Adventure at Goritz Aims at Quiet War Diary
Lieutenant Pavian, an Italian Army officer, arrives late to the Goritz officers’ mess while the writer describes a rare moment of peace. The scene shifts from brutal trench weather to a tranquil day, with Daudet and Balke books on the table and Pavian’s curious habit of collecting notable photographs.
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Goritz
Austria
Heine
Podgora
Monte Santo
San Gabriele
San Daniele
Selva di Tarnova
Maeterlinck
Alphonse Daudet
Doctor Balke
Daudet
Pavian
Lieutenant Paviani Traces Duty Amid Shelling in Monastir
An observer recalls the moment a shell hits the battalion mess near Monastir. Lieutenant Paviani rushes to aid, learns Lieutenant Zanghieri’s house has fallen, and records the event as a shell strike at 11:45. Colleagues arrive, share silent support, while a corner of the house is left uninhabitable.
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Paviani
Via L
Zanghieri
Fusco
Drought Boosts Honey Harvest At Reed Farm Kansas
Salina Kansas reports record yields at George Reed's bee farm with 200 pounds of honey from a single hive and about 4000 pounds expected this year. Reed attributes the drought and continuous alfalfa bloom for the unusually strong harvest, calling it the best honey year he has seen.
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Salina
Kan
George Reed
Reed
Western Canada Prize Winners At El Paso Fair
Western Canada swept top prizes at the International Dry Farming Congress in El Paso Texas winning for wheat oats barley rye alfalfa and root crops. The piece touts high market wheat qualities pledges strong markets via Hudson Bay Railway and Panama route plus favorable land prices and Dominion Government settlement offers for homesteaders with 160 acre free farms.
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Western Canada
Texas
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
el Paso
Canada
Western
Chicago Stockyards
Hudson Bay
Bay
Pacific Coast
Panama Canal
Dominion
Peace River
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Shell
Tancred Zanghieri
Chicago Daily News
Monastir
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