How the Enemy Stands in the Last Phase of War
Belloc analyzes Allied and Central Powers strengths and weaknesses across land and sea. He argues Western powers hold superior strategy and rail mobilization, while the Central Powers lag in production and manpower. Maritime supply lines threaten Allied lines, yet spring mobilization could tilt the balance. He warns of potential German offensives before summer and urges public resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Situ Ton Ta
Tlare
Westerk
Thor
Ham Essen
Okeel
Fie
Ayalan
Tau
Velag
Loerlug
Agaiiust
Oversea
Britain
al- Hel
Cartinge
Btarvathan
Straits of Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Arctic
Lommige
How We Saved For A Home And Built A Family House
A first marriage recounts frugal life to save for a home. The narrator notes earning thirty dollars monthly, mortgage taxes and upkeep consuming wages, and sacrifices such as skipping meals and avoiding doctor visits. Despite hardship, they funded parlor doors, windows, and a porch, planning to own their home in the near future.
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Tom
Grim Discovery of a Woman Walled in Closet
The regent death of Lady Vane prompts a strange tale. Ghostly noises echo through her house until she uncovers a hidden closet and a sealed cavity containing a Bible, a broken waterboltia and human bones. Sir Henry Vane and Lady Vane learn from the Bible date that a woman was once walled up in the closet. They bury the bones in the cemetery and the disturbances end.
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Lady Vane
Sir Henry Vane
Vone
Vandthorsupen
Sirbury
Themealves
Eluecyard
Jesse
Auction romance over Milton copy sold for 176 at Christ Church
Mr Fr Green a wine merchant of 30 Cornhill recounts buying a first edition Paradise Lost from a 1665 title page bound copy with coroners and family signatures. He paid six pence and later sold the lot at Cha sale. The Tercentenary exhibit at Christ Church Cambridge featured the book before its sale for 176.
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FR. Green
Cornhill
At & Country
Stoop
Hobl
Sy Séaves
Christ Church College
Dear Wille Story Ends With Daddy Collapsing
A breakfast scene unfolds as a seven year old asks to mail a stamp and a man reads aloud a child’s letter from a “Kind stork story” to her brother. The moment triggers a collapse as the tale ends with the father fainting.
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Daddy
Wiittle
Blood Stark
Aml
Brother Walle
Lille
Wille
Government Hotels in the Northern Territory
A critical expose condemns the Commonwealth Government owned hotels in Darwin and argues they fail morally and financially. The piece cites drunkenness, poor conditions, and mismanagement under government ownership, contrasting with private operators and urging reform or transfer to local control.
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Northern Territory
AleMohou
J. Newlands
Territory
Park Darwittin
Commonwealth
Stuator
Labor
Australia
Western Australia
White
Aword
Whl
Newlands
Lands Department
Darein
Govarnmant Owned
Botela
Darwin
Hewrs
Miers
Darwin Katela
Len
Charles Dickens
Darnhy
Bormand Dar
Commonwealth of Australia
Europe
Jocal
British Empire
Senmor
Iltile
Darvin
Grogeshop
Gommemweslt of
Auschliat
Andari
Oudre
Bua
Victoria
Gold hoarding hysteria shocks London workers and bankers
A fragmentary London article details a widespread fear of gold hoarding by workers and many classes, with complaints to police about hidden riches and calls for war loan measures. It notes women from respectable families secretly saving gold, MPs discussing the gilt, and Treasury moves to curb gold coin circulation while warning against exchanging gold for notes.
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London
Gloria
Aoleigh
Chistes
Todd
Poelsts Ltd
Pold Sovereign
Silvar
Coper
Critis Scanomists
Kunane City Star Mystery Hitched To Acorn Tale
An odd, incomplete quote from Kunane City Star features Torker Mornbank discussing a mysterious climb and a sleep atop an acorn. The garbled text suggests a colorful, humorous local snippet with vague events and names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torker Mornbank
Kunane City
Humorous War Time Snippets From the Colony Club and Odd Anecdotes
A garbled collage of wartime social quips and stray anecdotes. A Bronx cocktail remark, Beatrice Herford monologue, a humorous auction tale ending in cheque reconstruction, a banana skin joke, ragtime chatter by Irving Berlin, a sailor’s Egyptian escapade, and a camel misadventure near Lake Victoria Myansa. Includes playful exchanges and sensational misprints from a bustling column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colony Club
Bronx
Beatrice Herford
Jim
Breaty
Remarkable copper miner survivor in medical tale
A Sydney hospital article recounts a Cobar copper miner who fell 180 feet, endured multiple fractures and a long travel to Sydney. He never lost consciousness, prompting awe at his endurance and the surgeon’s reflections on resilience amid injury.
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Hern
Font
Golaz
Lake Victoria
Tha Gatlenl
Cobar
Sol
Athera Wan
Theo
Jia
Cove
Sydneys
Sydney Hospital
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Lim
Sara Ua
Stallang
Isonzo
Nicanna-Verona
Trentino
Raleases
Wren
Ile
Biin
Dig
Government Hotels
Tho. J. McMahon
Suinay Mall
Ammret
Ilphis
Oaud
McVonver
Ceorge
Syidner “Bystaunder
Londen Bystander
Irving Berlin
Honolulu
Swolley Fortunes
Ting
Kay Dyan
Boeing
Rom Bamawm
Dendiga
Jonge
Pep Cent
Pummerying
Portsmouth
Gib
Suez
Adee
Jiner
Meror
Traina
Rome
Delpium
Weever
Heys
Afather
Bia Con
N.Z
Amérthen
Prouesia
Glanfurd
Omecer
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