Let Her Pay Maximilien Harden’s Austria Peace Stance
German editor Maximilien Harden argues Austria seeks peace to avoid American estrangement and debt. He says Austria is bankrupt, America is her only loan prospect, and the U S should hold Austria accountable for the war while not discussing postwar terms yet. He blames Austria for provoking the war and urges repayment for the calamity.
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Maximilien Harden
Die Zukunft
Austria
America
Europe
Harden
Germany
United States
Serbia
Gentle Christina Converts Chicago to Warlike Pace
A dramatic tale centers on Christina Mowak, swayed by a precursor to the “Death Battalion” figure from Russia, whose visit to Chicago allegedly boosts martial spirit. The episode includes a department store theft, evasive resistance to police, and a provocative confrontation with two detectives.
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Russia
Chicago
Christina Mowak
United States
Sweden
Christina
Christina the bold inmate ends in custody riot
A court scene shows Christina assaulting detectives and shouting for more fights. She is jailed then sent to the House of the Good Shepherd amid a riot, later returned to county jail as authorities struggle with her violent impulses.
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Christina
House of the Good Shepherd
Agai
Shadow Lawn sale highlights nickel wealth and war debts
Shadow Lawn near Asbury Park sold for about a million dollars to a major nickel company executive, illustrating how nickel wealth supports fortunes. The column argues that inflation and war debts drive Qatarlike credit schemes, noting Germany and Austria's postwar deficits, war loans, and rising paper money. It also mentions Kansas needing harvest hands, Houston’s tax debate, Taft and Roosevelt meeting, and Houston’s dry era.
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Shadow Lawn
White House
New Jesey
Asbury Park
United States
New Jersey
Germany Economy Shocks U.S. Officials From Lamont Report
Morgan & Company partner Thomas W. Lamont told U.S. officials Germany and Austria face rising financial strain. He said German monthly expenditures have doubled to about 200 million dollars. national debt stands near 33 billion, with a Reichstag figure of 31 billion cited as the time of reckoning approaches.
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Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan & Company
Europe
United States
Mr. Lamont
Germany
Austria
von Hindenburg
Reichstag
Two Kinds of Women in a Short Verse Exchange
The Indianapolis News cites a saying on women divided into two classes by trust in husbands. Grantland Rico’s poem “Songs of the Starwart” flows with a lullaby like refrain praising protective care as night settles and a child sleeps.
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Indianapolis News
Grantland Rico
Pho Cherry Tree headline at Majestic Theater report
The Majestic Theater offers a strong bill headlined by the comedy Pho Cherry Tree with Harry Green as George Washington Cohen and a capable cast. Other acts include Ban croft and Brooke with Get Off My Carpet, The Cycling Brunettes with bicycle stunts, ventriloquist The Great Lester, Capt. Jack Barnett and Son, Carlisle and Konner with The Composer, and Reynolds and Donegan performing a skating turn.
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Majestic
Pho Cherry Tree
Harry Green
George Washington Cohen
Bancroft
Brooke
Lester
Jack Barnett
Carlisle
Ko Nner
Reynolds
Donegan
Film Attractions Gerard Film Next Week
Announcement that the dramatization of Ambassador Gerard’s book My Four Years in Germany will play at the Empire next Sunday for a week. Notable scenes include Gerard’s prison camp visit at Wittenberg and his passport incident prompting a public protest.
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America
Gerard
Germany
New York Evening Mail
Grand
Guy Empey
Camp Wheeler
Theda Bara
National Anthem Awakens Family in Oregon Town
Mood River Oregon reports City Marshal J K Carson's family wakes to The Star Spangled Banner each morning. The daughter repeats the tune until all rise and stand outside in the cold.
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Mood River
Ore
J. K. Carson
The Light's Short Story by Katherine Hopson
Allen Sewell visits Estelle Nugent amid a summer of concerts and longing. He notes Pauline Orcutt and a passing Bennet youth as he frets over a draft and Estelle's rising fame with a concert group. The mood shifts from romance to unease as the night deepens.
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Katherine Hopson
Allen Sewell
Estelle Nugent
Estelle
Peytonville
Sewell
Musical Conservatory
Red Cross
Stelle
Rose
Pauline Orcutt
Bennet
Lessing
Conservatory
Pauline
Walter Lessing
Istele
Prof. Lessing
Ostelle
Merry Chase
Unlikely Love Triangle In Wartime Drama
In a tense scene Estelle reveals she cares deeply for Walter Lessing but has promised to marry Sewell. Sewell accepts the conflict with quiet resolve and plans to support Estelle’s choice while writing a bold rose gesture to Pauline Orcutt.
Selecting wartime performers for US troops in France
General Pershing backs sending small groups of American actors to France to entertain troops. Burns Mantle warns of fierce selection battles among volunteers and the need for a capable organizer and stage director to form appropriate units for transportation and morale programs.
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Pershing
France
Burns Mantle
New York Mail
June bride and wartime witticisms reach Kansas columns
A Kansas editor riffs on home life during wartime with humor about weddings, food rationing, prohibition, and social quirks. Anecdotes touch on New York cocktails, cornmeal lemon pie, parade fame in Chicago, and a joking view of politicians, scandals, and daily absurdities.
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