Germany Must Export
Germany faces reparations and suggests exports as the main path to pay debts. The piece analyzes monetary indemnities, forced labor ideas, and the impracticality of seizing assets, arguing Germany must rely on exporting products to fund reparations while considering the broader economic context and international trade limits.
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Alexander Noyes
Scribner's Magazine
Germany
France
Bedan
Branco
Europe
Belgium
International Exchange
A Village Buyer Chooses Skilled Tradesmen Across Need
In a rustic tale the speaker seeks top doctors and mechanics to meet urgent needs. He favors high quality over cheap cost, praising the best painters, tailors, bakers, and an undertaker for lasting value, while condemning cheaper, lower skill options.
Open Season for Whales
Under the new law the only game that can be shot from an airplane is a whale. It remains permissible to bombard whales from buses wagons or motor launches. The whale has few champions among the game lawmakers. Anyone stumbling on a whale may shoot it with any artillery. The text questions why the whale is marked for slaughter and notes the animal is harmless.
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Los Angeles Times
Bell of Gold Legend Linked to Saint Senan Relic
The piece discusses the bell known as Clod na Neal or Clogan Oir, once linked to Saint Senan and the legends of its descent from the sky. It traces its long, storied history through Irish tradition, later medieval context, and the fate of antique artifacts ending in modern collectors' hands.
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Christian Science Monitor
Senan
Anie
Lowion
Daya
Ireland
Senin
The Hermit and the Hermitage in a Time of Need
A Philadelphia Public Ledger reflection urges unity and sympathy. It argues everyone has a role and can lift others regardless of strength, contrasting the self protective misanthrope with those who choose to help and love their fellow beings.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
Hermit
Hermitage
Government Press Agents and a Telegraph Tribute
The Indianapolis News notes a publicity push for Charles Pier and Howard Coonley of the fleet corporation. A 4375 word telegram and photos were sent to the Chicago Tribune to boost two government officials, with the Tribune excerpting the glowing report while not running the full text.
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Indianapolis News
Emergency Feet Corporation
Chicago Tribune
Western Union
Charles Pier
Howard Coonley
Fleet Corporation
Tribune
Piex
Coonley
Plex
Cooney
Re thinking of French village sites after destruction
The article discusses McKinley Madden and Yates from Winds suggesting some French village sites demolished beyond restoration. They question the logic of abandoning ruins and propose rebuilding at more logical, desirable locations. The piece reflects on how practical needs and sentiment influence settlement plans.
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McKinley
Madden
Yates
France
Lertter
Kullur
Capital and the Philippines Seek American Investment
Senators urge American capital to back Philippine independence and development. Delegates lobby financiers as trade and prosperity in the islands depend on foreign investment, with fears that independence may prompt capital withdrawal and slower new projects.
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Quezon
Philippine Desion
Congress
Philippines
Pat
Healthiest in War History Among U S Army
Stars and Stripes notes 94.4 percent of the Yank army remained effective for duty with only 2.4 percent non effective due to disease. It cites 195,000 wounded and 182,000 saved by medical corps, 72,723 deaths with low venereal rate among allied forces, highlighting modern surgery and medicine’s impact on saving lives.
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Stars and Stripes
Paris
America
Barometer of Health Maps Disease Spread in AEF
The Stars and Stripes describes how battlefield disease tracking uses weekly maps in Tours to monitor typhoid and other infections. A single Typhoid carrier in Marseille infected many, spreading via motor transport crews, with spot maps tracing the disease’s routes and impact on American troops.
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Tours
A. B. FP
Europe
France
Marseile4
A. EK. F
Medical Department
Motor Transport Corps
Sentiment Influences Minor Restorations in Treaty Provisions
The New York Post notes sentiment sways practical treaty restorations in Germany, including the return of French flags from 1870 and the transfer of the Ottoman Caliphate’s symbolic relics. It highlights the caliphate’s shifting power toward Arabia as Turkish sovereignty wanes and spiritual leadership moves eastward.
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New York Post
Germany
Berlin
Okwawa
East Africa
Othman
Arabia
Talam
Paris Bars Extend Hours Allow Dancing Again
Paris nightlife relaxed its curfew as cafes and restaurants may stay open until 11 20 PM and music can continue to closing time. Few eateries permit dancing yet some couples ventured onto small floors with live orchestras, driven by visiting officers and civilians who prefer not to dance on craves.
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Paris
Rhine’s Airy Commentary on League and War
A column from Commerce and Finance via Thomas W. Lamont, J. P. Morgan & Co, details Rhine country politics and neutral stance amid postwar goals. It cites plans for a League of Nations, British and American maps, and European reactions alongside fragments from Edinburgh and New York Globe items.
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Rhine
Commerce
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P Morgan & Co
Cologie
Strassburg
Etutt
Denmark
Pot Suet
Gaffer
Keep Off the Grass and Forest Signs in Verse
A reflective poem contrasts signs in parks and woods that ban wandering with the speaker’s nostalgia for free nature. It covers trespassing notices, fishing restrictions, and fenced glades, ending with a coin of fate image in a Harper’s Magazine excerpt by Walter C. Doty.
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Annie
Jehovah
California's Favorite Son Shines From the Sacramento Bee
An editorial lauds Hiram W. Johnson as a great constructive public official. It argues his six years as California governor boosted manhood and prosperity, left a strong treasury, and aligned business and public interests under an Americanism ethos summed as America First. It predicts Johnson would excel as U.S. president and unite capital and labor.
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Sacramento Bee
East
Hiram W. Johnson
Commonwealth
California
America
Lincoln
Liberty Bonds and World War II Era Savings Plea
A fragmented editorial piece discusses the public rush to buy liberty bonds amid wartime shortages. It contrasts bond speculation with prudent thrift, notes market volatility, and echoes sentiments on national responsibility and savings. The piece also weaves in excerpts about memory, poetry, and international proposals for peace and diplomacy.
Telephone adoption in homes in the early era
A historical note traces the telephone's rise from a business tool to household use. It describes initial hesitation and limited private access, with early adopters facing social barriers and frequent in-person calls from nearby neighbors before widespread domestic use emerged later.
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Bosta
All Delng It From Topeka Journal In Wartime Echoes
A fragment from the Topeka Journal recalls a Morh Meld artillery unit in the Argonne. Shells rain on their dugout, casualties rise, and an officer is lost. A general is referenced amid chaotic combat and a later note mentions an English manufacturing company in Markel.
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Argonne
M0th
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