European War Milestones From July 1915 Highlights
A compact chronology notes major World War I actions from late July 1915 including Russian advances and setbacks around Warsaw Ivangorod and Lubin-Cholm, German submarine sinkings of Allied ships, battles near Souchez Ban de Sapt and Isonzo, and Turkish and Arabian fronts. It also marks notes on Lusitania and American protests, and civilian evacuations near Warsaw.
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Vistula
Ivangorod
Souchez
la Pietre Forest
King
Italy
Goritz
Rubenia
Germany
Lusitania
Euphrates
von Mackensen
Lubin-Cholm
Ban-de-Sapt
Vosges
Dunkirk
Tervona
Grimsby
Leelanaw
Warsaw
Lublin-Cholm
Belgium
Unmarried men outnumber married men in law breaking two to one
A compilation of diverse facts notes statistics on unmarried versus married men, a Panama Canal slide dispute with Newport damages, a new finger mounted writing device, Brazilian butter standards, Russians to work in Canada, flax-raising machines, Mrs. Hannah Berry’s auto ride, navigation aids count, Bank of New York’s 132nd anniversary and Hamilton’s founding, a claim on brain chemistry signals, and Australia’s relative earthquake absence.
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United States
Panama Canal
Newport
Balboa
Canada
Hannah Berry
Stratford
N. H
New York State
Bank of New York
Alexander Hamilton
Australia
Little Maids From School Dijon Nuns Parade In Turbaned Hats
In Dijon, France, nuns and their young charges march the streets on Sundays. Pupils, ages three to twenty, wear snuff garments with pale blue straw turbans adorned by tricolor cockades. The scene is quaint and charming, though not meant to provoke laughter.
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Dijon
France
Good Sisters of
Dialogue Exchange Between Mifkins and Windig
Fragments show a tense exchange where Mifkins challenges Windig about a suspected statement. Windig denies saying anything while Mifkins repeats distrust, asserting the gist remains the same regardless of spoken word.
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Windig
Mifkins
Woman Recalls Nervous Trouble Cure by Lydia E Pinkham
Mrs Dewitt Lincebaugh of West Danby New York credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing longstanding nervous trouble and female disorders. She notes improved sleep, mood, and energy after use and recommends the remedy to others.
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West Danby
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dewitt Lincebaugh
N. Y
Tales Liked by Strathcona in Scottish Anecdotes
Lord Strathcona enjoyed tales of Scottish countrymen and a Sabbath school quiz that sparked a child to write the hero of her heart, Lord Strathcona, rather than Samson Solomon or Moses. The anecdote, cited in Beckles Willson’s life of Strathcona, reflects humor and affection for Canadian Scots.
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Lord Strathcona
Beckles Willson
Mount Royal
Forres
Samson
Solomon
Moses
Footwork moves into new money making venture
Hyker-Shuflies touts a fresh money making movement focused on footwork. Pyker-So probes the type of venture as Hyker reveals he offers dancing lessons. The speaker laments leisure as brief rest before his wife seeks another task for him.
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Hyker
Shuflies
Pyker
Chicken and a Half Born After Hen Accident
Fremont Lounsbury recounts a peculiar birth of a chicken and a half after a hen injured by a motorcycle sidecar caused an egg to produce the unusual fowl. He attributes prenatal influence to chickens in a quirky, convinuing tale.
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Fremont Lounsbury
Lounsbury
Howells Teases a Poet Over refinement and style
William Dean Howells compares a poet unfavorably to overrefined writing, calling it overdeli cate and overnice. He likens the poet’s work to a young husband’s lament about changing travel plans after marriage to the slower accommodation.
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William Dean Howells
Basiness
Ain't It the Truth Side Comment Scrap
A fragment from a humorous exchange features a ribler counter clerk and a fair malt speaker debating marrying for money, with a pun on doing it in advance. The dialogue is presented in a jokey, old fashioned tone.
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Vance
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Hindenburg
Novogeorgievsk
Dardanelles
Vilna- Petrograd
Isonzo
Hooge
Hrondhjemsfjord
Camp Cotton
United States Army
el Paso
Army Motor Trucks
Columbus
N. M
General Pershing
Adeline
Augusta van Buren
New York
Martin van Buren
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Saloniki
Mexico
Oscar Foley
Third Cavalry
Fort Brown
Sixteenth Cavalry
Erribie
Ening
Wade
Bing
Richards Medicine Co
Sherman, Tax
Strathcona
Greate Scotchman
University Pure Drug
10Th St. N. W. Washington
D. Cc
ANG Tl
Lydia F. Pinkham Med. Co
Genni
Werhe Penn Toilet Company
Daisy Fly Killer
Srade
Rida
Kalb Ave
Brochlyn
H. F
Hoebps
Dandrum
Charlotte
Wisconsin
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