Pollyanna Finds Gladdest View With Doctor Chilton
Pollyanna, living with Aunt Polly, spreads her "glad game" to cheer John Pendleton and befriends Dr. Chilton. The doctor, lonely and devoted to healing, feels blessed by Pollyanna’s optimism as she gently questions happiness and living. Nancy and Aunt Polly observe the playful exchanges and a managerial misstep over a jelly gift.
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Pollyanna
Polly
John Pendleton
Pollyanna Is the Niece of Miss Polly Harrington. On Leaving Mr. Pendleton
Doctor
Nancy
Mrss Snow
Dr. Chilton
Pollyanna Transforming Aunt Polly's Hair With Flower
Pollyanna persuades Aunt Polly to let her style the aunt's hair in the dressing room after a Ladies' Aid meeting. The child praises prettiness and imagines how others will react, while Aunt Polly wrestles with mixed feelings about the attention and humility.
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John Pendleton
Polly
Timothy
Ladies’ Aid Society
Aunt Polly
Mrs. Snow
Jimmy
Mr. Pendleton
Miss Polly
L. C. Page & Co., Inc
Between the Lines in France novel reviewed by critics
Review notes that Franklin T. Ames's Between the Lines in France follows American youths traveling through France by automobile. A night crash strands them between front lines as war erupts, with adventures and pages of notes on modern warfare, Cossacks, von Kluck’s Paris retreat, and related topics enhancing the book’s educational value.
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France
Franklin T. Ames
Dodd, Mead & Co
London
von Kluck
Paris
Lowell as a Critic Robert James Reilly on James Russell Lowell
Joseph J. Reilly analyzes Lowell as a critic in a scholarly study. He argues Lowell depended on external stimuli and illustrates this with poems inspired by occasions. The review highlights Lowell as a keen reader and precise word interpreter who often painted writers against literary backgrounds.
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Lowell
Joseph J. Reilly
James Russell Lowell
Putnam
Mr. Riley
Reilly
New England
America
New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons
King Albert's Book Profits Aid Belgian Fund
Publishers profits from King Albert's Book fund the Belgian Fund. Represented by world figures who contributed prose poetry music and art in color and black and white the volume honors the hero with literary merit and varied voices from figures such as Gertrude Atherton Jord Beresford Paul Bourget and Andrew Carnegie among 200 others.
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King Albert
Gertrude Atherton
Jord Beresford
Paul Bourget
Andrew
King Albert's Book tribute to the Belgian king
A library edition from Hearst International Library Co priced at 1.50 dollars in New York serves as a tribute to King Albert of Belgium.
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Albert
New York
Hearst International Library Co
The Great Tradition brings Gerould’s sharp American short stories
Katharine Fullerton Gerould’s collection The Great Tradition showcases eight American tales noted for definite purpose clear expression and memorable impact. Her climaxes are logically built yet strikingly surprising blending old world allusions with breezy native wit.
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Scribners
Gerould
Isaiah
Ezekiel
Religion as a Personal Experience theme in Brundage work
A review of William Milton Brundage’s Religion as a Personal Experience from the American Unitarian Association. The opening argues religion is the natural fulfilment of life and guides a clean, practical, Godly living. Boston edition priced at 50 ec.
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William Milton Brundage
Boston
Guns of Europe praised for thrilling battles and mobilization detail
The Guns of Europe by Joseph A. Altsheler attracts young readers with nerve bending air battles armored car duels and hand to hand combat set in the early Great War. The tale follows a young American and his friends in the allied army and promises two more volumes The Hosts of the Air and The Forest of Swords. New York D Appleton & Co. $1.30.
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Joseph A. Altsheler
D. Appleton & Co
Forest of Swords
New York
New England
Quebec
London
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Wild Life Conservation by Hornaday Reviewed
William T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park authors Wild Life Conservation in Theory and Practice a Yale Forest School lecture collection. Frederic C. Walcott adds a chapter on Private Game Reserves as Factors in Conservation. Yale University Press lists it at 1.50 dollars and hopes for public engagement.
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New York Zoological Park
Forest School
Yale University
Frederic C. Walcott
New Haven
Yale University Press
Great Panic When Liner Lusitania Struck At Sea
May 8 report from Queenstown recounts a great panic aboard the Lusitania after torpedoing with survivors clashing over which side was struck. Captain Turner has landed at Queenstown. Dublin Times notes Storm Cock tug survivors in deplorable condition with wounded among them.
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Lusitania
Turner
Lusitania Population Comparisons Highlight Town Size
The town of Lusitania had a population equal to each of several Massachusetts towns. The list includes Rutland Wilmington Williamsburg Townsend Wrentham Northborough Merrimac Dennis Marshfield Southborough Sturbridge Shrewsbury and Georgetown.
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Wilmington
Williamsburg
Towsend
Wrentham
Northborough
Merrimac
Dennis
Marshfield
Southborough
Sturbridge
Shrewsbury
Georgetown
Survivors List From Lusitania Reveals 148 Names
The list of survivors made up here contains 148 names with 54 male and 24 female passengers, the captain and officers, and 67 shipboard crew. Kinsale Ireland and London reports note additional survivors and a diplomat's call for law allowing British consuls to refuse neutrals travel by British ships.
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Patrick McCarthy
London
Carlyon Bellairs
Hamburg Line Call Sees Cunard Office Call
A Hamburg American Line caller asked Cunard Boston manager Stewart if the Lusitania was blown up. The manager replied it may be true but asked who did the blowing up, then hung up. An advertisement for Adamson Cough Balsam follows.
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Stewart
Cunard
Boston
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