Canadians Gain in Lens Region as Infantry Actions Renew
Canadian forces advance about two hundred yards along a front exceeding a thousand yards near Leos, placing a new line within roughly a thousand yards of the town. In separate fights near Baian east of Czernowitz, Russians turned retreat into a rout, taking prisoners and seizing machine guns, while action continues in Flanders with Anglo French victories. Russian retreat slows in Bukowina as Austro German pressure persists, and French defend against German assaults on the Aisne with successful repulses near the Casemates plateau and east of Kovel.
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London
Leos
Baian
Czernowitz
Bukowina
Pruth
Bystritza
Flanders
Crown Prince
Rupprecht
Hollebeke
Ypres-Comines Canal
Orward
Bixschoote
Ypres
Aisne
Kovel
Chotin
Welsh surnames and social quirks in a London Answers note
A quirky London Answers piece notes Welsh naming habits and social norms. It contrasts Welsh surname usage with English town names, jokes about "Jones" as a universal given name, and remarks on cultural perception of Welsh speech and imagery.
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Wales
Arould Gay
Jones
Williams
Evans
Hughes
Lloyd
Early Cornell student lit campus with electric generator
Professor Alexander Gray credits G S Moler, then a Cornell student, with one of the first practical electric generator applications in America in 1875. Moler illuminated the campus and remote farms in central New York, ahead of such illumination appearing in Paris, London, Berlin, New York or other great cities. Subscribe for The Telegraph.
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Alexander Gray
Cornell University
G. S. Moler
Cornell
America
Moler
New York
Paris
London
Berlin
Nebraska items span fires paroled inmate bonds and births
The report notes a Humboldt garage fire. Margaret Tuttle’s parole from Nebraska penitentiary. Wayne bond election defeated by twenty votes. Gilter State bank chartered with 20000 capital. a coroner’s jury linked Mrs Rehak’s death to gunshot wounds by her husband. and varied local events from Holdrege to Wayne including a mass meeting, bootlegging discovery, marriages, resignations, lawsuits, enlistments, accidents, drownings, fires, and a regional editors’ meeting with speeches by Ring er Caswell Fogg and Jones.
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William A. Power
Humboldt
Margaret Tuttle
Nebraska
Wayne
Vaclav Rehak
Clarkson
Intermountain Railway, Light and Power Company
Holdrege
Floldrege
Loomis
Omaha Ambulance Company
Dandy Sixth
J. F. Letton
State Fontenelle
North American Hotel Company
Omaha
Russian Commander on Riga Front Tenders Resignation
General Dimitrieff, a Russian commander on the Riga front, is reported to be tendering his resignation. The move signals potential leadership changes amid ongoing operations and strategic reassessment by Russian forces near Riga.
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Riga Front
Redko Dimitrieff
Riga
Parsky
Dimitrieff
Russia
W. W. Leader Is Lynched At Butte
Frank Little, IWW executive board member and labor trouble figure, was seized from a lodging house by masked men and hanged to a railroad trestle near Butte Montana. Police Chief Jerry Murphy later cut him down and identified the body. He had attacked the government in speeches and urged mine shutdowns. Reports say he may have worked for a detective agency. vigilante violence is cited as the motive.
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Butte
Mont
Frank Little
The
Industrial Workers of the World
Arizona
Jerry Murphy
Little
United States
Uncle Sam
Globe, Ariz
House Acts On Reports On Food Control And Survey
Washington reports that the house adopted conference reports on both the administration food control and food survey bills with near unanimous support. Senate action likely but not immediate. Senator Core may file a minority report, the main opposition. No recorded votes against the control bill. the survey measure passed by voice vote with only a few nays.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Core
Agriculture Committee
Anti-Glare Headlight Bulbs Sale Under New Law
A. Brott advertises anti glare headlight bulbs amid new legal changes. The notice emphasizes compliant lighting options and urges motorists to upgrade to meet the updated standards.
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A. Brott
The Winner on Crossing Broadway at Forty-second Street
A New Yorker remarks that crossing Broadway at Forty-second Street is easy for locals but daunting for visitors. A visitor with white whiskers and a black hat claims crossing Broadway feels like winning a bet, after surviving the traffic maelstrom.
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Broadwa
Forty-second Street
Locotia
Broadway
Mississippi
New York Post
Salt Superstitions Across Ancient Cultures
Salt figures in early beliefs and holy writ with ceremonial uses and Mosaic laws. Womer calls it diving, Teuton tribes revered salt springs as holy. The superstition likely stems from salt's resistance to corruption, symbolizing immortality.
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Womer
Secret Doll Keeps Her Life Hidden in Marion Tale
A fragment recalls Marion's worry that remarks about her doll will reveal it is not alive. The girl tells her mother she has spent her life trying to keep the doll from knowing it is dead, in a humorous aside attributed to Larpers Magazine.
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Marion
Dollle
Larper
Second Sight Joke From London Telegraph
A light quip about belief in second sight. The husband admits skepticism while his wife remains convinced, joking that she will “look at these again” with a salesman during shopping.
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London Telegraph
Wind Strikes Lorenzo Residents as Racks, Cars Suffer Damage
A strong wind in Lorenzo toppled a team and rack injuring Mr Reynolds slightly while the team bolted. Mrs Fleming’s relatives from eastern Nebraska visit. several locals, including Masons and Dunhams, travel by auto to Kremer’s and Jacobsen’s. Several hay racks damaged and streets filled with lumber as Mr Myers loses the top from his Ford.
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Reynolds
Myers
Lorenzo
H. F. Fleming
Nebraska
Masons
Dunhams
Fred Walker
Fleming
Kremer’s
Mason
Jacobsen
Family Outings Reported in Local Social Note
and family autoed out and spent the evening at Kremer's, Mr. and Mrs. Thomson autoed to Sidney Monday. Mrs. Jacobsen and children spent the afternoon at Kremers, Mrs. Walter Thompson and children spent one day with Mrs. Dunham. Mrs. Fred Walker walked over and spent all day with Mrs. Dunham.
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Kremer's
Thomson
Sidney
Jacobsen
Kremers
Walter Thompson
Dunham
Fred Walker
The High Test and a Sneer on Former Sweethearts
The Kansas City Star quips that former sweethearts will identify you as the man they might have married, regardless of how you live. In most cases they do so with an air of superiority in the presence of your wife, notes the Courier-Journal.
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Lee
The
Kansas City Star
Loulevile Courier-Journal
Maryland tobacco shipments tied to France and Holland across centuries
Maryland sent the same variety of tobacco to France and Holland three centuries ago and delivered the identical strain to those nations again last year, reflecting a long standing transatlantic trade pattern.
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Maryland
France
Holland
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Table Rock
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Plattsmouth
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