Elva Burt’s Double Life Shocks Cedric Shaw in a City Tale
Cedric Shaw falls for Elva Burt at a hotel ball. He later learns she and a neighbor woman are linked to a jewel heist, but the arrest reveals Elva’s true identity, and Shaw grants her forgiveness as he confesses his love.
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Cedric Shaw
Caime
Miss Burt
Shaw
Piva Buri
Cedric
Elva
Ellyn
States
Spray, Galland & Co
Elya
Elva Burt
Tor
Sanderson
Cautin
Wanted: leading weekly journal man of initiative
Newspaper ad excerpt outlines a playful yet exacting job for a modern editor with printing knowledge and press experience. It asks for a confident, cheerful, versatile man who values duty, treats work as a holiday, and rejects conventional types while stressing moral steadiness and broad sympathy.
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London
Joy in One's Work Gains Ground in Public Thought
The notion of joy in work, once mocked, is taking root. People see value in performing daily tasks with effort and enthusiasm, developing a habit seen as worthwhile for personal satisfaction and productivity.
Garden Work in Midsummer and Home Orchard Notes
Celery can be set out from July in the North and August in milder climates. Planting from seed early in spring yields best results, with careful soil prep and straight rows. Carrots and rutabagas suit mid July sowings, turnips in August, and cabbage in early July with careful transplanting and pest caution. Apply compost, potash, and nitrate of soda for growth. avoid paris green on cabbages. Ant hills, beetles, and potato bugs are addressed with safe remedies and Bordeaux mixture. Move currant bushes in late fall to a fertile two foot deep bed with minimal root disturbance.
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Paris Green
Exemption Boards to Decide Drafts for 750,000 Men
Washington reports the exemption regulations will be ironclad and a system of about 4,800 boards will pass upon who is subject to military duty. With roughly 10 million registrants, about 5 million exempt, 2.5 million rejected for disability, 2.5 million eligible, a call of 750,000 seems likely in the first phase.
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Washington
of L
Army
Navy
National Guard
Census Bureau
Enoch I. Crowder
Crowder
National Army
Regular Army
Draft exemption rules and public lotteries outlined in cabinet plan
The plan details who qualifies for exemptions from conscription and how the process will proceed. Exemptions cover public servants mariners and arsenal workers while other registrants must appear before district boards and prove their case. A public drawing may choose those exempt or drafted as needed with cantonment training to follow.
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Hans
No Registration Card Two Negroes Beaten
Kansas City report details William MacClellan a 22 year old structural steel worker who halted two men and demanded their registration cards. When refused he assaulted them and marched them to the police desk before three were charged with disturbing the peace.
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Kansas City
Samuel
William MacClellan
MacClellan
Uncle Sam
Gust
Rebuild Efforts Reopen 30,000 East Prussia Homes
Koenigsberg reports East Prussia is rebuilding 30,000 homes destroyed last year in the Russian invasion. Over half are restored with thousands of Russian prisoners now at work on the project. Every available acre is used for agriculture, potatoes dominant.
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East Prussia
London
Koenigsberg
Rus
Sian
Germany
Lloyd George backs Prothero for agriculture post
Premier Lloyd George, seeking an efficient agriculture minister amid food scarcity, considers Roland E. Prothero despite past feuds. A colleague recalls Prothero as the ideal choice, and the notion prompts the premier to revisit an earlier controversial association.
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London
Lloyd George
Board of Agriculture
Mr. Lloyd George
Prothero
Duke of Bedford
Roland E. Prothero
Germans Sell Bogus War Papers At Front
British drive scarcity drives prices for counterfeit German war papers. Printers across the empire reproduce near exact copies, fooling many buyers despite warnings not to purchase.
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London
Empire
Jewels Found In Hills Near Wheatland Claimed From Rock Crevice
A. A. Renting of Southside Omaha claimed three cans of jewelry found by a trapper in a rock crevice in the hills near Wheatland California. Renting said he carried the jewels on a Sacramento to Omaha trip in 1895 and hid them to prevent theft, but could not retrieve them.
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Marysville
Cal
Wheatland
A. A. Renting
Southside
Omaha
Sacramento
Missing Currency From Furnace Fire Incident
Mrs Rosa Cresher of Alliance Ohio found an old handkerchief containing three hundred dollars in various bills saved over three years. Another handkerchief had newspapers and a furnace fire destroyed the remaining currency leaving only ashes.
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Alliance
Rosa Cresher
Kinine
Verona family backs Britain in wartime service
Thomas Elston and eight family members in Verona New Jersey show varied service in British and American forces. Francis and Frederick served in the Boer War, George in the aerial corps on the western front, Gilbert rejoined Company K Fifth New Jersey Infantry, and William is missing after his early enlistment was halted by injury.
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Verona
N. J
Thomas Elston
Devonshire
England
Francis
South Africa
Frederick
Saloniki
Royal Engineer Corps
William
George
France
Gilbert
Fifth New Jersey Infantry
New Jersey
Priceless Vespucci Book Recovered On Frontier Package
A Florence theft tale ends as police uncover a parcel on the Italian Swiss frontier addressed to a German bookseller who fled to Switzerland after the war. The package contains The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, a single known copy once owned by Marquis Cappi.
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London
Rome
Florence
Amerigo Vespucci
Marquis Capponi
Switzerland
Turnip of This Season Grows 18 Inch Diameter
J W Moses of Hope Arkansas sent to John H Page commissioner of agriculture a turnip measuring 18 inches in diameter and weighing three and one quarter pounds, claimed as this season’s growth and raised on R F D No 1 Hope.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. W. Moses
Hope, Ark
John H. Page
Commissioner of Agriculture
1916 Constantinople College for Girls enrollment record
The 1916 enrollment at Constantinople College for Girls reached 260 students the largest in its history. Of the 67 Turkish girls the government of Turkey paid their tuition charges.
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Constantinople College For Girls
Turekey
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W. G. Chapman
Tors
By E. van Benthuysen
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Christ
Calvary
Mary
Vespucci
Mall
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