Engineers to Train as Railroad Men for France War Service
Nine regiments of army engineers will be recruited and trained as railroad workers under regular army command for immediate service in France. Volunteers will face fire and shelling, with duties alongside fighting troops as battles unfold. General Crowder expands the provost marshal role and extends the age limit, stressing no favoritism and rapid organizational setup for mass enlistment and registration.
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Edward B. Clark
Washington
France
Europe
Belgium
Ostend
Vosges Mountains
Boulogne
Amiens
Paris
Moselle
Fetit
Grand Morin
Islands
Americian
Crowder
Wilson
United States Army
Enoch H.crowder
United States
War Department
Lot
United States Military Academy
Missouri
West Point
Judge Advocate General’s Department of the Army
America
Great Britain
Peronne
Somme
St. Quentin
Comte de Nassau
Prince of Orange
la Marck
Nassau
Duke of Guise
Charles the Simple
Comte de Dammartin
Picardy
D’estournel
Jean d’Estourne
Marie Fourree
Very Pleasant Patience Bench Park Encounter
A fragment describes someone seated on a park bench awaiting patience while a man approaches in a Berane setting. Non-specific details limit clarity but hints at an informal social moment in a public space.
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Berane
Man Cama
Peronne and the siege that shaped a French town
The article recounts Peronne’s medieval rise and fall its role in Louis XI’s humiliation in 1468 and a later siege where townspeople and leaders defended the city. It also links broader themes of war and resilience with notes on economic farming gains in Western Canada during the era.
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Peronne
France
Charles the Simple
EB. Maxtone Graham
Somme
Louis XI
Walter Scott
Quentin Durward
Charles
Duke of
Burroundy
le Temeraire
Louis
Noyon
Liege
Charlemagne
Fran
Mr. Smith
Canada
Newell J. Noble
Nobleford
Province of
Alberta
Nancy Coe
Uruguay Plans Foreign Scholarships for 14 Students
The president urged the Uruguayan Legislature to grant yearly foreign scholarships to 14 agricultural and veterinary students. Scholarships will be competitive and based on one year of study at a Uruguayan college, with some funds designated for unspecified uses.
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Uruguay
Woman Browses Cigar Store For Birthday Gift
A woman enters a downtown cigar shop and asks for a birthday present for her husband. She declines cigars and requests a pipe suited to a man about forty two, five feet nine inches tall, stout with dark hair and mustache, prompting a surprised clerk.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Libel on the Sex Parody About Leap Year Birthdays
A humorous dialogue mocks leap year anniversaries with a quip about a woman tired of yearly birthdays and a son asking who invented leap year. The exchange reflects playful gendered sarcasm in a lighthearted clipping.
Nervousness and Blues in Illinois Woman Credits Pinkham Remedies
Mrs Rost of Washington Park Illinois says female trouble backache and nervous spells and blues plagued her until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills restored her health She notes she looks young and well despite worry and urges others to write for free advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts
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Washington Park
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rost
Stopiel
Sage Avenue
Illinois
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
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