Five of Britain's World War Generals Are Dead
Five of twenty famous British generals from World War I have died. The latest is field marshal Haig, joining earlier losses Earl of Ypres, Lord Rawlinson, Sir Stanley Maude, and Sir John Cowans. Remaining leaders include Byng, Palmer, Hore, Cavan, Robertson, Allenby, Wilson, Birdwood, Smuts, Lukin, Isaacs, Russell, and Currie.
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Britain
London
Lvo
Sleeping Warriors
Narl Haig
Earl of
Ypres
Viscount French
Lord Rawlinson
Stanley Maude
John Cowlins
Pence
Wer
Lord Byng
Lord Plamer
Lord Hore
Earl of Cavan
W. Robertson
Viscount Allenby
HW. H. Wilson
Willian Birdwood
J.C. Smuts
Lukin
Isaaush
G.I
Ar Uh Russell
We Ltral
A. W. Currie
Pilgrims and planes frame unclear wartime note
An encrypted or garbled OCR fragment hints at pilgrims and air power but lacks clear details on events, places, or timing. The readable words mention planes and a journey, leaving the main action and entities uncertain.
See Love Rebuff Sparks Proposal of Gifts
A young man asks for permission to marry a daughter but is firmly declined by the father. The suitor humorously accepts the setback and offers to send a box of cigars as a token, noting how close he was to securing the match.
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Hin
Masked Irish Nobleman Impostor Leaves South Dakota
Patrick O'Dien, who posed as an Irish nobleman from Momence Illinois, toured Sioux Falls and Codington County offering to fund a $25 000 American Legion clubhouse. State's Attorney Hanson exposed him as a fraud after he claimed military service and German bullet wounds. He confessed and departed after a brief expulsion period.
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Patrick Odien
Momence
South Dakota
Trans Flansen
Clark County
Codington County
American Legion
Trish
O'Brien
France
South Dakota Legion
Rochester
Minn
Veterans’ Bureau
Hanson
Bologna theft ends with arrests in New York shop
Mrs Annie Hewer faced a baffling month long loss of bologna from her Gotham delicates store window. A night watchman observed two men outside the store, one reaching through a transom to pull a salami. Police seized the evidence and the pair were arrested as the case moved to arraignment.
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New York
Annie Hewer
Gotham
Bologna
Mrsewer
Stream Line Influence in Summer Shoes Preview
Lynn Massachusetts designers forecast footwear trends for the season. Indian prints and block lines appear in fabrics while blues greens maize beige and red shades color the collection. Real snake and lizard skin shoes gain demand as imitation reptile styles wane with white shoes favored for summer. Dress shoes feature French lines short foreparts and high arches while sports shoes stay American with stream lines and airplane inspired wing effects.
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Lynn
Mass
Milady
Eruptive pine cloud tree over Mount Etna crater
A striking formation called an eruptive pine or cloud tree appeared above Etna's central crater during a recent outbreak. The plume rose over 10,000 feet above the crater, was blown away by the wind, and hid the sun as it drifted into an elongated black cloud.
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Hina
Vesuvius
Pompei
Etna
Art and the Artist as a Shopkeeper Master
The piece argues that many great artists began as apprentices and evolved into practical producers of commissioned work. It likens Meade to a craftsman who ran a shop, delivering paintings and signs to please clients while building a distinct style.
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Meade
Raphael
Rubens
Ile
Emnae
Trayda
Prince Esterhazy
Bach
Mozart
Shake- Speare
Vanity Fair
Embroidery Art History From China to the West
The article traces embroidery in China to at least the eighth century with earlier origins, noting the perishable materials obscure older pieces. It highlights recent Western market embroidery on European patterns fostered by missionaries about thirty years ago and mentions Madeira reports of future Chinese production.
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China
Marco Polo
Madeira
Cyprus
New York Times
Checks for Small Amounts Under Law
A federal rule prohibits issuing circulating or paying out any note or check for less than one dollar. Violators face fines up to $500 or up to six months in jail. The text explains checks are not lawful money but personal credit instruments.
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United States
Bold wager ends in public prank at dining table
Three young men dine when one bets another that he cannot balance a glass of water on each outstretched hand. The hoax leaves him unable to move until a waitress helps, as diners laugh and the bill slips vanish into a coat pocket.
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Loston Globe
Mexican Musvands and the Wakeup Bell Tradition
A Brooklyn Union report describes Mexican households where late arrivals trigger loud signals at the lodge. A bell or banging on a heavy gate wakes neighbors and the wife, an old custom. Wives do not wait up armed with rolling pins. husbands must face the wakeful household.
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Mexico
Brooklyn
Paragrapher as Modern Jester in Public Life
Albert Jay Nock compares the paragrapher to a court jester in Harper's Magazine saying the role blends prophet, publicist and teacher. He argues the figure earns trust through frank speech and sharp insight while enjoying unique privileges and facing collective scrutiny.
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Albert Jay Nock
Harper's Magazine
Arctic Sealskin Church Looms From Ice and Bone
A missionary reports the world’s queerest church on Blacklead Island Cumberland Sound built entirely of sealskins sewed together and stretched over whalebone girders. He recalls another snow church with complete interior fittings and notes a Kenyan cathedral appearing as a giant haystack from afar yet made of grass and mud seating 4 000.
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Arctic
Blacklead Island
Cumberland Sound
Uganda
Skunk Warns Thrice in Nature Warning
The text describes a skunk as a sportsman who gives three warnings to an approaching threat. It stomps and lifts its tail as signals of danger, with a final warning that advancing costs a suit of clothes if one moves forward.
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Nature Magazine
Capricious Appetites A Record of Foreign Substances
Two Canadian physicians report 2533 metallic objects found in a woman’s stomach. The items include bent pins tacks corset steels garter fasteners needles buttons beads washers an American penny and a pen point. The 42 year old patient had swallowed these over years with no pain until recently an operation followed. The prior record was 1146 objects in 1911.
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Hygein Magazine
Welshmen organize an oratorio society amid wartime anecdote
A wartime anecdote notes eight Britons in a dugout after a 12 hour bombardment. The two Irishmen are fighting, the two Scotchmen debate, the Englishmen remain unnamed, while the two Welshmen busy themselves organizing an oratorio society.
No Medium of Exchange
A small colored boy is asked by a white neighbor to run an errand. After completing it she smiles and says much obliged Bill. Bill asks which store is that paying for 'much obliged' and the exchange hints at the era’s racial dynamics.
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Bill
Mollie
Mexican bandit Pedro Reyes dies by firing squad after capture
In Tampico Reyes, once a captain and feared highway robber, faced execution after police wounded him during his escape. He wrote his own epitaph, Here lies the bandit, Pedro Reyes, before the squad fired. His death marked the collapse of his feared band and ended a violent crime career touching the Lacledo train Holdup and a 100,000 peso train theft.
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Mexico City
Pedro Reyes
Reyes
Tampico
Senor Reyes
Mexico
Torrablates Brothers
Nicolas Ramirez
Jose Martinez
Chamuscada
Plutarco Trevino
Vilherto Lechuga
Lechuga
Nuling
Lacledo
Yankee Schoolboy Holds Record as Globe Trotter
Sterling Kansas reports David Oyler son of Dr and Mrs David Oyler a Sterling junior high student possesses a remarkable travel record. Born in Alexandria Egypt he crossed the Atlantic at four months and visited numerous world regions including Abyssinia and the Belgian Congo. His mother has taught him since age twelve while Pravid’s family awaits a September return from Sudan.
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Globe Trotter
Sterling
Kan
David Oyler
Kansas
United States
David
Alexandria
Egypt
Atlantic
Africa
Pacific
Colombo
Ceylon
Deleib
America
Sterling School
Abyssinia
Belgian Congo
Palestine
Syria
Cypress
Asia Minor
Turkey
Greece
Italy
Switzerland
France
England
Pravid
United Presbyterian
Dolelb Lae
Sudan
Oust
Auction Notice in Georgina Lumpkin County 1928 Mortgage Foreclosure
Personal property including a 1927 Chevrolet Touring Car motor 2744128 and a team of blue horses and two mules with weights 850 and 1100 pounds will be sold at the courthouse door on the first Tuesday in July 1926. Levyed upon as property of Albert Jarrard Emory Staneel and Wilward Jarrard by foreclosure of a Bank of Dahlonega mortgage dated May 25 1928. Sheriff W M Housley signs the notice dated May 26 1928.
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Dahlonega
Lumpkin County
Georgia
Superior Court
Moore & Warly
J. W. Walker
W. M. Housasy
Georgina
Court House
Said
Towit
Albert Jarrard
Emory Staneel
Wilward Jarrard
Ander
Said County
Bank of Dahlonega
Dmory Stancil
Edward Jarrard
W.M. Housley
Oldest Letter to Be Shown in London Exhibition
A 7000 year old clay tablet letter, written in cuneiform, found at Ur and enclosed in a clay envelope, will be displayed at the Grafton galleries London. The writer belongs to the Larza dynasty of Babylon around 5000 B C E, mentioning a purchase deed by Annini from Shmti-Ha.
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London
Grafton Galleries
Larza
Babylon
Annini
Shmti-Ha
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