Hester and the Foundry Boss Aims at Trust Worthiness
Hester Kingdon uses facial study to assess factory workers at King's foundry and helps promote Peter Norgen from fireman to a trusted leader. Norgen questions the basis of his rapid rise while the efficiency advisor, the young woman, proves insightful and earns respect from both staff and her father.
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Hester
Kingdon Foundry
Kingdon
Peter Norgen
Norgen
Nurgen
Mr. Kingdon
Aftermath of the Seven Years War in Germany
Melbourne Age notes that at war's end Germany faced catastrophic losses with one sixth of able men dead and ten percent of the population dead. Destruction touched land, agriculture, and labor as famine, disease, and desertion emptied ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Melbourne Age
Berry v Berry court notes profanity as cruel treatment factor
In Berry v Berry 115 Iowa 545 the divorce action based on cruel inhuman treatment includes a husband’s addiction to profanity. The court suggests defense that profanity was argumentative, not merely as cruelty, reflecting the case’s handling of abusive conduct in divorce.
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Berry
Iowa
Riot at Donnybrook Fair Prompted by Sticks Says Law Notes
In Law Notes an argument with sticks at the Donnybrook Fair is discussed. The commentary notes that the Hibernian theory of the riot frames the conduct as an argument but warns that someone may be hurt.
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Donnybrook Fair
Rabbits Reveal California Nugget Treasure Tale
A California rabbit burrow unearthed a massive gold nugget when a prospector noticed gold dust spilling from the hole. He enlarged the start, removed the rabbits, and found a treasure that yielded thousands of dollars and sparked a gold digging rush that founded a town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Vladivostok: Imperial Port As Potential War Target
The article depicts Vladivostok as Russia’s Pacific hub and free port, key to supplying Russia and feared for potential Japanese intervention. It describes the harbor's strength, city demographics, and the vast trade and military importance with Germany eyeing control after the war.
Washingtons Headquarters in Revolution Cartoons Insight
A quotation from Cartoons Magazine humorously compares modern Washingtons Headquarters to veteran millionaire bungalows. It notes how every place seems to claim chairs tied to General Washington and his war orders, with sabers and the idea of a caddie to tote them.
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Washington
General Washington
Zim
Cartoons Magazine
Treasure Troves In Nesta and the Nest of Bank Notes
Appraisers uncover a nest of bank notes worth $2,000 in a tumble-down English miser house, where a family of mice resided among the paper money. A diamond ring was also found in the nest, highlighting the odd cache discovered during the audit.
Treasure in a nest valued at fifty thousand dollars
A jackdaw recovered after six months with its upset owner became a valued treasure worth $50,000, turning the nest into a remarkable prize and symbol of the remarkable recovery.
Wearers of Chips and the Wednesday Circus
The passage portrays certain people as wearers of chips who seek trouble around every corner. It argues their displayed anger is mainly for show and that genuine disruption is limited to minor, theatrically vigorous actions.
Balance the Books Property Insight
A reflective note urges listing positive factors alongside negative ones. It promotes balancing burdens with benefits to aid collective understanding and decision making. The piece suggests a practical exercise to help everyone assess assets and challenges.
Mothers in Wartime Hope as Soldiers Go East
A mother in the rear seat speaks of anxious news from the eastern front. She says her son has not yet gone to France and asserts mothers want their boys over there to do good, not be mere tin soldiers.
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Norgen
Mr. Kingdon
Mr. King
Kingdon
France
Fort Wayne
Detroit Free Press
Plattsburg
Allen
Army
Navy
Dr Pierce's Pellets Advise For Liver Bowels Stomach
Ad claims Dr Pierce's Pellets aid liver and bowels with one pellet as laxative and three as cathartic. The copy emphasizes digestive benefits and includes promotional language.
Flagler's Florida Railroad to Key West and Cuba Service
The article explains that no railroad runs from Key West to Cuba due to the 200 mile ocean gap. Instead Flagler built a Florida coastal line to Key West with viaducts and ships large enough to carry loaded trains both ways to Cuba. Cost figures are not available but the project has been of great commercial value.
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Flagler
Florida
Key West
Cuba
Kill the Files Now and Prevent Disease Ad
Daily fly killer ad offering a product to kill flies and prevent disease. Claims cheap express prepaid orders for a dollar and provides a Brooklyn address for BOMERS at 160 De Kalb Avenue.
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Express
Bomers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
N. Y
Deadly Camouflage
A detective recounts a camouflage anecdote from wartime lectures. A colonel asks a soldier if the dugout is camouflaged and the man confirms he oversaw a concealment that resembled an actual 6 inch gun, underscoring deceptive warfare techniques.
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West Front
Aly
Griffiths
Pimples Patented Remedy Advertisement
Gentle face care routine promotes Clear skin with Cuticura Ointment and Soap. Smear on rising and retiring, wash off in five minutes with hot water. Free samples offered by Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston. Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50. Ady.
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Dept. X
Boston
Not Bothering. Swords to plows and ships in the line
A speaker dismisses memories of turning swords into plowshares while stressing concern only for the large gang and battle ships remaining undisturbed. The exchange hints at tension between transformation and militarized power without detailing events.
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Warmier Corntessel
When a man is beaten he admits it but its different with a woman
A vivid, concise line contrasts male and female reactions to violence, suggesting societal double standards in admitting abuse or defeat and implying gendered perceptions in confrontations.
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McClure Newspaper
Bester Kingdon
Stoker
UBLIC
Vladivostok
Russia
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Marion HH
Campman
Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
Vladikaukas
Caucasus
Admiral Nevelskoi
Pacific
Nicholas I
Europe
St. Petersburg
Marseilles
Buffalo
Golden Horn
Port Arthur
Siberia
Vancouver
Tacoma
Seattle
Far Eaast
Orient Institute
Alaska
Orient
Petrograd
Siberian
China
Korea
Japan Sea
Port
Nesta
Emu Tooey
Ne Gentaun Compani New
York
Otema Chore Aaee
Castoria
SPOHN
Spolln Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
USM
Bugeye
Ginger
Flawallan la
Calcutta
Flondula
Popular Science Monthly
ORY Marine
Wil
Sanwena
Eatonic
Wm. A. Santelmann
Piave
Marine
Washington, D
Navy and Leader Marine Band
Soaraisgii
Batonic
USA
Batonic Remedy Company
Bouth Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Hellam
Lydia HE
Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
E. R. Croumiina
R. No
Lowell
Mich
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elise Harm
R.no.6
Box 83
Lowell, Mich
Lydia E. Pinkhams
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