Confession of a Girl Graduate
A young woman recounts using essays to attract her English professor Broadwell at a co ed college. She learns grammar under his guidance while feigning ignorance, then reveals she is his old friend Tom’s sister and eventually secures his attention and a proposal during her quest for a Master of Art in Love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Broadwell
Tom
Jim
Alan
Broadwell
Bome
Mistress of the Art of Love
Chum
Messenger
Dell
Regan
Recruiting Songs Stir Patriotic Spirit Across Nations
The piece notes how patriotic tunes in France Germany and the United States spurred recruitment. It highlights Fragson's Paris Rheims hit with The Marseillaise, Germany’s Die Wacht am Rhein, and US favorites like The Star Spangled Banner Dixie Yankee Doodle, plus England’s Absent-minded Beggar and Macdermott’s global reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Fragson
London
Mr. Fragson
Paris
Rheims
France
Rouget de Lisle
Strasburg
Marseilles
Fluileries
Germany
German Empire
Rhin
United States
Georgia
John Brown
Dixie Land
England
Macdermott
Cutting a Dido and the origin of a phrase
The tale recounts Dido queen of Tyre fleeing after her husband’s murder and founding Carthage. To claim land she tricked locals by cutting a bull’s hide into strings and surrounding as much territory as possible. From her clever ruse the saying cmt a Dido endured as a warning against sharp tricks.
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Dido
Tyre
B.C
Africa
Carthage
Cmt
Arbitration Dispute Sparks Strained Marital Tensions
A couple clash over arbitration in their marriage with the wife favoring settlement talks. The man contends their differences should not go to arbitration and criticizes the approach as overly tender.
Expansion of Quebec Pulp and Paper Industry Drives Growth
The Toronto Globe notes that until a few years ago Quebec’s pulp and paper sector received little business attention. After Sir Lomer Gouin banned pulpwood exports from Crown lands, U S and international capital funded nineteen new mills in Quebec, boosting production and exports. In 1912 Canadian mills produced 866,042 cords of pulp and exported 980,866 cords, with a 21 percent rise in total cut and a 29 percent rise in manufactured pulp. There are 85 mills in Canada and Newfoundland, 83 of which are in Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto Globe
Quebec
Canada
Sir Lomer Goalin
United States
Great Britain
France
Newfoundland
Steel firm moves plant across river after reciprocity defeat
A Detroit dispatch reports United States Steel Corporation planned a Canadian plant after Canada’s reciprocity pact failed. The firm chose a Detroit River site across the border to ship steel, ore, and materials, creating a Canadian city of about 75,000 named Ojibway within years.
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Detroit
New York
Detroit River
United States Steel Corporation
Canada
Great Lakes
The
Steel Corporation
Nts
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Paul Preston
New City
Gary
New York American
Gurney
Oxford
Gurney-Oxford
W. J. Dog
A. Astbury
Russell, Man
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