Grateful for One Thing: A Soldier’s Return from War
A veteran returns from the western front altered by war. He travels to Washington and hears a senator’s speech, witnesses cynical politics, and confronts old loves. Back home, neighbors demand help, and, after hardship, he finds solace with his mother and baby in a quiet ending.
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Washington
Fetill
Resgon
Sahey
Malin _street
Goa
Thomas L. Masson
New York Evening Post
Wrong Impression Of Newspaper Woman Sparks Church Welcome
A newspaper woman, famed for funding a church organ through her stories, is invited to the front after a sermon. Her grandfather, hoping she attends, misinterprets the gesture as her joining the church and shouts to celebrate. Indianapolis News.
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Indianapolis
Tidal power schemes and steel houses in Britain and France
The article notes modest tidal power potential in many areas with large basins needed for significant output. It cites Mont St. Michel tides as 45 feet and a French engineer proposing two vast tidal basins to supply power. It also describes two fireproof English houses built with concrete and steel, with steel interiors and rapid construction.
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Mont St. Michel
France
Channel
Thames Estuary
England
Popular Mechanics
Fairfax woodcutter dies with no attendees at funeral
In Fairfax County near George Washington's old home a woodcutter lacking friends died. Funeral services had no speaker as volunteers were asked but none spoke. A Pacific coast newcomer finally offered remarks praising California weather.
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Fairfax County
George Washington
Bke
Félipe
Pacific Coast
California
Not a Handicap on the Western Front
London Tit-Bits reports that American soldiers could shoot in any language, despite limited French language knowledge, and that this proved to German discomfort on the western front.
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London
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ARMY
Price
Dilskin
Bristol
Will
U.S. Army
P. Moskovich
Tech
Broadway
A. Mm
USS
Port Hunter
Goldie
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