Picture of Kaiser Hangs in Tonga's Royal House
The New York World recounts relations between Germany and Tonga, noting a life size Kaiser portrait gifted by Germany to King George Taboo I. It hung in Nukualofa’s police hall where busts of Frederick and Bismarck were used as hat racks. After wartime, British officials pressed Tonga to remove the picture, highlighting Tonga as a rare independent Pacific monarchy than a protectorate.
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Germany
Tonga
South Pacific
Kaiser
George Taboo I
Nehoipelago
Nukualofa
George
Emperor Frederick
Prince von Bismarck
Tonkut
New York World
Gothic French Cathedrals Frame Civilizational Pride
The article extols French cathedrals such as Notre Dame Paris Bourges Reims Chartres Rouen Amiens Beauvais and Coutances as unrivaled wonders of design. It credits generations of craftsmen and the French taste for spiritual aspiration, beauty, and noble ideals shaping a thousand years of sacred architecture.
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France
Cass Gilbert
Notre Dame de Paris
Bourges
Reims
Chartres
Rouen
Amiens
Beauvats
Coutances
Within Sound of the Guns
Fragmentary prose portrays a landscape of wilderness and danger with imagery of wolves and threatened admission into a region. The narrator questions paths through the wilderness and hints at exploration or conflict amid a bleak setting and uncertain outcomes.
Shipyard Workmen in Portland Fall Week’s End
A turbulent week in wartime America with Portland shipyard workers set to return to duties after a noon halt due to a weekend holiday. Reports show minor illnesses among Camp Lewis troops, a few desertion and impersonation cases, and multiple accidents and injuries across the West.
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Intermountain
Portland
Camp Lewis
LL McGrowan
United States Army
Rod
Alonous
Ogden
Tinh
Denver
United States
Secret Service
Ulih
Atchee
Colo
Shipbuilding Department
Federal
Earl Dodge
Tih
Salt Lake
Domestic
Beamans Back on Their Old Line in Great War Push
British French and American forces relentlessly press the German army along a 140 mile front from Ypres to Rheims. Foch's July 18 counter offensive has forced retreats and rapid rearrangements as Allied advance grows, with Villeveque and Corbie cited as early signs of German withdrawal. Americans join in fierce fighting near Voormezeele south of Ypres, while Peronne and Ham fall to British and French respectively as the front shifts toward the Meuse and Belgian frontier.
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London
Toone
Rawlinson
Amiens
Foch
Ypres
Waat of
Rheims
Meuse
Villeveque
Corbie
Bindenburg
Hindenburg
Une
Peronne
Ham
Soissons
Juvigny
Terny-Borny
Aida
Yesle
Vesle
Flanders
Voormexeole
Baker Safe in France Secretaries Trip Aims Relief
Secretary of War Newton P. Taker travels to France to ease congestion at home and review U S forces. The voyage, crews, and reception are described with emphasis on the mission to support munition and supply needs during the European theater.
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Wrehington
Newton
Mel
Europe
Te Sevrettry
Peceléraion
Bietepewer Esqviielon
Mets
Kaiser’s Nephew Captured in London Amid Confusion
A nephew of an unnamed Kaiser reportedly captured by American forces on Sunday, with conflicting details. New York reports claim 1500 men drafted into military service and 15,000 delinquent as a result of a rapid roundup. Reports also mention wreck survivors in Hawaii and a crew welcomed by officials aboard a vessels.
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Washington
France
Baker
Dobn 1
Tryun
Gorgas
Wemy
Chairan Barvely
Vie Wae True Tele Board
Congress
America
Ltsen
Food Administration Fridgy
Senate
Wilson
Gregory
New York City
Department of Justice
Kaisor
Front
Pershing
Belgium
Nieuwe Hotterdam Courant
Tulant Pasha
Vienna Neue Presse
Talaat
Vienna
Mount Vernon
Liegdiner Kronprinzess
Celilo
Becwuse
Seth Reelin
Monstiuery
Cecllis
Berlin
Alene
Humsult
Meeleh
Bavaro
New York
Miltttur Eurorce
Extermination Tips and Spelling Mischief From Indianapolis News
A fragment discusses a method to kill burdocks by cutting near the ground before seeding and applying kerosene to the root with an oil can. It also notes a humorous spelling lesson in an Indianapolis school where a pupil misspelled mus tache leading to a joke about the Kaiser having no bone but a mustache.
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Indianapolis
Robert
Insinnapolis News
Obscure wartime musings mix with curious remarking
A fragmented OCR passage shows characters discussing cigars and death with odd lines about Poignant box and elgark tweed. A woman's voice and a remark on Havens and Greenturn's icy mountains appear, followed by a note on Americans touring New Zealand.
New Experience at Camp Dodge Sparks War Talk
Two recruits await further instruction at Camp Dodge when one jokes the war will be new work for them. Another man quips he has been married to the wrong girl for five years. California plans to regate 5,490,300 acres of land while Ohio farmers form cooperative buying societies.
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Camp Dodge
California
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