English Ladies Reported Working In War Effort At Home
A British colonel recalls officers' return from colonies to find women serving in London homes and hospitals. The piece highlights that many women, including duchesses and debutantes, are doing essential labor such as dusting, cleaning, and hospital duties to support troops. It notes Lady Evelyn King, once a society debutante, now serving as a housemaid at a Weymouth hospital.
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Jove
Colonies
London
Sidney
Sammy
England
Heinie
Srep
France
Britannia
Evelyn King
Earl
Plume Hunters Threaten Florida Bird Life
The Florida Times Union recounts William T. Honaday’s claim that Florida’s bird fauna rivals any state’s, possibly second only to California. Plumage hunters have nearly wiped out the roseate spoonbill flamingo scarlet ibis and Carolina parakeet, with ivorybilled woodpecker and limpkin near extinction for hat fashion. If laws are not enforced wild birds will vanish and agriculture will suffer.
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Florida
Florida Times Union
William T. Honaday
American Natural History
America
California
Legless Mountaineer Conquers Mt Hood on Arm Power
A legless newsboy, with two guides and forest ranger party, ascends Mt Hood using improvised sled and spike studs. He relies on upper body strength to climb steep grades, sometimes outpacing the able climbers. The feat, noted by Popular Mechanics, showcases remarkable persistence despite gear failures.
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Mt. Hood
Newsy
Popular Mechanics
Chester Cat Panic Legend From Chester Rows of Chester
An old Chester tale recounts a mock market where cats were bought to combat imagined rat infestations on St Helena. The crowd panicked, baskets were opened, thousands of cats flooded Chester streets, breaking ware and causing chaos, with hundreds of felines later found floating on the River Dee.
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Liverpool
Dee
Chester
Mary Hall Leonard
Waterloo
St. Helena
Plymouth
St. Helene
China
Why Cobb Is In Demand
Irving Cobb returns to New York for the winter speaking season after time at a prison farm. He receives about fifty invitations weekly but accepts only a couple, with reports of tension over his choices and rumors of personal life changes following a sharp railroad dispute anecdote.
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Cobb
Irving Cobb
New York
Sing Sing
Riverside Drive
Sixteen New American Cities Cantonments Built Fast
The article cites Edward Hungerford stating sixteen new cities for the army, each the size of Easton Pennsylvania Elmira New York or Kalamazoo Michigan and built to a common plan in 100 to 120 days. It compares constructing a wood population equal to Cleveland Pittsburgh or St Louis and dividing it into sixteen cantonments across the nation.
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Edward Hungerford
America
Easton
Elmira
N. Y
Kalamazoo
Mich
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Oldest European Royalty and Annuity Breaks
London Tit-Bits notes the oldest reigning sovereign was not Europe’s oldest royalty. Empress Eugenie, Dowager Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the late George III’s granddaughter are named as older. June 28, 1048 marked a royal marriage at Buckingham Palace with a £15,000 yearly annuity for 73 years totaling $1,096,000, halted when war began as the beneficiary lived in Germany.
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Francis Joseph
Europe
London
Eugenie
Mecklenburg-Strelits
George III
Duke of Cambridge
Mary
England
Buckingham Palace
Germany
North Pole Feast Tests Polar Explorers Courage and Hunger
The account recounts Kane 1853 expedition hardships in the Arctic. Scurvy and cold left 19 men of Dr Kane's party stranded aboard Advance for two winters. They finally sighted a seal, pursued it in silence, and after the kill the survivors feasted on seal meat and liver amid famine.
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North Pole
Doctor Kane
George Bryce
Arctic
Peterson
Anfer
Art and Science in William Lyon Phelps View
The Bookman essays by William Lyon Phelps praise art over science arguing that great literature endures because it reveals unchanging human nature while scientific works, though valuable, are prone to revision and error by later, lesser minds.
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William Lyon Phelps
Praying Soldier Made Sergeant At Camp Meade
A cadet at Camp Meade Maryland faced ridicule for nightly prayers yet stayed steadfast. The company captain overheard the jeers and delivered a memorable lecture. Days later the praying soldier was promoted to sergeant reflecting character and conviction.
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Pathfinder
Camp Meade
Maryland
Moths ruin Bindle's winter wardrobe in comic trunk tale
In a Chicago News brief, Bindle laments last winter coat worn by moths after a trunk raid. His wife scolds him for military style ambitions as moths feast on their winter wardrobe, leaving her outfits skeletonized while his coat survives for another season.
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Bindle
Jnst
Chicago News
Children Praise Soldiers In Simple Warmth
Two scenes from Greensburg Indiana show youngsters adoring soldiers. Three year old Charles Ullrich hugged Sergeant Ross Reed as he waited at a Shelbyville rail office. In Greensburg six year old Henry Jerman saluted Reed as he traveled home with Camp Taylor troops.
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Indianapolis News
Charles Ullrich
Fred Ulrich
Big Four
Shelbyville
Ross Reed
Greensburg
Reed
Decatur County
Camp Taylor
Henry Jerman
F. J. Jerman
We Cannot Sing That Next Line
A patriotic Indianapolis Orphans’ home audience refused to sing the second stanza of The Finest Flag That Files after reading the line Dear old Germany. The leader halted the song and decided to omit the stanza written before World War I.
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Indianapolis
Germany
Indianapolis News
Germs from grain offer egg substitute and margarine ingredient
German discovery shows degerminating grain yields a small nutrient germ used to nourish the young plant. The germ becomes a table product, an oil source for margarine, and an albumin powder with three and a half times meat nourishment. twenty grams equal one egg and it is already used as an egg substitute. Large mills in Germany adopt the process and convert germs into oil and albumin powder.
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Germany
Air power to mirror naval buildup to future air fleets
A Washington correspondent predicts future fighting airplanes will grow in size and power akin to battleships. He cites German metal armor planes and calls for heavy, backbone aircraft with fast scouts and powerful battleships of the sky. Caproni, Handley Page, and the Liberty motor are noted milestones.
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Washington
London
Germany
United States
Caproni
Langley Flying Field
Newport News
Great Britain
Poetry in Instant Dismissal and Cultural Loss
Brian Hooker argues in Century Magazine that poetry, if erased from print and language, would create Babel. He warns that isolation fragments communication, neglects emotion over intellect, and notes poetry shapes present action more than rational conviction.
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Brian Hooker
Century Magazine
Brutus
Rome
Manx Shirt Joke Echoes From London Hospital
A London military hospital nurse, described by a correspondent, recalls fresh clothing for arriving Tommies. One soldier asks about tailless cats and learns Manx cats, prompting him to quip that he has been given a Manx shirt.
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London
Tommy
Army Dentists: Columbia Women Offer Dental Hygiene Services
The Preparedness League of American Dentists may accept seventy five Columbia University students as licensed dental hygienists. The group aims to have the young women clean soldiers’ teeth before they go to camp, providing dental care to recruits.
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Girle
Army
Preparedness League of American Dentists
Columbia University
New York Herald
Columbia
As the Tanks Appear
A vivid, menacing portrait of British war tanks as vast, steel-skinned monsters immune to most attacks and unstoppable beyond human control, likened to a giant caterpillar with deadly eyes and cannon, advancing relentlessly.
Postal Service Is Better Despite Complaints
Washington reports officials assert post office service has greatly improved. They credit competitive civil service tests for postmaster selections, eight hour duties, local facility adjustments, and strict adherence to department policies, noting fewer complaints and broader press approval.
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Post Office Department
Washington
Department
Hat Drama on Broadway Shows Old Fashioned Chivalry
A gust of wind lifts a young woman's hat near a busy Broadway corner. Traffic halts as a guarding officer moments later rescues the undamaged millinery and returns it to an embarrassed, grateful owner. The incident ends with no harm and a nod to lingering chivalry.
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Old Boreas
Broadway
New York
Sailor Demands Letter After Missed Duty Call
A young sailor, aboard a war vessel off New York, storms a West Forty-second Street hotel. He complains he was not awakened for a 5 am call and demands a written letter from the manager to his commander taking blame. The manager quietly drafts the letter, accepting responsibility.
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New York
West Forty-second Street
Sound of Guna Report Reaches Londoners
Reports from University College scientists show gunfire can be heard up to 200 miles away on calm nights with an easterly breeze. The London Chronicle notes the noise echoes the war’s reach, with sound arriving in London roughly twelve and a half minutes after Flanders explosions.
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London
London Chronicle
University College
Warwick
Hull
Cromer
Brighton
Weymouth
Flanders
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