German Prisoners Build Life in North Carolina Camp
German detainees at Hot Springs create a self built village beside the river with handmade houses, a Gothic play church, and a flower garden. The Young Men’s Christian Association organizes classes in English French Spanish shorthand geography chemistry marine engineering and navigation with German teachers. The program expands to Fort Oglethorpe Fort McPherson and Fort Douglas, offering religious educational athletic and gardening activities to relieve monotony and guard discipline remains relatively manageable.
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Heidelberg
Nurnberg
Black ‘Mountains
North Carolina
YY. M. G.A
Young Men's Christian Association
Hot Springs
Fort Oglethorpe
Fort McPherson
Fort Douglas
Utah
Smokes Made Three Trips Before Truth Known
Pittsburgh scene reports that over two years a box of cigarettes was sent to Sergeant John Graham of the Fifth Regiment Royal Irish Rifles in France, repeatedly returned, and only on the final delivery did his brother Thomas Graham learn John was dead after being killed in action on December 5, 1910, following his entry into the trenches. an English government letter accompanied the last shipment.
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Pittsburgh
John Graham
Royal Irish Rifles
France
Thomas Graham
Acrlon
Chinese woman offers help to Boise City war effort
A Boise widow named Mrs. Chin Suo Leng Ah Fong volunteers for government service saying she will serve as interpreter or private secretary if needed. A Boise public school graduate and longtime official interpreter for the Boise courts she is well regarded in the community and active in Congregational church life.
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Boise City
Idaho
Chin Suo
Leng Ah Fong
Boise
Congregational Church of
Pup Nero Defies Skeptics and Becomes Henhouse Hero
In Smith Center Kansas Mrs Ben Butler raises a small bull pup named Nero who is mocked as worthless by her husband Ben After dark Nero attacks and tears Ben s clothing before the hired man and Mrs Butler pry his jaws apart Ben changes his mind about the dog s value and bravery
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Ben
Nero
Stek
Mr. Ben
Boscobel oak seedings on Oregon campus recall legend
Wagene Oregon plants acorns labeled Bos Cobel Oak from the owl tree linked to King Charles II. The tale recalls that while hiding in the original Boscobel Oak, owls flew as Cromwell forces approached, leading pursuers to abandon the chase, a story carried to campus plantings expecting a second Bosco bel oak.
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Wagene
Ore
Charles
Cromwell
University of Oregon
Charles II
Nations call for food sharing over hoarding during crisis
A wartime appeal urges Americans to avoid hoarding food, stressing food would be prioritized for the public. The Food Administration limits licensed dealers to stock for 60 days and urges mutual sharing to sustain supplies through the coming months.
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Food Administration
Make Your Own Sugar from Maple Trees at Home
Learn to produce maple syrup or sugar using a sugar maple tree, a metal spout, a bucket, and a kitchen stove. Ten trees yield about four gallons of syrup or thirty pounds of sugar. prepare for the first warm sunny days in February for a good sugar season.
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United States
America
Prediction that whiskers may be a postwar fad
The Louisville Courier notes that war influences facial hair trends. English papers say soldiers returning from trenches may bring back full beards, a pattern seen after the Crimean and Civil War eras, suggesting American troops could spark a beard resurgence.
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London
Europe
America
Louisville Courier
Alexander the Great
England
Coal Gas for Motor Fuel in Early American Car
Report notes a New York car using coal gas as fuel with an 8 by 45 inch steel tank on a running board. At 2000 psi, it reportedly drives about 120 miles. compressed gas at 8 cents per thousand feet is about 25 percent cheaper than gasoline at 28 cents a gallon, based on cost rather than energy content.
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America
New York
Popular Mechanics
Two Socks at Once for Army Boys Promised by Red Cross Workers
War era knitting method claims efficiency by producing twins socks in one session. Sydney workshop boosts output from 50,000 to 70,000 pairs monthly by knitting two socks alternately. Instructions describe purling top, threading, turning heels, and rhythm to finish both socks together.
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Red Cross
Teed Cross
Sydney
Australia
Miss Brown
Outr Red Cross
Inventive Notes From An Earlier Era
An Italian priest invents clothing from pressed feathers as a wool substitute. A gasoline blow torch powers a camp stove that cannot be blown out. A pneumatic latch allows remote door opening after patent. A new car washing map uses a hollow handle to feed water via hose. British doctors pursue parasite research to exterminate pests.
Soldiers Find Texas Cities Quite Like Those Back Home
United States troops stationed in Texas adapt to local life, admiring Dallas and other Texan elites while noting towns resemble those elsewhere in the United States. The Christian Science Monitor observes that modernization makes American towns look similar, though distinctive regional architecture once stood out.
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Texas
United States
Lone Star
Dallas
Christian Science Monitor
Caltles
Europe
Tome
London
Paris
New York
Rex
Masschusetts
Illinois
Colorado
California
We Grow Old Yet We Move On Brightly
John D. Wells notes the aging process and reflects on youth fading with a mix of verse phrases. The Buffalo Evening News presents a nostalgic voice about aging, happiness, and living, acknowledging that physical signs may persist while inner vitality remains.
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Maida
Bix
Eileln
John D. Wells
Buffalo Evening News
Dialogue Amid Confusion and Sharp Exchange in Crisis
A fragmented exchange unfolds with an angry woman demanding action, a police captain seeking the offender, and a hospital setting referenced. The dialogue touches on propriety, authority, and uncertainty as a clerk notes information limits and hints at war timing without specifying details.
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Avery
Air Raiders outfitted with telescope and spirit level
A World War I era report describes a bomb release aid devised from a captured Gotha. It centers on a telescope, a ghabala rod, and a spirit level to guide pilots in releasing bombs from altitude. The device aims to align with a calculated drop point despite air density variations.
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Jung
Gotha
London
Wherr Fe
Sun phrases traced from Pasent to Thackeray joke
The article traces origins of phrases associated with the sun, noting “Line up the sun” tied to Pasent and “On which the sun never sets” linked to the Spirileh empire. It mentions usage by Airst and Thackeray in Punch, comparing Oxford English Dictionary notes and a Science Monitor context.
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Pasent
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