Laborer and Prosperous Stranger Entangle in Dream Quest
In a Glencoe hotel Earl and Stevens chase fortune and adventure as they tail Caldwell Wirst, a wealthy Klondike-era figure, while a sickly young woman in Gemport yearns for a distant love. A dream sequence links a laborer and the rich man to a canyon fate as dawn breaks.
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Earl
Thera
Stevens
Caldwell Wirst
Caldwell Miurst
Tie
States
Klondike
Gemport
Cheminum
Elsie
Caldwell Mhurst
Fort Stevens
John Merce
Stephens
Washington
It Is the Law It Is the Law
In a small town office John Hamlin a young attorney faces a moral draft as his stenographer Priscilla, torn between two suitors, Cecili Mellville and Jerry Hart, weighs love against money and status while Hamlin quietly contemplates his own heart. Priscilla finally reveals she would prefer to become a lawyer's wife, shocking Hamlin and tying their fates together.
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John Tinmlin
John Hamlin
Haman
Priscilla
Hke Peltston
Priscila
Cecil Melville
Mellvife
Priscola
J. Iamilia
Janey
Ife
J. Hamlin
Cecil Mellville
maarriage
Jerry Hart
Pelleston
Hart
Melivite
Jerry
Flo
section
Seung Woo GUE
John Hamilton
Jind
Priscilila
Hamlin
Nuff
Removing a Splinter With Hot Water Technique
Popular Mechanics Magazine recommends plunging the injured finger over the mouth of a nearly full hot water bottle and pressing gently. The flesh draws down, exposing the splinter for easy removal, a safer method than pricking with a pin or knife. Apply usual antiseptic afterward.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
First War Stamp Bank Built in Oklahoma City
The first building in the United States erected as a war savings stamp bank has been constructed in Oklahoma City Oklahoma. Local business firms donated all materials and furnishings while workers were paid in baby bonds. The structure, on a downtown street, will exclusively sell war savings and thrift stamps.
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United States
Oklahoma City
Okla
Distances in nature haunt soldiers in training scenes
A short excerpt notes many young men grow up city bred and lack a clear sense of natural distances. It observes that soldiers often see artificial landscapes marked with targets like "somewhere in France" or "on the way to Berlin" to practice amid scenery.
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France
Berlin
Popular Science Monthly
Old English Furniture From 19th Century Shifts
The stir created by the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and the railway boom drew squires and wives to the capital. On return, many discarded old furniture for new items, sending quality pieces to second-hand shops and then to poorer households, explaining today’s spread of fine old furniture in small provincial homes.
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Britain
London
England
Trudianapolis
Not to Be Taken In Quote from Crowder on Germany
Provost Marshal General Crowder states Germany will be punished harshly, comparing victory to a judge's hard sentence. He asserts the United States will not be swayed by Germany's penitence or pity and warns the adversary will face a severe, extended reprimand.
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Germany
General Crowder
Weapons of War and the Rise of Mechanized Conflict
The piece extols a scienceDriven war relying on chemistry and high explosives rather than manpower. It highlights poison gases tear shells gas masks squid fire and re applied chemistry. It praises machine guns heavy artillery submarines automobiles and drylanes as refined mechanics driving modern warfare.
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Popular Science Monthly
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