Belgium etched in Government Service poetry tale of animals
In a damaged Belgium scene, a cat Mina a dog Bibi and goat Siska discuss war life in reconstruction camps at Dixmude. They trade view on serving country hunger homes and shells while longing for cabbage and normalcy amid ruins and duties. The animals reflect homesickness and duties under military recovery efforts.
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Flanders
Bibi
Mina
Siska
Dixmude
Sisk
Hibi
Ming
Sika
Belgium
Italian inventor unveils air powered vehicle system
An Italian inventor claims a wheeled propulsion method using large onboard air tanks and compressed air to run to the next stop. The plan envisions vast roadside reservoirs to supply the air and power carriages and car springs.
Grave Hunters Still Busy At Ypres In 1918 Echo
World War I field note describes grave hunters or holy snatchers among shellpocked ground near Ypres. Grim task of locating weathered uniforms and bones, placing them in sacks for reburial, with wrecked tanks and pillboxes dotting the horizon. Four miles down the Menin road, a field hosts a tank cemetery.
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Ypres
Menin
Belgian Shoe Syndicate Pushes National Standard Footwear
The Syndicate of Shoe Manufacturers of Belgium proposes government backing to produce a national standard shoe at a fixed price. They argue this would ease material shortages, especially American leather, and enable home makers to supply a product for around 30 francs, meeting urgent public demand and protecting local industry.
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Ceanppesane Sone Cae Eft
Nhead
Syndicate of
Shoe Manufacturers
Belgium
Scottish Superstition and Household Beliefs
A death in the family often follows a flowering hawthorn brought into a house in Scotland. Sea lore includes prohibitions on mentioning four footed animals while at sea to avoid bad fortune and the belief that fish are frightened when a barefoot woman passes a fisherman on a ship.
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Scotland
Unrest in Europe and the World to End Poverty
An essay by Frank Comerford profiles unrest among ordinary workers in Europe, tracing its roots to poverty and low wages. It argues that peacetime grievances grew from wartime lessons and that educated, better lives for families depend on addressing wage despair and social inequality.
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Maryn
Scarlet Hall
Magdalens
No Shoes Burned While Traveling to Camp
A group from Chicago Tribune recounts a station trip to pick blueberries and camp in swamp land. A log near a fire held shoes and socks which burned while the traveler slept, leaving him barefoot on the return train and amusing fellow passengers.
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Chicago Tribune
Contradictions and shortages amid Berlin consumer displays
In Berlin shortages persist as essentials like oils clothes and milk remain scarce for the poor yet Unter den Linden shop windows overflow with goods. Housing strains persist despite smaller postwar populations. Candy store crowds and cinema crowds fill streets as twelve new theaters rise while the popular films push the edge of morality.
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Berlin
Unter den Linden
Old Timers Reassemble for Rhine Occupation Duties
Regular old timers who marched to the Rhine with the American army of occupation in December 1918 have returned to form the Fifth and Fiftieth Infantry Regiments now near Coblenz. They await possible dispatch to Upper Silesia for plebiscite supervision after long service in France and Belgium.
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Rhine
United States
Coblenz
Upper Silesia
France
Belgium
Russian toll from war and Bolshevism cited
Polish professor A A Ossen doffsky, head of the Intelligence department of the all Russian government, estimates total Russia losses from war Bolshevism Civil war starvation and disease at 35 00 lives. He places Bolshevism costs at 12 290 000 lives. He says Russia once grew by four persons a minute but now declines by twelve to thirteen a minute.
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A. A. Ossendoffsky
Russia
Flo
Onsendoffaky
Shallow Waters Reveal Pebbles and Sand Brightness
A fragment notes that shallow water shows a clear bottom with little light needed to reveal pebbles and sand. It praises the farmer as a positive quality, while labeling the latter as negative, attributed to Charles Warren Stoddard.
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Charles Warren Stoddard
Oil Lease Bill Passed At Lagi
Congress approves the oil lease bill governing coal oil gas and related deposits on the public domain to speed development. Leases issued by competitive bidding with royalties and annual rentals, prospecting permits for coal and exclusive gas oil rights for up to two decades, plus rail and development conditions. The bill also addresses military policy timing and women's access to government jobs.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior
Interlo
Interior Department
United States
Confidence Beats The Enemy Through Self Belief
Orison Swett Marden warned in the Chicago Daily News that doubt erodes success. He argued that fearing weakness or failure hands victory to the foe and weakens the foundation of achievement by undermining self confidence.
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Orison Swett Mertes
Chicago Daily News
Reflection on world’s face and personal treatment
A young speaker notes that society mirrors a person’s behavior. If the world frowns, it will mock back. if it laughs, it becomes a friendly companion. Thackeray is cited to urge youths to choose their conduct accordingly.
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Thackeray
Mystery of Keaster Murder Confession Unearthed in Sharon
George Burrows Kenster returned to Clarion county and confirmed that William Keaster murdered his two stepsons in the early 1880s. The elder boy reportedly wandered the Pacific coast after escaping, while the younger was killed. later the elder reconnected with his mother Anna Burrows Keaster in a reunion.
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Sharon
George Burrows Kenster
Clarion County
Mercer County
William Keaster
Know
Colensburg
Keaster
Keaster Beecame
Oas
Pacific Coast
Mia
Anna Burrows Keaster
Remarkable 72-Year-Old Woman Mother of Twins
Friends in Shasta California praise a 72 year old woman as perhaps the most remarkable in the United States. She is mother of 27 children and sends a portion of her progeny to the district School to keep it open. The McCants family also figures in the story. Mrs. McCants is 72 and gave birth to five in September. Jerry McCants, her husband, is 39.
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Shasta
Cal
United States
Distriet School
McCants
Hirth
Jerry McCants
Robber Banishment by Spoon at Gret Falls Saloon
In Gret Falls Montana, bartender George Karunds sheltered his employer from a rear-entry robber. A silver spoon, mistaken for a weapon, flashed from the bar as the assailant opened fire, prompting a retreat and preventing a robbery.
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Gret Falls
Mont
Softairink
George Karuands
Exmonds
Chicago Tenants Endure Poor Housing in Stem Districts
Chicago residents face dire conditions as housing facilities prove inadequate. The head of the Cucazo Housing Association says many people in Chicago live in cramped, unsafe quarters in the stem districts, highlighting a pressing urban housing crisis.
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Chicago
Cucazo Housing, Association
Widow Fille His Pulpit at Salem Church
Mazetton term widow Anna Kind secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association filled the pulpit at Salem Evangelical Church in November after her husband’s death, stepping in to cover the vacancy until a successor was chosen.
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Mazetton
Anna Kind
Young Men's Christian Association
Salem Evangelical Church
Mra Kindt
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Inere
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Tink
Riske
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Frank Comerford
Ile
Torses
Hamel Raf
Western Newaper Unioa
Lagi
James P. Hornaday
Navy Department
Senate
House
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
House Committee On
Wilson
War Department
al Fry
Department of Labor
Bureau
Civil Service Commission
McLean
Connecticut
Howe
Dora McCants
California
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