Agreement With Norway Lets Neutral Shipments Continue
The United States and Norway forge a trade pact to allow Norwegian needs to be met without US or allied goods aiding Germany. The deal faces Berlin pressure, but Norway gains from the arrangement while neutrals face past German submarine harms. The Atlantic Monthly essayist argues history guides practical politics and evolution.
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Norway
United States
Germany
Philadelphia Ledger
Berlin
Henry Jones Ford
Atlantic Monthly
Ear and war notes mix in a European and American view
English army doctors compare rural and urban hearing and suggest necessity sharpens nerves. The piece critiques German aims, junker politics, and Kaiser’s mental state, linking American citizenship with constitutional strength and noting brutal tact as common irritant. It wades through war impressions and political forecasts.
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Yidopt
Roanoke Island's troubled history and guard station
A Chicago Daily News account recalls Roanoke Island's failed 16th century colony, the inscription Croatan, and its later habitation by fishermen and coast guard guardsmen from Pea Island. It notes Bea Island as a dangerous coast guard station staffed by Black sailors.
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North Carolina
Roanoke Island
Virginia Dare
America
Sir Walter Raleigh
Atlantic
England
Raleigh
Sir Walter
Coast Guard
Pea Island
Bea Island
Chicago Daily News
Bees for War Messengers Secretly Adopted by War Dept
A British war department discovery reveals bees as secret dispatch carriers. A beehive messenger system lets trained bees carry tiny messages. readers at the hive decode with magnifying glass and specialized photography imprints messages on the bee’s wings.
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British War Department
Aide de Camp
America
I Gave Mattie a Push and Locked Her in a Closet
A mother warns her children to stop crying then discovers Mattie is missing. Edna explains she pushed Mattie into a closet after Mattie began screeching again and locked the door so she could not hear her.
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Mother
Ednie
Mattie
Sister
Edna
Too Much Soap Bad Says Health Commissioner
Dr Samuel Dixon health commissioner of Pennsylvania warns against excessive soap use in bathing. He says little soap is needed to loosen dirt and let water carry away substances, noting that heavy lather blocks pores and impairs sweat glands, linked to disease including respiratory issues.
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Samuel Dixon
Pennsylvania
Mongrels for War Work
The piece notes Raleigh North Carolina resident Cleveland E. Ellis discusses dogs in war. It argues military use grows as dogs scent enemies warn of approach carry messages and locate wounded amid trench fighting while pedigreed dogs have limited roles and street mongrels prove broadly useful.
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Cleveland E. Ellis
Raleigh
N. C
The Big Jolt
A husband, David Bryson, seeks divorce after years of bitter strain. He discovers his wife Kate has kept the family together with the help of Dan Goldman’s secretary role and an ailing home life for their son. He contemplates reconciliation, writes a heartfelt note, and plans to reclaim his family.
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John Steele
Kate
David Bryson
Dan Goldman
Yonani Muir
Breeding Sheep for Fur: A Kansas Experiment in Bokhara Lines
Robert H. Moulton notes an American rancher near Cottonwood Falls Kansas invested $35,000 to cross KokarSheep from Bokhara with Lincoln stock to produce lambs bearing coveted pelts. The aim was to grow Persian lamb fleeces domestically reducing reliance on imports amid war and market shifts.
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Bokhara
Astrakhan
Cottonwood Falls
Kan
Asia
Kansas
Russia
Robert H. Moulton
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Democracy and the American Novel Critique
Henry Seidel may argue democracy aids fine writing and public appeal. He warns against patronage cash and condescension while urging greater respect for the craft of the American novelist beyond prizes or advertising.
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Henry Seidel
Saul
David
Francis Bacon
Handlet
Dispatch Rider Clears Road With Blazing Motor Trucks
A Collier’s reader complains about army trucks crowding roads, while Collier’s defends the dispatch rider who darts through a line of trucks and staff cars at high speed. The image shows urgent wartime traffic in the French war zone as vehicles scatter into ditches to yield.
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Collier's
Reichstag Powers in Germany Describe Dissolution by Bundesrat
The Prussian segment of the Reichstag, with 397 members, can be dissolved by the Bundesrat with the emperor's consent. It has occurred thrice to bend Reichstag resistance in 1878, 1887, and 1898, when it refused key measures. Budget disputes can allow government operation on existing funds without Reichstag action.
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Kaiser
France
Reichstag
Prussia
Bundesrat
Crude Booths Replace Diners on Mexican Railroads
Rail stations on the west coast of Mexico provide crude canvas booths for dining. Loose canvas walls enclose tables and chairs as trains wait and passengers dine on notably appetizing fare, according to Mechanics Magazine.
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Mexico
Winthrop Fire Alarm Reported for Multiple Street Boxes
A fire alarm alert cites numerous box locations across Winthrop including Triton avenues, Shirley streets, Harbor View and Terrace avenues, Cottage street, Beach road, Main streets, and Winthrop Centre R R Station. The list covers crossings with Beacons, Ocean View, Locust, and Sargent streets among others as crews respond to a military call.
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Triton Avenue
Triton Pathway
Shirley Street
Tafts Avenue
Harbor View
Terrace Avenues
Revere Street
Dean Avenue
Sagamore Avenue
Almont
Cross Streets
Revere
Winthrop Streets
Bowdoin
Ocean View
Main
Banks
Hermon
Lincoln
Read and
Jerald
Marshall
Pleasant
Court and Loring
Lowell and Loring
Sargent Street
Johnson Avenues
Pleasant Street
Cottage Park Road
Cottage Park Hotel
Orlando Avenue
Woodside Avenue
Seymour Street
Winthrop Centre
R. R
Buchanan
Pleasant Streets
Washington Avenue
Thornton Park
Washington and Elmwood Avenues
River Road
Bates Avenue
Winthrop Street
Chester Avenue
Buchanan Streets
Town Hall
Kimball’s
Quincy
Cliff Avenues
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Junker
Belgium
Vorwaerts
Boston
Rosisky Sotzialysticheskaya Fedgrativnaya Soviestskaya Respublica
Dian Goldman
Sue
Steele
Collier's Week
Fletcher
Castoria
Winthrop Fire Alarm
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