talbot
Frederick A. Talbot presents a readable history of oil as a global economic force. The work traces petroleum from discovery to its wide adoption, highlighting the romantic tale of major oil strikes and oil's transformative social and industrial impact. Published by J. B. Lipincott Company at $1.59.
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Frederick A. Talbot
Lippincott
Philadelphia
J. B. Lippincott Company
Pictorial Landscape Photography Review
A review praises Paul Lewis Anderson’s Pictorial Landscape-Photography from Wilfred A French Boston. The work splits into three parts describing subjective side and technique and offers valuable guidance for photographers loving nature.
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Paul Lewis Anderson
Wilfred A. French
Heston
Paul Val Anderson
Boston
Wilfred A
Rencn
The Floral Birthday Book by Margaret M Brown
The Floral Birthday Book compiled and edited by Margaret M Brown for Angel Guardian Press is a blank diary style anthology. It offers pages for a year of entries and quotations from poetry and prose about flowers across opposing pages.
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Margaret M. Brown
Angel Guardian Press
Boston
Beers Linked to Push for Santo Domingo Contracts
Testimony alleges Beers offered $5000 cash for letters to Sullivan and contracts in Santo Domingo. Beers, Jarvis, and Sullivan allegedly planned a construction outfit taking 30 percent profits, with promises of US backing and no investigations. Witnesses mention a fake physician hired to attend Sullivan and Beleived influence in Washington.
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Beers
Santo Domingo
Sullivan
Republic
United States
Jarvis
Washington
Smith
Bryan's Spoils Letter Sparks Dominican Scandal Probe
The January New York dispatch reports President Wilson ordered a Dominican diplomatic scandal inquiry after William Jennings Bryan's letter suggesting jobs for “deserving Democrats” at Santo Domingo's expense surfaced. The memo to Walker W. Vick from Bryan describes leveraging positions and language about language requirements and reform.
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New York
William Jennings Bryan
Santo Domingo
Wilson
Bryan
Department of State
Washington
Walker W. Vick
Santos Domingo
D. R
Sullivan
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