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...long suffering public is entitled to what little pleasure it can extract from its daily measure of scandal. The sibylline Senator from New Hampshire, George Higgins Moses, happily forecasting no restriction of the oil scandal ration, said...
Prussian prisoners are provided with only one bath in four weeks; they are allowed a weekly ration of only 125 grams of meat; saccharine they are given for sugar; their linen is changed but fortnightly. All this is to economize. Berlin journals said it was short-sighted and that prisoners will leave jail more angry than when they entered...
News was received that Prince John II of Liechtenstein recently celebrated the 65th year of his reign. According to reports from Austrian sources, all school children in the Principality received a ration of white bread and a dish of sausages to celebrate the occasion. The Prince, who spends a good deal of his time in Vienna, made a practical contribution of 10,000 Swiss francs ($1,728) toward the building of a fifth bridge over the Rhine, which divides Liechtenstein from Switzerland. Prince John, aged 83, ascended the throne of Liechtenstein on Nov. 12, 1858, when...
...record stands until approved by the Fédération Internationale Aeronautique of Paris. This autocratic body has now officially awarded 15 new records for seaplanes to the U. S. These include high speed, altitude, endurance. The termination of the 1923 flying season finds the U. S. holding 33 records in all for land and seaplanes, all won during the last two years...
...poilu during the War, swooped down upon the camps to inspect the food of the poilus, who, according to Paris smalltalk, are not properly fed. M. Maginot found the quantity of food sufficient but the quality occasionally bad. He also found that some poilus were getting a beer ration when they preferred wine. The Minister of War ordered the change and added that he would from time to time "make unannounced inspections" of soldiers' barracks...