Parisian Soul Revealed in War Amid Big Front
Edward B. Clark reports from Paris on a somber city at war with its guard up and streets dimmed. Parisians honor their defenders, endure air alarms, and watch night skies for enemy aircraft while Boulogne anchors British relief and Amiens borders near battle lines.
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Edward B. Clark
Union
Paris
United States
Republic
von Kluck
Grand Morin
France
Paria
England
Strand
Piccadilly
Tipperary
America
Germany
Austria
Russia
Grande Boulevard
Fifty Year Search Ends in Reunion at Blair
P C Grimes of Nebraska City Nebraska with a fifty year quest traced his sister Mrs D W Jones of Altus Oklahoma to Blair where he alighted from an Orient train. Grimes age seventy five began his pursuit after a 25 county and 12 state campaign ended when a misdirected letter to Rix Green County led to its Forwarding to Mangum Postmaster G B Townsend who knew Mrs Jones.
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Altus
Okla
Oklahoma
Blair
P. C. Grimes
Nebraska City
Neb
Orient
D. W. Jones
Grimes
Wolf Hunt Near Here Ended with She Wolf and Cubs
A party of young men led by N. A. Purdy Allison Miller and Frank Marley hunted near here and killed a she wolf then captured seven cubs three days old Their eyes were not yet open marking the first litter seen in this area
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Kimball
N. A. Purdy
Allison Miller
Frank Marley
Shelf Wood for a Violin in Charlotte Visit
Mr and Mrs D E Eggleston of Hillsdale visited Charlotte to watch granddaughter violinist Ione Eggleston Ward test a violin made by Mr Eggleston. The instrument used cedar from Italy and aged Maple from a 50 year old store shelf and barn rafters. Benjamin JF Carmean later returned a found sum from Columbus with thanks and a necktie.
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Charlotte, Mich
D. E. Eggleston
Hillsdale
Charlotte
Ione Eggleston Ward
Italy
Benjamin JF. Carmean
Columbus
Mr. Carmean
Plea for Restitution in Marysville Apple Theft
A Marysville resident offers 25 cents for a peck of apples allegedly stolen from their orchard. The brief notice requests the rightful owner to accept compensation.
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Marysville
Life of an Army Shoe in London War Estimate
An estimate places the average army shoe life at six weeks and projects a need for 71,000,000 pairs for a year of the war.
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London
House-Warming Dinner Turns Comedy of Kitchen Catastrophes
A humorous house-warming dinner ends in chaos as a new cook Helga ruins several courses. The party endures oysters with salad oil, mock turtle soup, and a turkey stuffed with peanut brittle, corkscrew, and odd items. Peaches laments the kitchen crisis while guests cope with the culinary fiasco.
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Rome
Peaches
New Jersey
Helga
John
Denmark
Germany
Helga Helga
Wife
P. S
Nix
Japanese Women in Politics Signal Women’s Movement Progress
Frances Frear notes in Leslie’s that Japanese women, though not yet enfranchised, joined door to door canvassing for husbands in a pivotal election. The press linked this rise of the “new woman” to broader emancipation trends as Japan’s modernizing pace quickens.
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Japan
Frances Frear
Leslie
House of Representatives
Chinese Republic
Machines and the Man Triumph in Battle of Steel
Lieutenant Rycroft experiences a brutal test of nerve behind a shelter as machines unleash a deadly hail of shells and bullets. He leads a desperate charge where human will dominates over impersonal weapons, revealing the soldier's core identity amid chaos.
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Rycroft
Crecy
Waterloo
Lunatics Fill European Palaces with Delusions of Royal Kin
A New York Sun writer notes that mad visitors commonly claim noble kinship to rulers. From Buckingham Palace to Berlin, inmates pursue and harass royalty, ending in lunatic asylums or release after brief detention. Similar delusions trouble monarchs across Europe since 1888.
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New York Sun
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
George V
Edward VII
Berlin
Potsdam
Europe
A Place for Everything in a Car Book Debate
A lively exchange shows an auto owner resisting a car book as a device to record troubles. The book agent touts the value of its many headings including a hypothetical crash by a parachutist on a country road and assigns the incident to an overhead expenses category.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Emaciation of Old Brother Feebles Reported
The Kansas City Star quotes Brother Sawney describing Po' Brudder Feebles as gravely ill and so thin he scarcely takes up more space than a dime stood on its edge.
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Feebles
Po’ Brudder
Sawney
Kansas City Star
Brussels Trees Bud After Electric Currents
Stray electric currents from a railroad are blamed for reawakening buds on trees along a Brussels street after they shed leaves each autumn, with occasional blossoms reappearing in spring.
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Brussels
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George W. Hobart
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