Kosciuszko Remembrance Marked by Statue, Scholarships, and West Point Ties
In 1927 Kosciuszko’s legacy was celebrated worldwide with renewed fame of his role in American liberty. New York hosts Saratoga events honoring his planning of Bemis Heights fortifications. A national drive launched for a George Washington Scholarship of the Kosciuszko Foundation to fund students in Poland and the United States. Boston unveiled a Public Garden statue donated by Polish Americans of New England, funded by 25,000 dollars, amid large crowds.
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Thaddeus Kosciuszko
Saratoga
New York
Bemis Heights
Burgoyne
America
George Washington
Kosciuszko Foundation
Kosciuszko
West Point
Hudson
Boston
New England
Kossuth
Lafayette
Lithuania
Poland
Europe
Corps of Cadets
Royal School of
Warsaw
France
Philadelphia
Franklin
Washington
Gates
Greene
Cornwallis
Paris
Switzerland
Solothurn
Cracow
Zugwils
Chateau Rapperswil
Zurich
Washington, D. C
Humboldt Park
Chicago
Kosciuszko Memorial Unveiled in Boston by Polish Ancestry Parade
A Polish 출리 ancestry led parade to a statue unveiling honoring Kosciuszko. The Boston ceremony featured Mrs. Theo. A. Ruggles Kitson as designer, with the monument marking his links to American liberty. The event coincided with the 151st anniversary of his American service and 110th of his Polish struggle for freedom.
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Poland
Theo. A. Ruggles Kitson
Framingham
Mass
Newburyport
Vicksburg
Minneapolis
Campbell
Slaughter of Whales Spurs International Protest
Naturalists from Australia and New Zealand protest wholesale whale slaughter by Norwegian fleets in the Ross Sea. They warn extinction risk if hunting continues and advocate an international convention to regulate the trade. Reports say two Norwegian ships near Stewart Island killed about 700 whales in late 1926 and early 1927, yielding millions in oil, plus a Hobart-based vessel sent whale oil to Norway. an estimated 1,500 whales were killed in the last year under New Zealand jurisdiction with royalty collected on the oil.
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Ross Sea
Australia
New Zealand
Stewart Island
Hobart
Norway
Vermont’s New Woman Governor Snubs Ultra Modern Fashion
At a Montpelier reception Governor Weeks, noted for shaping a large birthday card to Coolidge, scorns modern dress. A banker rails against a New York woman in a short skirt smoking a cigarette, and Weeks retorts that the woman appears re painted as an old woman.
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Governor Weeks
Vermont
President Coolidge
South Dakota
Montpelier
New York
Irishwoman Sophia Bird Celebrates 104th Birthday
Mrs. Sophia Bird of Loughborough Ireland marked her 104th birthday with a merry reaction and a daylong stream of well wishers. She rises at 9 30 each morning and retires at 9, expressing comfort and a wish to reach another birthday.
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Sophia Bird
Loughborough
Ireland
Deliberate English Magistrate Court Exchange
In a court transcript a motorist is asked if he could have avoided the collision. The plaintiff asserts the motorist had the choice to hit him or the missus and he chose him. The exchange reflects a dramatic moment in the magistrate room with sharp rhetoric about responsibility.
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Ameri Arti i
Elmo Scott Watson
Rosal
EO Ly
Theo Kuysles
Kitsore
California
Heald’s
Heald’s Business College
van Nessa Ave
San Francisco
Selig Bros
Faber
Los Angeles
Hotel Roosevelt
Jones
Eddy Garage
Wiltshire
Stockton St
Union Square
Sutter
Harry Boyshe
Bath
Anti-Urie Co
Calif
BIOLA
Hope St
Wa. N. A
Roger
Boston Transcript
SAY
Bayer
Henry Herman
Pacific Bldg
Cuticura
Cuticura Laboratories
Dept. B3
Den
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