Iowa Troops Forge Wagon Train in Texas Camp
Iowa soldiers near Brownsville clear cactus haul wagons without mules or horses. Colonel Bennett appeals for a small truck for regimental exchanges as ambulances lack animals. Rain, scorpions, and rough conditions press the camp while officers note government delays.
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Col. Bennett
Bennett
Iowa
War Department
George Bauserman
Des Moines
Keith Morton
Machine
Field Hospital Corps
Duhigg
Murphy
Sioux City
Third Infantry
War Chronicle of 1915 1916 Second Year Highlights Aug to July
A dated ledger of World War I events listing battles and troop movements from August through July, including Teuton advances in Poland and Lithuania, Allied landings at Gallipoli, major assaults on Verdun and the Somme, naval actions, political moves in Britain and Russia, and the continuing global theater. The record names places like Lublin Cholm Warsaw Ivangorod Ossowiec Lutsk Belgrade and Verdun, and officials like Lloyd George and Czar Nicholas.
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Teutons
Lublin
Cholm
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Serock
Great Britain
Lomza
Gallipoli
Siedice
Solccow
Treatons
Belgrade
Koyno
London
Novogeorgievak
Ossowiec
Kovel
Brest-Litovak
Olita
Dvina
Sereth
Czar Nicholas
Dubno
Czar
Tarnopol
Trembowla
Galicia
von Mackensen
Pinsk
Vilna
Lutsk
Itrench
Champagne
la Bassee Canal
Bulgaria
Serbia
Czartorysk
Vranja
Brand Whitlock
U. S
Belgium
Edith Cavell
Uskub
Illuxt
Kragujevac
Nish
Ancona
Ife
Montenegro
Bagdad
Aviona
Albania
Paris
Reichstag
Kut-el- Amara
Douglas Haig
France
Ford
Christiania
Lloyd-George
Britain
Italans
Durazzo
Hner Persia
Mediterranean
Germany
Cameroon
West Africa
Czernowitz
House of Commons
Peronne
Liverpool
Appam
Hampton Roads
Erzerum
Verdun
Duma
Fort Douau
Mont
Kermanshah
Bitlis
Malancourt
Vaux
Haucourt
Trebizond
Black Sea
Ifrance
Sir Roger Casement
Ireland
Dublin
Russell
Kut-el-Amara
Italy
Lake Garda
Asia Minor
Mesopotamia
King George
Skaggerrak
Kitchener
Staff
Hampshire
Scotland
Vaux Fort
Greece
Buczacz
Czernowicz
Bukowina
Volhynia
Kuty
Kolomea
Kimpolung
Corsicro
Posina
Somme
Carpathians
Hungary
Persia
Chesapeake Bay
Stokhod River
Marnakhatum
Balburt
Armenia
Lipa River
West Front
Hnen Foureaux Wood
von Linsingen
Suez
Holland
Pozieres
Riga
Turkey
Teuan
Russia
Bargaining for the Feather In A Witty Tea Exchange
A short dialogue captures a flirtatious bargain about tea skills and a trade for a willow plume. The exchange centers on improving domestic prowess to earn a desired feather accessory, revealing playful negotiation between two speakers.
Patience and Good Nature Keep Society Running Smoothly
The essay extols patience and good nature as essential lubricants of social and business life, saying they help navigate any situation. It frames courtesy as a practical asset for everyday dealings and community harmony.
Parental caution over river resort parachute risk
A mother expresses fear about her son Willie joining friends at a river resort. She worries he might be hurt while attempting one of the parachute rides, cautioning him not to go with the group.
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Willie
Lazy Smitty Awaits Wakeup for Morning Class
Smitty complains in a diary-like line about a quarter to eight and hoping someone will wake him for class. The fragment captures a sleepy morning tone and routine concern.
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Lazy Smitty
Training to Become an Air Combat Pilot in Five Months
Paris reports aviation training now spans about five months with specialized schools progressing from learner stages to high performance fighters. Pupils advance through stacked aircraft types from Birlot trainers to Morane and Nieuport machines, culminating in the Baby Nieuport before qualification at the ecoule de combat.
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Paris
Pau
Nieuport
Army
Remarkable Siamese Leg Transfer At Grand Palais
Paris reports a historic operation where two wounded soldiers, Rousselot and Milette, are bound together on a shared table as surgeons transplant part of one leg into the other. Rousselot’s leg required lengthening and bone grafting while Milette’s leg was shortened after amputation. The two men lie opposite each other, legs joined to form a single limb transfer in progress under watchful expert eyes.
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Great Hospital
Paris
Grand Palais
Hera
Goldiers
Rousselot
Morhang
Germany
Thlette
Mort Dourumont
Rousseto
Milette
Miss Sydney Burleson Portrait and Tennis Prize Family
This new photograph features Miss Sydney Burleson daughter of the postmaster general. Mrs Burleson and Miss Burleson both excel in tennis and lead quiet lives with informal visits and socializing. They also sew, make dainty summer dresses and oftentimes fashion their own hats.
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Sydney Burleson
British workers prosper in May as war industries hire
The Board of Trade Labor Gazette reports high employment across the UK with 870000 workers getting higher wages in May and about 81 thousand pounds extra weekly. Coal miners woollen operatives and engineers are the main beneficiaries of the wage gains.
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Wales
London
United Kingdom
Board of Trade Labor Gazette
Boy Dies After Electrocution on Church Lighting Tower
In Little Rock Arkansas Kenneth McIrwen eleven is electrocuted while touching a live wire on a church lighting tower during services on the church lawn. He falls and dies a few minutes later after fracturing his skull. the Rev. I P Aldredge continues his sermon after aiding the ambulance.
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Little Rock
Ark
Kenneth McIrwen
L. P. Aldredge
Lnd
Mexico’s envoy Arredondo Keeps Low Profile in Washington
Mexico’s representative Jesseo Arredondo, designate ambassador to the United States, is less known in Washington than in recent news. He often sends notes via a state department clerk rather than presenting them to Secretary Lansing and spends most of his time at the embassy, noted as a hard worker.
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Jesseo Arredondo
Mexico
United States
Washington
Lansing
State Department
Cat Found Mummified After Years in Wisconsin Home
Plumbers tearing out a partition in Merrill Wisconsin discovered a desiccated cat remains in the residence. The animal is believed to have entered the aperture chasing a mouse and became trapped, dying there long ago.
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Merrill, Wis
Too Much for Wedding License in Winona
Winona county cler k of court Akvin Braley learned that since October 1914 the county charged 20 cents too much for marriage licenses. War revenue stamps of 10 cents were attached to both certificates, making the cost $2.45. The stamps are not required, and the government is about $200 ahead.
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Winona
Minn
Akvin Braley
Winona County
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L. D. Ramsey
State Board of Control
Iowa Board of Agriculture
Clifford Heer
Harvard
A. R. Corey
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Board of Control
Mildred Ruffner
Hildur Stady
Elizabeth Rodgers
Anna Greiner
E. Kepford
Kepford
White Plague Department
Oakdale
Scarborough
State Hospital For Tuberculosis
Anamosa Reformatory
State ‘Pharmacy Commission
A. M. Deyoe
Forest City
Charles M. Nevin
W. S. Allen
State Teachers
Leslie I. Reed
State Board of Education
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Seerley
Reed
State Teachers College
State Executive Council
Pottawattamie
W. H. Williams
Revenue Clerk of the Auditor of State
State Council
State Banking Department
General Assembly
State
Capitol
Temple of Justice
Court Avenue
State House
A. H. Davison
Executive Council
Woodbury County
State ‘Board of Parole
George Griffith
Winnipeg
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Harry Shropshire
Bureau
State Free Employment Bureau
the Labor Commissioner's Office
J. C. Nietzel
Camp Dodge
Berlin
Sus Wast Kimpoling
Austria-Hungary
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Major Hines
John L. Hines
Pershing
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Ucense
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Burleson
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