Starve and prison camps claim seventeen year olds in trenches
New York reports Max Tannenbaum and Jacob Schurek, refugees who escaped German camps via Holland, describe raids on homes, shortages, and draconian rations. They detail emaciation, death threats for excess eating, and widespread conscription of youths as young as seventeen.
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New York
Germany
Max Tannenbaum
Jacob Schurek
Holland
Tannenbaum
Russia
Bars Up to Gamblers at Army Cantonments
Memphis, Tennessee report notes that gamblers and card sharps tried to enter U S Army cantonments for work. Job applicants were screened to assess character and avoid nonworkers. Six Memphians arrived at Little Rock cantoment and within an hour a poker game was in progress. they were deported. Other cantonments reported similar incidents.
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Memphis
Tenn
United States Army
Little Rock
Anxious to do her bit for national war effort
Miss Lucille Patterson, a 23 year old artist, paints a 20 foot high National League for Women's Service service poster on a street corner in New York. The scene shows a modern Joan of Arc leading American women. the work will take at least three days atop a scaffold.
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Lucille Patterson
National League For Women's Service
Joan of Arc
New York
Forty-second Street
Fifth Avenue
The
League
Nothing Sacred 10 Them Horrors of Armenian Deportations
A British officer in a hospital recounts a harrowing Armenian account from Constantinople to Aleppo. He cites four deportation factories where Armenian women suffer under brutal conditions, including cold-blooded killings, burial of a sick woman, and widespread dehumanization, likening it to Dante’s Inferno.
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Armenia
Asadamard
Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Bombay
Associated Press
Bagdad
Constantinople
Aleppo
War Cross To Woman Mayor In French Village
In Quesmy France the War Cross was pinned on Mme Pellequer the village mayor and schoolmistress on July 7 1917 a day remembered as a proud moment. She led local pupils while her husband fought at the front and refused to salute the occupying Germans earning praise as a France hero.
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Paris
Quesmy
Oise
Mme
Pellequer
France
Mme. Pellequer
Maucourt
Steer Snaps Neck In Field At Ashland Wis
Otto Regler describes a steer escaping its pen and dashing into an alfalfa field near Ashland. Several farmers chased it, but the animal became entangled in three foot tall vines. In the fall its neck broke, requiring a large scythe to reach the cavens.
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Ashland
Wis
Otto Regler
Reglein
Birds Roost in Mound Cemetery Wreck War Gardens
Thousands of blackbirds have made homes in Mound cemetery and are destroying war gardens around the city. The fire department is called nightly to turn on the house lights to drive the roosting birds from the trees.
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Ruth Gardens
Marietta
O F
Mound Cemetery
Sea Island cotton traits and market factors detailed
The article explains Sea Island cotton differs from upland cotton in height leaf shape flower color and staple length. It discusses ideal growing conditions drainage humidity and soil factors plus labor and credit issues affecting production. It outlines seed selection grading and handling practices used on Sea Islands to maintain high quality and price.
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EA Island
West Indies
America
Sea Island
Sea Islands
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Charleston
Hinson
Seabrook
Irish Wit and Irish Comebacks in Humor
Irish wit is highlighted as a sharp comeback that outpaces dull bull. The piece contrasts brisk, vivid lines with broader humor used across cultures, noting a doctor’s remark on stockings as a vivid heat protection image and Napoleon’s forceful, memorable assertion.
Phrase Bites and Ironies From Irish Wit and Medical Quote
A compact quip contrasts grim humor with a doctor’s grave winter observation. The Kerry physician notes rising deaths this season, while the speaker labels it a merry Irish bull, highlighting satire in ethnic rhetoric and public health anxieties.
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Kerry
A Cure-All 400 Years Old Indian Swallow Stick
A 400 year old Indian swallow stick used in ceremonies. The priest would thrust the stick down his throat to evoke a purge, believed by natives to cleanse impurities through the reaction.
The Australian Aborigines Hunter Skills
The passage extols Aboriginal Australian hunters for their intimate environmental knowledge and superior observation. It highlights skills such as decoying pelicans, diving for ducks, locating a possum by bark marks or mosquito flight, detecting snakes by bird action, and trailing bees for honey. It notes children are taught to track lizards and snakes and to find an absent mother by faint tracks.
Seventeen Yet Appears Eighty In Paris Mystery
In 1900 Louise Gasquet, barely seventeen, lived in Paris yet appeared eighty. Despite efforts to restore youth, her aging worsened until she slept and died after a post mortem showed senile decay. English and French doctors attended, noting the body’s organ systems had aged beyond her years.
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Louise Gasquet
Paris
Half and Half Music at the Wheatsheaf Tavern
A carpenter orders a half pint as he notices a shift toward economy. He cites Sir Henry’s budget move while recounting two of his daughters playing music together on the same piano in the drawing room, as observed after a job at the hall.
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Liverpool Post
Avoiding Waste in Sirloin Sales
A merchant quips that he wastes nothing in sirloin sales. He explains he sells the bone for as much as the meat, turning every part into revenue. The exchange highlights frugality and practical efficiency in butchery.
There's a Difference Flow and Rules for Life
A dialogue contrasts seeking life success with chasing a quick formula for wealth. Uncle Jim questions whether the younger speaker wants enduring rules or a fast path to riches, underscoring a common distinction between growth and shortcuts.
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Jim
The Kind Quips About a Game With the Baby
Edward claimed he would take the baby upstairs for a game. The speaker remarks on the baby’s behavior and laughs at the idea, guessing the game would involve the horse and implying it would be rough.
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Edward
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