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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1914
Page
4
Local plea urges support for Belgians and a critical view of modern warfare. A soldierly fantasy contrasts with grim trench reality, warning that true war is brutal. The piece notes subscription details, ads, and anxious talk of national conflict in December 1914.
Brand Whitlock left Toledo to take a Belgian ambassadorship seeking calm to write a book but war arrived. He shouldered duties for refugees, arranged money and ships, aided clothing and food distribution, and led efforts for homeless women and children as the war escalated. He remained active day and night since August.
A listing of multiple club and magazine names including Woman's World Peoples Popular Monthly Gentlewoman CTUB Farm Stok and Home Vegetable Grower American Home McCall's and Today's with patterns and home life themes. The item catalog notes various issues and associated free patterns or extras across magazines such as Home Life and Household Guest.
The essay argues the twentieth century reverts to eighteenth century travel customs with private carriages and personal conveyances regaining prestige. It contrasts democratic railway travel with a renewed emphasis on individual, aristocratic mobility and status symbols like the gentleman with his own conveyance. Atlantic Monthly reference noted.
Reports describe the northern Nigerian custom of lip plugs called tichink worn from childhood to deter eating dogs. Both sexes wear body designs with chest and back scars, and upon marriage women receive forehead and cheek marks as part of traditional body art.
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