Kaiser's London Trip Turns Prison Visit at Old Bailey
The piece describes the former Kaiser facing trial at the Old Bailey for contract breaking. It contrasts his past reception in London with his current status as a prisoner escorted by police and notes the vast human and financial costs tied to his alleged defalcation.
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Philadelphia
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Europe
London
England
The Mob Spirit in the World Today
Newell Dwight Hillis argues a global outbreak of the mob spirit. He cites outbreaks in China Canada Spain Italy Germany and Britain, urging restraint, lawfulness, and calm after a prolonged war.
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Canada
Manitoba
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Spain
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Glasgow
Keeping the Refrigerator Cold Health Tips from a Household Guide
The guide emphasizes keeping ice large and insulated, chilling food before refrigeration, and placing milk below the ice. It warns against sewer air backflow, describes air currents inside the fridge, and recommends regular cleaning and sunning. It notes the warmest zone near the air intake and the importance of proper drain traps.
The Bridegroom's Lay From Baltimore American
The speaker laments being the groom in a wedding scene while others gossip about the bride. He notes his lack of rights, his fear, and his wish to be forgotten as bridal talk continues around him. He describes his plain attire and meek demeanor amid attention.
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Unclear Fire Loss Note Noted In Athletic Summary
Fragmentary NY Post item mentions unavoidable fire loss and athletic note with garbled phrases about Germany's championships and various nonsensical terms. No coherent event or details emerge.
We Can Be Saved From Arbitral Treaties Questioned
A New York World editorial denounces three arbitration treaties with Italy Spain and the Netherlands as a betrayal of the American people. It warns that tribunals at The Hague Geneva or Washington could override U S sovereignty and cites Senate leaders and reformers as absent critics during passage.
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Safety First Story From Dallas News
A humorous item about a large family taking a picnic to the river with many children. A boy cries Archibald has fallen into the water prompting a frantic search by Mr and Mrs Oldwed. The scene captures parental concern amid a lighthearted misadventure.
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Uses of iodine and Belgium steel trust fate
A column discusses iodine as a medicine noting its limited far-reaching use and cautions about internal use under medical guidance while highlighting antiseptic benefits for wounds. It also surveys postwar Belgium industrial recovery with planned steel trust formation by major firms to revive export trade.
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Allons Protest Over Senate Treaty Debate Word Choice
A New York Sun reader writes in disgust at Republican leadership over the ratification of the treaty and League of Nations. He mocks their focus on word endings such as reservations interpretations explanations or declarations and laments the party’s conduct.
Fishing and Frustration in a Silvan Creek Scene
A narrator laments costly fishing gear and big plans for trout yet returns home with empty hooks while a neighbor’s plain pole and string of trout illustrate a gap between effort and success. The piece weaves fishing satire with a political aside about Congress.
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Music and Slaughter in a Chicago Packing House
A Chicago packing house uses music to accelerate work with a piano playing while a Black employee performs jazz. The article notes music speeds production in war plants and argues tunes influence workers, yet acknowledges jazz could provoke strong impulses to kill among some packers.
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Planoa
Monte Cristo Chateau Returns to Public Eye as Prison Theme
The Marseilles island fortress once linked with Dumas's Count of Monte Cristo reopens to tourism after being used as a wartime prison. Historical notes say Austria's U boat captain stayed three months there during war, with earlier 19th century inmates from Algeria era.
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Old Names Return in London Chronicle Morente News
The London Chronicle Morente reports a shift in baby names during the peace year with Ronald Milward George Gordon Joar Kathleen Jene Marguerite Lilian among boys and girls. Welsh Megan rises in popularity while floral names gain vogue under royal influence. Early Victorian Susannah and Letitia reappear, but biblical names largely fade except in remote rural districts.
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Gordon
Joar
Kathleen
Jene
Marguerite
Lilian
Megan
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Letitia
The Wheat Field
A reflective farmer recalls tending a small field of wheat through harsh seasons. He fears droughts and storms, pests and blight, and worries for a century about what-ifs. In the end the crop thrives, proving needless his long anxiety and regret.
Wine and Authors in the Dry Era
A reflective literary note discusses how writers once used wine in vivid descriptions and how the dry era may push them to new subjects. The passage recalls Gautier and Lampourde from Captain Jacasse, detailing the sensory sequence of sight smell taste touch and hearing inspired by a glass of wine.
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Money From Money and the Golden Crime Methods
Popular Science Monthly recounts the 19th and early 20th century gold thefts from coins. Methods included sweating bags, electro chemical baths, and a tiny die to steal from a single twenty piece.
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Popular Science Monthly
Nks
Japanese In California: Viewpoint From a California Farmer
John P Irain of California responds to claims about Japanese workers noting Japanese farmers are skilled in tillage and that Asiatic labor is not cheap. He cites Chinese wages and argues anti Japanese land laws sparked farmer protests, praising Japanese as fine and loyal Americans.
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Japan
Ohio Tribune
Fr. Irish
United States
Illinois
War Profits on Canadian Grain Raise Public Outcry
A parliamentary inquiry reveals war profits of 15 to 100 percent among grain firms, with the Alberta Pacific Grain Company Calgary showing heavy profit levels and high executive pay. The United Grain Growers and others report elevated earnings, while a proposed permanent commercial tribunal aims to regulate prices and curb price gouging.
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Canada
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Economic World Crisis Reflected in Currency Markets
The piece analyzes a worldwide economic crisis shown by a collapsing sterling and cheapening foreign currencies. It argues the struggle is real goods and debt, not merely finance, and notes conflicting views among policymakers and markets about sustaining dollar primacy while supplying global demand.
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New York Times
Wall Street
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Threadneedle
England
Change Canada Climate Proposal for Bell Isle Straits
Vancouver Sun discusses R. T. Elliott’s plan to close Bell Isle straits with a concrete wall to warm eastern Canada. It argues Montreal could remain open year round and St. Lawrence banks bloom, noting the idea is speculative but feasible in the distant future.
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Bell Isle
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Beeing Minds: Bees Convert Sugar to Syrup By Water
The French note reports bees at a wrecked sugar spill near Beaulieu laboratory turning water into syrup to soften large sugar grains. Under leaders they carried water to the sugar, formed syrup, rolled in the sticky mass, and fed hive for more water, repeating until the spill area cleared in hours.
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Boston Transcript
Bonnier
Vearl- Lyons
Bontainebleu
Themelves
Bees Halt Sugar Theft A Retreat From the Market
The crowd assembled around the sugar but fled as swarms of bees blackened the white mass. Some observers chose prudence over risk and retired, while others persisted briefly before retreating. One man noted a bee larger than him, illustrating the peril.
French Prepare War History
A French agency in the United States collects posters books newspapers photographs and affidavits to document World War I for future historians. France aims to present an impartial history of the great war and counter German influenced narratives.
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United States
France
Germany
Parley Row and Odd Edits From Various Papers
A London parliament row ends with an apology and a claim of being out of order. A Fort Scott boy recounts a late bedtime visit and a game of hide and seek. A Boston Globe vignette shows a night watchman asked about starting work and a man seeking his pajamas at noon.
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