Exile narrative of a millionaire’s daughter with father
Fortier Jones in the Century recounts a French exile in Russia where a fourteen year old daughter travels with her wealthy father to escape loneliness. The girl, bright with brown eyes and curls, endures a dreary village life as her mother joins later. Her lineage includes Rouget de Lisle and Mme Curie.
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Russia
Fortier Jones
Tovaia
Aalilionaire
Kleff
Rouget de Lisle
Cuba
Marseillais
Thera
Mme. Curie
Ancient Animal Habits and Millennium Misinterpretations
A fragmentary passage links animal behavior to ancestral environments with notes on sheep, hogs, dogs, and cats tied to mountains and forests. It then discusses millennial theology, citing Revelations 20 and 19 and noting various proposed dates for the millennium as speculation by different interpreters.
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Tiger
Satan
Christ
Still
Bengel
Miller
Cumming
Mormor Church
Humdrum Life of Air Thrills on the Western Front
A nineteen year old American airman, recovering in Blighty from a machine gun wound, recounts a dull day on the western front. He recalls chasing Fritz under clouds, an ambush, a damaged aircraft, and a wounded arm, then defends the larger war against bombing civilians while offering to buy a drink.
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Western Front
Regan
Jouda
Lizzie
Liz
Fritz
Reverence as Foundation of Education Says Amelia Tarr
Amelia B. Tarr argues that true education starts with reverence for God and moral virtues. She asserts a child taught to revere honesty justice mercy truth awe and courage will be steady and guided like a ship with rudder compass and captain. The article emphasizes moral formation before imaginative development.
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Amelia B. Tarr
Gang
Hely
Bret
Pige Feed on Nut Trees in Morocco and LA Times
A Los Angeles Times snippet notes pigs and goats climb argan nut trees near Agadir to reach olive shaped nuts. The tree’s broad flat trunk and horizontal branches provide footholds for animals despite the steep hillside habitat.
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Los Angeles Times
Agadir
Teens Run Away to Visit Soldiers From Madison
Two 18 and 17 year old girls from Madison Wisconsin, Maude and Marie, left with $10 to visit soldier sweethearts in Texas. They rode hidden in a box car and blind bag until stranded near Peoria Illinois, were picked up by police, and are in detention with their fathers. Maude’s father, recovering from a broken leg, had saved the coal money.
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Madison
Wis
Peoria
Marie Shadel
Princeville
Maude
Waco
Tex
Ax Herbert Ward
Company
Ben Niewhelski
Wisconsin and
Box Cary
Blind Bag Ag
Mande
Moorehaven Woman Mayor Fines Herself Ten Dollars
Mrs. John J. O'Brien, Moorehaven Ta, mayor, fined herself ten dollars after a horse strayed from its corral and trampled garden beds, reflecting a quirky local incident and self-imposed penalty.
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John J. O'Brien
Moorehaven
Gardena
France Sends One of Her Fighting Priests
Father Souris of the diocese of Paris arrived with the permanent French commission to speak to Americans about the religious view of the world catastrophe and the trench fighting unrest. He bears every decoration for bravery and devotion and carries scars from many battles.
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Father Souris
Paris
France
Frightfulness by Briton in Lausanne
A London headed tale from Lausanne describes an English man and woman angrily confronting a German couple in a Paris or Swiss restaurant. The German woman wore a jeweled brooch inscribed Gott Strate. Ebg Jana as the English diners denounced the affront in French and the incident escalated with the couple tossing tomatoes at the Germans, drawing laughter from other patrons and prompting departure.
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Lausanne
Jana
Walter
Mimsel
Sirl Bank President Leads Cleveland Institution
Fannie Kochiman, seventeen, appointed president of a Cleveland bank with 650 depositors and capital of 155.58 dollars. The depositors join the Council Baventional Alliance as plans develop to buy the bank.
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Cleveland
Fannie Kochiman
Council Baventional Alliance
Lr Mene
Aber Ta
Newlyweds Dine On Stew With Own Hands
Wifey Freshly-Weda prepares a dainty stew for husband Ben Freshly-Wedd using seven frank furters oysters pickled herring and oddingredients. She adds salt pepper olive oil nutmeg Saratoza chips saltmon and bitter chocolate. Ben returns home praising the aroma. Doctor Filster arrives three hours later. Query who was the patient and why.
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Ben
American Manners of Today in the Age of Courtesy
Robert Grant argues in Yale Review that modern society favors rushed efficiency over old fashioned courtesy. He notes travelers who take seats first and a public indifferent to deference between generations and genders. The essay questions whether independence and equality can exist without social graces.
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Robert Grant
Yale Review
United States
The Middlemen and the Price of Food
A satirical verse from the Utica Globe comments on middlemen in food markets. It contrasts a farmer near the River Dee with a hungry boarder in Tennessee and a lime grower and fruit buyer in New York, arguing prices rise because of multiple intermediaries. The poem uses rustic voices to critique profiteering and calls for fair pricing.
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Dee
Tennessee
Rocky Ridge
New York
Noo Yawk
Utica Globe
Curious burial customs of Mesopotamia described
In Mesopotamia the dead are carried to graves in ordinary clothes with faces uncovered. Bodies lay in shallow graves then are dug up, bones collected in white linen bags and placed in small buildings. An officer notes seeing a bag labeled with a woman’s name in a church. Nearby village bone torehouses hold bags. recent ones are white and whole, older ones faded or rotted.
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Mesopotamia
RALM
Struma
Boy tests mother over candy before downtown trip
A small boy teases his mother for candy during preps for a downtown trip. She warns him she will buy candy only if it fits. After several ventures in and out of stores, the boy asks if she has found her fit yet, highlighting a domestic moment with humor.
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Claude
Kaiserism Laid Bare by German War Pamphlet Exposé
A four page German pamphlet by Dr Karl Liebknecht charges the Kaiser government with inciting war through suppression of Belgian resistance and czarist messages, the rape of Belgium Luxembourg and other wartime crimes. It asserts German policy relies on martial law and class oppression, calls for international socialist struggle to end the war and establish peace.
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Washington
Publc
Karl Liebkknecht
Belgium
Luxemburg
Lusitania
Germany
Ts Set Congvant
Beri
Crete
Peter Fese
Avery
Courant
Ghal
Zimmerman
Sir Roger Casement
Degade
Germian
Catpe
Afen Elilians
Agate Tele
Prine
Ene
Stuttgart
Copenhaen
Whr
Sthuttgart
Young Brooklyn six year old tops local Red Cross knitters
Little Edith Riggs daughter of Mr and Mrs Riggs of Brooklyn New York is the youngest knitter registered with the local Red Cross. She has already knit several sweaters for the boys abroad and won a knitting bag for learning to halt in a practical way. She is pictured at work on a blanket for a wounded soldier, spending all her play time on this work.
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Edith Riggs
Bf. Riggs
Brooklyn
N. Y
Red Cross
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