Wanderer From Sohemia Bequeathes Kindness in Will Laughed At
In Chicago a Hungarian story recounts a Prague youth named William Popper who, sick and penniless, sought food at a South Marshfield avenue home. A Jewish woman and her sister sheltered him, fed him, and provided clothes and a boarding place. After his death a Prague attorney arranged a $25 bequest to the kind pair, with other beneficiaries named Mrs Jennie Wolf and Reesia Gordon.
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Chicago
America
Prague
Bohemia
Ore
Marshfield Avenue
Jennie Wolf
South Marshfield Avenue
Reesia Gordon
Mrs. Wolf
Harris Wolf
Nothong
Wiliam Popper
Wolf
Rane
Bundles for the Idleill New York Families Aid Drive
New York families donated clothing hats and shoes to a Bundle day campaign organized by the mayor's relief committee for the unemployed. Mrs. Vincent Astor is pictured at the committee headquarters helping distribute bundles.
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New York
Every Man to Get Office in Nickletown Kansas
Nickletown Kansas plans a spring town election with all male residents running for mayor. Four families remain and police judge George Cowles seeks the post while the other three contenders pledge to back themselves. Women voters hold the deciding influence in this quirky race. Nickletown sits in the northeast part of Woodlawn county.
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Kansas City
Nickletown
Kan
Ftamne
Woodson County
Kansas
Nickiatown
T. Q. Allen
Frank Willis
George Cowles
Oscar Mulson
Cowles
Woodlawn County
Pig as Initiation Fee Sparks Lodge Joke
In Albany Oregon Walter Miller sought to join the Knights of Mythias lodge and joked that a hog would be his initiation fee. Members accepted the offer and the hog was given to him to keep and feed until the lodge decided to sell it.
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Albany
Ore
Walter Miller
Knights of Mhythias Lodge
Miller
Soldiers Send Money Home From the Front
Berlin reports soldiers in the field sending home large sums through the postal system. Bresden postmaster notes one Saxon division sent 20,000 postal orders totaling 800,000 marks in one month. Across the district, 2,600,000 marks were paid in orders, implying about 100,000,000 marks empire wide at the same rate.
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Berlin
Bresden
Tobacco Trades At The Front And Two Cigars Per Day
A German soldier reports bartering a whole steer for cigarettes and describes front-line tobacco scarcity. Smokers receive two cigars daily, with French tobacco traded for Cognac, and improvised fires using a magnifying glass from a fallen officer’s pocket. Puffs per man were sometimes decided by dice.
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Berlin
Newspaper Appeal Raises 1,023,000 Marks for Tageblatt
In Leipzig a broad appeal by the Tageblatt attracted 19,197 contributors who sent in 1,023,000 marks about 266000 dollars. The funds were exchanged for bank notes and the gold delivered to the Reichsbank for safekeeping.
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Leipzig
Germany
Leipzig “Tageblatt
Reichsbank
Adele Leuville Aiding Wounded French Troops in France
Miss Adele Leuville is identified among Lagayette kit contributors. Maurice Du Bois of the Sixth French Cavalry wrote from Echsonl with a woman bearing the same name in Namens. Inquiry confirms Adele Leuville, who has gone to France to nurse wounded soldiers and to see Maurice.
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Adele Leuville
Maurice Dubois
Echsonl
Egvon Cn Mournegen
Nanes
France
Adele
Maurlee
A Sharp Exchange Over The Telephone's Reach
Mrs Boggs taunts Professor Pupin about a future where the telephone is so rapid that a New Yorker could talk with a friend in Paris or a brother in London from his apartment. She quips that he might not want to talk to his wife regardless of location.
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Boggs
Pupin
New Yorker
Paris
London
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Selma Arndt
Manitawoe
Wis
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Arlington
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Wilson
Howard Gatley
Clinton Allard
Frank Watson
Edward Pardee
Edward Sherry
Samuel Vers
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Ridgewood
Gertrude Phelps
Salt Lake City
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Mesa, Ariz
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