German Navy Losses and War News Mixed Baltic to Atlantic
The report details German naval losses from mines in the Baltic and North Sea engagements, with about 400 sailors dead on the Frederich Karl and 96 civilian fatalities along with 400+ wounded. It notes Hartlepool bombardments, mine sweeping along the coast, and shifting Kaiser Wilhelm’s war front plans. Also covered are invasion fears near Warsaw, rumors of Dresden’s sinking, and a U.S. River and Harbor pork barrel appropriation debate with New Jersey, Staten Island, and Shrewsbury earmarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartlepool
North Sea
Hull
Newcastle
Hamborough Head
Petrograd
Frederich Karl
Baltic Sea
Washington, D. C
House
Committee On
Congress
Staten Island Sound
New Jersey
One Idea of Popular Songs In Puck’s Phrase
A compact reflection on how popular songs act as vivid cultural signals like yellow journals of melody. The quotation frames songs as colorful, widely heard, and enduring much like a lighted match.
Remark on memory span and recollection of early life
The speaker notes that recalling events from age four is common, while memory before four is rare and sometimes claimed as far back as age two. A vivid memory from under three relates to a railroad construction era near the river, with a kindly lady commenting on his boots. The account suggests extraordinary but uncommon early-memory phenomena.
Saturday to Monday Skip Confuses Colored Troops
A Pacific voyage of a Ninth Cavalry unit ran from Saturday to Monday erasing Sunday that week. A wise sergeant explains the calendar mix up using a frontier drawl, noting Earth’s poles and a shift from Christian to heathen lands, ending with no more Sundays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
Philippines
Ninth Cavalry
Fatal Lack of Co operation in Farm Communities
A letter-writer laments farm communities marked by debt and mutual jealousy. The piece argues lack of neighborly help causes collective retrogression, claiming residents refuse to assist one another as they compete for income. The author signs M.8.
Triumph of Womanly Nature and Court Proceedings
A fragment from a Boston editor's note contrasts a budding novelist’s bold line with a New Jersey chancery sale and a number of legal notices. It covers a public real estate vendue in Freehold County Monmouth, an annual meeting notice for Tintern Manor Water Company, and a divorce proceeding involving Ernest LeRoy Johnson. The mixed items reference property, corporate governance, and family law in New Jersey during the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Court of Chancery
State of
New Jersey
Court House
Freehold
County of Monmouth
West Lone Branch
County of
Monmouth
Staite
Norwood Park
Hollywood and
Tinewood Avenues
Hollywood Avenue
Beechwood Avenue
Tinewood Avenue
Pinewood Avenue
Elsie Koehl Cobatiks
Fannie
Tintern Manor Water Company
Third Avenue
Long Ish
Ernest LeRoy Johnson
Court of Chancery of New Jersey
Rande
Edna . Johnson
Chanreller Shell
Equitable and
Jist
It Is a Base Thing to Be at Anything but Our Best
The piece argues that adults must model high standards for children to avoid shaping their taste and character wrongly. It cites a Booksellers' school specialist warning that distributing unworthy books harms child development and urges adults to avoid showing wrong before impressionable youngsters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Entertaining the Wife of Gov-Elect Whitman and Others
Mrs. John Hubbard Parker issued two hundred invitations for a New York reception from 4 to 6 pm on Tuesday in honor of Mrs. Whitman wife of Governor-elect Charles Whitman. Tea pourers include Mrs. Harriet Warnes Mrs. Robert Christie Mrs. W. J. Sloane Mrs. Hugh Getty and Mrs. John T. Britton Jr. Also note automobile license revocations for Louis Ledwitz and J. L. McKoy amid alcohol- and accident-related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hubbard Parker
East 62Nd Street
New York
West Long Branch
Whitman
Charles 8. Whitman
Harriet Warnes
Robert Christie
W. J. Sloane
Hugh Getty
John T. Britton, Jr
City
CONDITIONS REPORTED IMPROVING AT NACO
Washington reports improving conditions at Naco with renewed firing by Governor Maytorena's forces after a staff conference. The aim is for General Scott to arrive and calm the border, with the Administration pledging no further violations of American territory and that Mexican actions must be respected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Naco
Maytorena
Genera Bliss
Scott
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Ful
Frey
Broadway
Farmer’s Market & H. Green Trading Stamps
Berlin
Thg
Hague
Kaiser Wilhelm
von Treutler
London
Warsaw
Poland
Dresden
Buenos Aires
Bristol
Shrewsbury
United
Cigar Stores
Mort V. Pach’s
Broad
Mechanic Streets
Red Bank
United Brands
Mort V. Pach
Red Bank, N. J
the Stockholders
Wellington
Monte
Blair
Prudential Building
Newark
Jackson
Broadway Long Branch
Daily. Record
Gov.-Elect
Ledwitz
Trenton
Louis Ledwitz
Long Branch
J. L. McKoy
Sussex
Lippincott
McCoy
The
Daily Record
Watly Record
Long Branch, N. J
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