Strange Front Life Shows War's Quiet Moments Abroad
Amid shattered Europe, trenches echo with boredom and small rescues. Soldiers swap stories and crafts, while German and Indian troops display unexpected skills and rituals. A poem of contrasts captures meals, barter, music, and moments of humanity amid bombardment.
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Europe
Strassburg
Russia
Bush, O'Toole and Faber Dominate Early Baseball Talk
The piece surveys players across teams. It highlights Bush as a methodical Tiger with top off season averages for 1918 and 1914, notes O'Toole's return to form with Columbus, praises Red Faber's difficult delivery and Chicago White Sox pitching, and discusses Callahan's tenure and the potential impact of Adie Collins. It also mentions Joe Boehling's improvement with Washington and Howard Berry as a standout Penn athlete in the pentathlon.
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Sunday School Lesson Senior Berean Commentary
The text surveys psalmic themes of prayer courage and moral resolve. It urges urgent seeking of help, devotion like incense, restraint of the tongue, avoidance of evil company, and steadfast trust amid persecution. It links ancient admonitions to modern faithfulness in India China Korea and beyond.
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Christina
India
China
Korea
Ain
Wickel
Great Inventors and the Gap Between Foresight and Skill
An old note compares Hertz and Levassor, noting Hertz foresaw wireless telegraphy though his experiments aimed at labs, while Levassor sketched the automobile hoping for faster travel. A toast to sixty miles an hour prompts Levassor to joke about people acting foolish after every breakthrough.
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Levassor
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Iron in Water and its Practical Effects
United States Geological Survey notes iron in water affects taste and palatability at low levels and can stain textiles and paper at higher concentrations. Iron promotes scale and corrosion in boilers and plumbing and can encourage biological growth in pipes, complicating water usage and treatment.
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United States Geological Survey
Inventions We Need and The Edison Dream
A meditation on would be Edisons and the need for new ideas. It urges readers to pursue commercialization of inexhaustible weeds, durable paints and metals, and sea-based cities. The piece highlights invention inspired by nature and challenges readers to become the next innovator.
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Edison
Nature
Isaac Newton and the Light: A Classical Tribute
The piece praises Isaac Newton as a supreme thinker and outlines his discovery of light properties. It notes his epitaph in Westminster Abbey and cites his demonstrations of planetary motions, comet paths, tides, and the refrangibility of light as the cause of colors.
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Newton
Westminster Abbey
Point Well Taken The Truth Lingers In Rochester Opinion
A clipped newspaper item notes a misquoted maxim about truth from a Rochester American source. The piece hints at ambiguity in a public statement or editorial stance.
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Rochester American
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