Plan to Restore Louvain Library
M Delannoy librarian at the University of Louvain details the planned international effort led by Viscount Bryce to rebuild the Louvain library destroyed by Germans. He recalls the university's 1425 founding, its famed scholars, and the library's 950 manuscripts, incunabula, and 250000 volumes, and laments the destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louvain
M. Delannoy
University of Louvain
London
Viscount Bryce
University of
Erasmus
Justus Lipsius
Cornelius Jansen
America
Malines
Cardinal Mercier
Halle Aux Draps
Kaiser Ace Aboard German War Card Deck
Berlin reports Germans adopt war card decks featuring the Kaiser and leaders. Skat and other games replace traditional face cards with pictures of Von Hindenburg and other figures. The fours become Bavarian Saxon Württemberg rulers while knaves show generals. Notables include Zeppelin Tirpitz Bethmann-Hollweg Wedgden Rupprecht Falkenhayn Kluck.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Berliner Tageblatt
Pique
Trefle
Bavaria
Saxony
Wurtemburg
Baden
Count Zeppelin
Admiral von Tirpitz
von Bethmann-Ho
Half sovereigns to be scrapped in Britain
In London the half sovereign faces abolition after prior moves in 1816 to drop the guinea. Economists note high wear and loss from the smaller gold coin. With Bradburys and pinkins in daily use, advocates argue the half sovereign is obsolete despite wear reductions.
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London
Bradbury
Secretary of the Treasury
Pinkins
Ten Acres of Goldfish Bring Cash for Langdon Pioneer
Eugene Catte of Langdon Kansas runs a private hatchery on thirteen acres with fifteen ponds. He shifted from selling small fish locally to a full hatchery business and now ships game fish across Kansas Missouri Oklahoma and Nebraska. He supplies ponds to state and federal entities and works year round though winter wading is required.
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Topeka
Kan
Eugene Catte
Langdon
Mr. Catte
Mrg Catte
Reno County
Catte
West
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Nebraska Fish Department
Minnie Kneeter Rolls Peanut in Omaha Bet Dare
Miss Minnie Kneeter a pretty society girl rolls a peanut around the block at Omaha's busiest corner to settle a lost bet. The peanut is rolled with a toothpick as onlookers watch a lively street spectacle. She declares she is no piker despite the wager.
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Omaha
Neb
Miss Minnie Kneeter
Miss Kneeter
Honey In Courthouse Bees Found In Bates County
A Bates county court report notes a swarm around the Bates county courthouse cu pola. Janitor Fleetwood Thomas collected about 500 pounds of honey from the bees and sold it at local grocery stores for roughly 75 dollars.
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Butler
Bates County
Fleetwood Thomas
Arkansas Pearl Divers Drive River Shell Trade
Newport Arkansas reports success in the White River pearl fisheries as Jesse I Wilson the former White River county sheriff known as the pearl king earns large profits. His operation including rafts and sampans employs many divers and pays 5 percent of proceeds while his wife’s necklace of 6500 pearls is valued at 6000 dollars. He also captures an Oklahoma bank robber earning a $1000 reward.
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Newport
Ark
White River
Jesse I. Wilson
Wilson
Button Factories
Oklahoma
Notre Dame Bakery Chief Counts Ten Million Buns
Brother Willim ford, head of the University of Notre Dame Bakery in South Bend Indiana, marks his fifteenth year in charge and says he has baked about 20,000,000 breakfast buns. He reports mixing 82,850 barrels of flour and producing 642,500 five pound loaves and 16,425,000 cookies.
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University of Notre Dame
South Bend
Ind
Brother Willimford
Willimford
Pauper Leaves $10,000 Estate After Death at County Farm
Redwood City California resident B Tocchini died a pauper at San Mateo county poor farm. His estate totals about $10,000 with two $3,000 San Francisco mortgages and $4,000 in cash deposit certificates found among his effects by Assistant Superintendent James Urbans.
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Redwood City
Cal
B. Tocchini
San Mateo County
San Francisco
James Urbans
Lonely Soldier Letters Spark 3000 Parcels Anew
London reports the tale of a lone front line soldier who, shamed by the rush of letters to others, is buried in mail after a London paper published his story. Within days he received 90 large parcels and 3 000 letters, while a Second South Lancashire corporal noted he had gone from zero to 320 replies.
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London
Manchester
South Lancashires
Anti Ain t Association Formed at Fort Hays Normal School
Students at Fort Hays Normal School in Hays Kansas organize an Anti ain t association to promote correct English and abolish slang words. Led by English professor P Casper Harvey the group targets simple usage and bans words like come and nice.
Old Hand Forged Trap Found In Wisconsin Forest
Edward Young of Wausau brought a very rusty hand forged trap to town, likely 75 to 100 years old. He found it in roots of a uprooted tree near Kempster while hunting, and authorities believe it was placed during the Hudson Bay fur trade era.
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Wisconsin
Wausau
Wis
Edward Young
Young
Kempster
Hudson Bay
German meat restrictions spark chemist led substitutes
German authorities publish a weekly schedule restricting meat sales and cooking on certain days to conserve supplies. Amid shortages, chemists promote artificial omelets butter and milk substitutes and cheap whale meat for camps, with prices quoted in marks and pfennige.
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London
Federal Council
Ritterstrasse
Wollfson's
Charlottenburg
Prima- Nova
Neukolin
Berlin
Kalek’s
Charlottenstrasse
Levin
Ludwig Holzappel
Leipzig
Bull Attacks Pastor in Barn Injury at Wabash Farm
The Rev. Samuel Piety, 62, pastor of a Disciples of Christ church in southern Wabash County, was seriously injured when a bull charged him in a farm barn. He was thrown, trampled, and sustained two broken ribs and a fractured collarbone before a passerby with a pitchfork drove the animal off.
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Piety
Wabash
Ind
Samuel Piety
Disciples of Christ Church
Nome Walrus Hunt Breaks Record with 1353 Killed
The steamer Corwin, from Nome under Captain J. R. Healy, returns to Seattle with 1,353 walruses killed on two ice floe trips, the largest catch on record. Total value around $49,270 includes oil, tusks, hides destined for London tanneries, and whale-like leather uses.
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Seattle
Wash
Corwin
J. R. Healy
Nome
Alaska
Healy
Oscar Annevik
China
London
Legless Man a Good Farmer in Battle Creek
Myron L. Briggs, a forty five year old resident of Battle Creek Michigan, demonstrates exceptional pluck by farming with no legs. He hitchhikes a three horse team, cuts hay and grain for himself and neighbors, climbs ladders to mow, and drives field machinery using adapted seating and devices. Briggs lost his legs in a Grand Rapids street car accident about sixteen years ago.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Myron L. Briggs
Briggs
Grand Rapids
Oldest Red Cross Member Portrait Sent From Ottawa
Sir Robert Borden forwarded a portrait to Red Cross rooms showing the world’s oldest Red Cross member a western Indian named Pointed Cap of the Fire Hills reserve Saskatchewan. He will be 108 on November 14. The Indian branch of the Red Cross reflects Dominion wide wartime support and aid efforts.
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Ottawa
Canada
Robert Borden
Red Cross
Red Cross Society
Fire Hills
Saskatchewan
Dominion
Professor Bridwell Sought in Australian Wilds
Berkeley wife of J W Bridwell seeks him in Western Australia where he vanished months ago while acting as Hawaiian government agent studying parasites to combat pests. He last reported sailing from Sydney toward the west coast of Australia en route inland in search of specimens.
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Berkeley
Cal
Genevieve Bridwell
J. W. Bridwell
University of California
Western Australia
Bridwell
Sydney
Australia
Montclair Women Plan Tests For Servant Jobs
Montclair New Jersey plans standard wages and examinations for household servants. A central testing station will be set up with the board of education. Applicants must take tests in cooking serving and household skills to earn a certificate and $25 a month for single employment.
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Montclair
N. J
Housewives’ League
Board of Education
Sixty Two Year Old Woman Seeks Divorce
Mrs Augusta Geldermann, age sixty two, files for divorce from Fritz Geldermann, age sixty three, a blacksmith, in district court alleging desertion and nonsupport since September 1914. Married April 17 1900, she says she worked daily in early years while he did as well.
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St. Paul
Augusta Geldermann
Fritz Geldermann
Geldermanns
Hen Sits Under Buggy Seat Delays Camp Meet
Wesley Nix of Elris found a hen nesting under the seat of his buggy at a Cleveland camp meeting. He kept Biddy away from the meeting and returned home with the hen still on duty. John McKenzie, wintering at Derby Canyon, plans several days in the city visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. A V Jones left for Whitefish Montana to visit Mr. Jones's sister.
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Cleveland
Wesley Nix
Elris
Biddy
John McKenzie
Derby Canyon
City
Mrs
A. V. Jones
Whitefish, Mont
Mr. Jones
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Tocchini
Anti-Ain’t Association
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