War Era Lowers German Divorce Rates Across States
German divorce statistics show 143 per 10 000 marriages dissolved in the last year, down from 157 in 1914 and 161 in 1913. Major cities report most dissolutions with Berlin at 2279, Potsdam 1669, Duesseldorf 1122, Breslau 472, Arnsberg 464, Cologne 427, and Wiesbaden 423, while about 2000 cases were removed as husbands were killed in the war.
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Berlin
Germany
Potsdam
Duesseldorf
Breslau
Arnsberg
Cologne
Wiesbaden
Poems Worth Remembering Elf Umbrella and Royal Tale
Humble elf sheltered by a toadstool conceives the umbrella tale as a dormouse frets. The verses move to Emerson on birds and nature, then to King Robert’s fall and the ape’s mockery, ending with the king’s stubborn insistence on kingship.
Wind in the Night Haunts a Little Boy
Eugene Field recalls a wind that moans at night and makes a child anxious by asking who has been bad. The poem presents a spectral wind voice saying Yoooooo and similar sounds as a cue to misdeeds, linking fear with bedtime and maternal explanations.
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Eugene Field
I wish I were a prim rose in spring
A poem fragment traces a childlike wish to become nature’s bloom a primrose then an elm tree and finally a robin the speaker imagines plants trees and birds as living expressions of longing and imagination
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A. Clingham
Angelic Interloper Defends Robber King in Palace Hall
In a palace scene Robert of Sicily storms the banquet, finds an angel in the throne room wearing his crown, and challenges the impostor. The angel’s radiance silences the room as voices rise and swords gleam while the king questions the intruder.
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Robert
Sicily
Enceladus
Robert of
Urbane
Valmond
Allemaine
Easter in a Sea Town Church
A speaker recalls a girl named Margaret leaving the sea shore for Easter prayers inside a gray church. The sea grows stormy as they reach town and graves, but Margaret remains fixed, eyes sealed to the holy book, while prayers rise and the door shuts.
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Matthew Arnold
Merman
Margaret
Pumice from submarine disturbance hits Oceanic liner Sierra
The captain reports pumice stones peppered the Oceanic Steamship Company's steamer Sierra during a hurricane three days from Sydney. Waves carried pumice in sizes from marbles to hats, battering the deck as the ship reached port in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Oceanic Steamship Company
Jnner Sierra
Sydney
New South Wales
Umbrella Misadventure Sparks Domestic Quarrel
In a rainy morning miscue Mr. Fowler laments a missing umbrella. His wife asserts it was lent to the parson during a previous storm, sparking a bickering exchange over misfortune and responsibility.
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Norma Talmadge
Robert Harron
D. W. Griffith
Mr. Harron
Griffith
Sam Bernard
Mr. Fowler
Adolphus
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Campaign to educate foreign born residents for citizenship grows
The federal bureau of naturalization leads a nationwide effort with public school backing to train aliens for citizenship. Officials report about 356000 citizenship applications last year and 100000 live in New York alone. Over 500 towns cooperate, with courses in English history and government plus civics labs to prepare residents for civic life.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Federal Bureau of Naturalization
Bureau of Naturalization
New York
Massachusetts
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Great Trees in Danger Fir rust found near Seattle in UW report
A University of Washington graduate student reports discovering peridermium balsameum, a fir rust, threatening local stands. The finding signals risk to forested areas around Seattle and calls for further study by plant pathologists and university researchers.
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Seattle
Wash
University of Washington
Pine blister rust threatens Northwest forests
The rust, first seen west of the Mississippi, attacks pine seedlings and defoliates trees. University botanists aim to prevent its spread from Eastern nursery stock, after damage in New England, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, with origins traced to Europe.
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Caseades
Mississippi
Northwest
New England
Pennsylvania
New York
Ontario
Europe
The Workings of Conscience in a Saloon
A shabby man in an East Side saloon declines the free lunch and asks a bartender for beer tomorrow. He says his conscience won’t allow him to take more free lunch and not buy anything. The barkeep declines.
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Carnegie Hall
Oliver Herford
Hell
Mother
Birds OF
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Henry W. Longfellow
R. W. Emerson
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