Nature The Wild Roots and Barks in Traditional Composition
A compact overview of how wild roots and barks figure in traditional mixtures. The piece notes their long history and standing as foundational ingredients in herbal or natural remedies, reflecting enduring knowledge of plant-based substances.
Rigid Economy in City Letters
A wife rebukes her husband for reckless spending while he recalls visiting downtown to mail a letter to his mother, noting the cheaper postage there. The exchange highlights frugality and domestic tension over money.
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Pester
August Flower Remedy Promotes Digestion and Liver Health
Green's August Flower is advertised as a gentle laxative aiding digestion and liver function. It claims to relieve sick headache, constipation, sour stomach, nervous indigestion, and gas fermentations, while cleansing the alimentary canal and improving bile production. Solid in civilized countries. Give it a trial.
Airship design skepticism over passenger safety
The speaker questions the feasibility of perfecting air ships that would require passengers to cling to a strap rather than be provided a secure seat or harness. The remark reflects doubts about future passenger comfort and safety in air travel.
When a solder becomes insane there is something wrong at head
A terse aphorism notes that insanity in a solder reveals a fault of mind, while warning the reader not to be easily fooled.
Government Seeks 50 000 Men for Three Year Overseas Service
The War Department plans to recruit 50 000 volunteers for three year overseas duty with immediate enlistment. Recruits will train at Camp Meade Maryland and ship in 1000 man contingents to France to relieve expeditionary forces. Officers will accompany each 1000, providing training and replacements as discharged officers depart for home.
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Washington
Europe
War Department
Camp Meade
Germany
European financiers see no imminent euro collapse says expert
American financial experts say rumors of a euro collapse are unfounded though conditions are serious. They expect steadier conditions to return once peace is signed and embargoes lifted, and predict England may be stronger within a year.
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Paris
Europe
England
Lift Austrian Blockade Planned After Import Controls
A Paris council of foreign ministers decided that the blockade of German Austria will be lifted as soon as measures are perfected to prevent imports into the territory from being exported to Germany.
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Paris
Austria
Germany
Foreign Ministers
Amendments Adopted for League Covenant Revisions
The American delegation pushed changes to Article X to shield the Monroe Doctrine and to limit external interference in domestic matters. Amendments address control of labor influx, armament reduction plans, and council power, with revisions to allow periodic covenant updates and to balance representation between large and small powers. A committee including Huymans, Robert Cecil, and David Millet will review the legal phrasing as the draft is refined.
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League of Nations
League of Nations Commission
League
Executive Council
Council
United States
Huymans
Belgium
Robert Cecil
Great Britain
David Millet
New York
Switzerland Bids for League Capital at Lake Leman
The Canton of Geneva proposes a chateau and park near the city on Lake Leman as the League of Nations seat. Geneva government sent a letter to President Wilson as lead figure at the Paris conference. The Swiss plan gains support, especially from American officials.
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Switzerland
Geneva
Canton of
Wilson
Lake Loman
League of Nations
Chicago Builders Held Up By High Building Material Costs
Four leading Chicago architects told state legislators that about 51 million dollars worth of new building planned in Chicago this year is delayed due to the high price of building materials.
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Chicago
Convention Works to Save Modern Woodmen of America
A Chicago meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America faced near bankruptcy as head consul A. R. Talbot warned the society’s finances fell from ten million dollars in the general fund in October 1918 to about six hundred forty thousand due to influenza and pneumonia losses.
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Chicago
A. R. Talbot
Laborites Seek U S Recognition of Soviet Russia
The Chicago labor party executive committee urged the United States government to recognize the Léon Trotsky led Soviet government in Russia. They called for immediate troop withdrawal when feasible and the establishment of commercial relations with Russia.
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Chicago
United States
Léonne-Trotzky
Russia
New
Chicago Labor Party
Paris peace talk blamed for Hungarian bolshevism delay
London presses uniformly fault the Paris peace conference for Hungary's bolshevism spread and the broad discontent over the peace delay.
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London
Paris
Hungary
Martial law declared in Budapest and Madrid reports
Unverified dispatches claim martial law and death penalty for armed resistance in Bolshevik style unrest. Separate Madrid post notes Spanish government response to a general strike and new martial law proclamation amid mounting tension.
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Paria
Budapest
Martiel Lew
Spain
Madrid
Sainteneceia Na Abate Sik
Bercelone
Allies Are interned Vienna.
Allied members are detained in Vienna amid wartime measures. Authorities report authorities detaining suspected sympathizers and arranging security restrictions affecting residents and visitors.
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Vienna
Land Value Rise Draws Western Canadian Settlers
Western Canada and adjacent markets attract settlers as land values soar from 100 to 290 dollars per acre over recent years. The piece credits rising prices to better farming, machinery, railways, and assured markets, noting the region’s now sought after, fertile acres and expanding demand beyond production costs.
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Western
Canada
United States
Phenomenon Explains German Hissing Soldiers
A reader notes astonishment at a report of Germans hissing soldiers. Miss Vayenne suggests the goose step has reached their hearts, implying a reaction to wartime discipline.
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Miss Vayenne
Why Druggists Recommend Swamp-Root
An ad extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a liver and bladder remedy that supports kidney and liver function. Claiming strong backing from decades of use, it emphasizes reliability, widespread pharmacist recommending, and that it is sold at all druggists on its merit.
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Kilmer
Inconsistent Action and Conditional Phrases Spotlighted
The passage contrasts clumsy dialogue with stilted phrases and incomplete sentences. It features misheard lines about applause and a joking remark on doing the square thing. The text explores awkward conditional snippets and stray misstatements.
Legislative Notes on Nebraska Bills Progress
Nebraska senators advance a compromise bill regulating private and parochial schools, while others move on criminal syndicalism, primary election reform, banking and defense laws. The session risks delay past April with many bills awaiting action, including a 86 hour day bill for women and various fiscal measures.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
State Senate
House
Flower House
Senate
State Banking Board
Committee of Privileges and Elections of
Tower House
Secretary of State
State Highway Department
State Engineer
Hoagland
Douglas County House
City of
Omaha
State Council of Defense
State Historical Society
Counry
Te Am
Peterson
Gomen
Disgusted Miss Biggle Conversationalist Debate
A disjointed dialogue recalls Miss Biggle as a poor conversationalist and a hostess whose sole remark was no. The text criticizes political beliefs noting a misattributed system and references the idea of political shifts and insults toward individual autonomy.
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Hostese
Miss Biggle
Jack
California Syrup of Figs and World Women Unite
An old advertisement for California Syrup of Figs urges readers to ask their druggist for the genuine product with full dosing directions. The piece then notes the World League of Women, describing French and English delegations as signs of growing global female solidarity and gratitude toward education exchanges.
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California
World League of Women
Domestic Dispute Over Shopping Bills
A married couple argues over mounting shopping bills with the husband insisting he will not cover them while the wife remains indifferent, saying she will not change her stance as long as he pays.
It’s Not Your Heart It’s Your Kidneys
A pedestrian snarls at Jud Jostle of Grudge after a collision in Kansas City. The unofficial street scene shows a clash of nerves and boastful banter as bystanders react to the accident and the exchanged barbs.
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Kansas City
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