Kipling Portrays British Navy as Unconscious Blood
A Star editorial defends Kipling's new Navy piece, praising his vivid, sea-born portraits. It argues Britain is a sea power and that the Navy flows in the veins of workers and citizens, linking Kipling’s phrase “unconscious blood” to national identity and purpose.
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Star
Navy
Daily Telegraph
Rudyard Kipling
Venice
Carthage
Kipling
Mr. Kipling
Serenge
Fay
Auxiliary Fleet
Seven St Kilda Girls Plot to Push Bill to War
A humorous 1910s tale recounts seven St Kilda girls forming a sock sending conspiracy to drive Bills the clerk into enlistment. They mail two dozen pairs of heavy grey socks hoping to shame him into service, but he remains uninterested and even sells the socks to the charwoman.
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St. Kilda
Hills
Bille
Billa
Atticus
Palmerston North farmer unveils electric gun concept
An inventive farmer from Palmerston North New Zealand has developed an electric gun to hurl gigantic high explosive shells over long distances. He sent models and plans to the British Admiralty Inventions Board six months ago. The board examined the device and sent it to the munition branch for testing.
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Palmerston North
N.Z
Inventions Board
British Admiralty
Filial Affection End Censors Elephant Piano Act
A showman promoted a piano playing elephant drawing a crowd. The animal began a scale but then fled in distress after the trainer claimed the elephant recognized its late mother’s teeth in the piano, ending the performance.
Baghtche Tunnel Opens on Bagdad Railway in Turkey
The Baghtche Tunnel, three miles long, opens on the Bagdad railway at the Amanus Mountains on the Asia Minor Syria border. It completes major sections, overcoming quartz rock and other engineering challenges, with eight steel bridges and nine small tunnels along the route.
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Turkey
Bagdad
Amanus
Asia Minor
Syria
Baghtche
Alps
Baghtehe
Farewell to a Fortress and the Russian Aviator Sacrifice
A dramatic account from Novo Georgievsk as the Council of War orders the garrison to stay and fight. Russian airmen prepare to fly with bombs strapped on, to safeguard the Sacred Standard and documents. Wounded soldiers bid farewell as pilots lift into the sky, prayers rising from the crowd and crosses raised in a last salute to homeland.
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Novo Georgievsk
Council of War
Hussein
Beating the Prairie Fire in Flanders Frontlines
A corporal of a Highland regiment recalls flame fighting in Flanders describing under fire as brutal and hot drinking in a wartime heat. He compares it to prairie fires in the States and praises transport drivers who saved cases before a blast, hoping for official recognition.
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Flanders
Crack Highland Regiment
States
Belgium
Humorous Fragments From Pulps and Papers
A collage of quips and cartoon gags from various papers. Jokes touch on war, poverty, courtship, food, and daily life with puns and light satire. Notable lines include a war front joke about a grandchild, a janitor joke, a wolf joke, a banner joke, and a tombstone epitaph anecdote.
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Lowestoft
Fritz
North Sea
Fatherland
Russia
Puck
Wogram
Nesesary
Xenigh Burr
Sham
Nebraska
Marie
Mrs. Pester
Mr. Pester
Birmingham Age-Herald
Zeppa
New York
Mill
Bill
United States
Foukers
Dallas News
Albany Argus
Johnny
Harper's
Kansas City Star
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