A Great Argument for Peace in a Global War
A Baltimore Sun editorial argues the current European conflict teaches lasting peace through costly lessons. It predicts neutral nations feel the bite of price rises and labor disruption, while Americans gain resolve to champion peace and support international peace efforts like The Hague tribunals and Bryan's treaties.
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United States
Austria
Servia
Germany
Russia
England
France
Congress
Europe
The
Hague
Bryan
Baltimore Sun
Lonley woman in Picardy door Kendall Banning
A door in Picardy frames Kendall Banning as a lonely woman amid war’s roar. The poem contrasts alien skies with banners and marching armies to a soldier’s death, capturing a somber, undisturbed scene in wartime silence.
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Picardy
Hell
Legion
Viewpoints on War, Trade and Policy Across Papers
Newspapers discuss a range of issues from a Washington warehouse stock of 376538 copies of a horse book to American steel demand from England. They critique packers and advocate timely Panama Exposition plans, while warning of rising food prices and diplomatic contrasts.
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Department of Agriculture
Washington
Manchester Union
New York World
Panama Exposition
Chicago Herald
Namur and Nancy Key Early War Targets in Europe
Namur Belgium and Nancy France emerge as crucial early war targets after Liege fell to Germany. Namur sits at the Meuse and Sambre confluence with a rallying fortress, while Nancy lies on the Meurthe near the German border and serves as a French invasion base in Alsace Lorraine.
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Namur
Belgiun
Nancy
France
Liege
Belgium
Germains
Meuse
Sanbre
Meurthe
Alsace Lorraine
Gets It Corn Cure Promises Quick Relief for Corn Pain
An old drug advertisement touts GETS-IT as a simple corn cure that shrivels corns in seconds. It claims painless use without knives or tools, sold by druggists for 2 cents a bottle or mailed via E. Lawrence & Co of Chicago, with local Bryan sale through M. H. James.
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Secon
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Bryan
M. H
Patent remedy for malaria and chills fever
An advertisement offers a prescription prepared for malaria or chills and fever. It claims five or six doses break the illness and used as a tonic prevents fever return. It purportedly acts on the liver, avoids griping, and costs 25 cents.
Paid Fortune to Get Home from Liverpool Arcadian
New York August 29 110 Americans arrived from Liverpool aboard the Royal Mail steamship Arcadian a one cabin vessel with 150 capacity luxury transport. Passengers paid mostly 500 to 1000 dollars with F H Cook of Houston converting gold certificates at a discount to pay for tickets. The fare for himself and family totaled 3500 dollars.
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New York
Liverpool
Royal Mail
F. H. Cook
Houston
United States
Stock Farm and Small Ranch Tracts For Sale
Opposed to paying a middleman several dollars per acre. Stock Farm and Small Ranch Tracts. We also offer fine grazing tracts perfectly adapted to the purpose one section to fifty at prices from $5.00 per acre up. Free illustrated booklet giving all particulars and an application to CHAS. A. JONES, Manager for S. M. Swenson & Sons, Spur, Dickens County, Texas.
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Chas. A. Jones
S. M. Swenson & Sons
Spur
Dickens County
Texas
Plead Guilty To Fighting In Justice Court
Three women arrested Tuesday for fighting pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace McGee and were fined $1 with costs each.
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Worley
Justice Court
Justice of the Peace McGee
Spur Farm Lands Offer Low Prices for Virgin Texas Acres
Spur Farm Lands promote fertile virgin plots at low prices with easy terms in Texas high country 2000 to 2600 feet. No boll weevil malaria or fever in the area. good churches and schools. sale direct to buyer with no commissions and full value by dealing with the owner.
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Texas
Citation by Publication in a Texas Divorce Case 1914
Public notice requires Brazos County sheriff to publish this citation weekly for four weeks summoning Ethel Adams to answer Ben Adams petition filed February 28 1914 in District Court Brazos County Bryan. Action seeks dissolution of marriage based on cruelty abandonment adultery and separation. Court term September 7 1914. clerk J W Barron witnesses seal of court.
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Ethel Adams
District Court
Brazos County
Bryan
A. D
Ben Adams
Walter Eden
J. W. Barron
Texas
Owner Recovers Stolen Horse in Houston Case
L H Georgi of Houston came to recover his horse stolen Sunday night by Jake Price a local man. Price was captured in the city by Sheriff Conlee on Tuesday afternoon and returned to Houston for trial. The horse was shipped back home yesterday.
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L. H. Georgi
Houston
Jake Price
Price
Conlee
Mr. Georgi
Pro Election In Hardin County Wet After Vote
Hardin County voters in Kountze Texas approved liquor sales in an election ordered by the commissioners court after a petition by prohibition opponents. The county becomes wet. Previous polls had shown margins of 25 to 50 votes against prohibition.
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Associated Press
Kountze
Tex
Hardin County
Commissioners’ Court
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American Steel
Iron and Steel
Springfield Republican
Huerta
Mexico
Carranza
Hartford Times
Chicago News
Detroit World
American Press Association
Vatican
Phows
Pius X
Cardinal Della Volpe
Merry de Val
Cardinal Volpe
Cardinal O'Connell
Cardinal Gibbons
Cardinal Farley
James
WM. &. Cline
Office
Commerce Building
State OF Texas
Hardin
Villa Maria Academy
ST. Ursula’s Hill
Bryan, Texas
Ursuline
Ursulines
Gulf of Mexico
Villa Maria
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