Germany Bankrupt in Religion and Morals
The piece argues German moral bankruptcy stems from failed religion and militarism. It links WWI to 1848 revolutions and praises the Forty-Eighters, urging US readers to support German democracy and spiritual renewal, trusting the true German spirit survives in that legacy.
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Fannie L. Lachmund
St. Louis
Ab Anderson
Germany
Prussia
Progressive Religion
Berlin
United States
Cerl Schurz
Fritz Hecker
America
Free sample of Boschee's German Syrup at Lemmon's Pharmacy
An advertisement invites adults with coughs colds or bronchitis to visit Lemmon's Pharmacy for a free sample bottle of Boschee's German Syrup. Marketed as a soothing healing remedy with fifty years of success promising a good night's rest and free morning ex pectoration. Available in all civilized countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lemmon's
Boschee
Advyt, Ay
July issue highlights and war era tales in magazines
The July Woman's Home Companion offers Kathleen Norris France after the war "Nineteen Thirty" and Marg ret Deland "Napoleon and Others" with Sophie Kerr and Sylvia Chatfield Bates stories. Plus "Oh Annice" by Alexine Heyland and Jimmie Preston tale by Mary Heaton Vorse. The Stars and Stripes cartoon by Louis Remaarkers and garden and salad features accompany fashion and gardening notes. The July American Magazine profiles Foghorn Macdonald who becomes a major at 57 after a long journey and Canadian enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
July Woman's Home Companion
Kathleen Norris
France
Margaret Deland
Napoleon
Sophie Kerr
Sylvia Chatfield Bates
Annice
Alexine Heyland
Foghorn Macedonald
Winnipeg
Foghorn
Ottawa
Macdonald
England
Hundreds of Nurses Enroll for Service in Red Cross Drive
Enrollment of graduate nurses for wartime service has surged sixfold since June 3 in the Central Division covering Illinois Michigan Wisconsin Iowa and Nebraska. Campaign leaders vow to continue until all graduates are offered enrollment and all nursing needs for soldiers and sailors are met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Iilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Army
Navy
Describes Joys of Army Life Abroad From Waterloo News
June 29 report from Waterloo Iowa describes an American soldier’s arrival in France and notes nurse Mildred Williamson among the first women to enlist, detailing hospital scenes and the era’s atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
France
Mildred Williamson
A Nurse Describes Allied Soldiers and Theatre Crowds
A nurse writes of soldiers in odd dress and a crowded theatre scene. She notes a American medic in mixed uniform and a forty man orchestra aging and lively, showing public behavior between acts. She praises U S troops’s fighting spirit and quick return to the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eign
United States
Lantern Fly Bright Insect Attracts Attention In South America
The lantern fly of South America is described as the most brilliant luminous insect. It can surpass two inches in length and features a curious head shape with a hollow transparent snout nearly as long as its body from which a lamplike light emanates.
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South America
Bible in Striking Tongues Promoted by Society
The British and Foreign Bible Society has translated the Bible into many foreign tongues with a daily reading in a new tongue for sixteen and a half months before exhausting the list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British and Foreign Bible Society
Islanders Once Pirates in Virgin Islands Findings
Archaeological work in the Virgin Islands shows ancient inhabitants of the islands conducted long canoe voyages and acted as pirates in search of loot. The region, once part of the Danish West Indies and now under U S control, yielded insights into precolonial piracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgin Islands
Danish West Indies
United States
Islands
Mass of Materials In Nest Described by Bigelow
Edward F. Bigelow discusses a finished oriole nest in Boys' Life. He notes a mass of tangled filaments strings and fibers and wonders how the first string was placed and the sequence of construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward F. Bigelow
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Budapest
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