Women behind the Hindenburg line tell of capture and escape
Alma Pruvot recalls years of German invasion hardship in St Gobain France and Fourmis. She describes deportations, starvation, beatings, and solitary confinement before escaping to Switzerland with other women and children.
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Hell
Hindenburg Line
Jrotherham
Eng
Nellie
Alma Pruvot
Rawmarsh
Jonogi
Butt
Germany
Nellie X
St. Gobain
Anity
Fourmim
Charleroi
Fourmis
France
Switzerland
Vigilant America Must Guard War Efforts At Home
In wartime editorial urging constant vigilance, the piece warns Americans to resist German peace propaganda, urges support for selective service, and calls for backing the Allies as the nation braces for extended conflict in France and Europe. It cautions against trusting peace talk and stresses unity behind the war effort.
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France
Flanders
Uncle Sam
Kaiser
America
England
Paris
Calais
Germany
Aginst
Wilhelm Hohenzollern
Smoke Fund Carnival Next Week at Bon Marche Park
The Star promotes a seven day carnival at Bon Marche park from Monday through Saturday to raise funds for tobacco for soldiers in France. All proceeds go to the fund after expenses, with every ten cents spent earning a smoke for donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bon Marche Park
France
Telephone Girls Warn of Strike and Health Risks
A member of the newly organized telephone union predicts a strike and argues the job makes workers nervous and shortens their lives. She claims the stress also threatens subscribers, and that the women risk early demise from the poor service they have been giving recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pega
Union of Telephone
Bible Society Numbers Show Immigrants Buy Bibles Abroad
In 1915 the Bible Society in New York sold Bible portions to immigrants in multiple languages. Arabic 5,000 copies, Japanese nearly 5,000, Greek 11,000, Polish over 18,000, Italian close to 100, Russian around 0, and other translations. The note appears in a Ladies' Home Journal excerpt.
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The
Bible Society
New York
Ladies’ Home Journal
Peruna touted as cure for years of stomach catarrh
A letter from A M Skerd of West Ia recounts lifelong catarrh of the stomach and intestines, failed medical efforts, and a claimed cure after using Peruna and Manalin. He praises Peruna and notes keeping a bottle at home, with a free booklet offered and Peruna Tablets available for liquid-averse readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Socialist Resigns City Post Over Party Policy
Bicknell Indiana once boasted its socialist mayor. Tyler G Lawton resigns as mayor and leaves the socialist party citing disagreement with the party stance toward President Wilson. He says his duty to resign followed his departure from the party.
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Bicknell, Ind
Indiana
Tyler G. Lawton
Socialist Party
Wilson
Rowdy wartime legal appeals and World Series chatter
A mixed column notes several military exemption appeals by Elmer St Fish and others from districts 2 and 7, then shifts to a boastful expert predicting the World Series winner using a private system, interleaved with wartime humor and sports banter about Ichabod and Broadway coal lighting.
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Grandstand Price
McGraw
Rowland
FE. D. K
Letters from Cynthia Grey on home canning and social queries
A reader asks how to can carrots with step by step directions. Several letters discuss marriage license publication rumors, sabotage word origins, religious pacifism, Halloween party refreshments, and sharing candy with a suitor.
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Miss Grey
Mins Grey
Misa Grey
Workingman and wife solve high cost living on wheels
Frederick M. Kerby profiles A W Robins and wife of the United States who travel the country in a modified Ford, named The Adventurer. They live in the vehicle, buying food direct from farmers, avoiding housing and utility costs, and earning travel money through small printing orders.
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Frederick M. Kerby
New York
A. W. Roding
United States of America
Robinses
Gas Company
Electric Light Corporation
Mountains
Southland
United States
East 116Th St
East River
San Francisco
Robins
Red Cross Institute To Open At State University
To teach Red Cross work at the state university a Red Cross institute will start October 22. F. P. Foisie a Broadway High School and Harvard graduate Miss Virginia McMechen and William FY. Ogburn will conduct the program for home Red Cross instruction.
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Red Crown Institute
Red Cross
F. P. Foisie
Broadway High School
Harvard University
Virginia McMechen
William FY. Ogburn
Protruding Piles Treated With CLO VO Drops
Advertisement promotes CLO VO as an internal treatment for protruding and bleeding piles. It claims 15 drops four times daily offer quicker, better results than any pile remedy and urges purchase from druggists.
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Kenneth W. Payne
the Star
Seattle Star
Seattion
Wash
Har Publishing
Bible Business
Philadelphia
Peruna
A. M. Skerd
Box
West , Ia
Tyter L.law Ton
Thoroughnet
Peoples Savings Bank
Second Ave
Pike ST
B.D. K's
Colyum
Tom Kennedy
Elmer St. Fish
District No. 2
Russel M. Frye
Robert C. Poore
Frye the Poore
Elmer
Mister
Liberty Bond
Ichabod
Kateemed
White Sox
Broadway
Nanny‘nabbers
Aicrnle
Cynthia Grey
Court House
Mise Grey
Mias Grey
Additio
Quakers
Bible Students
Church of the Brethren
Dunkards
Nix
Trusts General Banking
Guardian
Cor, First Ave
Columbia St
Anheuser-Busch
ST. Louis
Schwabacher Bros. Co., Inc
Seattle, Wash
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