The Fire of Madame There in a Dutch Town
In a ruined town under occupation, Madame There endures grim loss as her husband Mathieu and three sons die at the hands of German troops. She keeps a ledger of letters on a table top, tending to memory and faith while a sentry guards a cemetery until armistice ends the killings and reveals the family graves.
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Westcon
Title Square
Mathieu
Ollers
Andre
Pierre
Paul
Madan
Paris
Madame
Itart
Germany
Aerschot
Eee
Plan for a chain of landing fields linked to harbors and rail terminals
New York reports plans by the Army Air Service and Manufacturers' Aircraft Association to create a nationwide network of airplane landing fields. Representatives from 92 southern cities are invited to prepare sites meeting military specifications, with steel hangars provided by the government and operation run by municipalities.
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New York
Army Air Service
Manufacturers' Aircraft Association
Amier Army
The
Aircraft Association
Lner
Ox Harbor
Liverpool
Ayers
Profiteer convictions tally during wartime tribunals
London reports Captain Wedgwood Benn in the House of Commons announcing profiteering tribunals have issued twenty four convictions from nineteen hundred committees, with about £25,000 spent and costs rising. A six month extension of the profiteering act was approved.
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London
England
Wedgwood Benn
House of Commons
Jump Rails Ride Ties and Jump Back Again
Sharon Pennsylvania report describes a Bessemer railroad freight train locomotive slipping 400 feet on packed snow then returning to rails, an Erie freight locomotive on the same line jumping its track in Shenango yards and running 200 feet before regaining rails, with railroad men prepared to verify the incidents.
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Sharon
Hilliards
Bessemer
Moenstee
Erie
Shenango
Thousands of Rabbits Killed in Walla Walla Area Drive
In a recent drive near Burbank Washington more than 11 000 rabbits were killed as shooters ran out of ammunition causing thousands to escape. The event reportedly fired as many as 40 000 shots with teleesine ceraties noted in surrounding regions.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Burbank
Teleesine Cearties
Columbin ‘River
Training School Notes From Fargo Grade Recitations
School notes describe third and fourth grades reading "Long Ears" by Mazie Papke and imagining a trip to Fargo on No. 4. Pupils study Front Railway Carriage, celebrate Vivian Sperling’s return, and note Edmund Schindler’s move to New York. A junior high room gains bloom, a five-grade literary society forms, and officers are elected. The spring program includes student committees and original poetry by Dorothy Moffitt. Rev. Anderson opens with Joshua verses, poems are read, and duties are shared by local ministers and Rev Griggs.
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Mazie Papke
Fargo
No. 4
Lalander Norman
Robert Louis Stevenson
Vivian Sperling
Vivian
Edmund Schindler
New York
Edmund
Ben
Edith Northridge
Maron Pederson
Vir
James E. Anderson
Joshua
J. S. Wilds
M. FE
Brown
Bottineau
N. Dak
E. M. Griggs
Inter-Church World Movement Talks at Normal Chapel
Morning program features Inter-Church World Movement representatives giving short talks in the chapel at Normal College. Attendees heard summaries of mission goals and upcoming events as part of a devotional gathering.
Philomathian Society Little Theater Movement Program
The Philomathian Society's tonight program features a Little Theater Movement theme with a roll call of towns starting the movement. Florence Armstrong speaks on the movement’s greatness, with piano solo Clementine Wirtz and vocal solo Luella Schuette. Kathleen Stave presents The Little Theater in Plays, Irene Nippolt covers Little Theaters of Europe, current events by Editor, and a society song. Officers: President Lenora Simonson, Vice-President Mary Woll, Treasurer Phyllis Bloom, Critic Dorothy Hoster.
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Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Little Theater
Little Theater Movement
Florence Armstrong
Clementine Wirtz
Katherine Stave
Luella Schuette
Little Theaters of
Europe
Irene Nippolt
Society Song—Society
Lenora Simonson
Mary Woll
Trebsuter Phylis Bloomall
Dorothy Hoster
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Hermine
Fiame
Sheil
Rawleigh
C. R. Erickson
Valley City
Lalleylight Electric Liasin and Powerfare Arm
Rudolph Geselius
N. D
Madely
Scott & Bot Makers
J. van Houten
M. D
Gray Block Valley City
E. A. Pray, M.D
Graduate Univ. of Pennsylvania
Philomathian Society
Inpants Children
Bayer
Afane
Gexrtank Gonpco K
Castoria
Winterer & Ritchie
Lawyers Valley City
N. DL
Theodore S. Lindland
Farmers’ and Merchante’ Bank
Minnesota
Thief River Falls
Minn
C. E. Johnson
Middlewest Bank
E. A. Pray
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