Dined by German Club During Soldier Banquet
Elmer Forde writes of a Ranken school detachment banquet at the Liederkranz club in St Louis on April 24 1918. The event featured a formal dinner with a menu a patriotic program and dancing attended by soldiers from the country and small towns with entertainment by Mme Louise Armilda and Mr John Adams and a bar noted as closed.
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Helmer Forde
St. Louis
Liederkranz Club
Ranken
Company Street
Texas
Fred Widmann
Colin M. Setph
Jack Ryan
G. A. Goerger
Mme
Louise Armilda
John Adams
Liederkrans Club
U. S. Army
Abanly Hotel
Page Boulevard
Elmer Forde
Letter from Bennie Corsen in France March 1918
Private Bennie Corsen writes to his mother from A E F France describing mail delays, warmth, trench days, cooking duties, a river with trout, and local French acquaintances. He mentions comrades Anton Bernatz Ed Lewis Henry Blaess Clifford Marlow and Ed Halvorson and notes six months of unpaid pay.
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Anton Bernatz
Ed. Lewis
Henry Blaess
Clifford Marlow
Ed. Halvorson
Ella Tam
Prussian Propaganda Cited as Ruinous to Russia
The text argues Bolsheviks ruined Russia, blame educated leaders for exploiting mass ignorance, warn of Prussian influence on Lenin and Trotzky, and call for stern punishment of propagandists to protect national interests.
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Russia
Trotzkys
Donkeys in trousers in Guayaquil
A stranger notes the peculiar sight of donkeys in Guayaquil wearing trouserlike coverings on their fore legs and ears for mosquito protection. Donkeys are common in the city, used to haul fruit baskets and even butchered meat from a slaughterhouse outside town, creating a comical scene when embroidered trousers appear.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Tropics
Pace of soldiers and the mile in Britain
The London Chronicle outlines military pacing by nation and height, noting British infantrymen average 30 to 32 inches per pace. It claims 2,000 to 2,100 paces make a mile, based on brow-height division.
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London Chronicle
German patent for hide area measurement by air pressure
A German patent describes a device to measure hide areas using a suction table with a perforated top and funnel base. A vacuum gauge and tachometer readings quantify air flow changes as a hide rests on the table, producing a measurable sub pressure. Buy Liberty Bonds.
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Liberty Bonds
Long or Short Whistles and Silo Advertising
A rail way man urges a mechanical device to standardize whistle signals after experiments with 50 workers and 20 boards to show uncertainty in long and short whistles. An ad promotes hollow tile mock silos fireproof windproof decay proof with options to buy complete structures or materials and labor.
Home grown sweetening urged for sugar relief
The article argues for home production of sugar via beets or sorghum to reduce dependence on refined sugar. It gives beet cultivation steps from seed to syrup, storage, and boiling, then urges organized sorghum cultivation with cooperative mills, outlining yields, costs, and practical steps to grow and process syrup locally.
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United States
Cuba
Louisiana
Sorghum Cultivation Urged to Cut Costs and Aid Exports
A call to farmers to revive sorghum growing and consumption as a practical thrift measure. The plea urges widespread action to reduce home expenses and conserve sugar for export, stressing the need for a general return to sorghum.
Chinese Servants and Household Economics
Chinese servants cost little in wages but entail high requisites. They receive meals, help themselves to family goods, and dress from old clothing, treating themselves as part of the household. They take hairpins and toilet articles, clothe their children from the common wardrobe, and freely use available resources.
Moonlight and Moon Lore in Sleep and Harvest
A discussion cites the New York Medical Journal on moon phase farming enriching onions and links moonlit sleepwalking to childhood dreams. Dr Sadger of Vienna notes somnambulists recall activities under moonlight, suggesting moon lore may guide certain sleep disorders across life.
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New York Medical Journal
Sadger
Vienna
Paper-Covered Novels and Their Alluring Titles
The piece discusses dime novels from 1853 reissued in octavo form in New York, noting their attractive titles such as The Fate of the Unheard-Of. It describes the books as the literature of the trenches during the Civil War era, though not true literature.
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Ned Buntline
Square Twelvemes
New York
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Ben Corsen
France
164Th Inf. A
E. F
Bennie Corsen
Illinois
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Nebraska
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Goodrich
Silvertown Corps
America
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company
Mason City
Federal Ave
Goodrich - Akron
Ohi
Nstay
Liberty
American Drug and Press Association
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