Camp Taylor Victory Food Drive Invites Local Helpers
Women from the Red Cross Society and County Council of Defense urge residents to prepare homemade meals and snacks for soldiers bound for Camp Taylor. Packaged items should be at Corydon by November 13 or early November 14, with clear name labeling. A committee will collect and store the goodies for the soldier boys.
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Corydon
Red Cross Society
County Council of Defense
Cox
Congress
United States
National Council of Defense
Harrison County Council of Defense
Harrison County Red Cross Society
Brazil Enters War Against Germany as Eighteenth Nation
Brazil joins the conflict against Germany becoming the eighteenth belligerent. With a population near 20 million, a war strength around 600 thousand and one million ready for duty, Brazil spans 8.219 million square miles and can supply food to Allied armies regardless of ground commitments.
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Brazil
Germany
United States
Escaped prisoners reach Dutch town after frontier voyage
Four British escapees, one French man, and seven Russians arrived at Oldenzaal along with two German deserters. An incident involved a Russian slipping during capture. a Dutch sentry helped pull him across, while the German guard pulled from the other end, and the Russian kicked to reach safe Dutch soil.
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Oldenzaal
Wutch
Sausage Makers Rivalry Sparks London Street Tale
Two rival sausage makers on opposite sides of a London street duel with shop signs. One proclaims selling to gentry and nobility, the other to the entire country, then the rival trumpets kingship with a final boast and a loyalty message from the first shop.
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Monagays
London
Haileterm Insurance in Germany
German hail insurance shows large premium income and high payouts over 45 years. In 1915 profits reached 7,900,075 marks with insured values rising 404,000,000 marks. Companies have collected 1,144,700,000 marks in premiums and paid 902,426,000 marks in indemnities.
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Haileterm Insurance
Germany
Hailaterm Insurance
Indemar
Scientific American
Jeanne d Arc d Italia Leads Bersaglieri in Alps
In the Carnic Alps a Bersaglieri regiment advances under a young woman with an automatic who guides and fights beside Italian troops. The Austrian positions are overrun and Italy proclaims victory in that sector. Maria Adriani, known to the Bersaglieri as Jeanne d Arc d Italia, receives a medal in Rome days later.
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Carnic Alps
Bersaglieri
Adriatic
Italia
Italy
Red Cross
Rome
Victor
Maria Adriani
Jeanne d’Arc d'Italia
Husband the Better Lover in Married Life
A Pittsburgh Dispatch opinion notes a wife's happiness hinges on a masculine view of love expressed through action. It argues men show affection by works at home while women strengthen bonds by devoted domestic labor turning routine chores into a valued profession.
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Pittsburgh Dispatch
Perg and Peg Engage to Marry Again
A lighthearted dialogue reveals Peg getting engaged to marry again despite prior marriages. Minnie asks about a motor accident and Lionel downplays injuries, joking about surviving many more accidents. The exchange mixes humor and social curiosity.
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Peg
Minnie
Lionel
Quick Witty Exchanges and Jests From The Sun
A collection of humorous quips and exchanges. A bride bristles at perceived brains while the groom jokes about money. A spy tale and a car club gag appear with light punchlines. A wife touts her husband as this year’s model in a playful domestic roundtable.
This Is an Age of Young Men But They Are Still Young
The article argues that age perception shifted from forty to sixty and seventy as still young. It cites historical figures like Hamilton Pitt and Washington to illustrate long careers beyond traditional ages, noting modern leaders and writers cast younger, successful figures. It concludes that many effective, striking figures remain active well past fifty.
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Thomas F. Zagon
Leslie’s Weekly
Senate
Alexander Hamilton
Treasury
Pitt
Exchequer
England
Washington
Roosevelt
World News Shorts From The Era On Inventions And Memorials
Reports describe a vast ice cream freezer for crop frost research at Utah Agricultural College and a two section insect entry door for children. An English trailer attachment with a single wheel aids extra baggage for cars. French scientists use violet light to test rubies and distinguish Burmese from Siamese gems. A French missile lamp ignites a colored fire on impact for locating fallen air vehicles. A simple French method measures human surface area. A memorial campaign seeks 250000 dollars for John P. St John memorials for Kansas governor and prohibition era figures.
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Utah Agricultural College
John P. St. John
Kansas
Prohibition
Irenewers
Food economy attempt ends with cold egg rejection
A person tries practicing food economy by keeping leftovers but her husband refuses to eat the cold boiled egg from yesterday, highlighting a failed effort to reduce waste.
Raindrop Split Lightning Theory by English Scientist
An English scientist proposes that raindrop splitting in thunderstorm updrafts creates lightning. Negative small drops rise with the wind while larger positive drops stay below, forming a region of positive electricity between earth and upper negative charges. When charges reach a threshold, intermittent direct currents discharge along a near-same path producing a lightning flash.
Famine in Russia A Historic Grim Record
National Geographic cites severe Russian famines with 1600 to 1911 episodes. The 1600 famine lasted three years causing about 500,000 deaths. later famines hit 1891 1906 and 1911 with up to 80 million affected and 8 million starving. Diet relied on weeds tree bark and bitter acorn bread.
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India
China
National Geographic Magazine
Russia
Europe
First Woman Doctors in American Medicine
The piece profiles Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi as the first woman admitted to Paris Ecole de Medecine and first female member of the New York Academy of Medicine. It notes her London birth, lineage from publisher George P. Putnam, husband Dr. Abraham Jacobi, and her 1906 death, contrasting with Elizabeth Blackwell as the first American woman physician who earned her MD in 1849.
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Ecole Medecine
Paris
New York
Mary Putnam Jacobi
America
Elizabeth Blackwell
England
Potatoes Urged As Essential Food In War Times
The article notes potatoes may ease bread shortages in wartime by emphasizing storage and preservation. It cites changing views on the potato’s nutritional value and asserts that a plentiful potato meal can provide a balanced ration and brighten homes, echoing an exchange quote about its wider role.
No. You Don't In Johnson Case Aboard Recall
The passage recalls John G. Johnson a famed Philadelphia lawyer with a testy witness moment. An elderly opposition witness defiantly refuses to leave the box after Johnson asks for questions. The exchange ends with the woman asserting she will not answer further questions.
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John G. Johnson
Philadelphia
Mr. Johnson
Age of London Through Roman to Great Fire History
The passage traces London from Roman Londinium around 43 A D to its medieval and early modern centuries. It notes Roman capital status, post Roman decline, Saxon era bishops, Danish plunder, rebuilding by Alfred and Athelstan, 14th century commercial growth, the 1665 plague, and the 1666 fire aftermath.
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London
Londinum
Augusta
Britannia
Alfred
Athelstan
The Adder's Poison and Hawthorne Dueling Reconsidered
A study of the adder or viper teeth shows fangs folded in the roof of the mouth enabling use of either poison or feeding teeth. It also notes Hawthorne's dueling impulse may reflect a myth linked to his life and to Erskine's Leading American Novelists.
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Hawthorne
Pierce
Cilley
Erskine
Five year old Natalie plants pansy seeds
Natalie, age five, first seeds pansies plantings in small boxes. She waters them, then learns from her mother that rain waters them automatically. Natalie replies, I take them in when it rains. The moment captures a child’s surprising practical thinking.
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Natalie
New York Times
Fish Out of Water
A living fish pulls away from water, kicks vigorously, erects fins, and gasps for fifteen to thirty minutes. It then becomes motionless though muscles retain irritability for hours. Salmon retain this longer than cod or haddock due to less water in their muscles.
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W. E. Cox
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Corydon, Indiana
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