The False Position Taken by Germany in War Time
The piece criticizes Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg for claiming necessity overrides law as Germany invades Belgium and advances on France. It argues German policy ignores international realities and nationalist passion in Russia, Italy, France, Belgium, and Britain, provoking a European war.
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von Bethmann Hollweg
England
Germany
Heichstag
London Times
Luxemberg
Belgium
Brussels
France
Liege
T 2 Naval League
Algeciras
Agadir
Herr von Bethmann Hollweg
Machiavelli
Austria-Hungary
Servia
Tey
Europe
Russia
Vienna
Catlaux
Ribot
Delcasse
Italy
Berlin
Balkans
Sadowa
Sedan
Herr von Bethman Hollweg
Bismarck
Louis Napoleon
von Hollweg
Admiral Jellicoe's Turbulent Early Naval Career
Britain's admiral in the North Sea is famed for daring rescues. Lieutenant Jellicoe and seven seamen braved heavy seas in a small lifeboat to reach a wreck off Gibraltar, later surviving a capsizing and earning a board of trade medal that he ultimately repaid. He also endured the Victoria disaster in 1893, barely surviving a fever and a brutal sinking. Admiral Jellicoe rode with Admiral Seymour in the Boxer rebellion retreat to Tianjin, where he was wounded while leading a charge and narrowly escaped death, later commanding Britain's grand fleet in two world wars.
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Britain
North Sea
Glasgow
Europa Point
Spanish
Gibraltar
Jellicoe
British Board of Trade
M.H.S. Victoria
Victoria
Board of Trade
Seymour
Pekin
Tientsin
Ellicoe
Tienstin
Doing Europe in Olden Days by Clare Howard
The article reviews Clare Howard's The English Travellers of the Renaissance noting that Elizabethan travelers aimed to become compleat persons through continental learning, especially Italy. It describes travel dangers, inns, smallpox risks, and the rise of the grand tour term coined by Richard Lassels in 1670, plus factors behind its decline.
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Clare Howard
Italy
France
Miss Howard
Richard Lassels
Oxford
Cambridge
Prosperity is Communistic
A quote by Jacob Abbott arguing that honest business prosperity requires community benefit and mutual advantage. He states that business is a broad way to do good and that earned fortune reflects the good done in society. The excerpt discusses exchange as a social duty and equity in trade.
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Jacob Abbott
Duke of Connaught Served Then Prince Arthur in Hussars
The 7th Queen's Own Hussars formed from Dragoons in 1807 was the regiment where the Duke of Connaught learned cavalry service after the Rifles and Artillery. His son Prince Arthur and Prince Alexander of Teck began their military careers there.
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Queen's Own Hussars
Dragoons
Duke of Connaught
Prince Arthur
Price Alexander of Teck
Germany’s Colonial Failures Highlighted by A World War Review
The Montreal Family Herald argues Germany did little to develop its African colonies before the war. Togoland alone reached self existence without state aid, while Cameroons, German East Africa, and German Southwest Africa saw minimal development. It notes British gains, colonial geography, trade figures, and questions lasting German presence.
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Germany
Africa
Togoland
Great Britain
Cameroons
German East Africa
Southwest Africa
Heligoland
North Sea
Atlantic
Gold Coast
Rhodesia
Montreal Family Herald
Timid Woman Deters Pickpocket by Quick Actions
In Cleveland a timid woman on a car realizes her purse is missing from her bag then sees it hanging on a chained arm of a persimmony faced stranger. The pursuer or bystander stops the theft as the bag holder warns the would be thief.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fresh Air Advocates Urge Sunlight and Open Spaces
Civic leaders across boards of health and charities urge securing all possible sunlight and fresh air in schools housing and public spaces. The call echoes Benjamin Franklin who warned of air’s health benefits for the ill and possibly all people in the future.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Boards of Health
Bureaus of Charity
Trustees of Schools
Commission On Housing
Outlook for Western farmers amid price swings promises prosperity
Commentator voices concern over grain markets and imminent demand as Western farmers face a shift from high war prices to famine prices. The piece frames agriculture as central to the bread basket of the British Empire and urges readiness to meet future demand for a new era of Western prosperity.
Unusual Top Inning Ends With No Runs In Six Hits
A ball club produced six hits in the first inning including a triple yet failed to score. The leadoff man tripled and was out at the plate while trying for a homer. The next batters added singles and attempted steals or extra bases, but all were retired before a run crossed. The sixth hit triggered a fielder’s impact that ended the frame.
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Chicago Tribune
The World's Greatest Multipliers
A boy asks his rabbit to solve simple multiplication and points to his father as a fibber. He jokes that rabbits are the greatest multipliers, highlighting the family’s playful misunderstanding of math.
Improbable Cold Cure on Grand Combin Ascent
A London Chronicle correspondent recalls how a climbing party on Grand Combin faced a severe cold spell after a storm and dry hut exposure. The tale notes relief when the group reached the peak and found their colds vanished. The piece then cites census data: domestic servants lead and a large army of officials surpassing building trades and cotton industry employment.
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London Chronicle
Grand Combin
Alps
Lea
England and Wales
Lst
Franco Prussian War outbreak and key 1870-71 battles
The article lists mobilization dates and leading generals as Prussia and France move to war in 1870. It notes force sizes from 620000 to larger concentrations, key actions at Saarbruck Spichern and Metz, French retreat to Paris, and the fall of Metz and Paris capitulation in 1871.
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William I
France
von Steinmetz
Trever
Frederick Charles
Rhenish Palatinate
Prussia
Baden
Napoleon III
Mountmedy
Belfort
Switzerland
Marshal MacMahon
Strassburg
Failly
Betsch
Palatine
Marshal Bazaine
Metz
Frosard
Saint Avoid
Ladmirault
Thioville
Diedenhofen
Bombaki
Canrobert
Nancy
Chalons
Felix Douay
Napoleon
Paris
King William
von Moltke
Bismarck
Mainz
Fresard
Saarbruck
Douay
Weissenberg
Worth
Crown Prince
MacMahon
O Zabern
Steinmetz
Spichern
Forbach
Vosges
St. Alvord
Colombey-Neuilly
Corcelles
Moltke
Saarbrucken
Saarcemund
Bazaine
Gravelotte
Saxony
Champagne
Wither
Cholom
Rheims
Sedan
von der Tann
Orleans
de Palladines
Ducrot
Brie
Champigny
Mont Averon
Rouen
St. Quentin
Trochu
Mont Valerien
How Pythons Settle Quarrels Across Continents in 1894
A London Sketch note recalls October 1894 when a zoo python killed its mate by swallowing him. In Bombay two Indian pythons in the Bombay Natural History Society cage fought over a partridge and became entangled until keepers could not separate them. The next day only one stout python remained, illustrating their single method for settling disputes.
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Zoo
Bombay
Bombay Natural History Society
London
Fifty Per Cent Drop in Canadian Immigration in 1914
Immigration to Canada for April to July 1914 totaled 105 631 with 32 312 British, 34 930 Americans and 38 389 from other nations, down 58 percent from last year’s 250 906. August arrivals via ocean ports were almost nil due to the war. overall year totals likely 25 to 30 percent of 1913.
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Canada
Webster's Home Squadron in his final hours
Daniel Webster, ailing, left his sickroom to view the pond scene and the boats outside his mansion. He remarked that the home squadron was safe then returned to his room, never to rise again, amid storm worries for fishermen offshore.
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Daniel Webster
Mines in Modern Warfare Shift in Naval Tactics
The article explains submarine contact mines perfected by Italians and used in the North Sea, with two types of detonators one electric and harbor specific. It notes mines lack discrimination, risking friendly ships, and details legal maritime boundaries and historical use. It also mentions England’s suspected stockpile of 20,000 mines and warns of growing havoc in European waters.
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Uee
North Sea
Koenigen Luise
Yellow Sea
Robert Fulton
British Admiralty
England
Baltic
Tolstoi Foresees Europe in Flames and a United Nations
The Los Angeles Express notes Tolstoi predicted a European war in 1913 and a 1914 conflict. He described a journalist turned savant rising to command Europe for a decade and a global federation named the United States of Nations. He divided humanity into four units Anglo Saxon Latin Slav and Mongolian.
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Saint Tolstoi
Tolstoi
Europe
Napoleon
United States of Nations
Germany
Los Angeles Express
Women and War and the Case for Votes
The piece argues that many nations at war deprive women of franchise and asserts that granting women the vote would gradually curb war. It notes England's gender imbalance and critiques the claim that votes for women would weaken military power, suggesting women have moved beyond viewing war as glorious.
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England
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