I Was The Telegraphist For Geronimo’s Band
A southern Arizona station agent recounts a summer encounter with Geronimo’s warriors. He sends a forged telegraph to Fort Bowie under duress, helps reroute troops, and witnesses a coordinated Apache raid thwarted by fort command. The tale ends with the Apache defeat at Crystal Gulch and Chico Creek.
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Fort Bowie
Geronimo
Crystal Gulch
Ana
O. K
Crystal, Gulch
Chico Creek
War as a Business in WWI Highlights German Rail War Efforts
A Luxembourg correspondent describes German wartime logistics on French and Belgian routes. He portrays the war as a vast business operation run like a major American corporation with rail rebuilding, troop and material transport, and fully equipped all steel hospital trains arriving with wounded.
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London
Luxembourg
France
Belgium
Great General Staff
Meuse
Japanese youth seeks cook or any work in London
A London Chronicle clipping notes a Japanese youth advertising for work abroad, promising obedience and efficiency, claiming 14 recruits sent to the army and boasting his readiness for hardship. He describes soldiering in the countryside as tougher than London service and vows resilience against German threats. The teaching class is led by a lady.
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London
Japan
England
Bers
London Chronicle
Something Worth Bragging About Visit News
A narrator recalls visiting an old friend with her five year old niece. The fragment indicates a casual daytime visit and familial companionship, with no clear outcome or event details beyond the cherished moment.
Wounded and troops pass in a wartime moment
The narrator recalls a rare moment when wounded soldiers pass in one direction while cheering troops march in the opposite direction, both groups moving in the same scene.
German cooks earn iron crosses in trench food runs
A British observer extols German field kitchen cooks who endure trench fire to feed troops. The cooks shoulder a yoke with veal stew, delivering meals under bombardment, earning praise for 100 percent courage and vital morale.
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London
The
Teuton
Potztausend
Commissariat
Ancient Watch Keeps Time After 70 Years in Wyoming
Sheridan Wyoming Arnold Tschirgt county surveyor shows a key wind open face gold case watch with figured gold dial and convex crystal that has ticked for 613 678 hours over 70 years. The timepiece once belonged to Mr Tschirg i s father and remains a good timekeeper.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Arnold Tschirgt
Mr. Tschirgi
Riches for Working Woman in Savannah Heir Claim
Mrs. Mary White, a Savannah repair woman, seeks a share of Washington Ware's estate left in Knottville Tennessee. The estate, administered in Ware’s absence, lists teen brothers as only heirs while nieces of the millionaire are mentioned as potential heirs. Mrs. White’s son Samuel White travels from Oklahoma to assist and cites pending escalation of the claim.
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Savannah
Mary White
Washington Ware
Athens
Knottville
Tenn
White
Courage Under Fire at Sebastopol Drill of a Captain
In the siege at Sebastopol Captain Samoiloff orders a frightened private to fetch wine. To prove his point he drills the man on the rampart with bullets searing the air. A bullet wounds the captain but he persists until the lesson ends. The French cease fire in astonishment.
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Sebastopol
Samoiloff
Small Things Count More Than Great Dread
The Universalist Leader argues that minor factors shape outcomes more than dramatic events. Bugs and rot surpass cyclones, microbes outpace lions, and sanitation saves more lives than bullets or storms.
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Universalist
Stage Money Hoard Found In Theaters Affects Public
The New York Press reports a surge of phony stage money being dropped around town. A man mistook a roll of stage cash for real money in the theatrical district, but his pale face showed the illusion. A stage money treasury near the Metropolitan Opera House holds about thirty million in stage notes. The funds are used in films to pay mortgages and on stage to win deceptions. The treasury also issues small lots of accommodation paper for four flushers to fake a roll.
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New York Press
Metropolitan Opera House
Activities of Women in Early 20th Century Roles
Countess Guy de Lasteyrie, once Constance Warren of Newport, R. I., has become a nurse in the French army. In Piedmont Italy women in knitting earn 17 to 25 cents daily. Philadelphia reports women bootblacks, porters, elevator tenders, umbrella menders, and scissor grinders. Mrs W Newman of Greenwich England finished a quilt of 4200 colored pieces. Over half of American women work in farming or as domestic servants.
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Guy de Lasteyrie
Constance Warren
Newport
R. IL
Piedmont
Italy
Philadelphia
W. Newman
Greenwich
United States
The Physician's Life and Moral Fortitude
The study of medicine is an entrancing subject and its practice demands virtues. A physician must meet violence with gentleness and insult with fortitude, embodying the Golden Rule. Resentment has no place as equanimity shields against ignorance and malice.
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A. Stuart Mi Gbisheim
Hat shaped like habitations across world cultures
A noted architect observes recurring parallels between hats and buildings from different regions. He links Hawaiian grain houses to local hats, Eastern church turbans to Jewish priestly headwear, and Gothic spires to horned hennin, suggesting shared stylistic influences across eras.
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Hawaiian Islands
Public Led by Convention in Books and Life
Essay argues that convention shapes perception in art and life. It notes readers resist reality, objects like blue snow, and fiction’s mismatched norms. The author cites clichés in conversations and depictions of women to illustrate conventional distortions.
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William Lyon Phelips
Relieving Monotony on Train Speeds Record Run
An amateur observer notes high speeds on British railways to pass long journeys. He cites 78 mph on the Midland system Chesterfield to Stockport and 70 mph on the London and North Western line Penrith to Carlisle. He warns against recording slower quarter-mile times under 15 seconds.
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Midland Railway Company
Chesterfield
Stockport
London and Northwestern Railway Company
Penrith
Carlisle
London Mail
King John I of France Treated Well as POW After Poitiers
The London Chronicle notes that King John I of France, captured at Poitiers, was lodged first at the Savoy palace then Somerton castle in Lincolnshire. He dismissed 42 of his suite but still had about forty attendants including chaplains, a secretary, physicians, pages, grooms, cooks, and a minstrel. He kept game cocks falcons and greyhounds and could hawk and coursing.
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John I
France
Poitiers
Palace
Savoy
Somerton Castle
Lincolnshire
London Chronicle
Somerton
John
le Roy Des Menestereulx
Hunting Echoes With Arc Light At Illinois
University of Illinois researchers turn echo location into a precise science by using arc light beams directed through auditoriums to map sound reflections. They compare wall and pillar reflections with hissing sounds traveling the same path, enabling targeted fixes like hanging curtains to reduce echo trouble.
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University of Illinois
Saturday Evening Post
One Encouraging Phase of the War
Mrs Wood B Highbrow remarks that medical science has nearly abolished sickness among great armies. She suggests war could become healthier if soldiers stay outdoors, sparking discussion on the health aspects of warfare.
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Dresed
Tsing Tao
Tokyo
Charlies S. Whitman
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Whitman
Olive Hitchcock
Mr.Whitman
Little Olive
RED Cross
Christian D. Hemmick
Washington
Paris
Herbert Corey
King
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