Egypt War Orders Bring Rise in Prices and Farm Profits
A Reuters dispatch from the Egyptian front reports that despite war unrest abroad the Nile valley remains peaceful and thriving. Army demand boosts Egyptian agriculture as wheat maize barley and vegetables go to military needs and hotel business booms with soldiers and officers spending.
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Associated Press
London
Reuter
Western Desert
Darfour
Egypt
Nile Valley
Europe
Cairo
Civilan Adviers Famliar
Australia
New Zealand
Italian Siege Guns at Gorizia Break Austrian Defenses
One of the .805 m guns used by Italians during the siege of Gorizia is described as effectively employed after engineers solved mountain terrain challenges. Heavy artillery fire followed as Italians overcame vast difficulties moving these large guns in the Isonzo front.
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Gorizia
Isonzo
Indians used plants Zuni ethnobotany in 30th ethnology report
The Chicago Tribune summarizes Mrs. Matilda Stevenson’s study of Zuni plant use and medicine. It notes sentient plants in Zuni belief, sacred status, and the blend of empirical treatment with prayers. Medicines come from plants, sometimes shared names for different plants with similar uses.
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Matilda Coze Stevenson
New Mexico
Chicago Tribune
Bureau of American Ethnology
Stevenson
Soldier meets rescuer after sixteen years in Wisconsin snow
Percy Tyrrell, Gunter Hotel manager, rescued a baby boy found abandoned in a snowbound blanket bundle on the Flambeau river near Phillips, Wisconsin, in 1900. The child, Edwin Augustine, later joined the Second Wisconsin infantry and met Tyrrell in Texas years later in a soldier’s uniform.
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Flambeau River
Wisconsin
Uncle Sam
Percy Tyrrell
Gunter Hotel
Texas
Mr. Tyrrell
Edwin Augustine
Phillips
Marshfield
Tyrrell
Blodgett Hotel
River
Company A
Second
Wisconsin Infantry
Balaam the mule checks in at Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati
Balaam from Missouri, mascot of Kansas City Rotarians, is listed as a hotel guest at the Hotel Gibson. The mule was brought to the 1917 Rotary convention to aid Kansas City in securing the event. He paraded through lobby and offices and even nibbled a Cincinnati journalist's necktie, much to the crowd's amusement.
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Kansas City
Gibson
Cincinnati Times-Star
Missouri
Rotary Clubs
Cincinnati
Balaam
Hote
Glowing Foreign Officer Thwarted by Irish Gibe on Whitehall
A gorgeously dressed foreign officer in full dress walks Whitehall when two Irishmen approach. They gape at the glittering uniform, and one quips with a nudge that he would like to pawn him, provoking amusement in this Tit-Bits tidbit.
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Whitehall
Begorra
Lendon
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Damiett
Alexandria
Rees
Charles Rees
Whisenart’s Soda Water
Gunter Office
Crockett
OS Ree
Hawkeye
Sip
Universal
Mason
Dozey
Katy
San Antonio
Austin
City Office
East Houston Street
Wik
Brownsville
Corpus Christi
Crystal City
Carrizo Springs
Crockett 4
San Antonio & Aransas Pass
Kerrville
Corpus Fair Christi
Pullman
Traction Company
San Antonio Traction Company
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