Ordnance Officers Wanted for U S Army Training
Government calls for volunteers to fill commissioned noncommissioned and private roles in the ordnance department. University of Oregon at Eugene designated as training site with first section starting Oct 1. Each class limited to fifty men and six weekly intake cadence to supply clerks and stores staff for bases and depots.
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Ordnance Department
United States Army
University of Oregon At Fugene
Army
War Department
Soldiers Insurance Proposed Use of Bond Proceeds
Secretary McAdoo explains that part of Liberty Loan proceeds would fund life and indemnity insurance for soldiers and sailors. The plan, backed by President Wilson and a pending bill, would grant benefits to dependents and treat service as a badge of honor, recognizing the family’s shared sacrifice.
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McAdoo
Treasury Department
Wilson
Congress
Stop Leaks in Grain Handling and Harvest Losses
Estimates from wheat district specialists show twenty million bushels of wheat and similar cereals are wasted annually in harvesting and threshing. Advice centers on adjusting concaves and separating machinery, harvest cutting, corner and lodged grain, careful shocking, and prompt stacking to shed water and reduce exposure.
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Wheat
Kansas
Choteau Merchant Praises Adler-i-ka Remedy
A local merchant shares a story of severe digestion issues from sleepless nights to gas and sour stomach. He credits Adler-i-ka for immediate relief, claiming it flushes the entire alimentary tract and prevents appendicitis, calling it the quickest acting product they have sold.
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Adler Ika
McCullough’e Pharmacy
Noted Protesters Mask Real Loyalties In Wartime
The quote reflects suspicion toward Germans in the United States during the war who insist they are loyal while signaling otherwise. It implies distrust toward individuals claiming patriotic credentials yet opposing wartime aims.
Pauline Revere Ride Sparks Alarm In Middlesex Valleys
The tale follows Pauline, great-granddaughter of Paul Revere, who left Dana Hall to join a holiday ride to Charles Town. Her companions joined in as alarms spread in Middlesex farms while Mrs Thayer of Lancaster led an overreacting alert. Pauline returned safely to Lancaster Loston Post.
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Miss Revere
Pauline
Paul
Dana Hall
Middlesex
Pine Manor
Dana Hall School
Nathaniel Thayer
Lancaster
Thayer
Paul Revere
Charlestown
New England
Loston Post
Court equips Cupid's bower for domestic reconciliations
Judge John Stelk oversees a new lounge attached to the court of domestic relations designed to help couples mend quarrels. The room will feature plants flowers canaries a music box and draperies to rekindle old affection and encourage couples to leave reconciled and living happily.
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John Stelk
Chicago News
Uses for Postcards for Missionary Work
Mount postcards on colored cardboard five by eight inches and hang by attaching ribbons. Missionaries in China praised the mounted cards as pretty enough for homes and schools, inspiring pupils who see few attractive items. Children can make gifts across the sea by mounting cards, and blotters in colors transform cards into useful keepsakes for pupils and teachers.
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China
Brazil's Iron Ore Riches Backed by Vast Deposits
Percival Farquhar told a New Orleans Federal Trade Council meeting that Brazil holds the world’s largest iron ore reserves with 1.5 to 2 billion tons in Minas Gerais, almost phosphorus-free and 300 to 400 miles from the coast. He said other states host ore bodies and eastern mills could benefit from exports, enabling use of low grade, high phosphorus ores by mixing.
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Brazil
Minas Geras
Percival Farquhar
Federal Trade Council
New Orleans
Co-Operative Movement Grows in Prewar Europe
London Times notes the 1914 International Co operative alliance congress in Glasgow, 24 national units, about 180000 co operative societies with 20000000 members. If four per family, about 80000000 people affected in Europe as war began. Business valued around 2 billion dollars. Russia plans Baikal biological station. Lake Baikal fauna hints ancient subtropical Siberian lineage.
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Co-Operative Alliance
Glasgow
Scotland
Europe
United States
London Times
Russia
Imperial Academy of Sciences of Petrograd
Lake Baikal
Wales
Siberia
Minds and matters in a wry Indianapolis Star style
A playful meditation on minds and thinking. The piece jokes that minds vary in size from small to epic and that open mindedness is rare. It argues minds are imperfect but people constantly seek to improve them, with humorous quips about matter and mind.
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Nature
Indianapolis Star
Animals Lack Innate Taste But Learn From Experience
The piece argues that animals lack instinctive knowledge of poisonous plants and must learn from experience. Snell notes sheep in the Ahn valley fall to hellebore while nearby flocks avoid it. Lambs and calves show higher risk than mothers’ stock, and Morgan’s studies on birds show young feed by trial before avoiding harmful foods.
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Snell
Ahn
Raymond Crawford
Morgan
Prussian diplomacy and German strike policy questioned
A fragment notes a minister with passport records claiming another triumph for Prussian diplomacy. It also critiques Germany's approach to strikes by sending workers to the front in forlorn hopes.
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Germany
Fragmented regional loyalties in Europe and beyond
The remark links Germany to shifting loyalties across Europe with echoes of Roman and Spartan customs. It mentions Argentina and German New York boys, suggesting a performative or comparative stance on national identity and behavior in international contexts.
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Rceme
Spartansburg
New York
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