Snowball and Kittens Meet Santa in Christmas Tale
In a whimsical Christmas scene Snowball the cat and three kittens tour the city during holiday week. They describe Santa sightings, request gifts, and admire a Christmas tree trimmed with tinsel while a girl helps fit Snowball with a collar bearing his name. The kittens Puff Kit seek stockings and playfully debate gifts as Snowball proudly wears his new tag.
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Fe Minster
Kit
Santa Claus
Snowball
Galt Patt
Patt
Puff
Scowball
Puffy
Putt
Shortened visit prompts quirky family exchange
A fond mother asks if the little girl from next door had a good time while the child answers uncertainly. The nurse said she could stay two hours, and the wise child hints at behavior on a road to a new encounter, ending with a playful note about punctuality.
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Maine
Ski Footwear Pushes Progress Despite Backward Slide
A Wisconsin inventor improves skis with a pivoted foot piece and a tilting dog that grips the ground with each step. The mechanism aims to propel the wearer forward as the toe pressure advances the ski, making walking on snow or ice feel automatic.
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Wisconsin
Mada
Utilizing the Spare Time The Pursuit
Youth's Companion urges that spare time be used for reading to shape a career. It argues idle moments waste potential, and only repeated readings of great books foster lasting wisdom and humanity. Reading should replace purposeless speculation with meaningful mental growth.
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Dickens
Shakespeare
Thackeray
Pastime Full of Laughter Game Description
A lively party game involves players standing close with hands behind their backs and passing a clothes brush. The center participant seeks to claim the brush, triggering a playful tug of war as others brush the back. The victor takes the brush and assumes the next center role.
Young Soldier Proves a Hero in War Deed
A French teen soldier Jean Berger of the Second Regiment of Infantry risks life to rescue his wounded colonel under heavy fire. He later returns to tend an English officer and a dying German, sharing wine and food amid shellfire, amid reports he may win the Victoria Cross.
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Great Britain
London
Daily Chronicle
Angers
Jean Berger
V. C
Jean
Upper
Alsace
River
Alene
Scatheless
Hall of Lead
Grenadier Guards
Red Cross
Hinglishman
Uhlans
Lttle
Ballant
Red Crosse
Guards
Bravery and Bond of War Unite Two Nations
Henri Roger, a wounded French infantryman, recalls a shared act of courage on the Aisne front. An English cyclist and two French riders fall, then another cyclist dies delivering a warning. A French officer awards the Englishman the Victoria Cross, praising the union of hearts and the wartime bond between English and French soldiers.
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Cyclist Corps
Henri Roger
Fifth Infantry
Aisne
Dash
Roger
Husker Thomas Captures Michigan Corn Harvest Record
P B Thomas of Grand Rapids claims the Michigan corn husking championship with 146 bushels in ten hours at R G Brumm’s farm near Nashville. He averaged 14.35 bushels per hour, best 16 bushels in 40 minutes, while his grandfather once husked 168 in ten hours. Brumm’s 15 acre field yielded 1,143 bushels at 140 per acre of Folsom yellow dent corn. Thomas plans to try to beat his records next year and may perform on vaudeville.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
P. B. Thomas
Michigan
R. G. Brumm
Nashville
Bury County
Thomas
W. H. Burd
Berlin sets to grow Irish potatoes in waste areas
The Germans of Berlin organize a society to cultivate Irish potatoes in waste places of the city unusable for other purposes. The effort aims to boost local food production and utilize neglected spaces for agriculture.
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Berlin
Self Lighting Cigar Spreads Among German Soldiers
Berlin reports self lighting cigars known as Streichbeelzer are now widely distributed to soldiers. These perfectos have match heads embedded in the end, reducing the need for external tools. The note adds a quip about those who take themselves too seriously being laughed at.
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Berlin
Passionate Assault Amid Fire Sweeps Soldiers Across
Paris reports a dramatic scene where exhausted troops press an enemy line. A soldier’s sudden fit of fury, comic intensity, and wild laughter turns the tide, with steel and zeal driving a fierce charge beyond mere courage. Machines falter before this living flood of wrath.
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Paris
Tempéya
Gans
French Horse Talk: Language Hurdles in War-Era Britain
A quirky tale on British and French horse talk during war time notes English cavalry horses failing to heed French commands. It argues that animals respond to tone more than articulation, with differences in carter cries and regional speech. It compares dog comprehension and explains French animal vocatives, like calling a cat Mimi instead of Puss.
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France
England
Tellz
Sulvials
Mimi
Aeroplanes of Russian Make and Wartime Self Sufficiency
Sukhomlinoff built up Russia’s arms and cartridge factories within borders and established a central laboratory for new mechanisms and explosives. He founded a military aviation school and pushed aero plane manufacture, making Russia self reliant in air power. He also created an army automobile corps for rapid transport, underscoring foresight and national defense efficiency.
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Sukhomlinoff
Russia
Fretelas
Rusels
Sakhom- Hinoff
Car assembled in seven minutes shocks governor visit
An automobile maker boasted assembling a complete car in about seven minutes during a governor's visit to his plant. Weeks later reporters asked if the feat was true, and the owner confirmed it with a wry remark that he had the car.
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Atate
The
Cada Inquirer
Crocodiles Live Tongue Tied In Ancient Survival Tale
The article notes crocodiles as survivors of a vanished epoch and compares them to ancient saurians. It mentions a crocodile living in the embassy garden at Mutwa in Ceylon, claimed to be 155 years old, with uncertain capture age.
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Tong
Embassy Garden
Mutwa
Ceylon
Granite coat absorbs moisture study notes
A coat made of granite, though not comfortable, could be storm proof. Granite sheets are flexible but absorb moisture. The Dakota Geological Survey reports a cubic yard of granite immersed would take up about four gallons of water.
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Daastaten Geological Survey
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