Executed French Soldier’s Remarkable Paris Hospital Tale
A wounded French soldier recounts how he survived being shot after refusing to carry a German flag in 1914. Left for dead, he lay under a canvas tag marked not transportable, was found by Germans, treated by a German doctor, and eventually returned to France after ten months in Belgium and three months in Germany. He vows revenge but remains alive in Paris.
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Belgium
Germany
France
General Headquarters
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Royal Army Medical Corps
Army
Red Cross
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The
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Belgrade
Kalenegdan
Danube
Gypsie
Porlock Heights
Avilo
America
American Red Cross
Washington
Albert W. Staub
Big Bush
Brooklyn
Catherine Kraft
Eunah Taylor
Ete
Esd
Bristish General Staff Runs War Machine From Paris Desk
The British general staff, led by the chief of staff, organizes war through two main divisions, Operations and Intelligence. L A analyzes enemy forces and prisoner data, I B counters espionage, I D handles censorship, I C maps enemy lines, while Joffre uses a clay relief map to plan battles and direct vast telegraph and transport networks.
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Paris
L. A
Secret Service
I. B
I. D
I. C
Flying
Joffre
Ater
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Safe Liver Relief
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe alternative to calomel for biliousness and constipation. It claims the product cleans the liver, eases headaches, and regulates bowels by morning, with a money back guarantee and favorable taste for children.
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Dodson
Dr Bell’s Pine Tar Honey Advertisement Claims Healing
An advertisement extols Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey as a nature based remedy for colds and minor illnesses. It stresses early treatment, antiseptic protection, and repeated use, noting the product has been tested over many years and priced at 25 cents.
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Dr. Bell
Miserly Amos Whittaker and the fashioned tale
A Boston Transcript story frames Amos Whittaker, a misery millionaire, pressed by a persuasive friend to abandon shabby attire. The old rival hints at lineage and fatherly elegance, prompting a wry exchange on value, identity, and social appearance.
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Amos Whittaker
Funerd
Thirteen Japs Try for Share in Order
A Russian officer sought 25 000 rifles via Japanese intermediaries from Kobe to Tokyo but no rifles existed. Thirteen Japanese were involved in the failed scheme and the pursuit of a non existent order drew scrutiny from Japanese authorities. A separate anecdote features two traveling salesmen praising a sensible woman.
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Tokio
Vladivostock
Kobe
Yokohama
No. 4
Osaka
Nagashi
War Office
Nonpartisan tariff commission bill advances in House
A revised bill for a permanent nonpartisan tariff commission was introduced by Rep Rainey Illinois. It proposes six commissioners at 10000 dollars yearly with party limits and long terms to study customs laws and foreign competition. The measure powers include compelling witnesses and access to documents, with annual funding of 300000 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Tariff Commission
House
Representative Rainey
Illinois
House Ways and Means Committee
Senate Committee On Finance
Commission
United States
Rainey
Senate
Negro servants appear in London box seats and halls
In London, March 27, fashionable ladies are hiring black servants as status symbols. Negro page boys replace hall boys and even footmen in big houses, seen as smart and patriotic. A society incident saw a lady with a butler and three footmen reproved for employing four delicate individuals unsuited to other work.
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London
George
Wright for Police and Fire Commissioner in San Antonio
Campaign committee of the Citizens' League solicits voter support for Phil Wright as Police and Fire Commissioner. Political advertising invites support from San Antonio voters.
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San Antonio
Phil Wright
Citizens’ League
THE
Citizens' League
Thrice Captured Capital Belgrade Seen by Red Cross Doctor
Dr Earl B Downer former American Red Cross forces in Serbia recalls Belgrade siege and hospital life during three captures. He describes a typhus outbreak, 20000 treated wounded and the brutalities of shrapnel and gunshot injuries, plus tuberculosis, tetanus, and malaria faced by the Red Cross team.
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Serbia
Earl B. Downer
American Red Cross
Downer
Red Cross
Save
Danube
Paris
Europe
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