Hotel Honeymoon Breaks Foray Into Corporate Hustle
In a luxury Philadelphia hotel Warren and Helen fret over a costly room and a possible meeting with financier Mr. Clawson. A late-morning breakfast reveals no appointment but an unexpected ride to New York with Clawson already seeking Warren, turning worry into a relieved, if brief, win. The trip ends with a spark of success and a shift in mood as they head toward the city.
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Helen
Philadelphia
Warren
Montreal
Mr. Clawson
Mr. Claw: 602
Broad Street
Porlor
New York
Urge Dairymen to Hold Heads in Indiana Council
Indiana State Council of Defense reviews dairy fuel and coal crises. Dairymen report losses from silage and feed costs, urging higher milk prices. Reorganization of food committees approved. Coal car shortages prompt fear of shortages for Indiana consumers. railroads report varying supply adequacy with priority given to water and gas utilities and insane hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
State Council of Defense
A. B. Storms
James P. Goodrich
A. H K. Reynolds
Crawfordsville
H. E. Barnard
Committee On Food Production and Conservation
State Council
J.L. Keach
Mr. Barnard
G. I. Christie
W. H. Hays
Mr. Christie
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Fox
Mr. Keach
Frank Stockton
Will J. Freeman
Judge Lovett
Federal Transportation
Northwest
Indiana
Public Service Commission
Pennsylvania
Big Four
Chicago
Terre Haute & Southeastern
Monon
Chicago, Indiana Railway & Eastern
Evanville
Terre Haute
Indiana Women Quit Peace Party Over Ties to Democracy Group
The Indiana branch of the Women’s Peace Party resigns from the national group citing involvement of leading members with the People's Council of America for Democracy and Peace. Mrs. Helen Freeman Bennett announces the action in a telegram to Mrs. Anna G. Karsten, stating a break with recent developments while noting two years of active participation and shared opposition to the Washington draft fight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Peace Party
People’s Council of America For Democracy and Peace
Chicago
Indiana
Women's Peace Party
Bennett
Isaac Born
J. F. Barnhill
Massachusetts
Washington
State council clears waste rumors in Shelbyville crop report
Investigation by the state council of defense found no evidence that fruit drops or cabbages rot on stalks near Shelbyville. The report stresses that no waste should be tolerated and urges prompt reporting of any waste.
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State Council
of, Defense
Shelbyville
Aerial lighthouse lamp tested on Indianapolis route
Tests directed by Carl G. Fisher of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics evaluated a 250 watt red lamp on a Beech Grove tower to guide night pilots on the Dayton to Indianapolis aerial route. Observers from Merchants Bank fire tower and Sanborn Electric Co. witnessed a clear ten mile visibility.
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Carl G. Fisher
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Dayton
Indianapolis
Beech Grove
Big Four Railroad
Sanborn Electric Company
Quarantine Lifts for Currant and Gooseberry Bushes in Indiana
State entomologist Frank N. Wallace ended Indiana’s quarantine on currant and gooseberry bushes. Nursery stock shortages and price gouging in Indiana prompted the move as infection risk had largely passed. Shipping of five leaf pines remains prohibited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Frank N. Wallace
Wallace
Horses of Indiana Field Artillery Head to Seacoast
Horses belonging to the First Indiana Field Artillery move toward the seacoast as they prepare for transport overseas. Orders for the regiment, part of the Rainbow Division, to entrain are expected at any hour.
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First Indiana Field Artillery
Rainbow Division
Resolution to exempt dental students from draft presented
Charles Fox presented a resolution at the state council of defense urging President Wilson and Secretary Baker to revise the conscription law to exempt junior and senior dental students. It was sent to the committee on medicine with power to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Baker
Charles Fox
State Council
Defense
Committee On Medicine With
Marion County Tax Levy Not to Increase
County council tentatively passed the appropriation ordinance fixing maintenance sums for county government. The general tax levy for Marion County will remain unchanged, with no increase expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Indiana gas rates raised by public service commission
The Indiana Public Service Commission granted Central Indiana Gas Company’s petition to increase rates for mixed gas. The 10 percent rise takes effect October 1 and affects Marion, Anderson, Alexandria, and Elwood with higher charges per thousand feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana Public. ‘Service Commission
Central
Indianna Gas. Company
Marion
Anderson
Alexandria
Elwood
South Bend water scares amid reservoir contamination fears
Brief report of water supply issues in South Bend with concerns over two reservoirs becoming contaminated. Multiple Indiana towns noted with local incidents and changes including hospital cases, crimes, and civic actions across Terre Haute Evansville Brazil Valparaiso Tipton Warsaw Shelbyville Goshen Frankfort Sullivan Marion Bedford Bicknell Jeffersonville Rockport Evansville Indianapolis Aurora Greencastle Anderson South Bend Madison Veedersburg Greensburg Rochester Fort Wayne Huntington highlands, with various local events and personnel developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Bend
Terre Haute
Rosina Filbeck
Filbeck
R. N. Filbeck
Evansville
James Jennings
Winslow
Brazil
Mae Norton
Brazil Stamping and Manufacturing Company
Valparaiso
Northern Indiana Dental Society
Charles Preist
Marion
Tipton
Rix L. Haskett
William M. Hoover
Warsaw
Edward Harris
Shelbyville
Claude Kynes
Bristow
Radie E. Aders
Goshen
Ray, Deahl
Robert G. Beck
Frankfort
John Elzie_ Bongs
Shelby County
Dewey Sheets
Eldo Bosworth
Canada
Sullivan
Jeannette Rankin
Congress
Montana
Merom Chautauqua
S. P. Hatton
Charleston
W. Va
Marion Normal Institute
Doctor Hatton
University of Missouri
George Washington University
Maryland
West Virginia
Bedford
Roy Stroud
Robert Stroud
Bicknell
C. E. Potts
State Board of Health
Indianapolis
Jeffersonville
Peter Kehoe
New Albany
Benson R. Veasey
Madison Dugan
Kehoe
Louisville
Rockport
Walter Arnold
Grandview
the Voice
Frank S. LaMonte
John E.spaan
Aurora
Greencastle
Albert E. Albaugh
Anderson
James Cloud
Madison
Veedersburg
Indiana’ Volunteer Infantry
John C. Templeton
Thorntown
Greensburg
Robert Dunnell
Springhill
Rochester
Fort. Wayne
Jay
E Brown
Allen
Huntington
Wabash
Erie
Pultova Battle Shaped Europe and Russian Rise in 1709
The 1709 battle of Pultova marked Sweden’s decline and Russia’s ascent, ending Sweden’s northern dominance and shaping the modern European balance of power. Peter the Great led a decisive assault, overcoming Charles XII’s forces and securing a pivotal victory that launched Russia’s imperial expansion.
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Pultova
Pultava
Europe
Byron
Pultowa
Fortune
Napoleon
St. Helena
Russia
Peter the Great
Timbuctov
Sweden
Peter
Charles XII
Gustavus Adolphus
Charles
Moscow
Krenin
Alstadt
Leipsic
Poland
Count Lewenhaupt
Riga
Finland
Warsaw
Grodno
Minsk
Beresina
Smolensko
Czar
Ukraine
Mazeppa
Lewenhaupt
Léwenhaupt
Vorskla
Borysthens
Iver
Peter's Deelen
Nystadt
Turkey
Persia
War profits of Spaniards in Manila tale from Younghusband
Major General Younghusband recounts a story from his book A Soldier's Memories about Spanish outposts near Manila. An English pair share wine with a sergeant and learn the wine is diluted through a chain of officers to inflate profit, a joke that turns into a lesson on wartime graft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philippine Islands
Younghusband
Barcelona
Old-Time Humor Witty Quips From History
A brief note on classic humor includes Lord Chatham and Doctor Henniker’s wit definition and a quip to Queen Elizabeth by Mr Popham. Jerrold’s compilation records a playful exchange where the speaker reports the lower house has "sat long and done nothing" and the queen’s prompt.
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Lord Chatham
Henniker
Walter Jerrold
Island of St John to Prince Edward Province Origins
The text traces St John Island’s shift from early English quasi feudal rule toward British provincial status. It notes its 1769 commission to Governor Patterson establishing autonomy and a local legislature, with United Empire Loyalists settling along the St John River valley after the American Revolution and securing provincial status in 1784.
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St. ‘John
St. John
Prince Edward
Patterson
United Empire’ Loyalists
St. John River
The Old Crouch Talks Flattery and Self-Admiration
The fragment hints at a speaker named The Old Crouch praising himself and his influence. It suggests a boastful flattery tone without additional context or concrete details.
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Vey
Crouch
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Mabel Herbert Urner
McClure
Defense Council
National
People’s Council
Test
Philippines
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