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  2. Biggest On Earth.

    THE railway system of the United States of America, pow fully mobilised for war, is the biggest thing of the kind on earth. Approximately, it is equal to that of Europe ...

    Article : 145 words
  3. ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THEM.

    This picture illustrates one of the tragedies Incidental to a fleet that keeps the sea in all weathers, as does the British. The Admiralty account of the matter states:—"Two of H.M. destroyers, whilst returning to their base during a violent gale accompanied by heavy snow, ran a shore off the coast of Scotland on the night of January 12, and became total wrecks. All hands except one—an able ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 210 words
  4. 11/2 Horsepower.

    INTERESTING attempts have been made in the Unitfed States to dettermine the maximum external power capable of development by then of good physical endowment. Tests ...

    Article : 202 words
  5. Her Good Reason.

    RANK disloyalty on the part of her husband is the ground upon which a woman is seeking a divorce in Chickasha, Oklahoma. The woman claims that her husband, a farmer, is ...

    Article : 69 words
  6. A Young Samson.

    STRANGLING a leopard with his bare hands was the feat performed by a lad in South Africa the other day. The leopard, a fullgrown female, had in the course of a ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. A Close Shave.

    THE lucky escape of an American freighter from being, torpedoed by a Te[?] submarine in the Mediterranean was recently reported to the Navy Department, at ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. What the "L.O.'S." Do.

    AMONGST the hardest worked men on the Western front are the members of the famous Corps of Interpreters, generally known as "Liaison Officers" ...

    Article : 196 words
  9. Yet Another Spy.

    A WOMAN in black, a suspected spy, was arrested recently at Romainville, near Paris. It is stated that the woman, who always w[?]re mourning, and was accompanied by ...

    Article : 137 words
  10. Some Tall Orders.

    SOME of the purchases made by the army in 1917 were 84,000,0001b. tea, 117,600,0001b. sugar, 8,500,0001b. pipe and chewing tobacco, 11,000,0001b. cigarettes, and 145,000,000 tins of ...

    Article : 117 words
  11. Stopped a Retreat.

    Stupefled, the men looked at the General, seated placidly on his camp-stool, while about him the shells were bursting and gutting houses. Seizing with sudden, violent emotion, ...

    Article : 201 words
  12. How a Fat General

    THE Paris "Gaulois" is famous for good stories. The latest to reach America concerns Geheral Grossetti, who recently died. Despite this fact that he was of such ...

    Article : 199 words
  13. A Good Shot.

    A UNITED STATES recruiting officer, whose jurisdiction extended over a large part of Tennessee, tells of a man who could neither read nor write, and who thus failed at the ...

    Article : 113 words
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