Untold billions cost of a great European war
The article cites Jules Roche and Alfred Neymarck arguing a six-nation war would cost enormous monthly sums, cripple economies, and halt production. It notes France might fare better due to agricultural reserves, but overall war would cause paralysis and long recovery across Europe.
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Britain
M. Miles Roche
Prench
France
Paul Leroy-Beaulieu
Inet Tute
Germany
Russia
Alfred Neymarck
French Society of Political Economy
Glass Doore Plans For New Joliet Prison
Plans for a Joliet state penitentiary costing 3 1 2 million dollars feature circular cell houses around a central dining hall with glass between bars for enclosed cells. The design aims for constant supervision from a central point and separate heating and ventilation to improve inmate health, based on studies of U S and European prisons and submitted to Governor Dunne en.
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Joliet
Europe
Deneen
Ameer Plays Golf Causes Petition Holes Near Kabul
The ameer of Afghanistan enjoyed golf and had fine greens near Kabul. Natives, recognizing the royal game, placed petitions into holes at night hoping they would reach him. The ameer, angered by the stunt, ordered all such petitions buried.
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Afghanistan
Kabul
Amerr
Wis
Hat-Pinnacle of Woman's Power in Hatpins
The piece quotes Ida Husted Harper challenging gender norms at a National Woman Suffrage Association convention in Philadelphia. It argues hatpins symbolize female hesitation, contrasts with male resolve, and cites J. Lampton in the New York Times to claim women lag in battlefield courage.
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Mraida
Harper
National Woman Suffrage Association
Philadelphia
J. Lampton
New York Times
Red Cross Work Worldwide Highlighted by Miss Boardman
Miss Mate Boardman outlined the District of Columbia American Red Cross annual report detailing global aid past year. She cited funds aiding Vatican states Turks and Christians, noting no creed or race limits relief. She cited 100000 sick and wounded, with 14000 Constantinople and 16000 Servia cases, and referenced response to Titanic, Mississippi floods, and China crises.
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Balkans
Mate Boardman
Distret of Columbia
American Red Cross
Miss Boardman
Red Cross
Constantinople
Servia
Turkey
Red Creavant
Simili
Panama Canal to Be White Way With Acetylene Lights
Panama engineers plan elaborate lighting for the canal to rival New Yorks Great White Way. A double row of automatic acetylene lighted buoys will define channels with powerful captor flashing range lights, making navigation safe at night.
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Panama
Panama Canal
Army Engineers
Uncle Sam
Continent
New York
James Pattison
Convention of Naval Engineers and Architects
Pattison
Culebra
Bulgaria plans war cost paid by tobacco revenue
Bulgarian policy aims to fund wartime costs by tobacco. English travelers note Bulgarian weed, grown largely for Turkish cigarettes, will command higher prices postwar. Bulgarian farmers expect to control key tobacco provinces with Greece to boost profits and raise tobacco prices to reflect true value, a striking shift from gunpowder to smoke.
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Bulgaria
Paris
Karasu Yenilges
Bnt
American Women May Become European Queens in Dynastic Match
The article reports that two American women may become consort queens if Balkan and Portuguese dynastic hopes align. It centers on Eleavor Calhoun of California, now Princess Tanatooweh, wife of Prince Eugene Lasarevich Hrebtianovich of Servia, and Anita Stewart of New York, who married Prince Miguel de Braganza. It notes political aims, royal marriages, and funding challenges surrounding throne ambitions.
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California
Prince de Braganze
Portugal
Miss Stewart
New York
Europe
Chumanta
Eugene Lasarevich- Hrebtianovich of
Servia
Karageorgeviches
Obrenoviches
de Czernusehy
Balkan
Lne
Tanatooweh
Eleavor Calhoun
John
Calhoun
The
Statesman
Paris
Sirdoy
London
Sergia
Jovich
America
Bervia
Manuel
House of Firecrass
Miguel de Braganza
Anita Stewart
Tu Castle
Stewart
Francis Joseph
Austria
James Henry Smith
Prince de Braganza
Duke de Viseu
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