Lusitania Stoker on War Talks and Liberty Bonds
A wartime feature profiles Lusitania stoker Tommy Ray who, despite injuries and lack of schooling, advocates for recruiting and the Third Liberty Loan. He recalls losses of his brothers and mother in London and urges volunteers to support the Allied cause through bond purchases.
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Alice Avon
The
Vigrantes
London
Tommy Ray
Stoker
Lusitania
Saya Tommy
Stoke Hole
Tommy
Iesus
Wilson
Mr. Wilson
Uncle Sam
If America Lost This War Of the Vigilantes
A sobering wartime editorial argues that defeat would leave the United States under brutal Prussian rule, demanding huge indemnities and erasing liberty. It contrasts that fate with the hope of victory and cites Yorktown and Appomattox as the nation’s foundational promises.
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Germany
France
Belgium
Italy
America
Yorktown
Appomattox
Tag Deen
Fragmented OCR Notes About Defense and Navy Talk
Fragmented text mentions defense and navy topics with garbled phrases. Names, details, and context are unclear due to OCR errors, leaving only scattered references to wires, rain, crossing lines, and a possible discussion of a naval figure or unit.
The Coyote Brothers Tale
Jackie and Jimmie Coyote debate being disliked by prairie dogs and their own self discipline. The brothers discuss hunting, living, and turning over a new leaf as they pursue a distant sighting, ending with a cautious, fortunate hunt.
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Coyote
Prairie Wolf
Jimmie Coyote
Jackie Coyote
Jackie
Jimmie
Prairia Wolf
Jingmie
Timmie
Coyote Brothers
Our Boys Over There Enjoy Toasted Cigarettes
Patriot push distributes empire kits to American soldiers in France. Doctors nurses and officers back the effort to supply smokes in trenches and billets. Lucky Strike cigarettes are sent over with Kentucky Burley tobacco touted for satisfaction.
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Citiens
France
Kentucky
Carnegie’s evolution from college contempt to philanthropy
Early Pittsburgh days show Andrew Carnegie sneering at college education. A dinner remark by a Pittsburgh Statron recalls his shift as a self-made steel magnate who later funded higher learning. He claimed Harvard graduates can be outsized by practical skill and merit.
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Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Statron
Carnegie
Philadelphia
Last Stage Miss Fadleigh Sparks Bold Purchase Plan
The piece cites dialogue about a young champion and Miss Fadleigh with a humorous note on a man’s dream of buying a car to match her eyes. It closes with a proverb about winning through work and failure through shirking, attributed to the Birmingham Age-Herald.
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Fadleigh
Birmingham Age-Herald
Lemon Lotion Recipe for Freckles and Complexion
A vintage ad offers a homemade lemon lotion. Squeeze juice from two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to yield a quarter pint of freckle tan lotion. Grocers sell lemons and drugstores carry orchard white for cents. apply daily to face neck arms and hands to reduce freckles and blemishes. Ad copy emphasizes harmless formulation.
Altogether Too Realistic Snowstorm Painting Joke
The critic praises a snowstorm painting as very fine and realistic. The artist recalls a thief who entered his studio while he was away and unconsciously donned the artist's fur overcoat before leaving.
Red Cross Ball Blue Promotes Bright White Clothes
An old ad touts Red Cross Ball Blue making clothes whiter than greenish tint. It mentions a four grocers price of five cents for a large package. A misquoted joke about a horse and teeth appears before a final note on resisting oppression.
Willing to Share Danger in Air Raid Laughs Paris
A Paris midinette on the top floor slept through an air raid as the concierge pounded to evacuate. She refused to descend saying her husband fights in the trenches and questions why shells should alarm her. Her sang froid drew amused reactions across the city.
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Paris
Gonne
Midinette
Witness Peel Row Sparks Courtroom Talk in Milwaukee
A Milwaukee court heard a witness peel a sack of potatoes at the stand during testimony. The judge rebuked her. she replied that others can knit so she can peel, prompting discussion on courtroom decorum and propriety.
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Milwaukee
New York Tribune
Waited to Hear Him Howl in Jennings County Tale
An Indiana teacher criticized a late pupil who explained he paused at a friend’s home where the friend’s mother used a slipper. The student said he wanted to hear the boy howl, prompting the unusual delay and response.
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Jennings County
Indianapolis News
Woman credited to Lydia E Pinkham remedy in Wisconsin flyer
Mrs A W Binzer of Black River Falls Wisconsin says Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound cured her organ trouble and prevented an operation. The testimonial promotes the root and herb remedy for inflammation displacements backache nervousness irregularities and the blues urging women to try it and write for advice.
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Black River Falls
Wia
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pamy
A. Wi Binzer
Wis
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Fimrade
S&t
Harvard
David
Ninatin
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Moab
Skinner Packing Company
Omaha
U.S. A
Omahks
Seiner Packing
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Swift
Guner
United States Bureau of Aniael
United States
First National Bank
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Snow White
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