The Turquoise Scan in Don Luis Perenna Tale
In a London style police examination, M. Desmalions questions Don Luis Perenna about a turquoise found in a safe linked to a ring. The turquoise ties to Mme Fauville’s family, reshaping suspects as the investigation reveals inheritance stakes and potential motive.
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Pers
Monsieur le Prefet
Mazeroux
M. Desmalions
Perenna
Monsieur
Don Luis
Bubno
M. Desmations
M Desmations
Cosmo Mornington
Don Luis Perenna
M. Fauville
Cosme
Monsier le Prefet
Mazerous
Silvestre
Tie
Fauville
Itchen
Mme. Fauville
Roussel
Saint-Etienne
Elizabeth Roussel
Délo
Ermeline Roussel
Armande Roussel
Hippolyte Fauville
Edmond
Armando Broussel
Edmond Fauville
Edmond Fanville
Mme. Fanville
Mme Fauville
Sergeant Mazeroux
France Not Red White From The Outlook
France shows strength in war effort with 2.7 million in the field, 300000 shells daily, and up to 500000 women workers in war plants. Since 1914 Paris has funded the war with 20 billion dollars from French savings, loaned a billion to allies, and supplied guns and airplanes while two thirds of the Western Front remains French-held.
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Stephane Lauzanne
Paris
France
Washington
War Department
The Great German Illusion. Public Opinion in Germany
F W Keys argues in the North American Review that Germany has never known public opinion. He asserts two rigid camps government and opposition. He claims scientists and intellectuals colluded with the state to fuel a holy war narrative, while opposition mirrored them. He says Germans live in a perpetual war footing, their mentality military, leaving no space for public opinion.
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F. W. Keys
North American Review
Germany
Paris
London
Farmhand Finds It Pays in New York State
A young Italian American farmhand lauds farm work over city wages, detailing a Tough winter on a large farm with 4 to 20 men, modern equipment, and modest pay. He has earned 400 cash in 10 months, saved 200, and plans to rent or buy future farms, aiming to move his family forward.
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Mulberry Bend
Spring Street
New York
The Luxuries of War in a Yorkshire Piano Shop
A shawled woman in Yorkshire demands a grand piano during wartime prices. The shopkeeper shows increasingly costly instruments until the woman, swathed in notes, insists on a grand at £1 10s, announcing she has the means. A visitor later notes the family uses the piano for dining, not music, highlighting wartime domestic oddities.
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Manchester Guardian
Yorkshire
When Beards Were Taxed Across Nations
In Elizabethan England beard growth drew a fortnightly tax and Peter the Great taxed Russian nobles and commoners in 1706. Beards were later taxed under Catherine I and Empress Elisabeth. the beard tax faced repeal under Catherine II. France taxed clergy with papal and royal backing, fitting a pattern of beard levies across courts, bishops, and poorer clergy alike.
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London
Elizabeth
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
Catherine
Peter
Anne
Eisaabeth
Catherine i
France
Duprat
Wellington Dairymaid Celebrates Eighteenth Birthday
Miss Charlotte Apia of Grathfield Waye House Breogo Hants has just marked her eighteenth birthday. She works as a dairymaid to the Wellington family and receives a pen from the household in celebration.
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Wellington
London
Charlotte Apia
Grathfield Waye House
Breogo
Hants
The
of Wellington
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Ion
Monsieur le Prefel
Verot
Mare
York Times
Ward
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