Germany's Future in Japanese Eyes: Optimism and Growth
A Tokyo journalist perspective relays Okuma Marquis insights on postwar Germany. He argues Germany, despite defeat, could rebound through economic power, language skills, and global investment, challenging Britain and America in trade. The piece contends peace hinges on balanced power and notes Germany may restore strength while avoiding renewed military competition.
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Hight
Sunny Deye
Liptmany
Marquis Ubuma
Japan
Waseda
France
Tokyo
Germany
League of Nations
Europe
China
South America
South
Pne
America
Ley
Marquise Okuma
Alsace Lorraine
Sarm
Corman
Sirsabourg
Tzimak
Atlantic
Esau
Devotion of a Pale Figure in White Garments
A tall pale woman in black, with large dark eyes and a gold necklace holds herself in silent earnestness. The scene focuses on refined beauty and a sense of solemn devotion, recalling Renaissance imagery.
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Leonardo
Questions and Answers on English Usage and Pronunciation
A compact Q A page reviews plural forms for deputy marshal and other titles, pronunciation guides for words like vagarica blatant and banquet, distinctions between near synonyms hate detest, and proper use of the title esquire including historical rights in England and usage in the United States.
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England
Wrighta
Royal
United States
Justices of the Peace
Marth Arnold
England's Widest Read Novelist Nat Gould Dies at 61
Nat Gould, long regarded as England's most widely read novelist, died recently at sixty one. The Morning Post notes his works exceeded 230 full length stories with sales surpassing ten million. He charmed readers with simple, straightforward tales where virtue triumphs and clever schemes are thwarted. In wartime, he remained a favorite among soldiers and sailors.
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Wells
Bapaet
Maria Corelli
Nat Gould
London ‘‘Morning Post
Dumas
Henry Wood
Vico
The Statesman in Hetreat by Tao Chien
A fragmentary post reflecting on public life and retirement as depicted by a Chinese figure. The narration contemplates themes of public service, fading influence, and the allure of a quieter life after years in the spotlight.
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T’ao Chien
Candid Advertisers Offer Country House For Sale
An 810000 offer advertises an attractive moderate sized Country House with every modern convenience. A Daily Paper note marks a typist ad. Authors’ MBS praised for prompt careful execution. The piece suggests publishers should employ the advertiser more to ease reviewer workload.
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MBS
Thay
Voices of Living Poets in the East Indian Verse Boom
A piece on new vernacular poetry booming in the East Indian scene through The Retatio Review and similar journals. It notes early 19th century beginnings from Bungol and a rising wave of poets, dramatists, and lyricists led by Mrs. Smrojini Naidu as the soul of the new literature and presents one of her famous lyrics.
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Retatio Review
Lonion
East-Iodiave
Wellowe
Bungol
Smrojini Naidu
War Poetry Excerpt Reflects on Sacrifice and Victory
An excerpt from A Treasury of War Poetry, edited by George Herbert Clarke, frames India to England in martial imagery. It laments losses, calls for duty, and envisions banners of victory as critique and tribute to soldiers and their loved ones.
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Houghton Mifflin Company
Boston
George Herbert Clarke
Somewhere in France Poem Fragment by Jonan Heaven
A fragmented war poem reflecting on a soldier's fate in France. The speaker mourns a fallen comrade and contemplates life, death, and memory, linking to Lochaber No More and classic war elegy themes. Mentions Beptle grief and Allan Romaay's 18th century elegy as echoes.
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Jonan
France
Hem
Allan Romaay
Farewell to Lochaber in New Munsee Verse
The poem laments Lochaber and a departing figure, vowing no return while imagining nature’s, seasons’, and homeland’s enduring wake. Mixed with a note that steamers transport barley from America to Dublin for brewing, the passage contrasts nostalgia with distant trade.
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Lochaber
Glen
Bookabar
America
Friendly Help In Home Discusses Domestic Work Arrangements
In a discussion led by a minister's wife and attended by college women and housewives, the group examines domestic help, wages, and dependence. An experiment with Mina Jones living as a family helper shows benefits and tensions, prompting broader interest in alternative living arrangements for working women.
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Imber
Drygonds
Min Jones
Mina Jones
Sbe
Bor
Abe
Miss
Firet
The Almost Perfect Girl Poem by Douglas Malloch
A fragmented lyric praising a girl described with rose like beauty and dawn like eyes. The speaker notes her form and voice as heavenly yet admits an inner conflict and misheard lines that reveal a fragile, imperfect relationship.
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Douglass Malloch
The Mystery
Fragmentary OCR style text with incomplete lines about waves, dawn, life, and purpose. Contains disjointed phrases and stray capitalized words, lacking coherent narrative or clear identifiable entities. Unable to extract concrete names, places, or events from the garbled content.
Fragmented UK War Era Commentary and Quotations
A mosaic of wartime musings and clipped quotes from a 1910s era page. It reviews political phrases in the Peace Treaty, housing bill debates, and comments on Bolshevists, manpower, and postwar economics with scattered references to Britain, Canada, Australia, and Hungary.
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Hungary
Australia
Great Britain
China
England
Royal Navy
J.M.H
Keeping House: Rewards and Plans for Reliable Help
A series of domestic labor ideas shows how to retain a good house girl. One woman keeps a reliable helper by offering a £10 bonus every three years if she stays and serves well. Another pays for fancy work she teaches the girl, funding wages from craft sales. A third maintains loyalty by treating the worker with care, occasional outings, and thoughtful gifts, plus observation of habits.
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Couren
Wibla
Aomall
Fragmentary memoir and world news notes from a June era page
The text blends personal reflections on retirement and literacy with scattered commentary on global events. It references a wood in front of a hall, gardens, grain, and family scenes, then shifts to notes on President Carranza seizing British property in Mexico, President Wilson’s Kaiser trial objections, wartime finance, and refugees in Petrograd.
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Gemmer
Aleep
Carranza
Mexico
Wilson
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