Mud Turns to Military Aid in War Reports and Song
The piece highlights mud in Flanders as a practical shield in WWI and recounts a Berlin naval officer’s failed bid to rescue Sir Roger Casement. It then covers Col. James A. Irons at Fort Shafter teaching soldiers war songs, notably Annie Laurie, to build morale and unit cohesion for potential Bordeaux to Berlin marches, with regimental songs and a list of battles.
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Flanders
Ypres
Hooge
Zillebeke
Hill Sixty
Frederic Coleman
Saturday Evening Post
Roger Casement
Berlin
Navy
London
England
Carl W. Ackerman
Casement
Germany
Sir Roger
Continent
Oahu
Sunday Advertiser
Honolulu
Army and Navy Journal
James A. Irons
Second United States Infantry
America
Trons
Fort Shafter
L'Ort Shafter
Moving Picture Theater
Bordeaux
Annie Laurie
Maumee Fords
Mistaken for Grand Duke in Petrograd Tall Tale
A Petrograd tale recounts General Brusiloff being saluted as a grand duke in error. He replies, I am an honest man, then moves on. Other vignettes note a Washington theater incident where a man was frisked by Secret Service for concealed weapons and a Deaf mutes piece on music's educational value.
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Petrograd
Brusiloff
Washington
Indianapolis News
Dreams of Russia Come True In a Train Car Conversation
Catherine Breshkovskaya recalls a girlhood ride to St Petersburg with her mother and sister when a handsome prince, Peter Kropotkin, spoke of Russian reform. The two revolutionaries’ long exile and efforts are credited as vindicating their cause while Kropotkin guides British understanding of Russia.
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Catherine Breshkovskaya
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Peter Kropotkin
Russia
Christian Science Monitor
Getting Down From an Elephant Joke
The Indianapolis News recounts a joke exchange about how to get down from an elephant, with quips about climbing, greasing, and a punchline about getting it off a goose. The joke sequence highlights how repeated questions lead to humorous misdirection.
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Indianapolis News
Portable Fire for Soldiers in Winter Field Use
The article describes a compact portable fire ration for soldiers using homemade cylinders of old newspapers boiled in paraffin. The method yields compact, highly combustible fuel suitable for heating food in alpine and winter field conditions.
I Lost My Hearing in a Moving Pictures Photo
Aunt Elvira bursts in shouting she cannot hear. The sister questions how she knows. Elvira points to a street organist, declaring the moving pictures are to blame for her deafness.
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Aunt Elvira
Birds Aid In War Effort By Boosting Crop Yields
Wartime agriculture emphasizes birds as allies in war economies. Birds reduce insect pests, aiding farmers and lowering need for costly chemicals. A quail may carry 10 000 pigweed seeds in a single carcass, while a quail’s stomach tests show birds destroy thousands of pests in hours. Machinery from Washington visits Honolulu to study banana trunk fiber bag making as a potential substitute for imported Hindu bags used in shipping Hawaiian sugar.
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Honolulu
Washington
Hawaiian Islands
Calcutta
United States
Old Laws, Modern Conditions in England and New England
The Springfield Republican notes England revived a Charles I era Sunday business ban amid wartime labor shortages. It argues New England should heed the reminder as shopworkers face overwork and arrests for Sunday sales.
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New England
England
Charles I
Springfield
Mass
Lumpkin County 1917 Tax Levy Authorized
Court of Ordinary of Lumpkin County Georgia sets 1917 tax rates for county purposes at 9 mills plus state levy. The total levy, including road and school taxes, amounts to 1.40 dollars per hundred of assessed value on properties totaling 1,297,904 dollars, to fund debt, repairs, officers, jurors, poor relief, and roads. Key disbursements include 9-10 of a percent for county expenses and specific allocations for jail, clerks, witnesses, jurors, roads, and school needs. The levy is certified and will be collected by the Lumpkin County Tax Collector.
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Court of Ordinary
Lumpkins County
Georgia
Lumpkin County
Oaal SR A
Coun
Cqualine
Oc Rise Aera
W. B. Townsend
H. B. Smith
Od Jury
Curry School Hundred
Eee
Mountain Inn Now Open for Transient Guests
The Mountain Inn opens to transient and touring guests in North Georgia. It boasts electric lights, running water, 80 acres of shaded parkland, and meals praised by locals. Proprietor Craig R Arnold invites travelers to enjoy the resort.
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North
Georgia
Graig R, Arnold
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Gatnhmsville
North Georgia
Gainesville, Ga
B. R. Meaders & Sons
Bank of Dahlonega
Durkait's Pharmacy
Durham's
Popular Science Monthly
John Kirk
Ragged School Union
Oakum
Madam Breshkovskaya
Prince
The
Mountain Inn
Gainesville and
Darlonega
Gainesville
Dahlonega
J. W. Laystorp
Murrayville
H. E. Watson
Mrs. T
Littlefield
Atlanta
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