Emily Outshines Society In Clever Comeback
Emily, a shy 22 year old university student, uses an audacious plan to prove her worth and win Grant Sturgis. Wearing a stunning gown and shedding her spectacles, she captures the man and moment, exposing her cousins’ vanity and affirming her own wits.
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Emily
Kate
Skate
Grant Sturgis
Emmett Brown
Murray Jones
Elmville
Will
Emmett ‘Brown
Mr. Sturgis
Building Character in Children Through Home Kindergartens
The article argues mothers can shape a child’s character through storytelling, music, pictures, and games at home. It emphasizes dramatic storytelling, moral themes without obvious moralizing, and conversations after reading. It highlights selecting engaging materials to foster imagination, self expression, self control, and kindness toward animals.
Gold Pieces Hidden In Soldier’s Uniform
Bert Martin reports a Utah mother sewed 2.50 gold pieces into each button of her son’s Seattle arrival sweater vest. Ten gold coins were embedded in the vest with more concealed elsewhere, totaling fifty five dollars.
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Bert Martin
Salt Lake City
Utah
Seattle
Wash
Lost dime for stamps confuses two children
A Chicago Tribune note recounts Louise and Virginia losing a dime intended for stamps while sent to a drug store. They were allowed one dime for stamps and one for ice cream. they returned with ice cream but no stamps, blaming the missing dime.
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Louise
Virginia
cChicago Tribune
Government to reinsure soldiers and sailors life insurance
Preparations accelerate after armistice to allow 4 250 000 service members to convert existing government life insurance within five years of peace. Policies include ordinary life, twenty payment life, endowment, or other forms with monthly premiums through post offices. Coverage ranges from 1000 to 10000 dollars and includes disability or death benefits. The program lowers costs by government administration and broadens reach beyond private companies.
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Army
Navy
Emergency War Insurance Bureau
War-Risk Bureau
Arthur Hunter
New York Life Insurance Company
J. A. Fraser
Omaha
The
Woodmen of the World
Robertson Jones
Workmen's Compensation Publicity Bureau
New York
GE Works at Cleveland Campaign to Stop Spitting
The Nela Park plant of General Electric in Cleveland runs an antispitting campaign to curb influenza. Painted reminders on baseboards mark corners and a no spitting rule reduces spitting behavior among workers.
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Nela Park Works
General Electric Company
Cleveland
Ear of Corn His God Priests Court Room Plea
In a domestic relations court Louis Kurzawski bowed to an ear of corn he brought from Russia, saluting and praying before it as a sacred god. His wife called it sacred while the judge warned of a year in the bridewell without the ear.
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Louis Kurzawski
Russia
Adge
Red Cross
Nule
Melting pots used to boil down German corpses described by WWI Canadian soldier
In a wartime letter from France, Arthur MacKnight of the Forty‑first battalion Canadian Highlanders recalls a “melting pot” used on German dead and a bone crushing machine. He recounts an initial over the top charge, heavy machine gun fire, and a tank pursuit that ended with a German general captured.
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Arthur MacKnight
Forty-first Battalion
Canadian Highlanders
Atlanta
MacKnight
France
Old Soldier Recalls hardships from Civil War days
An old veteran quoted in the New Harmony Indiana Times contrasts Civil War conditions with modern wartime relief. He recalls worn socks lasting days, frozen ground at Fort Donelson, no blankets, having to sleep on oil cloth, and living on boiled sweet potatoes and salted rice after foraging in Savannah.
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New Harmony, Ind
Times
Washington
Fort Donelson
South Carolina
Savannah
Abbot Thuliler of Cambrai Heroic Stand Cited
The Abbot Thuliler of Cambrai is pictured with a Canadian officer in the city streets. His fearless deed saved a sick woman while facing threats from defeated German forces, a sacrifice unlikely to be forgotten in years to come.
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Thuliler
Cambrai
Elephant Tramples Hat As Circus Parade Ends
In a town near Youngstown Ohio a constable directing traffic is knocked aside by an elephant during a circus parade. A gust flips the hat beneath the animal’s foot and the constable loses dignity as attachment papers are eaten. The circus departs that night.
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Youngstown
Trafic
Up to Date Velveteen Coat Dress Described
A historical description notes an up to date coat dress of velveteen in dark brown with braided detailing designed to match with other garments. The fragment emphasizes stylish fabrication and coordinated finish for a complete outfit.
Higher wages in Japan and Siberia raise hope for workers
G. G. Suddock, a canner who toured the Siberian coast and worked at a salmon cannery 1,400 miles north of Hakodate, reports sharply higher wages across labor classes in Japan and Siberia. He says conditions have improved rapidly and that the Siberian coast could rival Alaska in salmon output mile for mile.
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Siberia
Japan
Siberian
G. G. Suddock
Seattle
Hakodate
Suddock
Alaska
Bomb Found in Mailbag at Searcy Post Office
A well constructed bomb rolled from a bag dumped on the distributing table at the Searcy Arkansas post office. A clerk fled for the door as villagers gathered for mail. The device was turned over to federal investigators for scrutiny.
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Searcy
Ark
Federal invaStisatos
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J. E. Gallacher
Clyde H. Knowles
Marshall, UL
Mazer's Tooth Specialty Dept
Fifth St
Philadelphia
D. A. Macklin
Martinsville, Ill
Keifer Drug CO
O. W. Weissinger
Buena Vista
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Texas
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Harry B. Dulaney
Bert Bryan
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Edwin Booth
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