British Soldiers Hide and Seek Through Nine Months Behind German Lines
Six British soldiers who slipped through Belgian and German lines after Mons recount nine months in France and Belgium as fugitives. They describe avoiding capture, living in barns and fields, surviving on pears and milk, and disguising in civilian clothes while evading German patrols before reaching Holland.
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Rotterdam
Holland
Mons
France
Belgium
James Carrighan
Jamieson
Jenkins
Carrighan
Will Leaves Entire Estate to Westminster Church
David Kribs of Washington Indiana left his whole estate valued at about 2900 dollars to the Westminster Presbyterian church in his will. Kribs and his wife were devoted church members and he taught a Sunday school class for forty years, walking several miles in winter to attend.
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Washington
Ind
David Kribs
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Kribs
Bargain Day at Flushing Jewelry Stand
Flushing New York hosts a dollar day with shaves cuts shampoos and massages offered at bundled prices. Six shaves two haircuts two shampoos and three massages sold for one dollar drawing shoppers and attention to the local celebration.
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Flushing
N. Y
Big Haul by Joe Martin From Louisiana Angling Tale
Joe Martin of Smith, Louisiana hauled 36 large mouth bass in two trips using a string line and minnows but with an eel bait incident. He hooked a five inch trout then pulled up 19 bass after a fierce struggle. The eel snared by the gills helped string the bass as they swallowed it. He then repeated and recovered 17 more bass in 41 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Global Happenings Highlight War, Finance, and Politics
World news briefs cover a trade balance surpassing a billion dollars, German submarine actions with American casualties, naval reform debates, and political tensions in the United States. Reports mention prison unrest, high-profile attacks, and Wilson era events across Europe and America.
Mind Unbalanced Holt's Wife Seeks Calm After Morgan Shooting
Mrs. Frank Holt, in Dallas, says she believes her husband shot J. P. Morgan and doubts he placed a Capitol bomb. She describes him as devoted to family and notes possible temporary insanity or mental breakdown. Rev. Sensabaugh, Holt's father-in-law, cites Holt's good record and concerns over his state of mind.
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Adirondack
Trout Pond
Treasury Department
Reading Company
Warden Osborne
New Penology
Sing Sing
Pope
France
Huerta
el Paso
Ngeme Becker
Whitman
Senate
Washington
Berlin
Harwich
England
Nancy
Retiremont
Russia
Villa
Obregon
Frank Holt
J. P. Morgan
Muenter
Jane Addams
Europe
America
John B. Riley
Osborne
Howard Elliott
New Haven Road
Queenstown
Dallas
Tex
National Capitol
Frank
O. F. Sensabaugh
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Mr. Morgan
New York
Martin Littleton
Cornell
Southern Methodist University
Harvard
Holt
Weary Willie Lookalike Is Placed Behind Bars
Peter Paris, an Italian man resembling a weary Willie from comic pages, was arraigned in Justice Torrey's court for vagrancy and pleaded guilty. He received 65 days in the Detroit house of correction after being arrested for begging from farmers near Mount Morris. He wore a tattered overcoat and four undercoats along with multiple worn trousers and oversized shoes. He told the sheriff he was walking back to Italy. He could speak little English.
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Flint, Mich
Peter Paris
Willie
Italy
Mount Morris
Thief Breaks Window to Grasp Mock Money
In San Francisco a Pacific Hardware window displayed counterfeit and genuine notes alongside patent razors. One man stared long enough to act by breaking the plate glass, reaching inside, touching the money, recognizing its worthlessness, and returning it.
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San Francisco
Pacific Hardware Company
Prisoners May Fish At Indiana Penal Farm
Greencastle Indiana trustees plan a fish pond at the state penal farm. Deer creek runs through the farm and will be stocked with game fish. The trustees say prisoners will have recreation and fishing will be as good as any.
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Greencastle
Ind
Deer Creek
Wedding Rice and Shoes Ban at St Henry's Church
In Bayonne New Jersey the reception of weddings at the new 200000 church will be restricted. Pastor Rev Peter E Reilly said he did not want the pew church mussed up by rice and old shoes.
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Sing Sing
Albany
New Jersey
St Mary's Park
New York
Joseph Pulitzer
Bayonne
N. J
St. Henry’s
Peter E. Reilly
Get your tenant leases at the Mail Office
Public notice invites residents to pick up tenant lease documents at the Mail Office. The item emphasizes required papers for renters and location details for retrieval.
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Big Haul
Joe Martin
Globe
Board of Estimates
Rudolf Malik
Wilson
President Wilson
Mineola
Charles Arthur Conant
Cuba
Mexico City
Evelyn Nesbit
Calais
Riley
Johnston Forbes Robertson
Weary Willie
Detroit
Frank P. Walsh
Seattle Employers’ Association
Federal Commission of Industrial Relations
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Carver House
Erie
Presque Isle Bay
Pennsylvania
Waldameer
Four-mile Creek
Warren
Pennsylvania Railroad
Penn’a Avenue
East
Warren, Penn’a
Buffalo
Cleveland
Cedar Point
Put-in-Bay
Toledo
C. & B. Line
Ixterior
Seeandeee
Cleveland & Buffalo Transit CO
Ohio
Jo Sungaw
JO Lua
Sivamy
Yousiy
Aininsep
Sulsovons
Uoltbidoss
Warren Mail
Bermuda
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