Kaiser's Frightfulness and Health Warnings in Wartime
A 1917 column discusses German brutality under the Kaiser and the global fear it inspires. It warns of communicable diseases spread by soldiers and prisoners, urging personal health vigilance and fewer home doctors to prevent epidemics as American forces mobilize.
Frankfurter Zeitung Reports T A President Speak on German State
The Frankfurter Zeitung notes T A, while serving as President, proposed creating a German state in South America. The newspaper hints the story may lead to a new initiation into the Ananias Club.
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Frankfurter Zeitung
T. A
South America
The
Zeitung
Stor
Ananias Club
Mrs Hicks Celebrates 55 Years as Sunday School Teacher
Mrs Tysaac Hicks of Blairswille Pa marks fifty five years of continuous service as a Sunday school teacher. The note praises her dedication and long tenure in the church education program.
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Tysaac Hicks
Blairswile
Heck
Slogans Stir Nation for Big Loan Bonds
Fragments present a World War era propaganda collection urging financial support through Liberty Bonds with phrases attacking the Kaiser, encouraging lending, and portraying public sacrifice as patriotic. Text includes varied imperatives and satirical jabs about funding the war effort.
Gems of Them
Nearly all artificial gems today are compounds of alum and crystallized under special conditions. The metallic salts added during fusion determine the tones produced such as sapphires rubies or topazes amethysts or emeralds.
Foreign Municipalities And Governments Add to Revenue With Side Lines
Various governments and cities augment income through quirky ventures. Paris profits from the Luxemburg gardens state orchard and the Eiffel Tower receipts. Palermo commercializes mountain snow for refrigerating sales. The Greek government profits from a playing cards monopoly. Russia profited by taxing junk after seizing old iron and shell remnants post Crimea.
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Paris
Luxemburg Gardens
Eiffel Tower
Palermo
Sebastopol
A Friend in Need from the Seaside
An Irish seaport scene tells of a Newfoundland dog and a mastiff fighting on a pier then falling into the sea. The Newfoundland swims to shore and, seeing the mastiff drowning, rescues him by towing him to safety. The act earns them lasting friendship and quiets quarrels between dogs.
Athletic activity to surge in camps and colleges says Raycroft
Princeton professor Dr. Joseph E. Raycroft predicts a year of unprecedented athletic activity in army training camps and says colleges have not abandoned athletics. He notes 800 of Princeton’s 1,600 students enlisted for war service, limiting intercollegiate competition while favoring training and fitness programs.
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Joseph E. Raycroft
Department of Physical Science
Princeton
Doctor Raycroft
War Department
Commission
Mabs Trench
Cynic quotes and marriage witticisms from a newspaper column
A collection of aphorisms includes a remark that happiness depends on inner state, another about a grandfather’s influence, and a quip on marrying an orphan and avoiding blame from the wife’s mother.
Uncle Sam Calls in a Fifty Dollar Loan
A speaker addresses a son as Uncle Sam asks for help with a small favor. He recalls freedoms, schooling, and national duties, urging the youth to prove themselves as a man and shoulder a billion in support if needed. The speaker notes the burden and the choice to respond.
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Sam
Sgehter
My Patriotism
A man recalls advising a friend's son who joins the Spanish War effort. He admires the boy's mother and learns his own patriotism is an affectation. He vows to support the war financially to honor the mother, the father, and the boy he regards as a son, even after his fighting days are over.
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Lawton
Philippines
United States
Germany
Four Languages May Govern the World in a Century
The article notes estimates of world languages from over four thousand to a possible collapse to four dominant tongues. It cites Emperor Francis Joseph using many tongues in a hospital and discusses dialect variety in Brazil Mexico Borneo and Australia. It envisions German English Spanish and Russian as future global leaders shaping a European Asian federation.
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Francis Joseph
Red Cross
Brazil
Mexico
Borneo
Australia
Central
Europe
North American
Eastern
Central Asia
Dixie Fruit Works Turns Wintermeltons Into Sirup and Feed
The Dixie Fruit Products company processes wintermeltons into sirup and stock feed in the old Mobile Alabama brewery. Plans call for installation of machinery to make vinegar.
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Dixie Fruit Products Company
Mobile
Ala
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