Paris Siege Diary Reveals Hunger and Faction Chaos
Excerpt from The World's Great Events recounts Paris during the 1870 71 siege. Mentions rationing rats and cab horses as food, furniture burned for fuel, and internecine politics undermining defense, as Paris endured bombardment and starvation before capitulating.
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Paris
Napoleon Til
MacMahon
France
Trochu
Gambetten
Favre
Thiers
Simon
Social Democrats
Callai
Tordin
Martial France
Europe
Aemies
Gariaerdt Hirceel
Osman Digma Remembers Only War's Enduring Silence
The account recalls Osman Digma, once a Mahdi lieutenant general, held prisoner at Wadi Walfa. He slept in a crude cell and recited the Koran while a British victor, Kitchener, visited. The conqueror and conquered exchange no words, memory erased by time and fate as Clemenceau notes that grand clashes reduce to mere cat and mouse in world history.
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Osman Digma
Sudan
Wadi Walfa
Georges Clemenceau
Kansas City Star
Divorced Star's Widow Claims Spirit Talks
The divorced wife of a deceased motion picture star says she is in touch with her late husband through spiritual communication. Madison ad executive Lilisa Braithwaite Hill dismisses it as a poor advertising stunt and recalls a Florida anecdote about a bored old lady who pursued spiritualism and claimed chats with former partners and chorus girls.
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Liilisa Braithwaite Hill
Madison
Florida
One Das
George
Yarties
unclear text on color shades and new pieces
The readable fragments mention color shades and new pieces, but lack concrete people, places, or events to summarize a coherent news item. No identifiable entities or actions are present to form a factual card.
No Match for Her Conductor in Smoking Car Scene
Fragmentary dialogue shows a conductor challenging a passenger about lighting a cigarette in a smoking car. The brief exchange hints at tension and a request for a match, with a negative response from the conductor.
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tIoo Ron
Birds warn others of danger in alarm calls and sentinel behavior
In a London Tit-Bits excerpt, birds such as jays act as sentinels detecting predators. Alarm cries spread through the woods, signaling other species like black birds thrushes and wrens to mob daytime owls. The dynamic restarts as new predators are spotted, keeping the forest alert.
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G. Pike
London
GlobePost Sells All Ribbons For Standard Machines
GlobePost announces stock of ribbons for all standard machines in blue black red and other colors. Fast delivery in four days for wide old style machines. Ribbons for portables also in stock. Ribbons attached and adjusted free.
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GlobePost
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Farous
Alexander
Undertamer
Mere Blancherd
Pete
PRG
Albert Payson
Terhune
Toad, Mead & Company
Kitchener
Ioat Eeesut
Develo Ces
Dell Rem
Mickie
Hull
Plymouth County Maytag Co
LeMars
Iowa
Akron
Brunsville—Dirks Hardware Co
Hinton—Hinton Hardware Co
Ireton—Sinkey & Fredericks
Kingsley—Pixier Hardware Co
Merrill
Geo. E. Pew
Orange City—Sioux Co
Maytag Co
Oyena
Paul Peterson Remsen—Schaafs Hardware Co
American Trust & Savings Bank
Northwest
LE Mars
Chieftain Bond
Pushes
le Mars Globe-Post
Plymouth County
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