Ordinary American Boy Becomes Soldier in War’s Call
In a Chicago mission clubroom Dora Yo cum feels the nation’s call as war nears. Her sweetheart Ramsey, now a corporal, writes from France amid censoring and danger, affirming resolve to fight for freedom. The story tracks awakening patriotism and a girl’s letter home turning to a vow to aid the Red Cross and support the war effort.
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America
Dora Yocum
Ea Mission
Mission
Hindenburg
Ludendorff
Krupp
Skoda
Ramsey
France
Red Cross
Dora
Mila
Lke
Energy as the capital you must invest for success
John Blake argues energy powers achievement more than knowledge. He compares energy to a turbine, urging careful cultivation through health and mental exercise to convert effort into results. He warns against idleness and wasted energy, insisting disciplined use yields growth and progress.
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John Blake
Writing It at Home With Four Four Years of Noise
A father narrator details writing at home disrupted by four lively children. Each child demands attention with questions about numbers and pencils while play and noise interrupt focus. By night, the house quiets and the thoughts once sparked vanish, leaving the author unable to recall them.
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Will M. Maupta
Ships Adopt Chaperons For Unattended Girl Travelers
Mistress at arms titled official chaperons added to crews of all United States Lines ships. Their duty is to oversee comfort and welfare of all girls traveling unattended aboard the vessels.
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United States Lines
Tomorrow as the Greatest Troublemaker
A meditation on hopeful youths who delay action while life passes by. The piece contrasts their dreamy pace with sobering reminders of missed chances and the harsher winter of opportunity that follows in wakeful hours to come.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Painted Cup Flower Spotted by Prairie Wanderers
In prairie flats a scarlet tuft known as the painted cup appears among green tke flakes of fire. Wanderers recognize the bloom and note its vivid color and growth in the grasslands.
Bread and nut loaf and citron cake recipe directions
Directions for a nut bread loaf using bread crumbs nuts butter and spices and a citron topped cake. It describes mixing eggs sugar butter flour baking powder cream nutmeg folding egg whites lining a cake tin and baking at a moderate oven with heat lowered after rising.
Thought speed versus light and motion in a science note
The article contrasts mental speed with rapid physical motion citing thought at about 110 feet per second and a motorcar and light’s nine million times faster, using a London Time and Tide note about a women run newspaper.
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Time and Tide
London
Experience Teaches People Hard Lessons They Fear
In a reflective column, the author notes that life lessons arrive through costly experiences that people often wish to avoid. The piece argues wisdom comes from enduring consequences and choosing wiser paths in future choices.
These Efficiency Courses
A quip about a new employee who hardly accomplishes work due to being too busy learning to be efficient in the company. The remark underscores workplace irony and speed versus output.
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By Booth Tarrington
Dutch Krusemeyer
Albert Paxton
Leutenants
Fred Mitchell
States
Doubleday, Page & Company
Blake
By Will M. Maupin
Bat
F. A. Walker
Mvaae
Western Newspapers Union
Kansas City Star
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