Delgiumoxetenes In Government Service
A faded vignette from Dixmude shows animals in a rebuilt Belgian town arguing roles in reconstruction. Mina the cat laments scarce milk and overwork while Bibi the dog keeps watch as Siska the goat longs for home and red flags marking ammunition piles. The trio muses on duty, hunger, and homesickness in a devastated landscape.
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Flanders
Bibi
Mina
Siska
Dixmude
Belgium
Jan Struys
The Lost 1804 Silver Dollar Mystery
A legendary tale explains the disappearance of the only two known 1804 silver dollars and 19 570 minted that year. One story says boxes of coins were sent to Tripoli era paymasters, later worn as necklaces by tribesmen, buried, or scattered. Another claims coins were aboard the frigate Philadelphia when captured and burned.
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Africa
Tripoli
Philadelphia
Mint
Milking Lesson Sparks Child's Curious Question
Seeking Information, Arthur, age three, watches his cousin milk a cow for the first time. He hesitates and asks, Are you milking the side that gives cream now?
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Arthur
Grave Hunters Still Busy Near Ypres Battlefield
In the Ypres area shells mark a lifeless landscape as bodies are still dug up by Tommies nicknamed body snatchers. They collect bones from weathered uniforms and old graves, haul them to headquarters, and rebury remains amid wrecked tanks and ammunition dumps along the Menin road.
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Ypres
Menin Road
Belgian shoe makers seek national standard price shoe
Belgian Syndicate of Shoe Manufacturers complains of a leather shortage after heavy foreign orders. They ask the government to enable a national standard shoe sold at 50 francs, aiming to aid local industry and meet public demand.
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Syndicate of
Shoe Manufacturers of
Belgium
The Lesser Evil in a Schoolroom Dialogue
A fragment shows a tense classroom exchange with a professor warning a student, while Tommy shrugs off past troubles and suggests resilience after prior mischief. The lines hint at discipline, peer dynamics, and a moment of brief counsel among youths.
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Tommy
Air power scheme for propelled vehicles by compressed air
An Italian inventor proposes a system where vehicles draw compressed air from roadside tanks to move. Loco motives, automobiles, tractors, and motorcycles would connect to a central air tank and travel to the next stop using stored air. This concept envisions roadside reservoirs supplying power for travel.
Wishing to Pose Him
A reminiscence recalls taking a sleepy deaf brother in law to a Sunday church service. He dozed in a front seat while the author prodded him to stay awake, and the minister struggled to keep a straight face during the sermon.
Payne Named Secretary of Interior in Surprise Move
John Barton Payne of Chicago is nominated to be President Wilsons secretary of the interior, succeeding Franklin K. Lane. Payne has chaired the Shipping Board since last August and was general counsel of the Railroad Administration. He would accept if confirmed, aiming to finish the Shipping Board reorganization and the Emergency Fleet Corporation while ships are sold.
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John Barton Payne
Chicago
Wilson
Franklin K. Lane
Payne
Shipping Board
Railroad Administration
Senate
Shipping Board and
Emergency
Leet Corporation
Virginia
Superior Court
Board of South Park Commissioners
Surgeon General Cumming Heads New Public Health Service
Dr. Hugh S. Cumming becomes head of the Public Health Service within the Treasury Department, not the War Department. The 1912 act renamed the service from Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, expanding its powers. The Washington bureau has seven divisions including scientific research and marine hospitals with care at 22 marine hospitals and 123 relief stations for seamen.
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Hugh 8. Cumming
Rupert Blue
Bureau of Public Health
Treasury Department
Surgeon General
War Department
M W. Ireland
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Public Health Service
Bureau of the Service At
Washington
Howze says Mexico hopeless under Mexican control
General Robert Lee Howze testifies before a senate subcommittee on the Mexican situation declaring conditions in Mexico intolerable for a decade and predicting a hopeless future if left to Mexican governance. He cites ongoing deteriorations and repeated discourtesy toward the United States and its people.
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Mexico
Robert Lee Howze
el Paso
Senate
United States
Sweet Defends Assembly Actions Against Socialist Five
Thaddeus Sweet, speaker of the New York assembly, defended the suspension and trial of five Socialist members at a New York banquet. He condemned Socialists as traitors, criticized Charles Hughes for hasty actions, and argued the assembly’s actions were misrepresented. He urged no leniency toward rioters and warned against diluted national standards.
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Thaddeus ’.Sweet
New York Assembly
New York City
Sweet
Assembly
Charles J. Hughes
Socialist Party
Communist Party
Albany
Speaker Sweet
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Delgiumoxetenes
Western Newspaper Union
AIR Power
Lane
Hugh S. Cumming
Howze
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