Leap for Liberty From a Prison Train Escape
Pat O'Brien narrates a daring escape from a German prison train near Courtrai in September 1918. He and seven others leap from a moving carriage at 35 miles an hour, suffering cuts and bruises but gaining freedom, while guards and fellow prisoners react with chaos and disbelief.
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O'Brien
James Henry Dickson
Royal Irish Furilieers
Pat O'Brien
Jim
London
Pinel
Reo
Dreas
Ines
Jines
Holland
Belgium
Holand
Uberty
Courtrat
Geremany
Strassburg
Tie
Svete
Germin Dent
Benike
Cottrell
Nile
England
Ming George
Germany
Kent
Jeus
Vilage
Courtrai
O’brien
O'Brien's Night Journey Through War Tunnels and Frontiers
Traveling at night and hiding by day, O'Brien crawls through Germany and Luxemburg toward Belgium. He subsisted on raw vegetables stolen from gardens as he endured terrors and perils in transit, with more hardships promised in the next installment.
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O'Brien
Germany
Luxemburg
Belgium
Train Mind to Remember Chatter Reminds of Surf
A memory expert in American Magazine likens memory training to physical training, urging daily practice, focus, fresh air, and a photographic brain. He asserts most men underuse energy, and claims 99 of 100 can improve memory with discipline, while noting benefits from sunlight and open air.
Flowers on Mountain Tops in Hawaiian Bogland
In high rain areas Hawaiian ridges form open bogs hosting unique flora. Hemispherical tussocks rise above bog level, a showy labellum with large cream flowers, rare violets, and a sundew are documented among intriguing plant life. Mozart Always Composing notes reflect his lifelong immersion in music and imagination.
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Hawaiian Islands
Mozart
Niemetschok
Hat tint myths fade as bald men shed old tales
In old times people blamed baldness and study for poor blood flow and a stiff scalp. The piece argues the real cause is a hat crammed tight over the skull, squeezing blood and cooling the brain. It calls the prior belief another myth of science debunked.
Old Tavern Razed Watertown Landmark Faces Demolition
The historic Dorchester Coolidge tavern on Galen Street Watertown near the Boston elevated railway will be torn down to widen the entrance. Built in 1740 by William Williams it later belonged to Charles Coolidge and Dorothy Whitney Coolidge. George Washington visited twice and the tavern hosted legislators and volunteers during the Lexington era. The Boston Elevated Railway acquired the property years ago though local efforts sought to preserve it. A recent track accident hastened the demolition.
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Galen Street
Watertown
Boston
Boston Globe
Dorthy Coolidge
William Williams
Chanles Coolidge
Dorothy Whitney Coolidas
Washington
Lexington
Whitney
Massichuetts
Safety Committee
George TH
George Washington
Boston Elevated Railway
Watertown Historical Society
World's Oldest Town Mizikhet in Transcaucasia
A fragmented travel note extols Mizikhet a peninsular town near the Caucasus. It claims ancient origins with Noah’s son founder lore, mentions rivers Kura and Aragva, and contrasts its ancient, dirty welcoming appearance with Damascus’s deceptive verdure. The piece praises drainage and antiquity amid rugged, scenic terrain.
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Caucasus
Europe
Asia
Transcaucasian
Dizhestan
Apmenian
Mixichet
Peninsity
Maynard Owen Williams
Mizikhet
New England
Tor
Noah
Mount Ararat
Damascus
Mtzkhet
Japans Unique Population Contrasts In 19th Century View
A Scribner's writer notes Japan's population, estimated 60 to 75 million, living in a territory only modestly larger than the United States and remarkably homogeneous aside from northern aboriginal groups. He argues Japanese unity rivals any nation and contrasts it with diverse global populations.
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Japan
Scribner’s
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Chita
India
England
Scotland
Wales
Tupan
New Canadian metal touted for high grade uses
An announcment from Prof W L Goodwin of Queens University Kingston Ontario describes a new metal made by combining iron chromium and cobalt. The metal aims at high purity for industrial and artistic work with Canadian researchers and engineers involved in expanding ore processing and waste product uses.
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W. L. Goodwin
Queens University
Kingston
Ontario
Coests
Dobnsen
Peperts
Etsy
Uieswarket
Esmmtieretad Garites
Profussur Goodwin
The
Society
Nervous Breakdown Reported in Newark Ad Summary
A fragment notes a person named Kelly of 476 South 14th Street Newark described as in a nervous breakdown but later showing improvement after taking restorative measures. The text implies medical or supportive treatment restored normal functioning.
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Kelly
14Th St
Newark
NOW STAYS HOME EVENINGS
A fragmentary column recounts a married man renouncing evenings out after guilt and attempts to invite his wife for dinner, only to be met with a joking plan to stay home. Other vignettes note language quirks in Seventh Avenue, a boy asking for a sanctuary container soda, and a child’s quip about women’s hats.
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Dean Ingo
Osfard Mat St
Henry Brackenburs
Brighton
St. Paul
Jack
Tom
Olelanat
Enquirer
Ayenne
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-fourth Street
New York Herald
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Momente
Maxiesn
Roo
Canada
Prague
Myers
Bie
Mat Scheraing
Gormien
Iriah
Pevsic
Guarda
Africa
Axl Wiywelf
Uy. 8
A. de
Sedesche Cpleal Irivhinan
America
France
Heidelberg
Ghent
Eiard
Unr
Berlin
Pat
Scence
Mr. Flickerton
New York Sun
New York
Tower East
York
Miss Kelly
Lydia E. Pinkham
Junius
Javius
Abe
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