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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1918
Page
14
Dr. Maurice Francis Bean discusses Vatican power, diplomacy, and the pope’s role at the peace talks. He reflects on democracy, Denmark, Schleswig Holstein, and Kiel canal politics, noting England’s Vatican relations and Germany’s imperial aims.
The Mexican war began with a clash on April 2 1846 as Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and Americans engaged. President Polk urged Congress May 17 1846, stating war existed by Mexico's act and duty to defend the nation. Key battles followed including Palo Alto May 8 1846 Monterey Sept 21 1846 Buena Vista February 22 1847 Cerro Gordo April 17 1847 Mexico City captured September 14 1847 with the Stars and Stripes atop the palace and peace treaty signed February 2 1848.
Wilfred Thomason Grenfell M D superintendent of the Labrador medical mission of the Royal National Mission of Deep Sea Fishermen born February 28, 1863. He fitted out the first hospital ship for North Sea fisheries and cruised with fishermen from the Bay of Biscay to Iceland. He built four hospitals in Labrador in 1292 and established co operatives, an orphanage, and sea vessels for mission work.
The article defines turbines as water wheels driven by flowing water and explains horizontal rotation on vertical shafts. It classifies turbines into reaction, impulse, and combined types and notes modern turbines convert a high percentage of water's potential energy into work as it passes through the wheel.
A profile links Colonel Edward Mandell House to Senator Crane’s behind the scenes role, noting his silence, listening skill, and influence as the president’s eyes and ears at the peace conference. It traces House from Texas politics to national prominence, detailing his wealth, residences, and strategic behind the scenes work since 1904.
The estate of S. F. P. Derbyshire at Ilkeston houses the smallest passenger railway in England. The seven inch gauge roadbed supports a miniature Midland railway 1,000 class engine. It is three-quarter horsepower and can haul four adult passengers on its tiny truck.
Sergeant Samuel Horrocks of the 114th Infantry recalls a brutal incident at Verdun in October. Twelve German women attached to a machine gun battalion allegedly attacked wounded American soldiers using knives and clubs as they lay in shell holes during a no artillery support charge on October 12. Horrocks, wounded several times, arrived home in Orange New Jersey on a later leave.
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