Memoir Scene of a WWI Soldier in Hospitals and Trenches
An American Soldier recalls a wartime arc from a hospital bed to escape attempts at night over the wall to a personal tale of surgery. He describes nurses, officers, and a trust in doctors like Dr Frost, the grim routine of Aldershot, and a return to civilian life aboard an American unit ship.
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Tommy
American Women's War Hospital
Eno
Hin Teed
Palmer
Frost
Taapner
Secur
Cambridge: Military
Aldershot
Paignton
Minsey
Prost
Empey
Steve Brodie
New York
Undertaker
Momi
Lee
England
Port Rei
Romeo and the Khaki War Letters Speak to Home and Horses
The piece recalls a wartime letter from a soldier to a sweetheart, noting the pull of home and the letter’s playful details about a waiter and a dish. It also describes how care for wounded army horses is handled, with drivers tending horses personally until they recover. It ends with a note on bread loaf shapes and water content.
Price of Peace as Wilson Sets Terms at Peace Conference
President Wilson outlines the price of peace as a universal, enforceable league pledge. He pledges impartial justice, no special interests, and open treaties, warning against trusting governments that betrayed Russia and Romania.
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New York
League
of Nations
Germany
Wilson
Fourth Liberty Loan
Russia
Romania
League of Nations
Brest-Litovek
Freezone corn remover promises instant relief and painless removal
An advertisement touts Freezone as a quick relief for hard, soft, and interdigital corns with a tiny bottle costing a few cents. It claims the product causes no pain and enables removal by fingers. The ad also includes odd testimonial fragments and shifts to a medical pitch for Alls Catarrh Medicine, asserting a constitutional cure for catarrhal deafness and offering a $100 reward for undefeated cases.
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Halls Catarre
Toledo
Ohio
Ancient remedy promises relief for aches and pains
An old time home remedy from distant laboratories claims to ease backaches stiff joints and various pains with a dropa capsule dose. Advertisers assert rapid relief and offer money back if not satisfied, urging readers to purchase from druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sotaas Laboratories
New Sentry Questioned After Night Duty Incident
A lieutenant at Camp Grant reportedly challenged a guard on horseback during a routine halt. The exchange turned comical as the lieutenant demanded why he must stay all night, while the guard claimed only a week on duty.
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Camp Grant
Fragmented Dialogue From An Old Play Scene
A garbled OCR style excerpt shows a tense exchange with characters A Very Woman and He. The dialogue hints at consent and a tense relationship, with broken words suggesting a dramatic confrontation and emotional stakes between two speakers.
Flotsam and Jetsam Comment on Paris Hat Styles
Flotsam and Jetsam riff on recent hat fashions in Paris. The pair wear garish chapeaug style hats and trade quips in a rapid fire repartee. This light exchange comes from the Plano News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flotsam
Jetsam
Paris
Ald Flotsam
Plano News
Red Cross Ball Blue Ads Tease Bright Laundry Whites
Preparedness note invites readers to buy Red Cross Ball Blue from grocers. Advertising copy promises clear white laundry and a cheerful basket of snowy clothes, claiming Red Cross is the true blue.
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Red Cross
Delusions and misreadings in historical quotes
A fragmentary transcript quotes a humorous misstatement about Columbus and a wife believing she found Paradise. The text includes musings on mistaken beliefs and references to tinkling cymbalta and symbols across land and thought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paradise
Boston
Transcript
Not Going Back to the Soil Mood Shift After War
The piece argues the postwar mood will not favor back to the soil movements. It notes training and vigorous bodies will shape a broader commercial world, challenging the idea that citizens will retreat to farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaanena
Acid Stomach Aids Claim of Vital Health Boost
A panicked pitch extols acid reduction as the key to health with Eatonic tablets from Kennedy Co Chicago. It touts relief from indigestion irritability and fatigue claiming thousands benefited and offers guarantees and mail order trials.
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Eatonic
Tm Ite Presse
Conta
EATON
Entente Hennedy Co
Gunther Bidg
Chicago
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James
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Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley, Cal
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Pio
LON & Pleat
van Ne Nee
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Tarkio Molasses Feed CO
Live Stock Exchange
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Hiellam
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. R. Crumuira
Hellam
Lydia E.pinikhans
Lydia E. Pinkhams
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