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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
5
A Wall Street broker with an unusual name recounts a working class man who claimed to share his surname and asked for five dollars. The narrator wakes to realize it was a dream and warns others to verify papers before trusting strangers with money.
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who funded a 250000 field ambulance for the allies, shared wartime stories in New York. She praised the rapid English volunteer training and recounted a comic incident where a colonel tested a recruit by multiple salutes, only to learn the soldier had just been relieved yesterday.
The piece notes that Russia today lacks social life as women devote themselves to national work. It highlights educated Russian women’s growing role in medical care for wounded soldiers, with emphasis on rural areas where daughters often tend locals when doctors are unavailable.
A rural tale from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph features two speakers boasting about horses and ponies outrunning weather. The Yankee recalls Maizypop beating a swift express to Chicago, while the Canadian tells of a pony braving a fierce storm for ten miles home as the rider’s dog swam the rest.
A minor typographical error in Yale University’s official seal replaced the motto Light and Truth with Blasphemers and Farmers due to misused Hebrew letters. The slip, if unnoticed, might have gone undetected, but once revealed it highlighted the adage that a little knowledge is dangerous.
A critic recounts painter Daubit who shifted from idealism to realism and gained social prominence after marrying a rich, ailing spinster and staging a cat themed portrait. The tale notes his rapid career rise as he capitalizes on opportunity and novelty, with a hint of clever ploys and a feline favorite.
A drill instructor ridicules a recruit who cannot locate his front a recruit answers that his front has gone to the laundry. The scene underscores the humor of miscommunication during basic drilling and contrasts discipline with comic misunderstanding.
A Railroad Man's Magazine writer estimates American travelers left baggage in Europe during the early war days, averaging 50 per person. He notes most were forced to abandon belongings as rail systems prioritized troops and munitions, straining transport capacity.
The interior secretary reports in the first two and a half months of the year 1,571,890 acres of public lands were restored to entry while 52,843 acres were withdrawn. Withdrawals mainly protect water power sites, with large restorations on coal lands. Montana led restorations with about 1,100,000 acres and Utah with about 272,000 acres. California saw about 42,000 acres released from oil withdrawals, Idaho over 21,500 acres, and Wyoming more than 124,000 acres released from phosphate withdrawals.
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