Bordeaux The New Capital Quietly Warm and Traditional
Marthe Traly Curtin portrays Bordeaux as content and unchanging, a sunny, well fed city with a real fair at Les Quinconces, gingerbread stalls, and a genteel social mix. The piece notes conservative habits, relaxed pace, and occasional English genetic traces in the Aquitaine province.
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Urdigala
Bordeaux
France
Marthe Traly-Curtin
London
Bond Street
Rue Sainte Catherine
Les Quinconces
Bordelais
Paris
Lyon
The Reading of Books
The passage extols reading good literature as essential for mind growth and character, especially for youth, praising books as enduring nourishment. It cites Channingwell and George P. Brett, framing books as voices of the distant and the dead and as true levelers uniting readers with the greatest minds.
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Channingwell
George P. Brett
The
Atlantic
Supplying the Tallow Candle Exhibition Report
A fragment notes an early display of Sammahie gas in the country and mentions the first exhibition of fireworks in Paltenerpins in 179. The text is incomplete but suggests a historical gas and fireworks event.
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Freworks
Paltenerpnis
New York Leads the World in Gas Development
A historical note recalls a Philadelphia exhibition where tallow candles persisted until gas began replacing candles and oil lamps. The shift to gas about a half century later marked a milestone in urban lighting, as noted by W. C. Jenkins in National Magazine.
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Philadelphia
New York
W. C. Jenkins
National Magazine
Singing Bugs and Artful Cages in the Wisteria Land
In the land of the wistaria the gei sha girl and inlaid ivory knick knacks are valued for artistry. Carnsos and Gadskis of Kingdom are prized by the Japanese who seek their comfort and musical education as singing insects become an honored institution.
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Wistaria
Carnsos
Gadskis
Kngdom
Night Naval Duel Ends With Torpedo Boat Destruction
A French Adriatic chase narrative details a lone night battle as a torpedo boat is blasted after a tense duel. Amid dark seas and blazing searchlights, the officer of the watch and crew fend off a submarine threat, scoring a decisive hit that destroys the enemy vessel.
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Paris
Paul Scott Mowrer
Chicago News
Adriatic
Skirmisher of French Army Seen At Dixmude Outpost
A French skirmisher is reported in action during an outpost engagement near Dixmude. The confrontation highlights ongoing trench era duties and patrols along the frontline.
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Dixmude
Dog Leads Ambulance To Wounded French Soldier
A fox terrier belonging to a French reservist followed his master to the front at the Marne. The dog stayed with him as he was wounded and, by some means, attracted ambulance men who found and helped the injured man.
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Paris
Marne
Germany's Gunmakers Krupps and Their Vast Operations
Berlin reports Krupps, the gunmakers, employ about 80 000 workers in peacetime, yield nearly 10 million dollars in annual profit, and allocate around 1.76 million dollars yearly to workers pensions and holiday funds.
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Germany
Berlin
Bombardment of a Farmhouse Refuge in No Man's Land
London Chronicle reprints a Paris Temps account by a French stretcher bearer describing a farmhouse bombarded between French and German lines. The scene follows wounded French and German soldiers, a dying lover, a woman narrator recalling loss, and shell bursts that collapse the house as shells whip and civilians plead.
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London
Chronicle
Paris Temps
Deed of Daring on a Damaged Mons Bridge
Sapper Wells of the Royal Engineers recalls a heroic escape during the British retreat from Mons. He and an officer attempted to blow a bridge with gun cotton and a fuse as Germans fired plus they were forced back when the fuse failed. Wells refused to retreat alone.
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London
Mons
Sapper Wells
Royal Engineers
Wells
Wounded French Colionels aid in Dixmuda battle line
French colonial forces render first aid to a wounded comrade amid fighting with German troops outside Dixmuda. The clash involves French and German forces as casualties occur on the front.
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Dixmuda
End of the Russian transport Truth as she sinks
A Petrograd telegraph report says the Russian transport Truth was scuttled to avoid surrender to the Turkish cruiser Goeben. The captain opened valves to flood the hull, Lieutenant Ragowsky died trying to ignite a second charge, some crew fled by boat, others swam to Turkish ships, and the ship’s chaplain blessed the men as the vessel sank amid cheers and the Russian anthem.
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London
Reuter’s Telegraph Company
Petrograd
Goeben
Ragowsky
Courts Overburdened With Dissenters From Government Reports
Vienna reports courts strain to handle cases of accused disseminating alarming news about Austrian victories. Only one acquittal to date, a hall porter, for unbelief not equal to disloyalty. Cracow military forbids refugees from Galicia and blocks evacuation provisions.
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Vienna
Cracow
Galieis
Former Wall Street Plunger Becomes Broadway Panhandler
The scion of a Virginia family, William Wayne Belvin, once a Wall Street figure and railroad president, declines to beg along Broadway after losing fortunes in the Northern Pacific deal. Once a millionaire, he now panhandles in New York, with prior arrests and threats against financiers noted.
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Old
Virginia
New York
William Wayne Belvin
Wall Street
Northwest
Henry Villard
Broadway
Bealvin
Northern Pacific Railroad
Belvin
San Francisco & Eastern Railroad Company
Northern Pacific
the Waldorf
Debonnair
Kings of Finance
Iroquois Hotel
Buffalo
George B. Cortelyou
McKinley
Paso del Norte
Tex
Bellevue
Edward McCassidy
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
James A. Patten
Nan in London Aiding Belgian Refugees Becomes Bond
Nan forms a deep bond with Belgian refugee Jean Leman in London during the early weeks of war. She helps locate Jean after a front page photograph of Major Albert Leman appears, guiding them to King Edward VII hospital where the reunited father thanks Nan for caring for his daughter.
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McClure News- Paper
Nan
Europe
Belgium
Paris
London
Norland Square
Green Park
Jean Leman
Louvain
Jean
Maj
Albert Leman
Major Leman
King Edward VII Hospital
Nanny
Somnambulist Horse Haunts Connersville Farm
In Connersville Indiana Alexander Otron of the area owns a gentle old horse prone to somnambulism. The horse falls asleep at halt and walks about the farm while asleep, seeming to recognize danger and observe its surroundings.
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Connersville
Ind
Alexander Otron
Here
Lamplight Wager Fuels Lighthouse Invention Tale
In eighteenth century Liverpool a scientist wagered he could read a newspaper at thirty feet using a farthing dip loaded in a curved box of glass. A dockmaster witnessed the feat and adapted the principle to widen lighthouse reflex lighting, boosting range and lifesaving power.
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Scientific Society
Liverpool
England
Copying Mother in a Dressy Tone Visit Farewell
A mother asks about her daughter’s visit with a playmate and the child recalls calling the friend "my dear" in a dressy tone used for company. The exchange captures a playful glimpse of childhood politeness.
Such Brazen People
A terse note about unexpected bold behavior in a recent event or scene. The fragment hints at public astonishment and an incident involving a group or individuals described as brazen. No clear names, places, dates, or outcomes are identifiable from the text.
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