God, give us men! A time like this demand strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; ...
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Article : 46 wordsMr. Evans is vice-chairman of the Housing of the Working Classes Committee of the London County Council, president of the Property Owners' Protection Association of ...
Article : 873 words"I asked what he meant by the ideal tearoom, and; he, said, A place where a chap who; has only a few days to himself out of the trenches is not likely to run into his aunts. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Halifax branch of the Canadian Patriotic Fund is arranging a campaign in order to raise £50,000 in the city. Payments are to be spread over a period of 15 months, 25 ...
Article : 86 wordsDuring the year 1915 no fewer than I7,532 homesteads were taken up in Western Canada, representing the enormous area of 2,805,120 acres. This shows a falling off as ...
Article : 90 words" If the Germans cannot begin to break the Russian main front again in the next few weeks, the Allies will have every right to believe that they have seen the worst of the ...
Article : 48 wordsIn going to public-- houses and playing cards with men so that he may get to know them, Canon Carey Tupper, of York, is following his usual policy of getting "right ...
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Article : 57 wordsAt Sunderland, an absentee from the Durham Light Infantry, aged 21, was remanded to await an escort. As he had arranged to be married that morning he was allowed to ...
Article : 94 words"Subordiate: 'Well, what is it really like in the trenches?' "Tommy:' 'Oh, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the people over the way.' ...
Article : 38 wordsA burly-- looking sergeant had just left the 'bus when two girls who had sat opposite him began to discuss him (says the "Chronicle") "He's not a private, is h?" queried one ...
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Article : 105 words"First Tommy: 'Who.'d a thought three years ago we. should have been here in the trenches?' "Second Tommy: 'No! Then, I was living ...
Article : 39 wordsIn a material line we have a valuable novelty in Paris, in the centre of the city this time, which is of the greatest use to women (says the "Evening Standard."). It is ...
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Article : 201 words"The Sinn Fein rebellion will have been a blessing in disguise if it induces the British; Cabinet to set up in Ireland an Irish Government, informed with an Irish spirit, and ...
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Article : 55 wordsOver two hundred New Zealand trained nurses are now at the front, in addition to several New Zealand nurses and doctors who enlisted from England. ...
Article : 32 words"What a work it is! Ask almost any soldier whom you may meet in the street what he thinks of the Y.M.C.A., buts, and the cheery smile he gives you in response tells its own ...
Article : 48 wordsDr. Fitchett's magazine, "Life," gives sketch of the young New Zealander who has come into journalistic prominence as the special petrograd correspondent of the ...
Article : 215 wordsMr. Charles Darling, addressing a meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, and replying to a question as to what distance a searchlight beam was effective, said that for ...
Article : 70 words"Save your old bottles of every description! Do not break them! Do not throw them away! Return them as soon as you can where you make your purchases. If you ...
Article : 402 wordsThey had only, to walk along the Block to see giddy, overdressed, butterflydom and absolute lack of soul which was still being exhibited, despite the heroism, trials and death ...
Article : 356 wordsA fine specimen of the little auk was found at Lennie School, Cramond Bridge, Midlothian (Eng.), the other day, where it had evidently come to grief among the telegraph ...
Article : 78 wordsJudge Cluer, at Shoreditch Country Court, England: "£5 for clothes. It is preposterous. Don't buy new clothes. Send your old suit to be cleaned and pressed for a few ...
Article : 89 wordsA funny thing happened to a young lady who was attending her church a few,Sundays ago. Sitting directly before her was a tall, well-- dressed stranger, with a piece of ...
Article : 207 wordsAccording, to the best statistics, the number of automobiles in the United States increased from 200,000 in 1909 to 1,750,000 at the end of 1914. The number of deaths ...
Article : 227 wordsAn aged man named Seymour, who lived the life of recluse at Loose, Kent (Eng.), was recently removed to the workhouse infirmary in a shockingly neglected condition, and died ...
Article : 72 wordsA plan to enlist Indians from the different reserves throughout Ontario for the 114th Overseas Battalion has been formed by Lieutenant John R. Tracey, of the 109th ...
Article : 161 wordsThe Hon. J. D. Hazen, Canadian Minister of Marine and Fisheries, speaking at the first annual meeting of the Canadian Fisheries Association, announced that the Department ...
Article : 100 wordsMost everyone who has, had any dealings with machinery knows about the liability of oil rags and waste that have been used for cleaning, purposes to ignite from spontaneous ...
Article : 81 words"A last year fs frock' or tailor snit can often with a little skilful manipulation look quite smart and new, but a last year's hat-- never!" --Daily Telegraph. ...
Article : 40 words"It seems to me that the great principle, is, defer. Send your clothes to the cleaner wen. they get, shabby until the cleaner says he can clean them no more.-- Daily Express. ...
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