Showing posts with label World-War-I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World-War-I. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2008

139 Ask To "Shoot" Niagara In A Boat

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1920 MANY ANSWER MOVIE COMPANY ADVERTISEMENT. Most of Applicants Seek $1,000 Offered — Others Want Thrill or Experience. NEW YORK, N. Y. — T...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Wins French Bride in 13 Minutes

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1920 Yank Voted Speed Demon of A. E. F. SOMERSWORTH, N. H. — Paul J. St. Jean, wounded hero of this town, has returned with his French bride...

Judge Fines "Dead Man" $15

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1920 Soldier, Reported Killed in France, Hits Man With Auto. ST. PAUL, Minnesota. — In the casualty list of August, 1918, appeared the item:...
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The President on "Our Interests"

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1916 The characteristic aberration of Mr. Wilson's mind and his self-complacent disregard of traditional American principles are never m...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Reject Principle that All Submarines Are War Vessels

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1916 Washington, Sept. 5. — To the proposal of the Entente allies that neutrals accept the principle that all submarines are vessels of war,...

U. S. Will Retaliate Only as Last Report.

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1916 Washington, Sept. 6 — What shall be the attitude of the Entente Allies toward American trade relation legislation, will be determined b...

Greeks Plan for War

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1916 Athens, Sept. 9, via London, Sept. 11. — "If the Entente and anti-Venizelist factions can only keep quiet for 10 days and not embr...

Sweden and England Exchange Sharp Notes

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1916 London, Sept. 10. — There has been a further, and rather sharp exchange of notes between Great Britain and Sweden regarding the difficu...

Hindenburg at Western Front

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1916 Amsterdam, via London, Sept. 9. — According to Berlin dispatches received here Field Marshal Von Hindenburg, the new German chief of st...

The Rumanian Campaign

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1916 The German-Bulgar spectacular rush at Tutrakan has, according to a report telegraphed from Athens to the London Daily Mail, been speedi...

Saturday's Summary

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1916 London, Sept. 8 — An ever increasing cannonade by the British and French on the most intense scale is in progress along more than 30 mi...

London Summary

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1916 London, Sept. 11 — Armies of the five Nations have begun to turn back the German-Bulgar invasion of Greek territory. The British have c...
Friday, April 25, 2008

The September Issue of "The People's Home Journal"

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1916 Most illuminating are the glimpses into the hearts and minds of the People's Home Journal's great family of readers. Letters by...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

An Elastic Tariff is the Need of America

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1916 New York, Sept. 21. — Greater elasticity in the country's tariff system is necessary to meet trade conditions which will arise at t...

Iceland Ship Arrives

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1916 New York, Sept. 23. — The Gullfoss, said to be one of the first Icelandic ships to visit the shores of the western hemisphere since the...

Germany Will Protest Against Tanks

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1916 London, Sept. 23. — An exchange telegraph despatch from Geneva says it is understood there that the German government proposes to lodge...

Submarine Sunk a Aeroplane

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1916 Berlin, Sept. 22. — The French submarine Fousaus has been sunk in the southern Adriatic by bombs dropped from Austro-Hungarian naval ae...

Germans Take Dutch Steamer

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1916 London, Sept. 23. — The Dutch mail steamer Prins Hendrik, which left Flushing this morning for London, having on board a number of Russ...

Portuguese Gain in Africa

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1916 Lisbon, via Paris, Sept. 23. — An extensive invasion of German East Africa by Portuguese troops is reported in an official statement is...

Two More Zeppelins Vanquished

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1916 London, Sept. 24. — Of the 12 zeppelins which invaded the British Isles last night to deal death and destruction from the skies, two we...