Slang Taking Root in British Army and War Diet Talk
A London dispatch notes a flood of new soldiers slang in the British army amid war. A hospital orderly describes terms like Singles to Woning and going to the pictures, alongside faux punchlines about danger pay and coffin fears. The piece also compares American slang influence and cites a Creole rice recipe as a wartime staple to combat hunger and high living costs.
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New Orleans
London
Tommy
Atkins
Ohio Highway Sees Heavy Travel Between Cleveland and Akron
A 40 mile stretch of highway between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio, carried heavy traffic for a two hour period, including 17 loaded trucks over five tons and many passenger cars. The record road, built for heavy travel and paved with brick, remains the nation’s longest straight improved route.
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Cleveland
Akron
Ohio
United States
Goodrich Rubber
Campaign to cut purchase costs for merchants and customers
A plan aims to reduce store purchases by about four percent by negotiating deliveries to customers and removing delivery charges. Newton D Baker’s wife was tasked to form committees to present the idea to Washington merchants. The proposal rests on shared delivery cost reduction and mutual cooperation between merchants and customers.
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Rhode Land Avenue
Newton D Baker
Washington
Lle
Ashe
The Wheel Aided Civilization in Historical View
A writer argues the wheel is civilization’s cornerstone predicting a world without it would halt progress. Without wheel transport and machinery would collapse. timekeeping would revert to sundials and hourglasses. The author praises the wheel’s inventor as a monumental contributor to human progress.
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H&hceforth
Anmeri
Cdi
Adam
Patient Alice Foster in habeas corpus case
In District Supreme Court Carolyn Riddle Loste seeks release from St Elizabeth s Hospital. Counsel McLanaghan Burton obtained a writ set to be heard next Wednesday. Petition says jury disagreed and a medical authority deems the patient of sound mind.
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St Elizabeth S Tospital
Alice Foster
District Supreme Court
Carolyn Riddle Loste
Takoma Park
McLanaghar & Burton
Tne
Lad Saves Drowning Girls at Rehoboth Beach
Seaton Maynadier, son of the late G B Maynadier, heard cries from Miss Mary Hooper and Miss Alice Poole off Rehoboth Beach Delaware and rescued them from the surf using a lifeboat. A Parisian inventor has created an instrument to play three records simultaneously to boost phonograph volume.
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Rehoboth Beach
del Beyeeral
Seaton Maynadier
Millionaire's Nephew Ends Life After Letter Hope
Solomon Guggenheim a San Francisco tobacco merchant and nephew of Leon Guggenheim killed himself with a razor at the Hotel Grenoble in New York after receiving a forgiving letter from his uncle. He left about 60 cents of his fortune and a copy of Romero and Juliet on his dresser. The prior day the uncle urged him to start anew and work up again, but despondency returned, leading to the tragic act. Special to the Washington Post from Hyattsville Md reports also note Holy Name Society meetings in Washington and a Transvaal marriage statistic.
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Outre Nelogiems
Beth
Mit
New York
Solomon Guggenheim
San Francisco
Leon Guggenheim
Imperial On Company
Sevesiata
Guggenheim
Grenoble
Guggenheims
Leo
Bob
Lfe
Washington Post
Hyattsville
St Jerome’s Catholic Church
Washington
The
Holy Name Society
Washington Union
P C Gavin
William A Brooks
Father Carew
St Jeromes
John Hadley Doyle
M J Driscoll
Kaiser in Second Place Amid German Political Turmoil
The article argues Kaiser Wilhelm II is eclipsed by Crown Prince and military leaders as Ludwig von Michalis charts an autocratic course. It predicts a possible military dictatorship under Von Hindenburg, with control over policy and administration through the junta and Chancellor Michaelis, sidelining parliament and constitutional norms.
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Michaelis
Prince Bismarck
Reichstag
Bismarck
George Michaelin
von Hindenburg
von Luden
Chantellor
Michaelis II
Ritalin
Detroova
Cormitt
William
Bethmann Holme
Iseanv
Vierra
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Ted
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Triplex Phonograph
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