War bonus strike movement across British unions eyed
New York officials report British labor leaders expect a national strike by 850,000 coal miners and postal workers plus other unions to press a uniform 20 percent war bonus. London plans a coordinated stoppage date across the country, potentially halting mining for at least a month and affecting about a million men.
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Kingstown Harbor
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State Supreme Court
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International Federation of Trades Unions
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St. Joseph
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United Textile Workers
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Fall River
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Porto Rico
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Rome
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Superior
Maryland
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England
Joke Clock Rouses House Without Waking Help
A Boston transcript snippet frames a joke about an alarm clock that wakes the entire house without waking the household staff. The clerk quips he can supply such a device, pleasing the customer with a clever reversal.
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Boston Transcript
Getting Even Among Snobs and Blame in Smiths Clash
A brief scene shows two households, the Van Grunts and the Smiths, trading insults and plotting petty revenge as social tensions flare. The speakers vow retaliation amid a tense, casual confrontation.
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Smiths
Aggrieved Life Reflections Echo in Troubled Call
A fragmentary dialogue hints at a mother daughter conflict as the speaker questions inheritance of appearance and a call is described as potentially hurtful, suggesting a family strain or emotional grievance within a domestic scene.
Senator Promises Job Probe Over Absence of Opportunities
A Louisville Courier Journal item quotes a dialogue in which a job seeker asks a senator for work. The senator counters that no jobs exist and proposes a commission to investigate the unemployment cause, implying the job may come from the inquiry rather than direct employment.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
The Test Lines on Life Duty and Honor
A reflective meditation on life comparing its brief span to the enduring value of honor and duty, urging purposeful use of years and steadfast character despite mortality.
Refugees flood Greek islands as Asia Minor exodus grows
In Mitylene and across Lesbos nearly 400000 refugees strain Greece’s resources. The island’s normal 20900 residents have doubled amid crowded Turkish houses, beggars in streets, and scarce sustenance. Oliver Clarke, English by descent but raised as a Turk, narrates a perilous escape from Pergamos under gendarme scrutiny.
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Asia Minor
Thrace
Mitylene
Lesbos
Sapho
Alvaly
Oliver Clarke
Clarke
Smyrna
Pergamos
M. Eliopoulos
Aivaly
Dikely
Des Moines Pawnbroker Claims Body Sale as Asset
Ira-Mose Levich of Des Moines bankrupt claims Miss Dottie Morgan Denver died owner, whose 1907 bill of sale for her body after death to Levich is an asset to settle his business. The document provides that Levich may dictate posthumous use of her body for $10, with life-time revocation options.
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Des Moines
Mose Levich
United States
Dottie Morgan
Prince of Wales joins farm project on Cornwall duchy estate
The prince of Wales, at the king's request, has begun a farming venture on the Duchy estate in Cornwall. Initiated after two long-serving tenants retired in March 1913, the 400 acre Whiteford Home Farm at Stoke Climsland Callington will practice mixed husbandry with livestock, especially cattle.
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London
Prince of Wales
Duchy
Cornwall
Whiteford
Stoke Climsland
Callington
War stirs Tenedos as Moslems and Greeks watch Dardanelles battle
War reports from the island of Tenedos describe a divided mood among Moslem and Greek residents. Mount Elias becomes the vantage point for observers as shells and bombardment reshape daily life. Correspondents flood in, straining a lone postmaster with volumes of diverse currencies and dispatches.
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Dardanelles
Tenedos
Mount Elias
Narrows
Mount
Elias
Chanak
Straits
Man repays sin with dollar for 27 year old deed
A Arkansas man recovers a dollar from A D Stubbs after receiving a letter from L R Egan of Kansas City claiming to have killed a turkey Stubbs shot 27 years ago. Egan asks forgiveness and Stubbs donates the money to foreign missions.
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Ark
A. D. Stubbs
Carden Bottom
Heres
AD. Stubbs
Petit Jean River
George Shoemake
L. R. Egan
Kansas City
Mr. Stubbs
Egan
Stubbs
Foreign Missions
Daily Special
Men feature a bold view on male identity with a cheeky line about a kicking coming. The quip positions daily life as punchy social commentary and hints at masculine bravado in a playful tone.
Washburn Student Runs a Jitney in Topeka
Washburn University sophomore John McEntyre ran a jitney in Topeka to pay for college. He operated daily from four to eight and Saturdays from one to ten, earning about five dollars daily over expenses before entering military service.
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Topeka, Son
Washburn
John McEntyre
MccEntyre
Topeka
McIntyre
Japanese Inns and Entrance Etiquette
The article describes the entry to native inns in Japan with a roofed vestibule and earthen floor, a raised platform, lines of footwear, a cupboard for umbrellas, and an office area. Guests are welcomed with calls of O Kvaku san as servants remove shoes and assist guests, who usually remain on the platform before being shown to their rooms.
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Japan
Kansas City Times
Editor's quotes and a libel trial scare
In a reminiscence Bodkin recalls John B Gallagher, editor who mutilated manuscripts and believed inverted commas shield libel. He insisted on quoting odd phrases like exquisitely amusing, leading to the Freeman's Journal reporting it as “exquisitely amusing.”
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Bodkin
The
Freeman’s Journal
Sunday Church Experience Frightens Child
Esther, on a wet Sunday, attends church with her parents for the first time. The energetic minister paces the rostrum and delivers a forceful sermon, prompting the girl to whisper fearfully to her mother about what would happen if the minister "got out."
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Esther
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Dispatch
Mother's Constancy in a Mother's Love
A New York Weekly reflection on a mother's enduring tenderness for her son. It extols sacrifice and devotion beyond all other affections, noting she supports him in comfort, pleasure, fame, and prosperity. Even misfortune or disgrace cannot lessen her steadfast care.
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New York Weekly
Paper Money of Ancient China Foretold Modern Banking
The article notes that as early as 2697 B C Chinese used paper money called flying or convenient money. A bank note from about 3300 years ago survived in Petrograd museum, bearing bank name date issue a number official signature value in words and figures and a coin pictorial to prevent forgery and aid the ignorant.
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Petrograd
Cigar With Wooden Peg A Wisconsin Manufacture
A Wisconsin cigar maker fits each cigar with a small wooden shoe peg protruding from the tip. The smoker grips the peg with teeth and pulls to open a draft, avoiding damage to the wrapper. Popular Mechanics describes the device as a neat curiosity.
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Wisconsin
Needed Again in the Circle of Debt
Dibble and Jobson joke about a ten dollar debt with witty barbs. Dibble admits debt lingers, Jobson frets over not sleeping, and the exchange hints at lingering financial tension between the two neighbors.
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Dibbles
Jobson
Diet Fit for the Great King George
A cartoon caption notes King George eats plain food on the doctored orders while Cholly protests in a restaurant. The papah declares corned beef and cabbage as the choice meal in a humorous exchange from New York Weekly.
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George
New York Weekly
Strength in Heels: Kansan’s Spring Shoe Joins Social Scene
A Kansan inventor adds a coiled heel spring to a shoe to create a springy gait at social events. Women at a spring gathering bob up and down like fishing corks, drawing wonder from young men and old bachelors alike before a maiden reveals the secret lies in the hidden spring in the heel.
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Kansas
Hardening Molasses Counts as Scientific Inquiry
The Loui sana Sugar Planter and Manufacturer notes that solidified molasses attracts scientists. Experiments show concentration causes dry-substance loss as inversion of sucrose speeds with dilution. At 134 centigrade neutral or alkaline thick molasses caramelizes sugar rather than inverting. The process has two stages: before and after the concentration limit, with inversion and dry-substance changes differing between stages.
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Louisana
Java
German Colors and the Many Prussian States
The piece lists color schemes of German kingdoms and states within the empire. It notes Prussian roots in the flag’s black white and eagle, and the North German Confederacy in the canton’s black white and red, established in 1867. It then enumerates Bavaria blue white Han over yellow white Saxony white green Württemberg black red Mecklenburg-Strelitz red yellow blue Brunswick blue yellow Saxe-Coburg Gotha green white Schaumburg Lippe blue red white Waldeck black red yellow Pomerania blue white Baden red yellow Hesse red white Hanover yellow white.
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Hanover
Saxony
Wurttemberg
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Brunswick
Saxe-Coburg
Gotha
Schaumburg-Lippe
Waldeck
Pomerania
Baden
Hesse
Farmers Fuel Global Relief Through Wheat Exports
The Philadelphia Ledger notes American farmers feed 100,000,000 foreigners with daily bread, exporting about 1,500,000 bushels of wheat weekly to Europe. It commends farm labor and suggests the nation’s export effort rivals foreign mission work in scope.
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Philadelphia Ledger
War prompts Britain to curb drinking abroad and at home
An English purchasing agent visiting New York says Russia abandons vodka France abandons absinthe and England may shrink beer during the war. He notes English beer is potent and will be hard to give up. In Marble Arch a tub thumper jokes about beer saloons sinking.
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Russia
France
England
New York
Marble Arch
Old Lady Pleads For Postcard From Frontline Nephew
A wartime illustration shows an elderly woman bidding farewell to her nephew on leave. She urges him to write and send a postcard to confirm his safe return to the trenches, capturing domestic concern during conflict.
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Clarke
Dikely
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