War Provides an Expensive Clothes-Rack
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Title (Dublin Core)
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War Provides an Expensive Clothes-Rack
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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War Provides an Expensive Clothes-Rack
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Caption: How a German shell provided a very convenient clothes-rack for French soldiers
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THE queer thing in the middle of the
picture, which resembles a monster
porcupine used as a clothes-rack, is the
stump of a tree which grew ‘‘somewhere
in France” until a German shell struck
it and cut the trunk of the magnificent
tree in two. The exploding shell splintered
the wood in such a manner that the stump,
with its radi-
ating big splinters
was used by the
French soldiers en-
camped there as a
rack upon which
they hung their
clothesand military
equipment. The
rack may be con-
venient for the
soldiers, but this is
really too expensive
a method of making
clothes-racks. Be-
sides, stumps are
not always handy,
and then the shell
may miss them or
they may splinter
in some inconveni-
ent manner. After
all, the regular pat-
tern cannot be beat-
en for “steady” use.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Underwood and Underwood (photo)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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759
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 5, 1918
