German Price of Peace Rumors Roil Washington News
Dispatch from Washington outlines German terms for peace including British commerce respect and French indemnity. It details Allied battles from Arras to Nancy, a British naval victory off Heligoland, Italian and Indian reinforcements, and cabinet shifts in France as war escalates.
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Charleroi Battle Seen as Greatest Slaughter Yet
Paris report details ten hours of brutal fighting around Charleroi as French and British forces clash with German troops. Cities burned, villages destroyed, and heavy casualties reported on both sides amid a fiercely contested grind that shifted control multiple times along the Sambre.
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International News Service
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Germans Drag Guns Over Their Own Dead
Daily Mail correspondent recalls French wounded in the Vosges retell a grim scene from Vichy hospitals. An artilleryman describes Germans advancing under fire, bodies piling at earthworks, as a battery's wheels sink then are dragged across a bridging line of corpses.
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Rocroi
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Lossen
Belgium
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al- Jee
What Prisoners of War Will Eat
The daily ration for prisoners of war has been approved by military authorities. It includes one pound of bread three quarters of a pound of biscuit one pound of preserved meat three ounces of cheese five eighths of an ounce of tea one quarter of a pound of fat three ounces of sugar one half ounce of salt one twentieth of an ounce of mustard one thirty sixth of an ounce of pepper one half pound of fresh vegetables. Two ounces of tobacco will be furnished each week for smokers.
Liege forts artillerymen made stone deaf
A Times medical correspondent returning from Belgium states that all Liege forts artillerymen are now stone deaf from extended bombardment. He notes that hearing nerves collapse under two weeks of constant explosions, and the guns thunder in a perpetual silence that may endure.
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Liege
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound touted for women’s relief
A testimonial from Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound claims it cured a teenage girl’s menstrual weakness after five bottles. The letter, from Mrs Martin Helvig of Plover Iowa, praises the remedy and urges others to seek advice from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Martin Helvig
Plovel, Town
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Is This the Bookkeeper The Head of the Firm Demands Pay
A fiction excerpt shows a firm head offering a salary raise while the bookkeeper refuses. The employee fears rising pay would upset civic life, noting his large family of nine and potential unemployment for others if his wage climbs. He insists he will be discharged, not given a raise.
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Lilo
Princeton Class Secretary’s Question Provokes Amusing Reply
A Princeton college class secretary yearly sends questions for the university annual. One member wrote in the blank space for engagement: Do not know. Am waiting letter. The anecdote shows the humor found in the annual questionnaires.
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