Teetering on the Brink by William Allen White in the Emporia Gazette
In Europe the era of political and economic strain worsens France faces tax and debt crises while clashing over armaments. Germany lurches toward Junker power as liberal reforms falter. British and American support for Germany’s liberal wing clashes with Royalist aims, signaling a potential crisis that could dwarf the war’s impact.
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France
Europe
Germany
England
America
Junkers
Nineveh
Babylon
Thebes
Athens
Rome
Sallie and Warren Drift Through A Moonlit Misadventure
A serialized tale follows Sallie as she joins Warren Fisher for a moonlit car ride and an unsupervised night in a village inn. Tension builds between Sallie, Warren, and Curtiss Wright as plans shift from travel to a risky, unchaperoned pause before dawn.
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Warren
Sallie
Warren Fisher
In front of an inn he vows a dinner plan
A fragment shows a man declaring they shall dine while a woman exclaims Hot Dog. He drives to a Frankfurt stand and they eat as he jokes about a long grooming routine, with a brief intrusion of a nephew or bystander.
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Fat
Frankfurt
Straight Away First Motorist and the Blonde Note
A humorous dialogue captures two motorists bantering about a blonde companion. The first teases the second about a potential romantic interest, joking that she is not a dangerous curve, implying lighthearted flirtation rather than danger.
Newspaper Snippets and Cantankerous Quotes
A collage of fragments mentions a pawnbroker a wise town man and his liaisons with Yes Yes gaze. police and officers debate gambling and street life while Col Harvey reportedly earns 75000 for Washington Post editorials. New York City taxicab excess sparked by the police commissioner’s rainy day stance.
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New York
Massachusetts plan to curb omnibus service by licenses and local permits
The article argues a proposal to restrict bus lines by requiring public necessity permits and local authorizations in each town. It suggests railroads back the idea to curb competition, noting the broader aim to limit omnibus routes while hinting at future airplane competition and the idea of using bus earnings to maintain roads. It cites a western coast bus route from San Diego to Seattle as an example of established long distance bus travel.
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Massachusetts
San Diego
Seattle
Races to North Pole Stir Geopolitical Echoes and Morals
The piece muses on four nations racing toward the North Pole with MacMillan aiming to reach first with American flag and airships while noting potential oil claims by the Rockefellers and shifting Arctic realities. It contrasts future polar claims, civilization’s arc, and the fate of nations, then shifts to a moral about profit sharing from a South Carolina incident, and ends by linking French views on Germany’s 1930s leadership to Napoleonic comparisons.
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North Pole
MacMillan
United States
Pole
Arctic
Rockefellers
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Edward McCullough
Lindy
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Gabby” Hartnett
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Washington Post
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Omigge
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Sicily
A. B. Chapin
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