Veneration and Awe of the Kaiser Bred in German People
The Kaiser commands body and soul loyalty and Germans are portrayed as willing vassals. The author describes public worship, the military spirit in civil life, and widespread support despite war crimes. He recalls personal instances of crowds, teachers guiding patriotism, and police power shaping society, noting skepticism only in a few exceptions. The piece critiques national traits like selfishness, class divisions, and graft-free policing before the war.
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Potsdam
Germany
Kaiser
sAnxius
Tiergarten
Police
Tax
Customs
Army
Berlin
Breslau
Count von Wienerschnitze
Europe
Eastvorl
Maine
Grove City
Poland
Prusia
A. Genix
Hysteria University
U.S. 4
German thrift and stinginess contrasted with courtesy
A reader asserts thrift and generosity are foreign to Germans and notes a personal observation. He recalls gifting his wife fur sets during Christmas, only to learn the hostess sought a commission from the furrier. The anecdote starkly illustrates perceived German stinginess and lack of chivalry.
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Junkers
Fife
Germany in Wartime Told Through an Officer’s Eye
A veteran recounts personal front-line encounters with American shells and a savage melee in which a revolver saved his life. He notes German officers prized American sidearms and dum-dum bullets against Russian sharpshooters. The piece also surveys German public opinion, press control, and propaganda shaping wartime morale, with critique of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s peace overture and its political aim at home.
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United States
Lusitania
Americs
Germany
Zasper
der Zeitung
Servia
Houmania
Roumania
Berlin
Dresden
Bavaria
Brandenburg
John Thili
John Bull
Kaiser
Ture
Tims
Prince von Pless
Kalser
Stockholm
Towle Wounded in Action and Soldier Letters From France
The item reports Lieut. I. A. Towle jr being wounded by a shell on the Marne and in base hospital No. 1 Paris. It includes Towle’s July 28 letter describing a brutal combat day, evacuation progress to Paris, and impressions of nurses, Pershing, Roosevelt, and Mrs Towle. It also notes extracts from Stars and Stripes and other readers’ letters from France, with a mix of war anecdotes and morale notes.
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Rhe Towle
A. Towle, Jr
Cherry
Second Street
West
Marne
Lie
Cll. Chambers
Gre Marne
Paria
Vichy
Mediterranean Sea
Bocie
Aly
Becke
Frandardiers
Fran
Paris
Base Hospital
Floctar
Archie Roosevelt
Ivan R. Powers
Twenty-eighth Infantry
France
L. B. Powers
Ilka
Red Cross
Salvation Army
Mother reunites with son at Camp Grant battlefield
A North East Pennsylvania mother found her son, Ray Dempsey, in a Camp Grant tent colony for draft evaders after seven years apart. Dempsey, among 104 men sentenced for anti draft activity, had served time at Bridewell and Fort Sheridan before being stationed at Camp Grant. The mother hopes his return to the uniform will prove a turning point in his views as two brothers are dead and she values his life over prior beliefs. The Amazon River, noted for carrying the most water, runs 3300 to 3600 miles with width from a few thousand feet to over 100 miles at the mouth.
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Camp Grant
Northast
Ray Dempsey
Dempsey
Bridewell
K. M. Landis
Beck County
Fort Sheridan
Fie
Amazon
Mysterious message tied to bird's leg found in Albany
In Albany Oregon a California desert quail with a decipherable coded message tied to its leg was found. The leaf paper, weathered by the elements, bore letters and numbers separated by dashes on an olive drab ring. Mrs Henry Powell of Jefferson collected the bird which died from exhaustion. ornithologists say the bird is a quail and not a carrier pigeon.
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Albany
Ore
California
Jefferson
Henry Powell
Graveyard Gardens Tap McKeesport War Effort
In McKeesport Pennsylvania the war garden campaign has turned the town’s cemetery into a planting space. Vacant graveyard lots are being prepared and planted with liberty lettuce and watermelons as part of the war effort, surpassing other local sites in availability.
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Mckeesport
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Waterloo Evening Courier
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