Red Cross Aids French Refugees From War’s Depths
A Red Cross mission shines in Evian and frontier stations aiding Belgian children and exhausted refugees from northern France. It screens, feeds, wards off disease, and restores villages and agriculture, while Pershing and Petain align to extend home services to every soldier’s family.
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War Council
American Red Cross
Paris
Red Cross
Evian
France
Belgium
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Rainer
Redross
Evinn
Nour
Peters
Ife
General Pershing
General Petain
M. BP. Murphy
Mr. White
Bomb Raid by Shell Light in Night Attack Overwartime Front
The Cornhill Magazine depicts a dusk raid in France by British and German trench forces. Infantry emerge through wire as shells rise, the bombardment wanes, then a ferocious assault bursts from the front line. Raiders push through, many fall, stretcher bearers move the wounded, and dugouts surrender or are bombed as strong parties hold the line.
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France
Cornhill
Boyd Cable
Perhaut
Front Line
New writing implement blends wax and pumice with ink
A writer reports William C. Geer of Akron Ohio has invented a wax and pumice writing device replacing pens pencils and crayons. The body wears away on paper enabling ink cells to be exposed for a uniform ink supply. Upon heating and sudden cooling the material forms a cellular ink filled structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William C. Geer
Akron
Popular Science Monthly
Soldier Scrapbooks in Wartime Journals Begin in England
Kipling started scrapbooks for wounded soldiers in England, inspiring the creation of Sammie’s scrapbook. The idea spreads as soldiers receive jokes and pictures to lift morale during service.
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Sammie
Kipling
England
Tommy
Pompous Artists in New York Blame Death on Self
A fragmentary report describes two actors in New York who mockingly blamed a death on themselves. The text references a figure named Arthur and his severed vein, with unclear context and nonstandard phrasing.
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New York
Amd
Arthur
Point of View from a Bed Carrier
A fragment from a 19th century dialogue shows an Irish laborer bed carrier named Mike engaging with a contractor. The men joke about fairness in life, noting a brother and a bed to carry, with humorous exchanges about hardship and division.
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Mike
Let Go The Colt Or Ride The Wave Coastal Rescue
The Huester clung to a swimming colt as three people fatigued by the current tried to reach shore. A spectator urged letting go of the colt while others urged safety, highlighting the risky maritime moment and humor amid danger.
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Huester
Toa
Cuticura Ointment Skin Care Ad Teaser
An old advertising blurb promotes Cuticura Ointment for gentle daytime and nightly use. It markets a routine of applying the ointment and washing with Cuticura Soap, urges daily skin care, and offers a free sample by mail with a book, directing readers to Cuticura Dept L Boston.
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Tve
Cuticura
Dept. L
Bostom
Adv
New Hamburg Industry Converts Milk To Galalith
A new industry in Hamburg converts milk into a hard pale material called galalith. The substance imitates ivory tortoise shell and celluloid, resists burning, is odorless, polishes well and can be colored. It is made into toilet articles buttons dominoes dice chess figures piano keys and electrical fittings.
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Hamburg
Foods That Energize and Saving Habits
Foods that energize include cereals bread and butter corn breads white and sweet potatoes cream and wholesome fats and sweets. Those who do not save end up in poorhouses as people believed they cannot take money with them. All evils blamed on the war are attributed to weather.
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American Red Cross
France
Red Cross
Wishard
Willam Allen White
General Pershing
Washington
Mr. Wishard
Verdun
The Wonder of Cookery and Other Humors
A fragmentary column presents quirky classroom scenes and jokes from Youth's Companion. A pupil copies a fruit punch recipe listing odd ingredients including lettuce and paprika. Satirical lines reference pine tree seeds sent to France for reforestation and light exchanges about gender and daily life.
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Scotland
France
What Father Said in Sunday School
A Sunday school class discussed food conservation. A child recalls his father’s blessing, quoting the father as saying before meals not to hug, and noting “that all the butter there is in the house.”
Appreciation of Women's Aid and Factory Arts
A clipped wartime appraisal notes admiration for women in British munition factories aided by distinguished artists. The terse exchange suggests public support for female workers and the moral shield of art during conflict.
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Tata Hie
Cascara
Pte
Kansas City
Carter
Mary
FORDS
Uea
All Motors
Air Friction Carburetor Co
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