Senator Chamberlain’s Attack On Administration Criticized
A Senate critique of Senator Chamberlain’s New York remarks. The editorial defends the war effort, warns against unfounded blame on the government for wartime deaths, and notes Chamberlain’s role as chair of the military committee under a Democratic regime.
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Colmorrainin
New York
Oregon
Chamberlain
War Department
National Guard
National Army
Senator Chamberlain
Sesater Chamberlain
Senaate
Democratic
Chamberlain’s Senate Seat Stemming From Oregon Republicans
The article discusses how Chamberlain, former Oregon governor, won a U S Senate seat in 1914 after Oregon’s Republican legislature confirmed his victory despite a high popular vote, raising questions about motives and propriety of his later muckraking against the administration. It notes the political courtesy and speculates on Chamberlain’s aims and the impropriety of his New York speech versus the Senate remarks.
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Senate
Oregon
Chamberlain
United States Senate
Ile
Oregon Republicane
Wilson
White House
New York
Abe Martin a national institution in wartime days
The column lauds Abe Martin as a distinctly American philosopher and national institution. It highlights his sharp, humorous observations of people and wartime life, notes his Indiana roots via Kin Hubbard, and praises his concise witticisms that lift readers during hard times.
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War
Abe Martin
Dol
Fawn Lippineut
Newt Plum
Abe Ja Sage
Abe
Real Yankee pie intrigue reaches French camp
In a France camp American pies arrive replacing rag crust meals. Sold at 2.40 dollars each, the new pies delight soldiers, with one boy reportedly paying 2.41. Officers search for the quick thinking Yankee who acquired war flour and inspired the private pie pool.
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France
German imperial expansion through 19th century seaboard aims
The excerpt presents a nationalist program linking Prussia and Germany to continental access, calling for closer Austrian ties and extending seaborne reach to the Channel and Atlantic. It discusses annexation, evacuation of hostile populations, and redistribution of land to German regiments and settlers, framed as strategic enrichment.
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Cerstoal
Brandenburg
Baltic
North Sea
Prussa
Triple Alliance
Mediterranean
Austria
Channel
Atlantic
England
Belgium
Ostend
Somme
Mayland
German War Plan for Belgium and Western Border Policy
A wartime policy outline outlines measures against Belgian loyalty to Germany, confiscation of factories under German control, nationalization of mines, expulsion of Belgians not pledging allegiance, and resettlement of German settlers along the former German Belgian frontier. It also notes compensation for Germans displaced by the war and cites Arthur D. as the source from Der Weltwirtschaftskrieg 1914.
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Albert Gottlieb
Y. Dee
Belgium
German Empire
Germany
Arthur Diz
No title visible present in fragment
Narrative fragment presents a man’s moral unease after hearing a tea dance encounter. Dick predicts trouble for the writer, while a woman narrator recalls a sudden irresistible attraction to a glamorous, amoral beauty who captivates through physical charm and a chilling sense of danger.
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Margie
Rose
Silly Verse On A Fine Time To Retire
A humorous note reflects on a stout silver man with a strong voice joking about what he pleases. The speaker imagines retirement after a century of successful “wale battles” as a playful quip from a National Newspaper Service source.
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National Newspaper Service
Substitutes By Berton Nealey
A poem criticizing wartime shortages and the German home front by Berton Nealey. It uses parallel imagery of substitutes for food, money, law, morals, and media, ending with Kaiser Bill’s substitute God as a satirical punchline.
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Kaiser Bill
All in the Family Now Postage Stamp Gag
A woman from Boley boarded the train at the station on the return trip and, when the conductor collected tickets, handed him a bundle of postage stamps claiming Uncle Sam owns the railroads and saying it is all in the family. News caption from Okemah Oklahoma.
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Boley
Sam
Okemah
Okla
Polite Race Sparks Clash of Two Racers
In a terse exchange a Frenchman and an Irishman describe a race gone so close that politeness prevails after a clash. The Irishman boasts of slamming the Frenchman on the jaw and receiving a calling card with a promise of a rematch.
Nightmare Love and Regret in a Frank Letter
A man recounts a tumultuous two week affair with a woman he calls his American beauty. He confesses daily longing and self reproach for pursuing a romance while the beloved was away, then finds relief when she returns and he reconnects with her.
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Cheyenne
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Berlin
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Real
Yankee
Vernon Kellogg
Atlantic Monthly
Anon
Par- Ait Tene
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