Queen Marie Aids Jewish Children in Romania Relief
Queen Marie of Roumania donated about 7500 pieces of clothing and food to Jewish relief agencies in America. The Libertade gambling club of Bucharest contributed 150000 lei to aid poor Jewish families in Romania. The gifts include over 2000 shirts for children and aim to assist war orphaned kids across central and eastern Europe.
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Queen Marie
Romania
Bucharest
Roumania
American Jewish Relief Committee
Libertade
Noske moves to demilitarize home guards in Germany
The Wuerttemberg government reorganized reserve sicherheits companies into home guards and the war ministry shifted them to the interior. American officers report this aligns with Noske's plan to demilitarize home guard units to avoid dissolution under peace terms. Civilians oppose the army presence, and workers refuse to repair an armored locomotive linked to Reichswehr forces.
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Germany
Wuerttemburg
War Ministry
Noske
Reichswehr
Einwohnerwhr
Mitau
Britons Watch American Prohibition Debate Followup
London reports Britons show strong interest in the American prohibition experiment. Canon Howson, just back from New York, endorses the law and notes enforcement improves daily with prosperity rising as dry states outpace wet rivals. He praises organized effort and says America will aid Britain if asked.
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London
Warrington
Canon Howson
New York
America
Japanese honor for Western Electric executive
TOKIO Sept 12 Philipp K Condict vice president of International Western Electric received the order of the Rising Sun for services in improving the Japanese telephone system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Order of the Rising Sun
Philipp K. Condict
Western Electric Company
Husband Demands Wife As Sparring Partner in Battle at Home
In Flatbush Brooklyn Magistrate court Thomas Burns, 33, a former soldier and pugilist, lost a case to his wife Marion who alleges he woke her at 2 am to box several rounds. He knocked her down when she refused, and the magistrate set a 250 dollar bond for six months, warning him to stay away from her.
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New York
Thomas Burns
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
Marion
Flatbush Court
Burns
McCloskey
Trained nurse gains 22 pounds after Tanlac use
Mrs. Josephine Freeman a seventeen year nurse from Los Angeles says Tanlac relieved her ten year stomach trouble and helped her gain twenty two pounds after four bottles. She reports restored appetite quiet nerves better sleep and renewed strength and tags Hart Drug Co and Guilford county druggists as sellers.
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Josephine Freeman
Towne Ave
Los Angeles
Cal
Mrs. Freeman
Tanlac
Armless and Blind Sergeant Writes With Novel Typewriter
London September 12 Blind and without hands Sergeant Alan M Nichols of the Second Durham Light Infantry refuses to be unemployable and now writes letters as well as a stenographer. Restored to self support through patient training a custom typewriter aluminum hands and his spirit. He recently passed a writing test of two hours and fifteen minutes with only two corrections.
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London
Alan M. Nichols
Durham Light Infantry
Nichols
Danish and Finnish Women Employed as Ship Pilots
In Denmark and Finland a number of women are employed as ship pilots. The article notes progress in a male dominated field and highlights examples of women serving as harbor pilots.
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Denmark
Finland
Montenegrin Mountainers Ignore Health Rules
A Paris dispatch reports that Montenegrin herders know little of hygiene and hold superstitions about disease. The American Red Cross mission notes belief that ailments spread on winds and nights by spirits, with windows sealed and tuberculosis rampant. An elderly patient refused antiseptics until promised tongue growth.
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Montenegro
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Carranza Outlines Reorganization Of Mexican Army
Mexico City papers report President Carranza plans a full reorganization of the constitutionalist army. The scheme creates 10 generals of division and 63 generals of brigade with 200 brigadier generals, plus 4,223 superior officers and 10,600 minor officers.
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Juarez
Mex
Mexico City
Carranza
Cromwell’s Death Warrant Room Now Hats Vault
In London on September 12, the ancient Cromwellian death warrant room in Parliament is repurposed as a storage space for discarded hats used by members of the House of Commons.
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London
Parliament
Oliver Cromwell
Charles I
House of Commons
Monument to Bartholomew Thimonnier in Lyons France
A monument will be erected in Lyons to Bartholomew Thimonnier, named by the French as the inventor of the sewing machine. Thimonnier, a tailor’s assistant, built his first model in 1829 and faced worker hostility. He died in 1867 at 64, forgotten and unsupported. The piece contrasts his device with Elias Howe’s American patent of 1846 and notes Howe’s similar opposition.
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Nier
Thimonnier
Elias Owe
America
Howe
Wordplay on Synonyms Teases Young Learner
A playful exchange from The Watchman Examiner in Philadelphia shows a student asking for a synonym and receiving a joking definition about spelling difficulty. The quotation highlights a humorous classroom moment.
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John
the Watchman Examiner
Philadelphia
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Cently
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Tade
Great Britain
Decorate
Evelyn Nesbit
THE
Taniac
High Point
Hart Drug Company
Guilford County
Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Society Brand
N. H. Silver Company
Paris
Lyons
France
Bartholomew Thinmon
Greensboro
North State Telephone Company
Independend
Bell
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