Two US soldiers flee hunger and danger toward Toul
After crossing France in a hot trek from hospital, Eadie and Darcy reach Division HQ but misidentify their unit. A cook refuses steak, they beat him for fish, evade MPs, and catch a ride to Toul, where rain falls as night closes in.
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Darcy
Pardee
Osehbor
Eadies
Couke
Seventy Ninth Field Artillery
Seventy-ninth Field
Third Division
Waddie
M.P
Det
Eadie
M. P
P. C
Fourth Infantry
Guy
Min
U. S, Army
Keer
Seventy-ninth Field Artillery
The
Seventy-ninth
Claflin
Toul
Carcy
United States Army
Saint Dizier
Red Cross
Oberlin founders shaped reform spirit and sex equality
Oberlin College and colony in Ohio began over 90 years ago to hasten Christian dominion on earth. The project promoted higher education for women and Black enslaved people, and by 1893 Oberlin birthed the Anti Saloon League, all rooted in The Oberlin Covenant.
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Oberlin
Ohio
Kingdom of Christ On Earth
Anti-Saloon League
Wine or Whine of Life
A line from F. Allison Barton in Psychology Magazine asserts the true wine of life comes from enduring reverses. People who accept blows with a grin carry on and never quit, while those who whine invite failure and miss the fruits of experience.
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F. Allison Barton
Psychology Magazine
Five-Year-Old Virginia Seeks Breakfast Downtown
In a breakfast scene Virginia, age five, asks if downtown is open so she can get something to eat. Her family sits at the table with six, including Virginia and Virginia's parents. The father explains downtown is not open yet as one parent must be at work by eight.
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Virginia
Indianapolis News
Her Way of Knowing Jean Peels Insight from Neighbors
Four year old Jean can identify neighbors by sight and by what she observed. She recalls a woman passing by daily and explains she knows where she lives after seeing the woman peeling a chicken in her yard.
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Jean
Inflicting Pain Punishment and Human Psychology
A quote by Winthrop D. Lane in the Delineator discusses how punishment relies on causing pain. It notes a primitive urge to see others suffer, while many keep it under control though vestiges remain in certain people.
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Winthrop D. Lane
Queen of Precious Stones
An authority estimates diamonds are four to five times the value of other gems. India was the original home of diamonds and long the sole source for Europe. Major discoveries expanded supply to Brazil around 1730 and then South Africa in 1867, which now yields over 90 percent of world diamonds totaling about 90 million carats and a value near five million dollars.
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India
Europe
Brazil
South Africa
Crank described as worst in town by writer
A writer in the American Magazine calls a persistent critic the worst crank in town, defining a crank as someone who knows exactly what he wants and insists until he gets it.
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George H. Doran Company
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Capodanno
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Condrecourt
Ligny
Eadle
Seadle
Sadie
Fellars
Sammun
Sergeant Eade
Kadie
Tley
Ield
Mr. P
Simon
Corps
Turkeyface
Dozwood
Kaiser Bill
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