Why We Fight by Clarence L. Speed
This piece argues Germany's covert warfare inside the United States explains the nation’s wartime stance. It cites the Delbruck law allowing dual citizenship, German abroad groups, and Pan German aims to influence American society, urging no peace while Germany seeks world dominion.
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Germany
Acton
Dewey
Manila Bay
Spain
United States
kKaiser
Rerrelly
Delbreck
Verein Fur Das Deutschtum Im Ausland
Union For Germanism In Foreign
Leeds
New York
San Francisco
Alldeutsche Blatter
America
Belgium
Russia
Serbia
Rovumanis
Bulgaria
Turkey
India
Orient
Kamerad
Simple Things Worth While from the Albuquerque Evening Herald
The Albuquerque Evening Herald argues happiness comes from mental attitude, not wealth or servants. It urges taking time off, visiting cemeteries to ponder life’s brevity, and remembering virtues inscribed on headstones show value beyond money or status.
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Albuquerque
Evening Herald
Curious Beliefs Among Siamese Schoolchildren
Mr Ernest Young, who went to Siam to organize education, discussed odd beliefs held by local children. They thought the earth was flat, tides came from a crab, and gods caused thunder and lightning. They bowed to him unless told English children did not.
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Ernest Young
Siam
London
Mr. Young
Precious Stones in British Crown Told by Crystal Ledger
The crown holds over 3000 stones including a heart shaped ruby said to have been given to Edward the Black Prince in 1637 by Don Pedro of Castile. It also features a huge sapphire acquired by George VI and a total of 1863 brilliant diamonds 1273 rose diamonds 147 table diamonds 277 pearls 18 sapphires 11 emeralds and four rubies. The piece with white silk lining and a purple cap weighs just over 89 ounces.
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Edward
Don Pedro
Castile
George TV
Ancient Chinese Canals and Great Works
The article ponders when China began canal digging, noting the lack of authentic records. It reflects on long familiar waterways, comparing them to the Grand Canal and the Great Wall while stressing they are unrelated projects, yet both ancient and remarkable.
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China
Great Wall of China
Do Not Envy Others Idle Women
The text urges women not to envy those who seem spared work, arguing aimless living brings unhappiness. It urges finding a worthwhile duty, forgetting self, and discovering new delight in contentment through purposeful activity.
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Glassmaking in Venice and Murano’s rise in history
The text notes that glassmaking in Venice dates to ancient times and a 1291 law moved the industry to Murano to reduce fire risk. Since then Murano has been a leading center for hand blown glass and related crafts worldwide.
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Venice
Murano
Bread Box Help to Housekeeper and Kitchen Aids
Article describes constructing a sponge box or bread raiser from a packing box to stabilize dough temperature for faster rising. Details include shelf layout, asbestos lining for fire safety, ventilation holes, thermometer insertion, and heat sources. Also notes a home method to filter unrefined peanut oil for household use.
Sour Cream Salad Dressing for Potato Salad
Recipe notes describe a dressing for potato salad using sour cream eggs sugar salt vinegar and paprika. Beat the egg until light, mix with other ingredients, cook in a double boiler until thick, then strain if overcooked and separated to achieve a smooth consistency.
Oatmeal Cookies for School Lunches
Oatmeal cookies for school lunches use one egg one third cup sugar one cup rolled oats two teaspoons melted fat and a quarter teaspoon salt. Beat egg add sugar then mix remaining ingredients drop spoonfuls on a greased tin bake in a moderate oven. Milk pricing compared to beef and eggs analyzes protein value and cost per serving.
Sugar substitutes urged to conserve sugar supply
A Department of Agriculture program for 1918 urges using substitutes such as sorghum corn and cane syrup maple sugar and honey to conserve sugar. It notes limited beet and seed cane stock restricts large sugar cane expansion and highlights potential growth in maple syrup and sorghum production across states to aid soldiers.
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Department of Agriculture
Film spread over water shows elastic surface film
Edward Bigelow explains in Boys' Life that a water surface acts like a nearly transparent elastic film. Experiments with splinters and camphor illustrate surface tension, where alcohol breaks the film between objects and camphor dissolves it ahead, sending a tiny boat forward.
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Andere
Edward Bigelow
Curse of Scotland Nine of Diamonds History
A discussion of why the nine of diamonds is viewed as the curse of Scotland. Theories include Cumberland's order for executions post Culloden, a Scottish MP voting for malt tax tied to a family arm, royal tyranny by hereditary kings, and Marie Stuart allegedly funding jewels with heavy taxation.
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Scotland
Duke of Cumberland
Stains Castle
Aberdeenshire
Marie Stuart
Flapdoodle Across Professions In History And Rhetoric
A critique of flapdoodle as a universal rhetorical tool used across society from lovers and business people to clergy. The piece laments its pervasiveness in ordinary discourse and in elite forms of art, literature, politics, and statecraft, calling it a worldwide, serious commodity.
Noisy world sparks genius and sleepless nights
Dr A A Brill of New York notes a musical genius troubled by insomnia from city noises and rural night calls. Many hypersensitive to sound blame disturbances, yet some great minds, like John Stuart Mill, sought noise to stimulate thinking by hiring a boy to drum beside his room.
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A. A. Brill
New York
John Stuart Mill
Nolse
Brill
Spiders Ride on Back of Flies
A correspondent using the microscope finds that a parasite on houseflies is often an immature spider. Too weak to spin its own web the spider rides the fly as a winged palfrey moving about until the fly perishes or the spider feeds. This could advance parasitism studies.
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Pegasus
London
Why We Fight No.3 By CLARENCO L
The piece argues Germany aims to split and conquer the world through a Mitteleuropa empire. It cites 1895 and 1911 texts, the Berlin to Baghdad railway, and Belgium and Serbia as stepping stones. It warns that a victorious Germany would threaten America and urges decisive victory to curb German aggression.
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Germany
Europe
Asia
Persian Gulf
Russia
Central Europe
Berlin
Poland
Tannenberg
Vistula
Galicia
Austria
Rome
Black Sea
Bulgaria
Turkey
Serbia
Belgium
France
America
African
South America
England
Africa
Mitteleurops
Atlantic
Lberal Party
Burgeois
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Special Information Service
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Georgia
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