New Children's Books for Rural Schools Reading List
Five copies of each title are purchased for rural schools and will be sent to teachers. The list includes Browning, Kipling, Grimms, Stevenson, Carroll, Haldwin, Monroe, and many others. The note explains the book is a sketch about Belgium relief in the Great War, with illustrations and chapters on the relief mission and food distribution.
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Apeofa
Rural Echon
Rene
Queen Haw
Timatlia
Thease
Andrewse
Baldwin
Roland
Haldwin
Alogfried
Flackmore
Lorna Doone
Kelloegg
Belgium
Kellog
France
Oregon Country
Crater Lakes
Deechutes River
New Columbia Highway
Willamette and
Oregon
Galif
Roosevelt Gam
Arizona
British naval officer humbles German mutineers at surrender
In the Firth of Forth surrender, a British naval officer straightened German sailors lax aboard the captain’s cabin. He ordered discipline, spoke in German to defuse mutiny, then cleared the lobby, demanding obedience and readiness. The moment showcased Allied control as ships surrendered.
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London
Firth of Forth
Irona
Oleys
Primitive light used in Russia with American forces on the Dwina
In Northern Russia shortages of kerosene and tin cans drive villagers to old time lighting. The svetilia, a wood trough with an iron ash pan and twig wick, burns five minutes per twine, yielding candlelike light while families take turns reading. Peasant women also use a primitive loom called preelka to weave flax into cloth, producing both coarse and fine fabrics.
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Dwina
Russia
Svetila
Iake
Oceaniound
Labor congress debates Mooney case amid strike talk
Fray Ashioroff of Tacoma introduces a general strike concept at the labor congress linked to the Mooney case and the phrase industrial prisoners. Pred Galloway of Indianapolis claims 100,000 railroad workers back the resolution, threatening a strike if denied.
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Labor Congress
Mooney
Fray Ashioroff
Tacoma
Dobbs
Industrial
Ttead
Pred Galloway
Indianapolis
Belgian relief and Liebknecht debate at home
A late 1910s news item describes Kellogg a Stanford professor aiding Belgian relief in Europe since 1915. It notes Liebknecht’s arrest and suppression of his Militareum work in Germany, fearing U S backlash. Also reviews guides on national parks and a travel piece across Oregon and Arizona. New York troops depart for Prunes in a 1893-strong contingent with officers aboard.
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Kellogg
Stanford University
Beltham
France
Holland
England
America
Liebknecht
Liebhnecht
Germany
Dr. Liebinecht
United States
Milik
Hawaii( Nations Park
National Parke of
Canada
Juba Muir
New York
Prunes
United Suites
Hemington
Nine States Ratify Prohibition Amendment
Chicago Jan 14 Indiana Arkansas and Illinois today ratified the national prohibition amendment nine more states are required for it to become part of the national law of America. At least 37 states have already ratified.
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Chicago
Indiana
Arkansas
Illinois
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