Everybody His Own Miller Plea For Old Time Corn Meal
A letter-writer urges the return of coarse old time corn meal ground by hand or at home. He decries roller mill products and germ extraction, dreaming of cracklin bread and antebellum flavor. The piece suggests using a coffee mill or pounding by hand to produce “tode wah” meal.
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Terest
Hart House
P. Nurlous
Japan
Siberia
Missouri
Xenophon P. Wiifley
Debt as a motive behind Germany’s looming offensive
The New Republic suggests Germany may strike before American manpower and industrial effort peak, arguing the war’s financial system rested on the foe bearing the costs. If that premise fails, Germany faces domestic strain and an unforeseen turn in the conflict.
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New Republic
Germany
America
Germany’s fragile war debt and looming financial collapse
The piece argues German notes and assets rest on unreal values tied to ships seized by the U S and allies, and that victory claims would inflate a fragile paper economy. It cautions that defeat would unravel Germany’s credit system, taxes, and private wealth, prompting a sudden realization of economic instability. A second tale highlights New Jersey and Colorado farmers turning desert land productive, illustrating business-like farming as patriotic service and a path to food abundance if U S farms run efficiently.
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Germany
United States
Huns
Teutons
America
Colorado
New Jersey
Farming as a Business Shows War-Driven Change
War conditions spur a shift from traditional farming to scientific, businesslike methods. A New Jersey 800 acre farm using factory-style management produced $200,000 in food sold for army feeding France, prompting federal contracts for its whole output this year and highlighting the move toward professionalized agriculture.
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Tue Liguy
New Jersey
France
The Vanishing Hired Girl and Domestic Labor Change
A condensed column reflecting on the old fashioned hired girl as a vanished domestic archetype. It contrasts her all role, low pay, and long duties with today’s specialized domestic workers amid labor laws, unions, and wage scales. Also notes contemporary miscel fragments on policy and culture.
New York Clinic For Functional Reeducation Of Disabled Soldiers
A benefactor funds a new New York clinic to rehabilitate maimed soldiers and civilians. Open within six weeks at Stuyvesant Square, it focuses on early functional therapy, with tests, baths, electricity, and mechanical devices to improve movement.
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New York
New York Times
New York Infirmary For Women and Children
Stuyvesant Square
Red Cross Institute
Vesful
Tpion
W. Gilman Thompson
West Forty-ninth Street
Cornell
Belleyue Hospital
Giraud F. Foster
Gertrude Parsons
Carlos de Heredia
GC. D. McDougall
John Nicholas Brown
Victor G. Heiser
Rackefeller Foundation
Clini
Thompson
15. A. Bott
Hart House
Toronto
Sixty Year Fire In A Mine Threatens Vast Coal Loss
Sum mithall Pa marks the sixtieth anniversary of the underground anthracite fire begun in 1855 by a miner’s lamp. Fifty acres of valuable coal have burned, with over a million dollars spent futilely. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company sinks to divert fuel by stripping the mountain top and removing coal veins, a four year effort needing 400 yard wide by mile long cuts, averaging forty feet deep, employing about 160 workers.
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Scanton
Summithall
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Mountain
Hutt
Light in Winter Fifty Years Woman Of Danville Dies At Insane Hospital
Mrs Wolgamott aged 80, whose husband served in the 125th Illinois Infantry and who kept a lamp in her cottage window for fifty years hoping for his Civil War return, dies at Kankakee State Hospital for the Insane. The article notes her lighted window as a beacon of endurance.
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Danville
Letter to The Light Praises Tax Reform Union
J Thompson of Lexington Texas signs a letter to The Light supporting tax reform and a broader union of workers and farmers. The writer notes anonymous submissions are not published and typewritten or stamped signatures are considered anonymous.
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Ligne
Tuneful Fun at Majestic and Royal Theaters
The Majestic presents a laugh filled bill led by The Twentieth Century Whirl a regulation sized musical comedy with songs pretty costumes and clever lines. At the Royal Theater the act lineup includes A Study In Thinology by Slim Grindell and Daryl Esther Go ing to the Wedding Celtic entertainers Burke Touhey and company and Erna Antonie with a display of Strength and Feminine Grace. Marjorie Lake headlines College Days while Harold Lockwood stars in The Land Loper.
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Majestic
Majestic Theater
Bert Swor
Gert Swor
America
Slim Grindell
Daryl Esther
Royal Theater
Ean
the Royal
Burke, Touhey
Marjorie Lake and
Harold Lockwood
The Blue Bird at Empire Delivers Spectacle and Magic
The Artcraft film The Blue Bird at the Empire uses new supernatural effects and the largest studio graveyard set, built in two weeks at Famous Players-Lask studio in New York. Maur Meteer Maeterinck’s play is praised for removing stage limits and delivering a grand screen interpretation. Ground stories feature They Molson Kaiser the Beast of Berlin continues to draw crowds at the Grand. Rupert Juli portrays the Kaiser in authentic scenes with strong patriotic appeal approved by the National Council of Defense.
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The
Empire
Players-Las
New York
Mauries Maeterinck
Berlin
Grand
National Council of Defense
Rupert Juli
German spies and public jests in wartime musings
A collage of wartime whimsy and social quips from Cobbhle Webb in the Marihuana Gazette. Notes on German efficiency, shortages, Austrian troubles, and jokes about actors, nurses, and cheap living mingle with observations on bees, farming, and a proposed pecan grove. Includes light satire on patriotism and daily life during conflict.
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Ukraine
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Pes
Spain
Maude Mae Lozer
Marihuana Gazette
By Briggs
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