Coal Shortage Warns of Winter Crises Warned by Survey
The United States Geological Survey warns of another general coal shortage this fall and winter unless mines boost production. Buyers urged to order now to ensure supply as labor shortages, transportation limits, and wage talks threaten output and home and industrial demand.
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United States Geological Survey
Washington
United States
Garfield
Fuel Administration
Europe
Were Christians at night near Trebizond
In a narrative from the American Review of Reviews the Stavrili clan near Trebizond, descendants of Greeks, allegedly lived as Muslims by day and Christians by night. Some families secretly returned to Christianity despite government pressure, claiming their ancestors were Christian Orthodox and that they had long prayed beside mosques.
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Trebizond
Black Sea
Asia Minor
Stavrili
Constantinople
George F. White
American Review of Reviews
Sterrill
Nation Was Never More Fit Says New York Medical Journal
The journal argues wartime discipline improved physical and moral health. It says many trained hard, learned to sacrifice, and shed lethargy, urging postwar society to remain hard and fit in body and mind. It warns against returning to flabbiness and complacency.
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New York Medical Journal
Fishes In Shipyard At Portland Creates Unusual Noon Hour
Dean Adams a toolroom foreman at G. M. Standifer plant in Portland recalls a year ago fishing from a shipyard. He stood near active dredges and pipes drawing water and sand, when smelt rose through the flow creating an easy basketful of fish during his noon hour.
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Dean Adams
G. M. Standifer
Portland
Ore
Adams
He Didn’t Learn to Name Notes, Pianist Recalls Tale
Ernest Hutcheson relays a Europe conservatory anecdote about a pupil who instantly names notes as Major Minor and Diminished without study. The amused teacher asks where the pupil learned, and the student reveals instinctive musical insight.
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Ernest Hutcheson
Conservatory
Parrot Trick Delights Car Passengers
A quirky roadside moment unfolds as a soldier guards a big white dog beside a silk American flag. The scene amuses a carload of onlookers, including a small boy whose laughter draws a sharp rebuke from his father.
Bear's Last Fight With Loggerhead Turtle in Florida Harbor
A Newfoundland-like confrontation on a Florida harbor beach ends when a huge loggerhead turtle overpowers a black bear. The turtle clamps the bear's jaw, drags him toward the sea, and eventually sinks the adversary, washing ashore the next day in pieces. New York Herald.
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Florida
Hind
Brain
New York Herald
Can An Auto Prance? Prancing Truck on Spring Street
A Jeffersonville war delayed road repair scene shows a small truck loaded with long boards bouncing over rough spots. Front wheels reared. the driver was catapulted into the air before guiding the vehicle again at speed. The account notes the truck would not prance unless moving at least five miles an hour.
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Spring Street
Jeffersonville
Trudianapolis
Electric mattresses aid warmth at Treloar Cripples hospital
At the Treloar Cripples' hospital in Alton England two wards now use electric mattresses. The beds are differentially heated with maximum heat at the foot end and none at the head, proving safe and convenient even for a child occupant.
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Treloar Cripples’ Hospital
Alton
England
Western irrigation drive boosts 1919 crop boom for farmers
Prospects across the western reclamation belt point to a crop record surpassing 1917 and 1918 as the current season progresses. High prices for essentials, abundant labor, and available credit promote large scale farming, signaling a boom year for western rubber-boot farmers.
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Far West
Business Men in His Son
An essay compares earning methods from history, noting how figures like Moses, Pis marek, Mark Antony, Alexander the Great, Napoleon, and William Hohenzollern fared in business. It contrasts self employment with salaried work and hints at the long-term outcomes for creditors by referencing a 1914 Dane Bradstreet report.
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Hhoice
Phice
JR. Spregue
Moses
Pharsaeh Corporation
Pismarek
Iippens
Mark Antony
Alexander the Great
Napoleon
William Hohenzollern
Homecoming for Jim Ends With Quick Stop at Stockyards
Jim, away for nearly two years, wires his father from an Eastern port that he will leave in fifteen minutes for can. He explains a quick visit to the Chicago stockyards with friends before heading to camp, prompting plans for a big homecoming.
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Jim
Eximp
Can
Chi
Chicago Tribune
Dewey Claims Love For Margaret In After School Conversation
In his first year at school, Dewey stays after hours with a special permit. He confesses to Miss O his growing affection for a girl named Margaret, praising her as he speaks with wistful brown eyes, while his curls nod in agreement.
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Dewey
Miss
Miss O
Margaret
Indianapolis News
Those Yankee Vandals and the German Holiday Gathering
A chaotic New Year scene in a bridgehead town where a private, after several schnapps, encounters a small German group. A buck and a German exchange phrases as a magistrate and a Burgomeister are seen, with a friendly MP escorting the hunter toward his bank.
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M. P
L. B. Warthman
A. K.P
Mudge
First American Flight Deck Aces Break Naval Records
American aviators pioneered shipboard flight starting with the scout cruiser Birmingham on November 14 1910 and later aboard the battleship Pennsylvania with a January 18 1991 flight. The pilot completed a return flight from the same warship. Other American pilots have since followed.
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Fuce Ne Ely
Birmingham
San Francisco
Pennsylvania
Annie Font
Stirring Incident Recounts Flight Near Collision
An aviation tale from the Birmingham Age-Herald recalls a near miss when a wife rushed the aircraft as the propeller started. She leapt into the arms of her relative to stop the flight, described as a dramatic moment in early aviation.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Royalty in Java Palace Life Through Asia Magazine
An Asia Magazine account recalls a visit to the palace of the sultan of Djokrak Arta in Java. It describes royal escorts in batik attire with gold insignia, maids of honor aged around ten but serving for decades, and guards in distinctive uniforms with kris at the hip, including ceremony styled marches and cross legged Javanese seating.
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Djokrakarta
Jaya
Asia Magazine
China and Y M C A conference vows wartime work to spread
About 69 Chinese Y M C A secretaries meeting in France decide to preserve and copy the wartime hut work. They plan to extend the organization from upper classes to coolies and other laborers. Delegates arrive from Manchuria Shanbing Kiangson Chi Li Hupeh and more.
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France
China
Republic
Manchuria
Shanbing
Kiangson
Chi-Li
Hupeh
Farm Management Association Offers Cash Prizes in Montana
A statewide farm management group formed by Montana farm bureau members will offer over 3800 in cash prizes to advance farm record keeping. Prizes include 100 for the best kept and accurate farmer's account book, 100 for the best organized farm by the book, and 100 as a sweepstakes trophy. A 25 shield will go to the county or club showing the most demonstrated results from记录 books. Prizes donated by commercial firms with statewide business interests.
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Montana Farm Bureau
State Farm Management Association
Eye drill trains RAF pilots to use both eyes
The Royal Air Force introduced an eye drill to train pilots to use both eyes. Early flyers were often only sighted with one eye, so a program by an eye specialist was started. Twice daily exercises and parades helped 95 percent of previously deficient airmen become capable pilots.
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Royal Air Force of England
Air Service
Roosevelt in the Mud and Pershing’s Return
A 1903 anecdote recalls Secretary Loeb informing Roosevelt that Captain Pershing was in Washington. Pershing joins a White House lunch where Roosevelt and Pershing reminisce of a muddy Siboney night, a Rough Rider, mules stuck, and a tale about restraint amid rain and mud.
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White House
Pershing
Rough Rider
Williamy Loeb, Jr
Roosevelt
Washington
War Department
Santiage
Siboney
George MacAdamn
Own a Cow Push: Jefferson Davis Parish Bankers Back Program
Bankers cooperate with the agricultural agent in Jefferson Davis parish Louisiana to promote an own a cow campaign. In 1918 the agent bought five carloads 160 head including 5 registered Holsteins from Wisconsin. Cattle were distributed to farmers with plans for more carloads next fall and about 200 pure bred calves for the boys calf club.
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Jefferson Davis Parish
Memie
Boy's
They Used Horse Sense Driverless Horses Stop Go
A driverless team of Indianapolis owned horses pulled a drag through Meridian and Maryland streets. The traffic signal misread, the horses paused at each stop and began at go, until a driver eventually reined them in.
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Indianapolis
Meridian
Maryland
Canadian Statesmen and Governors General Catalog
The article lists prime ministers of Canada from 1867 starting with Sir John Macdonald, then Alexander Mackenzie, again Macdonald, Abbott, Thompson, Mackenzie Powell, Tupper, Laurier, and Borden. It also names governors general from Viscount Monck (1867–1869) to later holders including Lord Lisgar, the marquis of Lorne, Lansdowne, Derby, Aberdeen, Minto, the duke of Connaught, and the duke of Devonshire.
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Canada
John Macdonald
Alexander Mackenzie
J. J. ©. Abbott
John Thompson
McKenzie Powell
Charles Tupper
Wilfred Laurier
Robert Borden
Viscount Monck
Lord Lisgar
Earl of Dufferin
Marquis of Lorne
Marquis of Lansdowne
Expert Testimony on Coconut Plantations in Court
A Guam News Letter excerpt recounts cross examination about factors affecting coconut plantations. It defines favorable winds as those not harming trees and unfavorable winds as detrimental to bearing fruit and growth.
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Guam
Suitably Dressed in Memory of a Sergeant
A veteran narrator recalls a sergeant who judged Lo's intellect as among the brainiest hires. A Sunday meeting in a town leads to coffee at a young woman's house where the mother comments on appearances and time, ending with the sergeant affirming the subject's look.
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Coele Sem
Chicago Tribune
Futurist artist wins odd prize for unnamed canvas
In a draughty garret, Rathsbane Hummock frets over poverty and a failed Futurist piece. A telegram from the judges awards a first prize of 25 cents for his canvas without a title, named by the judges as Opening Oysters in the Gleaming.
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Rathsbane
Emmaline
Bey
Sheehan
Detroit Pree Press
Talent and effort determine success, not society
The piece argues that genius equals repeated effort and talent. It says society is an abstraction, and with fair talent and untiring work, success follows in most cases, as shown by references to ordinary works where people apply themselves.
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Los Angeles Times
Trouble Man and the Umbrella Grounded Phone Service
In a Leslie's excerpt a telephone company repairs crew known as trouble men fix outages caused by simple mistakes. An umbrella left against wiring grounded the line. the upset owner called central. The repairman spotted the cause and restored service quickly.
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Central
Leslie's
Chinese Locks and the Ancient Craft
The earliest known locks are credited to the Chinese with craftsmanship that endured into the eighteenth century. A modern Chinese locksmith uses two cabinets and a bamboo rod to carry his tools as he travels from town to town, stopping when called to work.
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Europe
Wide Magazine
Eliminating Possibilities Between Pa Ma Over The Pipe
A brief dialogue fragment shows a child named Jimmy joking about a “pipe of peace” as parents quarrel over it. The line plays on a homely domestic dispute and a family setting.
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Jimmy
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