Germans Realize People Have Been Deceived
An analysis from the New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin reports a German awakening against Prussian rule. It cites a manifesto from the German Humanity League claiming no conspiracy, urging support for democracy and the removal of war’s yoke while warning of concealed dissent within Germany.
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Empire
Germany
Getuimay
German Humanity League
Hotterdam
Belgium
Luxemburg
France
Poland
Bohemia
Reichstag
Peo
New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial
B-Uetin
Farm Training The Country In A Class By Itself
The text extols farm training as shaping initiative and character, contrasting city life with artificial comforts. It argues farm and dairy education produce men and women of energy, with country life offering superior opportunity for character development and a call to value rural training.
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Anderson
C. c
King of Italy Present at Bombardment of Austrian Fort
The Tribunia reports the King of Italy observed Austrian fire from a house during a bombardment. He urged a gunner to target the structure, which shattered the building. The King praised the officer, then learned from a general that the lieutenant and three soldiers were killed half an hour earlier. The king’s unfinished remark implied he might have stayed longer.
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Tribunia
Italy
Pared Am
Leutenant
Canadians in British troop review at Shorncliffe
A retired major writes to the London Daily Express recalling a review at Shorncliffe. He praises Bonar Law and General Hughes as the Canadian troops march past under Major General Steele. He notes French Canadian regiments and soldiers enduring a heavy deluge with discipline and grit.
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Sceeral
London Daily Express
Shorncliffe
Bonar Law
Hughes
Steele
Armor for Allied Soldiers from Detroit Inventor
Detroit veteran Bradley, Civil War veteran, has a patent pending in Washington for a one piece reversible body armor with a protective helmet. He claims J P Morgan & Co accepted his invention for allies and Ottawa reception was favorable. The design allows kneeling ranks to lock shields into a steel breastwork for rear protection.
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Wakeman Bradley
Detroit
Washington
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bradley
J. P. Morgan & Co
New York
Plan to save daily 5s war loan vouchers
A London Spectator correspondent describes a personal plan to save by buying daily 5s war loan vouchers. He reveals his former struggle with money and small savings, notes the psychological benefit of consistency, and claims even tiny daily sums compound into a meaningful heap.
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London Spectator
Great Wheat Harvest Feat at Mercersburg Kansas
A resident recalls on July 7, 1858 Captain Michael Cromer cutting over twelve acres of heavy wheat on Michael Hoke’s farm in Mercersburg Kansas with a cradle made for the occasion. The tied sheaves totaled 376 dozen, a claim supported by local witnesses as the greatest feat of its kind.
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New York Sun
Michael Hoke
Mercersburg
Kansas
Michael Cromer
Shrapnel Bullets Among the Poppies
A private in the Sixth Manchester Territorials writes about the countryside's beauty overshadowed by torn trees and the impact of shellfire. The brief account conveys wartime impressions amid combat conditions and the harsh realities faced by soldiers on leave.
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Manchester Territorials
Amg
Farm Social Centre at Hustonia Gains National Notoriety
Hustonia, near South Charlestown, boasts a built to order community center for farmers led by Foster Houston. He created 32 cooperative farms across 10,000 acres in Madison, Clark, and Green counties, each a standalone business with tenant partners, strict accounting, and diverse crops and livestock. The Houston Athletic club houses the social hub, and the project aims to keep rural residents engaged locally.
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Charlestown
Hustonia
United States
Foster Houston
Hegoll
Houston
Madigan
Clark
Green
Houston and
Jones
Houston and Smith
Houston Athletic
Chicago Tribune
Swine Husbandry in Canada Bulletin No 17
The second edition of Bulletin No 17 from the Federal Live Stock Branch, titled Swine Husbandry in Canada, has been issued. It updates pedigree registration and hog product trade data, notes exports for the year ending March 31, 1915 at 166,048,519 lbs versus 27,561,140 lbs prior year, and describes feeding methods including a Denmark system of food units with varied rations by pig age.
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Canada
Dpartment of Agriculture
Ottawa
Denmark
War and the Cost of Living Amid Global Conflict
European living costs rose sharply with the war driven by panic and policy varied by country. Prices soared for staples, with Marseille and Salonica among the steepest increases while neutral cities sometimes faced higher bread costs. Agricultural output remains irregular, yet Germany and Austria push intensive planting to avert food shortages as fighting continues.
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Rheims
France
Paris
Marseilles
Carlsbad
Austria
Vienna
Germany
Europe
Christiania
Norway
Constantinople
England
Turkey
Balkan
Dardanelles
Russia
Holland
Salonica
Poland
Galicia
Belgium
Bukowina
Prohibition for Russia Continues After the War
Finance Minister Bank declared Russia could fund vast war expenses despite liquor sale ban. He cited 7.24 billion roubles in 1915 costs and 1.8 billion roubles in savings, attributing gains to national temperance and arguing prohibition must stay in force for the nation’s good.
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Bank
Russia
M. Bark
Dared to Advise the Kaiser on War Endings
A Paris based observer, recently returned from Germany, claims the war’s endgame prompted Marshal von Hindenburg to urge the Kaiser to halt the slaughter. In informed German circles, it is said the marshal was disgraced after warning that Germany could gain nothing further. The Kaiser allegedly told him to keep silent and replaced him with Gen. von Mackensen.
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Paris
Germany
Marshal von Hindenburg
von Hindenburg
von Mackensen
Tractors Demonstration Draws 50,000 Farmers to Champaign
More than 50 000 corn belt farmers travel to Champaign for the first large field demonstration of farm tractors in the middle west under University of Illinois auspices. Nearly 1000 acres will be plowed by 30 plus engine makes with many outfits shipped in from Ottawa and other centers. Farmers arrive by train and carload from Illinois Sniama Iowa Missouri to see practical field tests and learn how the state university 5 000 000 appropriation funds will be used, with expert guides and special programs at the university and experiment stations.
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Champaign
HiMore
Middle West
University of Ilinois
Illinois
Sniama
Iowa
Missouri
School of Agriculture
State University
State University— Chicago Tribune
Professor Cam you name a liquid which won't freeze
The questioner asks for a liquid that does not freeze at low temperatures. The reply points to hot air as a nonfreezing medium, noting that air remains gaseous and does not solidify under ordinary conditions.
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Professor—Cam
Scene in Downing Street Before Britain Declares War
Hall Catme recounts a prime minister and three ministers awaiting Germany's reply at midnight. London buzzes with tension while a clock ticks to Big Ben's toll and the nation edges toward war. The author reflects on the moral weight and humanity at stake as the decision looms.
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Hall Catme
Great Britain
Downing Street
Germany
Berlin
London
St. James’ Park
Buckingham Palace
Mttle Company
France
Belgium
Russia
Europe
The Banker Farmer movement brings farming into its own place
The banker-farmer movement unites bankers with farmers to improve marketing, rural credit, and loaning methods. Banks pledge to support farming nationwide, aiming for broader credit access and better marketing to elevate the farming business.
Woe to the Mak of This War Letter From a German Soldier
A German soldier writes home about the toll of war. He recalls killing comrades, the mothers and children affected, and the civilian cost of the conflict. He condemns those who provoked the war and calls it lunacy for civilized nations to massacre one another.
Editor Southwick Bids In Vermont Bar Fight With Cucumbers
A fragment from the Caledonian quotes Editor Southwick of the Free Press railing about Vermont editorial bars and cucumber vines growing so fast that young cucumbers wear out by dragging. It humorously proposes an air brake to stop vines and mentions four inch ca cae going to a pickle jar, ending with dry sarcasm about a grain of salt.
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Southwick
The
Free Press
Vermont
St Delinswery
Caledonian
Making the Citizen Farmer in Rural Life
This excerpt urges parents to raise boys and girls as active, informed citizens beyond farming. It argues that farmers shape national policy through influence, not only labor, and stresses teaching by example and instruction to create a worthy civilization.
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Tre Farming Business
Never Saw a Saloon Kansas Speaks at Panama Exposition
Kansas Governor Capper lauded the state’s anti saloon stance during Kansas day at the Panama Exposition. He cited that half a million Kansas boys and girls have never seen a saloon and credited decades of resolve to outlaw the open saloon.
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Kansas
Foreman Suspends Man For Smoking On Job
A foreman reports saving a man named Brown from being dismissed after he was found smoking during working hours. The foreman paid Brown four days' wages and told him to leave, while Brown claimed he was only looking for a job. The London Opinion echoes the exchange.
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Brown
Eavens
Guv‘nor
London
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