We Must Take It or Leave It League Speech Fragment
A passionate call urging passage of the League of Nations in the U S Senate. The speaker frames humanity as a single entity and warns that nations prosper only with global prosperity, insisting voters demand action and support from their representatives to ratify the treaty despite partisan opposition.
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Astm
League of Nations
Heaven
Hell
Senate of the
United States
Senate
Europe
England
Illelf
Congress
Mount Clemens
Those Who Cannot See in the New Day
The piece contrasts a pessimist clinging to past glories with a person who stays young by humor and engagement with youth. It praises belief in a improving world, kindness, and the Golden Rule, noting the war's grimness yet its unexpected rise in unselfishness and benevolence.
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The
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Export Shoes and Pearls in a Curious Mix of News
A fragmented column notes export shoe ads selling thousands of pairs at low prices, alongside a whimsical item on Lower California pearl fisheries and a letter about the American war dead. It also includes a humorous anecdote about Uncle Ben and a lengthy Atlantic crab tale.
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California
Gulf of California
Fieber
Holy Ghost
Sea Fever Excerpt and Fragments of Civic Notice
An OCR fragment blends John Masefield sea poem lines with garbled text about underwriters and patriotic societies appealing to government. It mentions the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and wartime concerns, with stray phrases about state, streets, and structure. The readable content centers on sea imagery and a political notice mix.
Infants Prodigies and Movies Spark Riffing Gossip
A collage of sharp singsong captions mocks infant prodigies in vaudeville, Lila Lee and emotion in cinema, courtroom quips, and golf club chaos. From Buffalo to Youngstown to Musical America, the piece satirizes publicity stunts, acting foibles, and press agents amid a flurry of humorous anecdotes.
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America
Columbus
Faker
Bryan
Harry Lowder
Isabella
Chris
Colvidia
Squeck
Petra Rock City In Edom Crowned By National Geographic
A National Geographic Society bulletin notes Turkey may lose Europe but the Ottoman empire could hold Asia's sacred shrines. Petra, the Rock City, served as caravan caravanserai and treasury hub for Nabateans transporting eastern goods to Egypt and the Mediterranean.
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Turkey
Europe
Asia
National Geographic Society
Petra
Tyre
Sidon
Pharoah
Jordan River
Arabian Desert
No-Man's Land
Edom
Ava
Arabia
Perein
India
East
Egypt
Palestine
Syria
Mediterranean
Borah In the Pulpit on Shantung and Policy
A critical political brief argues Senator Borah uses pulpit rhetoric to oppose further operations over Shantung while endorsing American boys policing the region if needed. The piece questions motives, cites Article X, and notes opposition to entangling China’s territory under wartime terms.
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Borah
Horah
Shantung
Thither
Japan
China
Bhantung
Dau
Glory of a Nation and the Civilisation Myth
Fragmentary text discusses national character and constitution as not mere parchment and cites a misplaced quote about a single Metande and people with bottles, highlighting an interpretive argument on civilizational foundations.
Portent of a Cheer in Japanese History
The piece notes a shift in Japanese public sentiment toward the emperor, observed as crowds increasingly cheer him in public. It warns that such popularity grants power to applaud or withhold approval, risking the ruler’s sacrosanct status and raising fears of democratic influence on royal dignity.
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Japan
Switzerland
Suydeer Zee
Salesmen and Sapphire Bells in Cloudland Verse
A quirky meditation contrasts lukewarm pushy salesmen with energetic hucksters who fervently sell grand wares. It blends comic exaggeration with Coleridge inspired musings on imagination and persuasion, ending with romantic, dreamlike imagery of Cloudland.
Culture Spreads From Paris to American Quietude
An army officer recounts a boot black asking about Paris, illustrating a shift from elite travel to democratic access. The Paris trip once signified social rank, but the boot boy and other ordinary service workers now share that exposure as part of the broader American expeditionary force.
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Indianapolis
Paris
Elias Howe and the sewing machine birth in Spencer Mass
A brief look at Elias Howe born in Spencer Massachusetts and the early struggle to prove the sewing machine. Howe faced mockery and poverty yet persisted, secured patents, and after years of litigation and setbacks earned vast wealth from his invention and related royalties.
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Providence Journal
New England
Elias Howe
Spencer
Mass
Howe
Cambridge
England
Masachusetts
Statesmanship As it In From the Milwaukee Journal
The Milwaukee Journal comments on government aims to attack the opposing party for campaign gain. It asserts no new ideas are offered, only investigations and warnings of a possibly bad horizon. The piece laments lack of statesmanship focused on the country.
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The
Milwaukee Journal
Washington
Photographic Boudoir Receptions Reported in Fashionable Circles
A Washington Times note describes fashionable women in Paris and London taking photographs in bed while draped in night gowns. The piece critiques idle wealth and sensationalism, imagining the allure of fame for those who seek quick fortune through novelty images.
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Washington Times
Ataton
Parle
London
Indians Developments Across Reservations and Farms
In Washington the Star notes about 325,000 American Indians in 280 tribes across 200 reservations in 20 states. Stock raising, cattle profits on the Crow and sheep on Jicarilla illustrate growing agriculture. Indians embrace irrigation, crops, forestry, and oil and gas ventures, with total tribal wealth and royalties approaching or exceeding a billion dollars.
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H. ©. Bishop
Washington
D. C
Crow
Montana
Indian Commissioner
Oklahoma
India
Indian Bureau
Indiana
Five Civilized Tribes
The Bitter Cost From The Milwaukee Journal
Henry Ford tells the jury he kept his son from the army and bears full responsibility. The piece argues that many youths were spared through parental influence, creating a division between those who served and those who did not, and that nature’s compensation falls harshly on the latter. It laments the lost shared experience of military sacrifice and the lasting social rift it caused.
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The
Milwaukee Journal
Henry Ford
Mr. Ford
Poisons in Munitions Warn Workers to Protect Skin
In the first year of the war it was found that chemicals for high explosives were poisonous. Workers called canaries suffered poisoning, though some could still work. Voegtlin Hooper and Johnson of the public health service report TNT poisoning enters mainly through the skin, suggesting hand and arm protection and varnish and treated gloves as preventive措施.
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Voegtlin, Hooper and Johnson
Public Health Service
Meat as preventive for poisoning recommended for TNT workers
Voegtlin and associates argue meat consumption boosts poison resistance and urge every TNT factory worker to eat six to seven ounces of meat daily, while some sources favor milk as a preventive.
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Voegtlin
Final Test For Them From The Detroit News
President Wilson does not present the treaty to the Senate as a Democratic Party document nor defend the League of Nations in that frame. The broader aim is the covenant's worldwide impact on preventing future wars, beyond party politics, urging Senators to grasp this long term humanity-centered view.
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Detroit News
Wilson
Senate
Democratic Party
Nathane
le of Nations
United States Senate
De Valera American Born and Irish Leader Emerges
De Valera, born in New York to an Irish mother, rose from relative obscurity as a mathematics professor to become a key Irish leader. Raised in Limerick after moving with his mother at age 24, he gained early support from Irish bishops and volunteers before commanding global recognition as a central figure in Ireland's struggle for national birth.
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Padrale Pearce
Kolin MacNeill
Irish Volunteers
Tee
People of
Ireland
New York
Queenstown
Hiruree
County Limerick
Etritt
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Lhoswe
American Lemon Weekly
Mywell
France
Effects Bureau
Hobokem
N. J
War Department
Ben
Thea
Uncolo
Christian Science Monitor
United States Commissioner of Fisheries
Pacific
Atlantic
Woods Hole
Commissioner of Fisheries
Sooiftic
South America
John Masefield
Lancer
Los Angeles Times
Lila Lee
Lila
Gil
Pig Dalk
Lince
Buffalo Commercial
Youngstown
Golf Club
Harper's Weekly
Mollle
Wilmington
Sion
Molle
Mollie
Salesman
Fes
Cloudland
Coleridge
Romance
Jicarilla Reservation
New Mexico
Cato Sells
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