The Course of True Love in Honolulu and Gettysburg
Madeline Drisko, a New York heiress on a combined business and pleasure trip to Honolulu, falls for Hereford Langdon. After a quarrel over a trivial matter they drift apart as the war calls Hereford to enlist. A Gettysburg excursion rekindles their romance when they meet in a bustling postwar city.
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Madeline Drisko
Madeline
New York
Honolulu
Hereford Langdon
Hereford
New England
Madeline i
Tod
Madene
Tom Drisko
San Francisco
Flereford
Gereford
Driskos
Mexico
United States
Hawaii
Tank Corps
James Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Berlin
Staten Island
Manhattan
Austria
Hapsburgs
Oderberg
Hungary
Bela Kun
Vienna
Budapest
Russia
Bolshevists
Denikine
Trotzky
Kolchak
Omsk
Lenine
Bessarabia
Roumania
Galicia
Tarnopol
Vladivostok
Sudhan Valley
Siberia
Rio Grande
U.S
Tampico
Puerto Lobos
Atlantic Refining Company
Carranza
Henry P. Fletcher
House
Chihuahua City
el Paso
Villa
General Angeles
Japan
Washington
Curious Cities of the World Highlighted in Leslie's Weekly
The article sketches Curva Bolivia a town built entirely on a curved hilltop in the Bolivian Andes. It notes Puerto Madura Patagonia a tin and zinc built town 838 miles from Buenos Aires with metal houses roofs and fences. It also mentions Newcastle Jamaica perched on a hill with varying tombstone levels in the graveyard.
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Leslie’s Weekly
Curva
Bolivia
Patagonia
South America
Puerto Madura
Buenos Aires
Newcastle
Jamaica
Imitator Echoes at Salvation Army Sketch
A Harlem Hebrew listens as a Glasgow Scot livens a Salvation Army scene behind the lines. When asked why he looks awed, the man admits ignorance of the joke but praises a brilliant Harry Lauder impression by his companion.
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Harlem
Glasgow
Salvation Army
Abey
Harry Lauder
Everybody’s Magazine
Taft pushes interpretive reservations on peace treaty
Taft proposes interpretive reservations to win Republican votes for ratification of the peace treaty and League covenant. Wilson remains firm on unreserved approval while Knox blocks provisional appointment on reparations. Shantung and Japan tensions, Austrian terms, and Mexico turmoil shape the week.
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William H. Taft
Senate
Hays
League
Taft
Washington
Wilson
Shantung
Japan
League of Nations
China
International Tribunal
Germany
Forgery Plot in Federal Prison Reveals Counterfeit Scheme
A Chicago report recounts a prison based forgery ring at Fort Leavenworth involving 25 men who printed 1000 subtreasury checks and forged letters and bank paper. Arrests followed a six week undercover operation. ringleaders Robert Jones and Arthur Matheson faced $10,000 bonds amid nationwide passings of bogus checks.
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Chicago
Fort Leavenworth
Peter Drautzberg
W. G. Harper
Thomas I. Porter
United States
Secret Service
United Fruit Company of
New Orleans
Drautzberg
Robert Jones
Jones
Hill Street
Arthur Matheson
North Marshfield Avenue
Alfon- 50
Joe Wilson
New York
Ralph Waserberg
Leavenworth
Stolen Headstone Alarm Triggers Eugene Police
Eugene marble worker E C Lake reported a missing unmarked headstone from his salesroom. Lake said the theft, seen as material for a future grave decoration, prompted police to investigate the incident.
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Eugene
Ore
E. C. Lake
Lake
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Lillian H. Crowley
The
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mr. Taft
Edward W. Pickard
White House
Committee On Foreign Relations
Commission On
Knox
Peat
Reparations Commission
Bernard Baruch
Bulgaria
Paris
Sofia
Neuilly
Sweden
Baltic Commission
Aland Islands
Gulf of Bothnia
House of Representatives
United States Supreme Court
Loop
C. Skelton Williams
John Skelton Williams
Treasury
St. Louis
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