Seeadler Raider’s Pacific Cruise and Seventeen Ships Captured
Navy records recount the Seeadler raider’s 1917 exploits from Bremen to the Pacific. Captain Smith of the Slade describes boarding the raider at sea, the crew’s capture and rescue efforts, and the fate of the passengers and prisoners including nine taken from the A. B. Johnson, Manila, and Manila’s destruction.
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Atlantic
Bremen
Seeadler
Highland Scout
Smith
Pacific
Slade
Sydney
Key
Felix Graf von Luckner
A. B. Johnson
San Francisco
Manila
Nila
Mopeha
Kling
Lutece
Tahiti
Pago Pago
Fiji Islands
Mopeha Island
Mark Twain Refuses Fee for Grant Lecture
Mark Twain declined to accept the $1000 fee offered by Gen. Fred Grant for a Robert Fulton Monument lecture. He explained he stopped talking for pay years ago and preferred to speak for instruction and moral upheaval without compensation. He mused about Fulton and historical details, asking Grant to verify facts, calling them historical gems of the first water.
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Fred Grant
Mark Twain
Robert Fulton Monument Association
Twain
Grant
Robert Fulton
Paul Jones
Horace Porter
Porter
Lake Bronze Age Villages Built on Piles Across Water
A correspondent describes lake dwellings from the bronze age built on wood piles driven into lake beds. Large trunks formed a platform with clay binding, huts rose from wattle walls and clay coats, and a causeway with drawbridges connected the village to shore. The Lake Constance site reportedly used 50 000 piles.
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Lake Constance
Strange Adoptions by Cats Describe an Unusual Litter Swap
A cat and a female fox terrier that shared litters swapped their newborn young. The cat raised the dog puppies while the dog reared the kittens. Both litters were healthy at weaning and the reason for this abnormal conduct remains unknown.
Wisdom from leisure and our other selves
The old Hebrew sage says wisdom springs from leisure and urges sanctifying small Sabbaths. If 24 hours of rest is unavailable, ten minutes can refresh hidden selves, with no work in that time. The world must protect the self that seeks happiness and freedom as declared in the Declaration.
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S. M. Crothers
Give Cheerfulness a Chance Phrase
The passage argues cheerfulness is rare among the rich and even before Browning it was scarce as many live in quiet desperation. It urges openness to cheerfulness when possible and dismisses the value of philosophers over a positive disposition.
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Browning
Thoreau
The
Atlantic Monthly
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Warren, Penna
Warren Trust Company
Citizens National Bank
Warren
Pennsylvania
Warren National Bank
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Security and Service
Warren Mail
Navy Department
Clever Rose
Housekeeping
Ton
Doty
Mestic
Bissell Vacuum Cleaner
Oles
Diane Guerns
Razors Coryne TV
Shel
Ior
Pickett Hardware CO
Third Avenue
Hickory Street
Fklds
Bell Telephone CO
John O. Beam
City
Erie
City OF
Gaffalo
Perwon
Buffalo
Cleveland
Cedar Point
Put-in
Buffalo ‘Transit Company
Cleveland, Ohio
Seeandeep
Burrstoy
Toledo
Detroit
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