Will It Happen Again A look back at 1914 16 sabotage debates
Parker Eldridge surveys the push to repeal the arms embargo and recalls a pattern of sabotage and espionage linked to World War I era munitions. The piece catalogs bombings, plots, and investigations from 1914 to 1917, noting figures like Dumba and von Papen and events at Kingsland and Black Tom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker
Eldridge
Western Newspaper Union
Vyew York
United States
America
Great Britain
France
Kingsland
N. J
Canadian Car & Foundry Company
Haskell
Zimmermann
Mexico
duPont
Carney’s Point
New York Market Boss Sees Metropolitan Woes in Food Prices
William Fellowes Morgan Jr., New York markets commissioner, argues that farmer profits suffer not from greed but from wasteful metropolitan markets. He cites bottlenecks, wasteful handling, and crowded streets as the core obstacles, urging a nation-wide reform to align farmer and shopper interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
William Fellowes Morgan Jr
New York City
Country Home Magazine
Morgan
New York
Navy
Manhattan
Frances Foley Gannon
The Galloping Tooth Tale From World War I Front Lines
Don Aspinwall of Rochelle Park New Jersey recounts a brutal World War I dental extraction in a trench. With no anesthetic a Yorkshire orderly uses a Webley revolver butt as the instrument and the medic pretends to proceed. The patient survives and jokes that the anesthesia worked too fast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ello
France
Don Aspinwall
Rochelle Park
N. J
Don
Villers Cotteret
Jerry
Bronx
Yank
Yorkshire
Western Newspaper Union
Fall Pattern Book Promises Fits for All Shapes
The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept offers No. 1835 and No. 1814 designs with sizes 36 to 52 and 12 to 20 respectively. Patterns require yardage for materials and contrasts, include sew charts for beginners, and cost 15 cents each plus pattern book price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Distinct Races of Periodical Cicadas Revealed
Scientists identify two periodical cicada races the 17 year and the 13 year both share no differences except larval and pupal duration. Broods of each race number 12 to 17 and 18 to 30 respectively with overlapping territories but some sections show only a single brood. The western part of the country lacks periodical cicadas.
Faked Conversations and Audio Manipulation Warned
Collier's warns that phonograph records can be forged from tapped telephone talks. Innocent chats could be recorded, transferred to film, words rearranged, and replayed on phonograph discs to trap the speaker in incriminating fashion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Collier’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Chicago
Frank Holt
Erich Muenter
Capitol
Wash Nepee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Glen Cove
Long Island
Dumba
Austria
Germany
Constantin
Austria- Hungary
Bethlehem
Middle West
Franz von Papen
Russia
Boy-Ed
Captain von Papen
Wolf von Igel
von Papen
State Department
West Street
Adventurers’ Club
Paris
Sioux Falls
S. D
Agee
F. Hubbell
Nayland Ave
God
Chapin
Syria
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