Senator Chamberlain Attacks Administration in Senate Speech
The piece rebukes Senator Chamberlain of Oregon for charging the government with breakdown after a New York speech. It argues his accusations about war errors are partly true yet unfair and malicious, noting the rapid cantonments caused civilian hardship and deaths, which should not be blamed on the War Department or the administration as a whole.
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United States
Percy
Berlin
Police
Pertent
Leon
Department of Justice
Colmorrainin
New York
Oregon
Chamberlain
War Department
National Guard
National Army
Senator Chamberlain
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Democratic
Cerstoal
Brandenburg
Baltic
North Sea
Prussa
Triple Alliance
Mediterranean
Austria
Channel
Atlantic
England
Belgium
Ostend
Somme
Mayland
Senator Chamberlains Critical Speech Spurs Debate in Oregon
The piece notes Chamberlain owed his Senate seat to Oregon’s Republican legislature and discusses the propriety of his criticism of the administration. It questions his motives, whether patriotic or self serving, and argues his New York and Senate remarks overstepped propriety.
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Senate
Oregon
Chamberlain
United States Senate
Ile
Abe Martin a National Institution in Daily Wit
Abe Martin is a distinctly American philosopher known for concise droll observations about town folk and war era life. The character, created by Kin Hubbard, sketches the foibles of sluggards, poseurs, and everyday citizens with humor that lingers and comforts readers.
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War
Abe Martin
Dol
Fawn Lippineut
Newt Plum
Abe Ja Sage
Abe
German Expansion and Territorial Plans in 1914 1917
A fragmentary analysis discusses German imperial aims, linking Prussia’s unification to seaborne strategy and continental displacement. It cites speeches and proposals on annexation, colonization, and evacuating populations in Belgium and other lands to secure land for agriculture and German influence.
German wartime plan outlines new Belgium and population rules
Arthur Diz in Der Weltwirtschaftskrieg 1914 describes measures to seize factories and mines, expel Belgians not pledging allegiance, settle land with Germans, and compensate those displaced. The article notes this as No. 4 in Zwischen Krieg und Frieden collection.
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Belgium
Germany
Arthur Diz
Tea Dance Sparks Dream of Hidden Trouble
A narrator recalls a man’s cryptic note about future danger after a tea dance encounter. He describes an entrancing American beauty and a chilling sense of doom as he contemplates the woman’s magnetic pull and the impact of desire on marriage.
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Margie
Rose
Silv er man with heavy voice jokes during battles
The text mocks a strong voiced man who jokes at will while recounting a century of whale battles as a notion of a fine retiring time. The fragment hints at humor and a sailor’s life in a colloquial report.
Substitutes by Berton Nealey
A poem listing endless substitutes the Germans employ in food money goods law morale and daily life as Kaiser Bill prays to a substitute God highlighting wartime scarcities and propaganda through a satirical lens.
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Kaiser Bill
All in the Family Now Stamp Gaffe
A colored woman who recently moved from Boley boarded a train returning home and handed the conductor a fistful of postage stamps claiming Uncle Sam owns the railroads. She said she did not take time to get a ticket because of family ties. The remark appeared in the Okemah News bulletin.
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Boley
Sam
Okemah
Okla
Polite Race Sparks Irish Fracas over Dime
An Irishman recalls a polite race with Frenchmen who refused a dime. He says he slammed one in the jaw, who then handed his calling card and promised to wait two minutes for him.
Nightly longing ends as true love returns
A man recalls a tumultuous two week spell chasing a supposed American beauty while married to Mrs Maregle. He writes of restless days and a vow to change, only to be drawn back to the woman he truly loves when the other returns.
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Vernon Kellogg
Atlantic Monthly
Albert Gottlieb
Y. Dee
German Empire
Anon
Par- Ait Tene
Robert Hilliard
Kipling
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